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PRIVACY POLICY

PressPad (the “operator” of the digital publishing and reading platform and the “Store”) respects the privacy of its online visitors and customers (“End Users”) of its products and services and complies with applicable laws for the protection of your privacy, including, without limitation, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the Swiss and EU Privacy Shield Frameworks.

1. Definitions

Wherever we talk about Personal Data below, we mean any information that can either itself identify you as an individual ("Personally Identifying Information") or that can be connected to you indirectly by linking it to Personally Identifying Information. PressPad also processes anonymous data, aggregated or not, to analyze and produce statistics related to the habits, usage patterns, and demographics of customers as a group or as individuals. Such anonymous data does not allow the identification of the customers to which it relates. PressPad may share anonymous data, aggregated or not, with third parties.

Other terms in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings defied in the End User Agreement.

2. Why PressPad Collects and Processes Data

PressPad collects and processes Personal Data for the following reasons:

a) where it is necessary for the performance of our agreement with you to provide a full-featured digital service and deliver associated Content and Services;

b) where it is necessary for compliance with legal obligations that we are subject to (e.g. our obligations to keep certain information under tax laws);

c) where it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate and legal interests of PressPad or a third party (e.g. the interests of our other customers), except where such interests are overridden by your prevailing legitimate interests and rights; or

d) where you have given consent to it.

These reasons for collecting and processing Personal Data determine and limit what Personal Data we collect and how we use it (section 3. below), how long we store it (section 4. below), who has access to it (section 5. below) and what rights and other control mechanisms are available to you as a user (section 6. below).

3. What Data We Collect and Process

3.1 Basic Account Data

When setting up an Account, PressPad will collect your email address and country of residence. The provision of this information is necessary to register “the Store” User Account. During setup of your account, the account is automatically assigned a number (the "Store User ID") that is later used to reference your user account without directly exposing Personally Identifying Information about you.

We do not require you to provide or use your real name for the setup of a Store User Account but you have to provide your, a valid email address.

3.2 Transaction and Payment Data

In order to make a transaction on the Store (e.g. to purchase magazine issues or the other publication), you may need to provide payment data to Payments operator (e.g. PayPal or Stripe etc.) to enable the transaction. If you pay by credit card, you need to provide typical credit card information (name, address, credit card number, expiration date and security code) to Payments operator (not PressPad), which will be processed and transmitted to the payment service provider (Payments operator) of your choice to enable the transaction and perform anti-fraud checks. Likewise, PressPad will receive only the transaction confirmation data, your name and address for invoicing purposes, from your payment service provider for the same reasons.

3.3 Other Data You Explicitly Submit

We will collect and process Personal Data whenever you explicitly provide it to us or send it as part of communication with others on PressPad platform, e.g. in PressPad web chats, or when you provide feedback or other user generated content including contact forms etc. . This data includes:

• Information that you post, comment or follow in any of our Content and Services;
• Information sent through chat;
• Information you provide when you request information or support from us or purchase Content and Services from us, including information necessary to process your orders with the relevant payment merchant;
• Information you provide to us when responding to surveys, e.g. your contact details.

3.4 Your Use of the web-based PDF reader and Websites

We collect a variety of information through your general interaction with the websites, Content and Services offered by PressPad and their customers and publishers. Personal Data we collect may include, but is not limited to, browser and device information, data collected through automated electronic interactions and application usage data. Likewise, we will track your process across our websites and applications to verify that you are not a bot and to optimize our services.

3.5 Your Use of the Content Subscriptions (Paid Access)

In order to provide you with services, we need to collect, store and use various information about your activity in our Content and Services. "Content-Related Information" includes your Store User ID, as well as what is usually referred to as "platform statistics". By platform statistics we mean information about your reading preferences, progress in the content reading, reading time, as well as information about the device you are using, including what operating system you are using, device settings, unique device identifiers, and crash data.

3.6 Tracking Data and Cookies

We use "Cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help us analyze how users use our services, and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixels, ad tags and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off and across different devices and our services, as well as to improve the services we are offering, to improve marketing, analytics or website functionality. The use of Cookies is standard on the internet. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, the decision of whether to accept or not is yours. You may adjust your browser settings to prevent the reception of cookies, or to provide notification whenever a cookie is sent to you. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to access the full functionality of our websites. When you visit any of our services, our servers log your global IP address, which is a number that is automatically assigned to the network your computer is part of.

