Privacy Policy
Last update: 12/12/2021
hub.cards software GmbH, (“hub.cards,” “us,” "we," or “our,”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in connection with your use of our website, https://hub.cards (the “Website(s)”), applications (“Apps”) and other products, services and features thereof (the Website, the Apps and such other products, services and features are collectively referred to herein as the “Product” or “Products”, which may be updated from time-to-time at the sole discretion of hub.cards). This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) and any other documents referred to herein set forth the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, in connection with the Products will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will collect, use and disclose your personal data.
1. Data we may collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Personal data including, for example, your name, e-mail addresses, password, and in certain instances, telephone numbers, addresses, websites, birthday, as well as images, text and links to third party services, data about your usage of the Products, data you provide in connection with your usage of the Products, and data collected by tracking technologies as further described in section 4 below that may identify you as an individual or allow online contact with you as an individual.
hub.cards does not collect or process any payment data, like credit or debit card (“Payment Card”) payment card number, expiration date or security code. Apple and Google collect Payment Card data with respect to in-app purchases made through the Apps. All other payments to us are handled via a third party and merchant of Record, Paddle Ltd (https://paddle.com). We refer to their Privacy Statement https://paddle.com/gdpr.
Facebook profile information, such as name, email address, profile image and Facebook ID, if you choose to log in to the Products through Facebook.
Google profile information, such as name, email address, profile image and Google ID, if you choose to log in to the Products through Google.
Device information such as operating system version, device type, and system performance data.
Data collected via tracking technologies, as fully described in section 5.
2. Uses made of the Data
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To provide you with the Products.
To answer your questions or requests for information or handle your complaints.
To ensure that content provided by the Products is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or other device.
To provide you with promotional communications, such as email, to the extent that you have provided consent and/or consistent with notice and any opt-out rights to receive such communications under applicable law.
To carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Products, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about updates or changes to Product features and content.
To understand your broad, non-specific geographic location to help us identify groups of users by general geographic market (such as zip code, state or country).
To account for applicable sales taxes based on zip codes provided to our payment processors for purchases made through the Website.
To inform Partners about your registration and use of the Products.
To serve our advertisements to you through third party platforms, such as Facebook or Google, on other sites and apps or across your devices, to the extent that you have provided consent and/or consistent with notice and any opt-out rights for such uses under applicable law.
To manage your payments and orders.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or in-Product communication) with information about products and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you, except if you do not consent to, or opt-out to such communications.
3. Confidentiality and security
The security of your personal data is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal data, you can contact us at support@hubcards.freshdesk.com. Except as described under the “Disclosure of Your Data” section below, we do not provide your personal data to any third party without your specific consent, as defined by applicable law. hub.cards maintains technical, administrative and physical safeguards to help protect the security of your personal information against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, misuse or disclosure. Your personal information is accessible to only a limited number of personnel who need access to the information to perform their duties. Please note, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
4. Newsletter or other electronic communication
If you sign up to receive promotional materials from us via email and/or push notifications, we will use the data you give us to provide the communications you have requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel email promotional materials by selecting “unsubscribe” at the bottom of such communication or by emailing us at support@hubcards.freshdesk.com, we will remove you from our mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive push notifications, you may turn them off at the device level. Please be advised that you may not be able to opt-out of receiving certain service or transactional email messages from us that are required to provide you with our Products.
5. Tracking Technologies
hub.cards and our analytics partners use technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts to enable a service to recognize your device so you don't have to provide the same data several times during one task, to recognize that you may have already given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested, and to measure how people are using the Products.
We use local storage, such as HTML5, to store content data and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on the Products also use HTML5 to collect and store data. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.
We partner with third parties, such as Facebook and Google, to manage our advertising of the Products on other sites or platforms as well as across your other devices based on your past visits to our Website. Our third party partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather data about your activities within the Products to deliver such advertising to you, such as retargeting ads. We do not respond to do-not-track signals. For more data about interest-based ads, including how to opt-out of having your web-browsing data used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices. Please note that this does not opt you out of being served ads. You may continue to receive generic ads on these third party platforms. You may also opt out of receiving ads across devices by adjusting your ad preference in your Google account.
We use third party trackers to let us know when users have visited the Products by “clicking-through” our sponsored advertising or content hosted on third party platforms. The Products use Google Analytics code to gather statistical data. Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the Products and the volumes of usage of the Products. This is done to ensure that the Products are available when you want them and are fast. For more data on how Google Analytics processes this data, visit www.google.com/analytics.
