Geltungsbereich & Hinweise zu den Add-ons

This privacy policy applies to the website gsimulations.com as well as for the add-ons offered for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

G-Sim Kneeboard

The Kneeboard processes data exclusively locally on the user computer. An additional local background service (Kneeboard server) provides documents and maps in the simulator. There is none transmission of personal data to G-Simulations servers. Optionally, map and VATSIM/IVAO station data is fetched from the respective third-party providers (OpenStreetMap, VATSIM, IVAO, open flightmaps); the privacy notices of the respective providers apply to the processing there.

MSFSVoiceWalker

MSFSVoiceWalker ist ein serverloser Proximity-Voice-Chat. Die Kommunikation zwischen Nutzern erfolgt direkt per Peer-to-Peer (WebRTC) innerhalb sogenannter Geohash-Meshes (ca. 20 km-Zellen). Es wird none central G-Simulations server that stores voice or metadata. For peer discovery the application uses eigener Web-Tracker (third party); they only see anonymous peer IDs and IP addresses at the connection level. The respective operators are responsible for their data processing. The optional auto-updater checks once daily the GitHub Releases API; this technically transmits the IP address of the computer to GitHub (provider: GitHub Inc.).

There is none registration, none account creation and none server-side storage of conversation or location data by G-Simulations. MSFSVoiceWalker is open source (Apache 2.0); the source code can be viewed on GitHub can be viewed.

Privacy Policy

Mit dieser Datenschutzerklärung möchten wir Sie über Art, Umfang und Zweck der Verarbeitung von personenbezogenen Daten (im Folgenden auch nur als „Daten“ bezeichnet) aufklären. Personenbezogene Daten sind alle Daten, die einen persönlichen Bezug zu Ihnen aufweisen, z. B. Name, Adresse, E-Mail-Adresse oder Ihr Nutzerverhalten. Die Datenschutzerklärung gilt für alle von uns vorgenommene Daten-Verarbeitungsvorgänge sowohl im Rahmen unserer Kerntätigkeit als auch für die von uns vorgehaltenen Online-Medien.

Who is responsible for data processing at our company

Responsible for data processing is:

G-Simulations
Patrick Gottberg
Simon-Bruder-Straße 1
77767 Appenweier
Germany
078054978526
support@www.gsimulations.de
https://www.gsimulations.de/impressum/

Processing of your data within our company core activities

If you are our customer or business partner or are interested in our services, the type, scope and purpose of the processing of your data is governed by the contractual or pre-contractual relationship between us. The data we process includes all data that is or has been provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services, and that is required to process your inquiry or the contract concluded between us. Unless otherwise stated in further notes of this privacy policy, the processing of your data and its disclosure to third parties is limited to the data required and appropriate for responding to your inquiries and/or fulfilling the contract concluded between you and us, for safeguarding our rights and for fulfilling legal obligations. We will inform you what data is required for this before or during data collection. Insofar as we use third-party providers to provide our services, the data protection notices of the respective third-party providers apply.

Affected data:

  • Master data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
  • Contact data (e.g. email address, phone number, postal address)
  • Contract data (e.g. subject of contract, contract duration)

Affected persons: Prospects, business and contract partners

Purpose of processing: Performance of contractual services, communication and responding to inquiries, office and organisational procedures

Legal basis: Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR, legal obligation, Art. 6 (1)(c) GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

Your rights under the GDPR

Under the GDPR you have the rights listed below, which you can assert at any time against the controller named in section 1 of this privacy policy:

  • Right of access: You have the right to request information from us about whether and which of your data we process.
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to request the correction of incorrect data or the completion of incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to request deletion of your data.
  • Right to restriction: In certain cases you have the right to request that we only process your data in a restricted manner.
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transmit your data to you or another controller in a structured, common and machine-readable format.
  • Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your workplace or our company headquarters is responsible.

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to revoke consent given for data processing at any time.

Right to object

You have the right at any time to object to the processing of your data which we base on our legitimate interest under Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. If you exercise your right to object, we ask you to state the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate that compelling protective grounds for the data processing outweigh your interests and rights.

Notwithstanding the above, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis.

Please address your objection to the controller contact address given above.

When do we delete your data?

