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“INTHELOOP.ME” refers to the service provided subject to these General Terms and Conditions and/or INTHELOOP.ME.
The protection of your personal data is of utmost concern to INTHELOOP.ME.
In these terms and conditions on data protection INTHELOOP.ME would like to inform you about how INTHELOOP.ME treats your personal data and how you can exchange this data with other users of INTHELOOP.ME.
These terms and conditions supplement the General Terms and Conditions for using INTHELOOP.ME.
1. Basic Principles of INTHELOOP.ME for handling your Personal Data
INTHELOOP.ME strictly adheres to the following basic principles in the protection of your Personal Data:
2. Definitions
The following terms used in these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection shall have the following meanings:
3. What does INTHELOOP.ME know about you, what do you give INTHELOOP.ME and INTHELOOP.ME Members permission to do, and what happens with your Personal Data?
3.1 Registration Data
In order for the INTHELOOP.ME Services to function, INTHELOOP.ME needs to collect and process certain elements of your Personal Data in the course of the registration process. First of all, this consists of the following data:
Your password and/or your user name are never visible to any INTHELOOP.ME Member at any time. INTHELOOP.ME shall never disclose or pass your password and/or your user name on to any third party.
Furthermore, you will need to fill out the following Personal Data in the course of the registration process (mandatory fields):
The following Personal Data from these mandatory fields is accessible to other INTHELOOP.ME Members without any restrictions:
With respect to the following mandatory Personal Data, you may choose in each individual case whether the data shall be displayed to a specific other INTHELOOP.ME-Member or not:
3.2 Voluntary Data
If you wish, you may provide additional information about yourself apart from the mandatory data on a voluntary basis (hereinafter referred to as "Voluntary Data"), to allow other INTHELOOP.ME Members to get to know you better and possibly encourage them to choose you as an appropriate business contact. At the moment, you are able to choose from the following Voluntary Data, for example: your interests, your education, companies you have previously worked for, what you have to offer to other INTHELOOP.ME Members, what you are looking for from other INTHELOOP.ME Members, etc. You may also upload a photograph of yourself, if you wish.
The Voluntary Data you choose to provide to INTHELOOP.ME is accessible to all other INTHELOOP.ME Members, unless the data is particularly identified. With regard to such particularly identified data you may choose in each individual case if the data shall be displayed to a specific other INTHELOOP.ME-Member.
3.3 Your Profile, Contact Management
The following sections of the Personal Data you have made available to INTHELOOP.ME is visible to all other INTHELOOP.ME Members:
All other INTHELOOP.ME Members may access your Profile and view the information displayed on the Profile, including such Voluntary Data you have specified to be made available to all other INTHELOOP.ME Members. Certain INTHELOOP.ME Members may be able to access further of your Voluntary Data in accordance with your specifications (chosen settings) for the respective INTHELOOP.ME-Member in each individual case.
If you send INTHELOOP.ME Members a request for personal contact, these INTHELOOP.ME Members are then saved in your Profile on a contact list. Should a INTHELOOP.ME-Member confirm your request for contact, this INTHELOOP.ME-Member shall be listed as a so called "confirmed contact". Confirmed and unconfirmed contacts shall be registered separate from one another. Other INTHELOOP.ME Members may only ever view your list of confirmed contacts.
INTHELOOP.ME has preset your privacy settings under "Privacy" per default so that the list of your confirmed contacts is displayed to all INTHELOOP.ME Members. However, you may change this setting at any time by yourself to the effect that your list of confirmed contacts is not visible to anybody at all or only to certain of your contacts, for example to the direct contacts of your contacts (i.e. second degree contacts) or only to third degree or fourth degree contacts.
The following of your personal statistics are visible to all INTHELOOP.ME Members at all times:
On your Profile you will find a so-called activity meter. This meter indicates whether you use the INTHELOOP.ME Services regularly, however, it does not show any details about the way or the times you use the INTHELOOP.ME Services. The activity meter is intended as an indication for other INTHELOOP.ME Members to determine how often you use the INTHELOOP.ME Services so that the other INTHELOOP.ME Members can evaluate whether you will presumably react quickly to a request via the INTHELOOP.ME Services. You may choose to hide the activity meter at any time in your privacy settings under "Privacy" so that the activity meter is not visible to other INTHELOOP.ME Members.
INTHELOOP.ME has provided a guest book on your Profile to invite other INTHELOOP.ME Members to leave a comment,, if they wish to do so. Entries in the guest book are visible to all other INTHELOOP.ME Members. INTHELOOP.ME has preset your privacy settings under "Privacy" per default to the effect that a guest book is available and displayed to all INTHELOOP.ME Members on your Profile. You may change this setting at any time in your privacy settings under "Privacy", if you prefer not to have a guest book on your Profile.