We will acquire consent from you in order to use such trackers or provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of such trackers, to the extent required by applicable law. For more information on the types of cookies used by hub.cards and your ability to restrict the behavior of cookies or disable them in your browser’s settings, please refer to the hub.cards Cookie Policy.
5.1 Mobile Analytics
We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record data such as how often you engage with the Products, the events that occur within the Products, aggregated usage and performance data, and where the Applications were downloaded from. We may link the data we store within the analytics software to any personal data you submit within the mobile application. Our mobile applications offer options within the settings under “Analytics” to opt out of this tracking any time.
5.2 Log files
As true of most websites, we gather certain data automatically and store it in log files. This data may include Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
If you receive the HTML-formatted version of our email newsletter, your opening of the newsletter is notified to us and saved. Your clicks on links in the newsletter are also saved. These and the open statistics are used in aggregate form to give us an indication of the popularity of the content and to help us make decisions about future content and formatting.
6. Where we store your personal data
We aim to store as much of your personal data you provide to us through the Products, on secure servers located in the EU. On the other hand, it might be that parts or all of your data will be stored on secure servers outside the EU, for example in the US, in the short or long term. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology; all payment data is stored with our payment processor and is never stored on hub.cards servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Products, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone, and suggest that your change your password frequently.
Unfortunately, the transmission of data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Products; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
7. Single sign-on
You may be able to log-in to our Products using sign-in services from Meta(Facebook), Google or Apple. These services will authenticate your identity, provide you the option to share certain personal data (such as your name and email address) with us, and to pre-populate our sign-up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you to the option to post data about your activities on our Products or to your profile page to share with others within your network.
8. Your data rights
As you may know, a European Union law called the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) gives certain rights to applicable individuals in relation to their personal data. Accordingly, we have implemented transparency and access controls to help such users, including residents of the EU, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom exercise those rights. As required under applicable law, the rights afforded to you are: A right of access: you have the right to obtain (i) confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you are processed or not and, if processed, to obtain (ii) access to such data and a copy thereof. We provide an easy-to-request download of your data, in case you request that.
A right to rectification: you have the right to obtain the rectification of any inaccurate personal data concerning you. You also have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
A right to erasure: in some cases, you have the right to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning you. Upon request, hub.cards will permanently and irrevocably anonymize your data such that it can never be reconstructed to identify you as an individual. However, this is not an absolute right and hub.cards may have legal or legitimate grounds for keeping such data.
A right to restriction of processing: in some cases, you have the right to obtain restriction of the processing of your personal data.
A right to data portability: you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to hub.cards, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from hub.cards. This right only applies when the processing of your personal data is based on your consent or on a contract and such processing is carried out by automated means.
A right to object to processing: you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of personal data concerning you when such processing is based on the legitimate interest of hub.cards. hub.cards may, however, invoke compelling legitimate grounds for continued processing. When your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of such data. You may, in particular, exercise that right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided at the bottom of any messages received.
A right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority: you have the right to contact the supervisory authority to complain about hub.cards personal data protection practices.
A right to give instructions concerning the use of your data after your death: as required by applicable law, you may have the right to give hub.cards instructions concerning the use of your personal data after your death. To exercise one or more of these rights, you can email support@hubcards.freshdesk.com. You may access your personal data to modify or update at any time via an online account, or by emailing support@hubcards.freshdesk.com. We will respond to your request in a reasonable timeframe in accordance with applicable law.
9. Legal bases of personal data processing
In accordance with GDPR, hub.cards provides the following information regarding its Article 6 legal bases for personal data processing: The performance of the contract (the hub.cards Terms & Conditions) between you and hub.cards for the data processing relating to your use of hub.cards Products (including your orders and payments);
hub.cards legitimate interest, more specifically:
Our business interest in providing you with emails and push notifications for timely introductory materials and information about your hub.cards account, and our Product features and updates.
Our financial interest in providing you with promotional offers and/or discounts with respect to paid subscriptions and special offerings.
Our business interest in offering you particularized or adapted content based on your usage of the Products.
Our business interest in collecting data regarding your general usage activities for the purpose of improving our hub.cards user experience.
Our business interest in requesting that you partake in Product surveys in order to better understand your needs and expectations.
Our business interest in providing you with customer service communications regarding your account, questions about our content offerings, or any other matters directed to customer service staff, in order to have clear and easy communication with you and to respond to all your requests.