Wir löschen Ihre Daten dann, wenn wir diese nicht mehr brauchen oder Sie uns dies vorgeben. Dass bedeutet, dass – sofern sich aus den einzelnen Datenschutzhinweisen dieser Datenschutzerklärung nichts anderes ergibt – wir Ihre Daten löschen,

  • when the purpose of processing has ceased and the legal basis named in the individual notices no longer exists, e.g.
    • after termination of the contractual or membership relationship between us (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR) or
    • after our legitimate interest in further processing or storage of your data has ceased (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR),
  • if you exercise your right of withdrawal and no other legal basis for processing within the meaning of Art. 6 (1)(b-f) GDPR applies,
  • if you exercise your right to object and no compelling protective reasons preclude deletion.

If we still need to retain (parts of) your data for other purposes, e.g. because of tax retention periods (usually 6 years for business correspondence and 10 years for accounting documents) or the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years), or if the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, we will only delete (the part of) your data after these periods have expired. Until these periods expire, we restrict the processing of this data to these purposes (compliance with retention obligations).

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are placed and stored on the device you use. Cookies primarily serve to exchange information between the device you use and our website. This includes, among other things, the language settings on a website, the login status or the position at which a video was watched.

When visiting our websites, two types of cookies are used:

  • Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
  • Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. This way our website recognises your computer when you return. These cookies store, for example, information about language settings or login data. Additionally, your browsing behaviour can be documented and stored with these cookies. This data can be used for statistics, marketing and personalisation purposes.

In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be distinguished according to their purpose:

  • Necessary cookies: These are cookies absolutely necessary for the operation of our website to store logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session, or cookies set for security reasons.
  • Statistics, marketing and personalisation cookies: Dies sind Cookies, die für Analysezwecke oder die Reichweitenmessung eingesetzt werden. Über solche „Tracking“-Cookies können insbesondere Informationen zu eingegebenen Suchbegriffen oder die Häufigkeit von Seitenaufrufen gespeichert sein. Daneben kann aber auch das Surfverhalten eines einzelnen Nutzers (z. B. Betrachten bestimmter Inhalte, Nutzen von Funktionen etc.) in einem Nutzerprofil gespeichert werden. Solche Profile werden genutzt, um Nutzern Inhalte anzuzeigen, die deren potentiellen Interessen entsprechen. Soweit wir Dienste nutzen, über die Cookies zu Statistik-, Marketing- und Personalisierungs-Zwecken auf Ihrem Endgerät gespeichert werden, informieren wir Sie hierzu gesondert in den nachfolgenden Abschnitten unserer Datenschutzerklärung oder im Rahmen der Einholung Ihrer Einwilligung.

Affected data:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Affected persons: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our websites, ensuring operation of our websites, improvement of our online offering, communication and marketing

Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR
If we do not obtain your consent for the setting of cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, especially the content and functionality. You have the option, via your browser security settings, to object to the use of cookies set in the context of our legitimate interest. There you have the option to determine whether you accept no cookies at all, only after request, or whether cookies should be deleted each time the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated for our site, it may not be possible to use all functions of the site to their full extent.

Consent, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR
If we ask you, before your visit to our website, for permission to set certain cookies on your device and you give consent, the legal basis is the consent given by you. We inform you within the consent which cookies we set in detail. If you do not give this consent, only the so-called technically necessary cookies are set, which are required for the proper operation of our websites and their display in your browser. If you have consented to the setting of cookies, you have the option at any time to revoke the consent given.

Web hosting

We use a provider to host our websites, on whose servers our sites are stored and made available for retrieval on the Internet (hosting). The provider can process all data transmitted via the browser you use that arises from the use of our websites. This includes in particular your IP address, which the provider needs to deliver our online offering to your browser, as well as all entries you make via our website. In addition, the provider we use may  

  • the date and time of access to our website
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Access status (HTTP status)
  • the amount of data transferred
  • the Internet service provider of the accessing system
  • the browser type and version you use
  • the operating system you use
  • the website from which you may have accessed our site
  • the pages or sub-pages you visit on our site.

collected. The aforementioned data is stored as log files on our provider servers. This is necessary to ensure the stability and security of operating our website.

Affected data:

  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Affected persons: Users of our online presence

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our websites, ensuring their operation

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

Web hoster commissioned by us:

domainfactory GmbH

Service provider: domainfactory GmbH
Website: Oskar-Messter-Str. 33, 85737 Ismaning, Germany
Privacy policy: https://www.df.eu/

Contact

Insofar as you contact us via email, social media, phone, fax, post, our contact form or otherwise, and provide us with personal data such as your name, phone number or email address, or make further information about your person or concern, we process this data to respond to your inquiry within the framework of the pre-contractual or contractual relationship between us.