3.7 Google Analytics and Mixpanel

This website uses Google Analytics and Mixpanel, a web analytics services provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), and Mixpanel, Inc. (“Mixpanel”). Both providers use "cookies", which are text files placed on visitors' computers, to help the website operators analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about the visitors' use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google and Mixpanel.

These web analytics providers will not associate the IP address transferred in the context of any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Furthermore, users can prevent the collection of data about their use of the website (including their IP address) generated by the cookie, and the processing of data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in through the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

3.8 Content Recommendations & Marketing

We may process information collected under this section 3 so that content, products and services shown on the pages of the Store and in update messages can be tailored to meet your needs and populated with relevant recommendations and offers. This is done to improve your customer experience.

Subject to your separate consent or where explicitly permitted under applicable laws on email marketing, PressPad and/or the Store’s tenant may send you marketing messages about products and services offered by PressPad and/or the Store’s tenant to your email address. In such a case we may also use your collected information to customise such marketing messages as well as collect information on whether you opened such messages and which links in their text you followed.

You can opt out or withdraw your consent to receive marketing emails at any time by either withdrawing the consent on the same page where you previously provided it or clicking the "unsubscribe" link provided in every marketing email.

3.9 Information Required to Detect Violations

We collect certain data that is required for our detection, investigation and prevention of fraud and other violations of this, and related agreements and applicable laws ("Violations"). This data is used only for the purposes of detection, investigation, prevention and, where applicable, acting on of such Violations and stored only for the minimum amount of time needed for this purpose. If the data indicates that a Violation has occurred, we will further store the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims during the applicable statute of limitations or until a legal case related to it has been resolved. Please note that the specific data stored for this purpose may not be disclosed to you if the disclosure will compromise the mechanism through which we detect, investigate and prevent such Violations.

4. How Long We Store Data

We will only store your information as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information is collected and processed or — where the applicable law provides for longer storage and retention period — for the storage and retention period required by law. After that your Personal Data will be deleted, blocked or anonymized, as provided by applicable law.

In particular:
— If you terminate your Store Account, your Personal Data will be marked for deletion except to the degree legal requirements or other prevailing legitimate purposes dictate a longer storage.

5. Your Rights and Control Mechanisms

The data protection laws of the European Economic Area and other territories grant their citizens certain rights in relation to their Personal Data. While other jurisdictions may provide fewer statutory rights to their citizens, we make the tools designed to exercise such rights available to our customers worldwide.

To allow you to exercise your data protection rights in a simple way contact us at support@presspadapp.com

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data:

5.1 Right of Access.

You have the right to access your Personal Data that we hold about you, i.e. the right to require free of charge (i) information whether your Personal Data is retained, (ii) access to and/or (iii) duplicates of the Personal Data retained. You can use the right to access to your Personal Data through the Privacy Dashboard. If the request affects the rights and freedoms of others or is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee (taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested) or refuse to act on the request.

5.2 Right to Rectification.

If we process your Personal Data, we shall endeavor to ensure by implementing suitable measures that your Personal Data is accurate and up-to-date for the purposes for which it was collected. If your Personal Data is inaccurate or incomplete, you can change the information you provided via the Privacy Dashboard.

5.3. Right to Erasure.

You have the right to obtain deletion of Personal Data concerning you if the reason why we could collect it (see section 2. above) does not exist anymore or if there is another legal ground for its deletion. For individual items of Personal Data please request the deletion via the PressPad support page. You can also request the deletion of your Store user account via email: support@presspadapp.com .

As a result of deleting your reader’s Store User Account, you will lose access to the particular Store services, including the Store User Account, Subscriptions and publication(s) information linked to the Store User Account and the possibility to access other services you are using through the same Store User Account.

5.4 Right to Object.

When our processing of your Personal Data is based on legitimate interests according to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR / section 2.c) of this Privacy Policy, you have the right to object to thise processing. If you object we will no longer process your Personal Data unless there are compelling and prevailing legitimate grounds for the processing as described in Article 21 of the GDPR; in particular if the data is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint at a supervisory authority.

6. Children

The minimum age to create a Store User Account is 13. PressPad will not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under this age. Insofar as certain countries apply a higher age of consent for the collection of Personal Data, PressPad requires parental consent before a reader’s Store User Account can be created and Personal Data associated with it collected. PressPad encourages parents to instruct their children to never give out personal information when online.

7. Contact Info

You can contact PressPad's at the address below: support@presspadapp.com