Our business interest in collecting data related to unplanned downtime or errors in the Products.
Our business interest in complying with our legal obligations, such as maintaining accurate financial records.
10. Disclosure of your data
We may disclose your personal data with and among our subsidiaries, ultimate holding company, and any affiliates, which include hub.cards software GmbH.
We may also disclose your personal data to third parties as follows:
In some circumstances, based on your specific requests, we may need to disclose your personal data to a third party so that it can provide a service you have requested from such party, or fulfill a request for data from such party.
In some circumstances, we may disclose the personal data that you have provided to hub.cards to a third party that offers and/or provides goods or services complementary to our own for the purpose of enhancing our users’ experiences by offering you integrated or complementary functionality, complementary services or bundled pricing options.
In some limited circumstances, our email service provider may receive certain information you share in-app to provide you with personalized email communications.
If hub.cards service providers (like hosting, IT maintenance, market analytics, and payment service providers) require this data to provide services to hub.cards. We require each of its service providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal data.
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If hub.cards or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation such as to comply with a subpoena, bankruptcy proceedings, similar legal process, or in order to enforce or apply our agreements with you; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of hub.cards, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging data with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
With third parties, such as Facebook, in order to serve hub.cards advertisements on such third party platforms, to the extent that you have consented to or have been provided with notice of, and an opportunity to opt-out of, such practices under applicable law.
11. Data retention
The retention periods applied by hub.cards comply with applicable legislation in effect on the date hereof, namely:
For data relating to your account: such data will be permanently and irrevocably anonymized in the event that your account is: (i) inactive for a period of two (2) years; and (2) not subscribed to “hub.cards Premium” or similar subscriptions from hub.cards. Moreover, we will permanently and irrevocably anonymize your account data within thirty (30) days of your written request to do so via email to support@hubcards.freshdesk.com.
For transactional data relating to your purchases: such data is kept for the entire period of the contractual relationship, then in accordance with legal obligations and applicable statute of limitation periods. Please note that this data does not include Payment information, which is processed by our third-party payment processors, and not hub.cards.
For data collected based on your consent to receive our marketing communications: we will use such data until you opt out, withdraw consent or applicable law requires that such data is no longer used.
When your data are collected in the context of requests/queries: such data are kept for the period necessary to process and reply to such requests or queries.
When cookies or other trackers are placed on your terminal, they are kept for a period of 12 months. Other data will be kept as long as necessary for the purposes pursued and in compliance with our legal obligations, including the applicable statute of limitations.
12. Withdrawal of consent for processing activities
To the extent that you have provided appropriate consent under applicable law to certain processing activities, such consent can be withdrawn at any time by emailing support@hubcards.freshdesk.com.
13. Links to third party sites
The Products may, from time to time, contain links to and from the Products of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates or external websites. If you follow a link to any of these external websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these websites or their policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these external websites.
14. Use of hub.cards by minors
You must be the age of majority in your province, territory or country, to sign up as a registered user of the Products. Individuals under the applicable age of majority, may utilize the Products only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian under such person's account.
15. Changes to our privacy policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our data practices. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by in-Product message, email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice in the Products prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest data on our privacy practices.
16. Your California Privacy Rights
This section provides additional details about the Personal Information we collect about California consumers and the rights afforded to them under the California Consumer Privacy Act or "CCPA".
We do not sell the Personal Information we collect to third parties for money or any other consideration, as that term is generally understood. However, the CCPA’s definition of "sale" is very broad and might be construed to include the following:
Situations where browsing data is sent to referral advertisers - when you click on an ad that sends you to our Products, we send a hashed identifier to the referring site so they can receive credit for the referral. We, along with millions of other sites, use these services. While we limit the information sent to what is needed to properly record the referral, the fact that you clicked on the link and visited our Products may be added to your profile by the ad publisher. You have the right to opt out of this by sending us a request as described below.
Subject to certain limitations, the CCPA provides California consumers the right to request to know more details about the categories or specific pieces of Personal Information we collect (including how we use and disclose this information), to delete their personal information, to opt out of any "sales" that may be occurring, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. California consumers may make a request pursuant to their rights under the CCPA by contacting support@hubcards.freshdesk.com.
17. Contact and information about the provider
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@hubcards.freshdesk.com.
hub.cards software GmbH
Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany
c/o Factory Works GmbH
Managing directors: Michael Axel Raring, Fabian Puch
Recorded in the Commercial Register at the Local Court of Berlin Charlottenburg under number HRB 231106
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