Affected data:

  • Master data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Contact data (e.g. email address, phone number, postal address)
  • Content data (texts, photos, videos)
  • Contract data (e.g. subject of contract, contract duration)

Affected persons: Prospects, customers, business and contract partners

Purpose of processing: Communication and responding to inquiries, office and organisational procedures

Legal basis: Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

Online advertising

We use services to deliver internet advertising. Through the services we use, certain user data is collected via a cookie or pixel. This includes in particular the information about which website you came to our online presence from (so-called referrer), which pages of our online presence you accessed, how long you visited our pages and what interactions you carried out there. In addition, data on the browser, computer system and device type you use is collected. Such a service can also collect demographic information, e.g. age or gender, as pseudonymous values. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, depending on the provider, this may also be processed. To capture and store this data, the respective service places a cookie or so-called counting pixel on the device you use, with which the IP address assigned to you is also collected. However, this is shortened via a so-called IP-masking procedure so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit on our website. In principle, no clear data such as names or email addresses is stored when using the respective service.

The data is evaluated by the service we use in order to compile a report with statistical statements about the number of visitors generated via the advertising and the success of the advertising measure. Among other things, the reports show the total number of users who were directed to our website via our ads. The reports also contain information about the user devices and browsers, where the users were located, when the ad was clicked. However, the reports do not contain any information that would allow you to be personally identified as a user of our site.

Please note that depending on the location of the service provider, the data collected via the service may be transmitted and processed outside the European Union area. In this case there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be observed and the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or only with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Affected persons: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Reach measurement, success monitoring of campaigns, remarketing as well as interest- and behaviour-based marketing

Legal basis: If we have asked you for your consent before the use of the respective service, this constitutes the legal basis, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. Otherwise, we use the respective service on the basis of our legitimate interest in directing visitor flows to our website and analysing these flows in order to continuously improve the functions, offers and user experience, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR.

We use the following service providers for online advertising:

Google Ads

Service provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Registered in Europe: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://ads.google.com/home/
Privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Mailchimp

Dienstanbieter: „Mailchimp“ – Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA
Website: https://mailchimp.com
Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Advertising by email, post or phone

For our promotional communication via email, post or phone, we process personal data. You can object to receiving our advertising measures at any time or revoke any previously granted consent to receive our promotional communication at any time. In order to be able to prove in case of doubt, even after your objection or revocation, that your consent existed, we may store your data for up to 4 years after your objection/revocation. We no longer use your data for further purposes after your objection/revocation. If you wish that we delete your data beforehand, we will do so after you have confirmed that you originally gave us consent.

Affected data:

  • Contact data (e.g. email, phone number, postal address)
  • Master data (e.g. names, addresses)

Affected persons: Communication partners

Purpose of processing: Direct marketing by email, post or phone

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

Web analytics and statistics

To capture and statistically evaluate visitor flows on our online presence, we use web analytics services. Such services capture, among other things, data about which website you came from to our online presence (so-called referrer), which pages of our online presence you accessed, how long you visited our pages and what interactions you carried out there. In addition, data on the browser, computer system and device type you use is collected. Such a service can also collect demographic information, e.g. age or gender, as pseudonymous values. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, depending on the provider, this may also be processed.

To capture and store this data, the web analytics service we use generally places a cookie on the device you use, with which the IP address assigned to you is also collected. However, this is shortened via a so-called IP-masking procedure so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit on our website. Otherwise, no clear data such as names or email addresses is stored. Neither we nor the service we use know the identity of the visitors to our websites.

Please note that depending on the location of the service provider mentioned below, the data collected via the service may be transmitted and processed outside the European Union area. In this case there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be observed and the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or only with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Affected persons: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Reach measurement, success monitoring of campaigns, remarketing as well as interest- and behaviour-based marketing

Legal basis: If we have asked you for your consent before the use of the respective service, this constitutes the legal basis, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. Otherwise, we use the respective service on the basis of our legitimate interest to analyse the visitor flows of our websites in order to continuously improve the functions, offers and user experience, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR.