Other INTHELOOP.ME Members may send you private messages to you in order to establish contact with you. INTHELOOP.ME has preset your privacy settings under "Privacy" per default so that all INTHELOOP.ME Members may send you private messages. You may restrict the ability of INTHELOOP.ME Members to send you private messages at any time to the effect that either no INTHELOOP.ME Members or only selected contacts may send you private messages, for example only the direct contacts of your contacts (i.e. second degree contacts) or only third degree or fourth degree contacts.
As you can see, INTHELOOP.ME gives you complete control over your own privacy at all times!
4. Visibility of your Profile to Non-Members of INTHELOOP.ME
Under "Privacy" you can set the level of your privacy at any time. This means that you decide whether to increase your level of privacy or opt in favor of more visibility online, enabling more exposure of your profile for potential business partners. When you register, your default privacy settings rather promote the spirit of networking. The data contained in your profile is visible to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME and traceable by search engines on the Internet. This, however, does not include personal contact details such as email addresses or phone numbers.
If you signed up to INTHELOOP.ME before 17.08.2007 the following regulation continues to apply:
Your profile is preset to be invisible to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME and not traceable by search engines on the Internet. You can, of course, adjust these settings at any time. However, please note that if you do release your profile to non-members or search engines, this will automatically mean that the following sections of your registration data are displayed to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME: First name, surname, professional status, position (title), previous companies and positions, industry, country, state and city of your company
If your profile shall be visible to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME or traceable by search engines on the Internet, such voluntary data that you have specified in the settings under "Privacy" to be visible to other INTHELOOP.ME members will also automatically be visible to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME. Finally, a maximum of four (4) of your confirmed contacts will automatically be visible, chosen at random. You may prevent the display of these four (4) confirmed contacts at any time by changing the setting for the display of confirmed contacts under "Privacy" to any other setting than "all members".
5. Groups
On the INTHELOOP.ME Websites, INTHELOOP.ME offers certain groups, forums and similar services..
Each group has one (1) or more moderator(s). The moderator decides for each group whether the group is public or whether it is only accessible to a specific group of people, as well as who has read and/or write access for each relevant group. This information will be displayed on the INTHELOOP.ME Websites for the relevant group. It is visible to INTHELOOP.ME Members and it may also be visible to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME, depending on the settings chosen by the moderator.
Please note: where a group is specified as "public" on the INTHELOOP.ME Website and in the event that the moderator has not restricted the access rights to the group, all contributions of INTHELOOP.ME Members to such a group can be read by all other INTHELOOP.ME Members, and these contributions are then also accessible to non-members of INTHELOOP.ME on the Internet without any restrictions. You may deactivate the traceability of your contributions to a group by Internet search engines or by so called RSS-readers in your privacy settings under "Privacy". However, any contributions you posted on the group prior to deactivation will remain visible after the deactivation as well. RSS-readers are programs which trace updates of an Internet website, providing the Internet website technically supports the so called RSS-standard. Where Internet group support the RSS-standard the RSS-reader may track if, when and which new articles have been published.
6. Appointments, Activities, Event Management
On the INTHELOOP.ME Websites, INTHELOOP.ME offers you the possibility to enter your appointments, activities and events as well as similar services (collectively hereinafter referred to as "events"). With this function you may manage and coordinate your events with other INTHELOOP.ME Members and/or with non-members of INTHELOOP.ME, and you may also invite other INTHELOOP.ME Members and/or non-members to specific events.
Each event has one (1) or more hosts (organizers). The host decides for each event if and which information about the event is visible to other INTHELOOP.ME Members and/or for non-members of INTHELOOP.ME. Among other things, this information may include whether the event is reserved to INTHELOOP.ME Members or whether it is a public event and as such accessible to non-members, whether the number of participants is limited, whether the guest list is visible without any restrictions or if and which restrictions should apply to the visibility of the guest list. The above information shall be displayed on the INTHELOOP.ME Websites for the relevant event. It is visible to INTHELOOP.ME Members, and it may also be visible to non-members, depending on the settings chosen by the host.
7. Invitations
As a INTHELOOP.ME Member you may invite others to join INTHELOOP.ME. INTHELOOP.ME shall process personal data collected in the course of the invitation solely for the invitation and shall not use it for any other purposes.
Please note that the following sections of your Personal Data are displayed to the recipient of the invitation:
8. What does "Clickpath" mean?
"Clickpath" is a function of the INTHELOOP.ME Services which registers access to INTHELOOP.ME Members’ Profiles by other INTHELOOP.ME Members or access to specific information within INTHELOOP.ME Members’ Profiles. The information registered by Clickpath is only available to Premium Members of INTHELOOP.ME.
