General
Your personal data (e.g. title, name, house address, e-mail address, phone number, bank details, credit card number) are processed by us only in accordance with the provisions of German data privacy laws. The following provisions describe the type, scope and purpose of collecting, processing and utilizing personal data. This data privacy policy applies only to our web pages. If links on our pages route you to other pages, please inquire there about how your data are handled in such cases.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is displayed in your browser's address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Inventory data
(1) Your personal data, insofar as these are necessary for this contractual relationship (inventory data) in terms of its establishment, organization of content and modifications, are used exclusively for fulfilling the contract. For goods to be delivered, for instance, your name and address must be relayed to the supplier of the goods.
(2) Without your explicit consent or a legal basis, your personal data are not passed on to third parties outside the scope of fulfilling this contract. After completion of the contract, your data are blocked against further use. After expiry of deadlines as per tax-related and commercial regulations, these data are deleted unless you have expressly consented to their further use.

Contact form

Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share this information without your permission.

We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.

Registration
The data entered during registration and entry generation will be used for the purpose of using the offer. Users can be informed about registration or entry-related information (changes of scope, technical changes by e-mail). The stored data are visible in the registration / entry edit process.

Sports events

The organizers together with the MSECM GmbH process personal data that are made available to the competition as part of then entries from the clubs. The data is used for the creation of reports (start lists, results), the publication of the results, for the award ceremony, for the creation of documents like record lists as well as for publication on the Internet including live timing, log files, myResults homepage and the myResults app.

Before, during and after the meet, this data will also be used for correspondence with the clubs, for media coverage and for communication with the swimming associations. Photographs, filming or photomechanical duplications created during the meet may be used by the organizer, host and authorized third parties such as the media and sponsors without compensation claims of the respective participant or his legal representative. Unauthorized third parties have no access to the stored personal data. The organizers and the MSECM GmbH store and use the data as long as they are necessary for their purpose. By submitting the entries, the clubs agree to the storage, processing and use of personal data for all registered participants and confirm that they have received the written consent of the participants. In the case of under-age participants, the clubs are responsible for the approval of a legal representative. Each participant or his legal representative may object to the storage, processing and use of personal data at any time in whole or in part to the organizer in writing and require their deletion. Possible consequences result from the regulations of the Fina, LEN as well as the national swimming federations. Detailed questions about data protection will be answered by our data protection officer and the data protection officer of the swimming associations.

Web analysis with Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. text files stored on your computer to enable analysis of website usage by you. Information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. In case of activated IP anonymization on this website, however, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf this website's owner, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports about website activities, and provide the website's operator with further services related to website and Internet usage. The IP address sent from your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data by Google. You can prevent storage of cookies by appropriately setting your browser software; in this case, however, please note that you might not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. In addition, you can prevent data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google, by downloading and installing a browser plug-in from the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en or here.

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.

This website uses Google Analytics' demographic features. This allows reports to be generated containing statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This collected data cannot be attributed to any specific individual person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or you can forbid the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section "Refusal of data collection".

We additionally use Google Analytics to analyze data from double-click cookies and Google Ads for statistical purposes. If you do not want to do this, you can disable it through the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en).

Additional information and Google's privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html. Google Analytics is explained in more detail at https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.

Google AdSense / Ads

We have integrated on this website Google Ads / Adsense (called in other GooGle Ads). Google Ads is an internet advertising service that allows us to serve ads both on Google's search engine results and on the Google Network. Through Google Ads, we can set certain keywords, which will only display an ad on Google's search engine results when the search engine retrieves a keyword-related search result. In the Google Network, ads are distributed on topical web pages using an automated algorithm and according to pre-defined keywords.

The Google Ads Services company is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

The purpose of using Google Ads is to promote our website by displaying interest-based advertising on third-party websites and in the search engine results of the search engine Google, and by displaying third-party advertisements on our website, as well as by funding and enabling the website herewith a free platform for the users.

Google Ads uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on users' computers and that allow an analysis of the use of the website. Google Ads also uses so-called Web Beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this offer.
The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including the IP address of the users) and the delivery of advertising formats are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be shared by Google with Google affiliates. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data you have stored.
If you access our website via a Google ad, Google will store a conversion cookie on Google's information technology system. What you can understand under Cookies can be found under no. 5. This cookie loses its validity after thirty days and is not used to identify the user. We use the conversion cookie to find out if certain subpages have been visited on our website. Thanks to the conversion cookie, we as well as Google can understand whether a user who came to our website via an Ads ad generated revenue.

By using the conversion cookie, the data and information collected by Google will be used to create visitor statistics for our website. We use the visit statistics to determine the total number of users so that we can determine the success or failure of each Ads ad and to optimize our Ads ads for the future. Neither our company nor other Google Ads advertisers receive information from Google that identifies users. The conversion cookie stores personal information, such as the websites you visit. Each time you visit our website, your personal information is transferred to Google.

You can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, as shown above, at any time by means of the appropriate setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a conversion cookie on the user's information technology system. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Ads can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.

Users can prevent the installation of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; However, the provider points out to the users that in this case they may not be able to fully utilize all functions of this offer. By using this website, users agree to the processing of the data collected about them by Google in the manner described above and for the purpose stated above.

There is also the possibility of objecting to interest-based advertising by Google. To do this, you need to go to https://www.google.com/settings/ads from each of the internet browsers you use to make the settings you want.

Additional information and Google's privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

YouTube

Our site uses the provider for the integration of videos

YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In the unadapted exercise, when you visit a page with embedded videos, your IP address will be sent to YouTube and cookies will be installed on your computer. We've added the enhanced privacy mode when we embed our YouTube videos. This action will not save YouTube any information about the user unless you watch the video. If you click the video, your IP address will be sent to YouTube, and YouTube will know that you've watched the video. If you are logged in to YouTube, this information will also be associated with your user account (you can prevent this by logging out of YouTube before calling the video).

We are not aware of the possible collection and use of your data by YouTube. For more information, see the YouTube Privacy Policy at www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. In addition, we refer to the general handling of cookies and the associated possibility of disabling cookies on our presentation in the previous sections.

Information about cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

Objecting to the collection of data

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Disable Google Analytics.

For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser plugin

You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Outsourced data processing

We have entered into an agreement with our Web server provider and Google for the outsourcing of our data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics and the website.

Disclosure

According to the Federal Data Protection Act, you have a right to free-of-charge information about your stored data, and possibly entitlement to correction, blocking or deletion of such data. Inquiries can be directed to the following e-mail addresses: ( info@msecm.com )

Parts of this information is from the source: twiggs translations

• "_ga": Used to generate an individual ID which is used to collect statistics of a website user.
• "_gat": Used by Google Analytics to limit the add-on rate.
• "_gid": registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical information about how the visitor uses the website.
• "CONCRETE5": used by the content management system. A neccesary techical cookie which cannot be deactivated
• "cookieconsent_MSECM_GmbH_msecm.com": used by the cookie enable/disable functionality. A neccesary techical cookie which cannot be deactivated.