We use the following web analytics services:

Google Analytics

Service provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Registered in the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Opt-out option: If you do not want your data to be used by Google Analytics, you can install a so-called opt-out plugin which prevents data from being collected from you on our website in the future. You can get this plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Jetpack

Service provider: Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Website: https://automattic.com
Privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Third-party plugins we use

 

We have embedded plugins in the form of „social media buttons“ from the providers we use on our website. You can recognise which plugin belongs to which provider by the respective logo with which the plugin is marked. When you call up a page of our online presence on which such a plugin is implemented, the respective provider of the plugin automatically establishes a connection between your browser and the providers servers, and the provider sets a cookie on the device you use. Already at this point, a data transfer can take place even if you do not have an account with the respective social network operator or have an account there but are not logged in at the time of visiting our website. In addition, data is transferred to the provider as a result of further interactions with the respective social plugin (e.g. clicking the „Like“ button on Facebook, Re-Tweet button on Twitter).

 

We point out that depending on the location of the service provider listed below, the data described in more detail below may be transferred to and processed on servers outside the European Union area. In this case there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be observed and the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or only with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Affected persons: Users of our online presence

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our websites, providing content, ensuring operation of our websites

Legal basis: Consent via cookie consent banner, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR, legitimate interests, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

We use the following plugins:

Facebook

Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Registered in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https://www.facebook.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Privacy policy for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Our online presence on social networks

We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the respective provider collects and processes the data described in more detail below. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and used to create usage profiles. In the usage profiles, data can be stored independently of the device you use. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and are logged in. Providers can use the usage profiles to display interest-based advertising to you. You have the right to object to the creation of user profiles. To exercise this, you must contact the respective provider.

If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when visiting our website, the respective provider can collect data about your usage behaviour on our website. To prevent such a linking of your data, you can log out of the providers service before visiting our site.

For what purpose and to what extent data is collected by the provider can be found in the respective privacy policies of the providers communicated below.

Please note that depending on the location of the provider mentioned below, the data collected via its platform may be transmitted and processed outside the European Union area. In this case there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be observed and the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or only with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Master and contact data (e.g. name, address, phone number, email)
  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Purpose of processing: Communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behaviour

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR, legitimate interest Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

Objection options: For the respective objection options (opt-out) we refer to the providers information linked below.

We maintain online presences on the following social networks:

Facebook

Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Registered in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https://www.facebook.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Privacy policy for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Content services

We use certain services to deliver specific content or graphics (videos, images, music, fonts, map material) via our online presence. The services we use process the IP address assigned to you at the time of your visit to our websites, since this is the only way the respective content can be displayed in the browser you use. In addition, the providers of these services can set further cookies on your device, via which information about your usage behaviour, interests, the device you use and the browser used as well as the time and duration of your session are collected. The providers regularly use this data for analysis, statistics and marketing purposes. In addition, this information may also be linked to information from other sources. This applies in particular if you maintain your own account with the service provider and are logged in there at the time of the session.

We point out that depending on the location of the service provider listed below, the data described in more detail below may be transferred to and processed on servers outside the European Union area. In this case there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be observed and the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or only with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, clicked pages)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Affected persons: Users of our online presence

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our websites, providing content, ensuring operation of our websites

Legal basis: Consent via cookie consent banner, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR, legitimate interests, Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR

We use the following content services:

Google Web Fonts

With Google Web Fonts we can integrate fonts (web fonts) into the design of our website and display them correctly when our websites are rendered in your browser. The integration of these web fonts takes place via a server call to Google. From there, the fonts are delivered compressed to your browser and unpacked there. Regularly, this server is located in the USA. If you visit one of our pages on which we integrate Google Fonts, Google is informed which of our websites you have visited.

Service provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Registered in the EU: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://fonts.google.com/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

YouTube

We use components of YouTube on this website to embed videos on our pages so that they can be played via your internet browser when you visit our websites. During your visit to our websites, both YouTube and Google are informed which page or sub-page you accessed by transmitting your IP address to the external Google servers in the USA. This information is transmitted regardless of whether the displayed videos are actually viewed or clicked or whether you are logged into your YouTube or Google account. This information is collected and assigned to your Google account if you are logged in there when you call up our websites.

Service provider: YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Website: https://www.youtube.com/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-out option: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Security measures

We also take technical and organisational security measures according to the state of the art in order to comply with the provisions of data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or total loss, destruction or against unauthorised access by third parties.

Currency and changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid as of June 2021. Due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to adapt this privacy policy.

This privacy policy was created with the help of the Privacy Generator from SOS Recht. SOS Recht is an offering of Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft based in