Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Please take the time to read the Privacy Policy below. From April 3rd, 2018 your use of the GoingOutAt website and our apps means you consent to this privacy statement.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact our Support team.

Thank you for being a part of the GoingOutAt community.

1. IN GENERAL

1.1 GoingOutAt Products. The concept of the GoingOutAt App is based on the publication of details regarding events and can be compared to a search engine in terms of functionality, e.g. Google, Bing, etc.

1.2 Compliance with Data Protection Laws. The collection, administration and use of personal details by GoingOutAt complies with applicable data protection laws by ensuring that, amongst others and subject to 3.1, each user is able to decide herself, which personal details shall be made accessible to other users.

2. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY GOINGOUTAT

2.1 Personally Identifiable Information. GoingOutAt collects information from users when using the App and in connection with the use of any of the GoingOutAt Services. Personally identifiable information (personenbezogene Daten) within the meaning of § 4.1 of the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG 2000) shall be saved and used in particular in order to offer new applications to the user, to improve such applications and conform them to the users’ needs

2.2 Data Collection. When using GoingOutAt services, certain user data is collected in several ways (the “Registration Information”)

2.2.1 Mandatory Information. Certain information has to be given by a user in order to use GoingOutAt Services, such as:

    • IP address
    • Geolocation

2.3 Additional User Data. After Registration different types of data are collected by GoingOutAt (the “Additional User Data” and, together with the Registration Information, the “User Information”), such as:

    • Location data and maps
    • Search terms

3. USE AND SHARING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE AND NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

3.1 Confidentiality and Security. GoingOutAt deems all user information confidential and does not disclose such information without the express informed consent of the user. GoingOutAt has implemented reasonable security policies and procedures designed to protect user information.

3.2 Download and Usage. With the download and usage of the GoingOutAt App, the user explicitly agrees that GoingOutAt shall have the right to use all collected personally identifiable information, for purposes of the GoingOutAt Products and generally agrees with this Privacy Policy.

3.3 Sharing of Information. GoingOutAt does not pass on personally identifiable information (see Section 2, above) to third parties, except as response to lawful requests from federal, state, local, or foreign law and civil enforcement agencies, as required by law, or with the explicit consent of the user, especially as set forth herein. GoingOutAt implements all reasonable measures to prevent the unauthorized access by third parties to saved details.

3.4 Advertising. The user explicitly consents to the storage and use of non-personally identifiable information for purposes of newsletter marketing or on GoingOut.at by GoingOutAt or its partners.

3.5 Transmission and/or use of data within the GoingOutAt Group. GoingOutAt receives information from, and shares information with, its affiliates, agents, and business partners in the GoingOutAt group, publishers. The User Information shared with this group is aggregated data compiled from the information that it collects from Registered Users. We may use the information we receive from the group, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our services and their offerings

4. PLUGINS AND WIDGETS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

4.1 The GoingOutAt Products include social media plugins, such as (i) Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; (ii) Google +, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043; (iii) Twitter, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA; (iv) WhatsApp, WhatsApp Inc., 650 Castro Street, Suite 120-219, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA (v) Instagram, Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA.

4.2 Such plugins can recognize a user’s IP address and the page visited on the goingout.at platform and, possibly, store cookies, so that the services offered by GoingOutAt work properly. Social media plugins and widgets are hosted either by third party providers or directly by us. Your interactions with these plugins are subject to this privacy policy or the privacy policy of any third party that offers such feature. GoingOutAt is not responsible for the use of, or guidelines regarding the use of, personal data by third party providers.

4.3 Users may recognize the respective plugins, e.g., by the respective logo or other respective characteristic typical for the respective social media-platform on our pages. You can find an overview of Facebook-plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. You can find an overview of Google+-plugins here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/. You can find an overview of Twitter-plugins here:https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview. You can find an overview of Instagram-plugins here: https://www.instagram.com/developer/ .

4.4 If a user interacts with the plugins, e. g. by clicking on the Facebook “Like-Button” or entering a comment, while being logged in to such user’s Social Media-account on Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, a user links the contents of the GoingOutAt pages to his or her respective social media-profile. Thereby, Facebook/Google+/Twitter can associate a user’s visit of the GoingOutAt page or use of GoingOutAt Products with such user’s social media-account. GoingOutAt as the provider of the GoingOutAt Products does not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its usage by Facebook, Google+, or Twitter. Users can also share finished activites via Whatsapp. Users can find more information on the issue of data transmission in the privacy policy of the respective social media-platform:

 

4.5 If users do not want to have the respective social media-platform associate their visits on our site with their social media-account, users must log out from their social media-account.

5. COOKIES

5.1 General. Several areas of the GoingOutAt website may use ‘cookies’ ─ small text files that are placed on the user’s computer and stored by the browser. They are used by GoingOutAt to provide a more user-friendly, effective and secure service. Cookies also enable GoingOutAt to identify a user’s browser and offer services to such user. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.

5.2 Installation. You can prevent the installation of cookies by entering the corresponding settings in your browser software. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to use the complete range of functions of the goingout.at platform to its full extent.

6. GOOGLE ANALYTICS AND APP ANALYTICS

6.1 The GoingOutAt Products use Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’ (see Section 6, above). The information about your visit collected by the cookies, including your IP address, is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. To the extent that the GoingOutAt Products have activated IP anonymization, Google first abbreviates your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA or Asia and abbreviated there. Google will use the information collected on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the GoingOutAt Products, to compile reports about your activities within the GoingOutAt Products, and to provide further services to GoingOutAt related to use of the GoingOutAt Products and Internet use. Google will under no circumstances associate the IP address transmitted by your browser within the operations of Google Analytics with other Google data.

6.2 You can prevent the data related to your use of the GoingOutAt platform, including your IP address, generated by the cookies from being recorded by Google and Google’s processing of this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

6.3 Furthermore, you can prevent the future data capture by setting an Opt Out-Cookie via the following link: Deactivate Google Analytics Further information regarding terms of use and privacy provisions may be found on the websites http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/. The GoingOutAt Products expanded the Google Analytics-Service with the “anonymizeIP”-Code to anonymize the user’s IP-address.

6.4 The GoingOutAt  Products use Google DoubleClick for Publishers (“DFP”). DFP uses Cookies to provide the user with user-relevant advertisements – further information may be found athttps://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/2839090?hl=en. The user may disable the DFP’s cookie placement and the placement of user-relevant advertisements for use of the GoingOutAt platform via the website: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences.

6.5 For the mobile apps on iOS and Android the services of Deduktiva GmbH (1020 Wien) and InceptIT OG (1020 Wien) are used.

7. CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

7.1. Changes to this Privacy Policy require the consent of the respective user, to whom the changed Privacy Policy shall apply. If GoingOutAt intends to implement such changes, it will give the user as much prior notice of such changes as possible. Such notice shall be made on the relevant pages of the goingout.at platform or on any other device through which the user accesses the GoingOutAt Products. Any such modifications will take effect within thirty days of publication. This policy was last modified on 3 April, 2018.

8. DELETION OF USER INFORMATION

8.1 In case of a termination of the Registered User’s account

8.1.1 All personal details provided by the user upon Registration shall be deactivated.

8.1.2 Upon the User’s request, all User Information not required for GoingOutAt’s performance of contractual obligations or compliance with statutory retention obligations, shall be irrevocably deleted. The user shall request such deletion by email sent to support@goingout.at, which shall include the IP address/addresses of the devices on which the app was used. GoingOutAt will comply with such requests within ten days and maintain a record of the deletion for one year after the deletion