By using Clickpath you can see which Profiles of other INTHELOOP.ME Members you have visited. You can also check which other INTHELOOP.ME Members have visited your Profile. By the same token, all other Premium Members of INTHELOOP.ME can do the same, i.e. they may see whether you have visited their Profile. This feature is an essential part of contact management on INTHELOOP.ME and as such an essential feature of the INTHELOOP.ME Services: you are not able to deactivate this feature in your privacy settings. If you do not agree that other INTHELOOP.ME Members may see that you have visited their Profile, you should not use the INTHELOOP.ME Services.
Furthermore, Clickpath registers which INTHELOOP.ME Members have visited your INTHELOOP.ME "About me" page which you can set up within the framework of INTHELOOP.ME Services, and which INTHELOOP.ME Members have visited the website of one of your previous companies.
Any information registered by Clickpath is deleted by INTHELOOP.ME automatically within one (1) week after its registration.
9. Search Functions
The INTHELOOP.ME Services offer various possibilities to search for particular INTHELOOP.ME Members, including a Powersearch feature and a Search Agent feature. These various search functions may assist you, for example, in finding other INTHELOOP.ME Members with similar interests. The search functions can also help you to initiate contact with other INTHELOOP.ME Members who offer exactly what you are looking for. Thus, you can find the contacts you need - and systematically expand your personal network.
10. Newsletter, weekly Status-Emails
INTHELOOP.ME regularly sends out newsletters or weekly status emails (collectively hereinafter referred to as the "newsletter(s)") to all INTHELOOP.ME Members. In these newsletters INTHELOOP.ME may inform you, among other things, about new features on INTHELOOP.ME, about your events in the upcoming week, and INTHELOOP.ME may also provide you with specific personal statistics from the respective past calendar week (i.e. the number of hits on your Profile, whether you have new contacts to be confirmed and/or new private messages, etc.).
Furthermore, INTHELOOP.ME may present three (3) new members of INTHELOOP.ME to you in each newsletter. It may also be the case that INTHELOOP.ME presents you as a possible contact to other INTHELOOP.ME Members in a newsletter. If you do not wish to be presented as a possible contact to other INTHELOOP.ME Members in a newsletter, you can change the settings under "Privacy" at any time so that this shall not happen.
Finally, INTHELOOP.ME may inform you about three (3) random INTHELOOP.ME Members who have visited your Profile in the past week. Of course, this may also apply to yourself vice versa, i.e. you may be one of those random INTHELOOP.ME Members with regard to another INTHELOOP.ME-Member whose Profile you have visited in the past week.
You may choose to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending an email to the link provided at the end of each newsletter.
11. Cookies
After you have logged in to the INTHELOOP.ME Services with your user name and password, INTHELOOP.ME uses cookies in order to identify you during the course of your session. A cookie will be stored on your computer. Upon the termination of your session the cookie will be automatically deleted. You can save this cookie on your computer to enable automatic login for subsequent sessions by activating the function: "Login automatically on this computer". The cookie will then store part of your login data in encrypted form. If you select automatic login, please be aware that this will then only be possible on the same computer on which the cookie was first saved, i.e. an automatic login on two (2) different computers is not possible.
12. Log Files
Each time you access a website from the INTHELOOP.ME Websites, INTHELOOP.ME will save the following data in a log file (the so called "server log"):
This log file will be stored by INTHELOOP.ME in the standardized "combined" log file format for the Apache Web server. INTHELOOP.ME uses the data from this log file in anonymous form without reference to your person for statistical purposes. In doing so, INTHELOOP.ME may analyze on which days and at which time the INTHELOOP.ME Services are particularly frequented and how much data volume is created on the INTHELOOP.ME Websites. Furthermore, by using the log file, INTHELOOP.ME can identify defects on the INTHELOOP.ME Websites, such as defective hyperlinks or program defects, and thus continually improve the quality of the INTHELOOP.ME Websites. INTHELOOP.ME does not attribute the website demands stored in the log file to specific individual users. However, INTHELOOP.ME reserves the right to review the log files from the last known IP address of a INTHELOOP.ME-Member where INTHELOOP.ME has reasonable cause to believe that the member is using INTHELOOP.ME Services in breach of contractual agreements or the applicable legislation. In doing this, INTHELOOP.ME is protecting other INTHELOOP.ME Members, the safety of INTHELOOP.ME Members’ data, as well as INTHELOOP.ME Websites and the INTHELOOP.ME Services.
13. Under Age
Membership of INTHELOOP.ME Services is reserved to persons who have reached the legal age of 18. Parents and legal guardians are responsible for the protection of their children's privacy.
14. Accessibility of these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection
These Terms and Conditions on Data Protection are accessible from any website of the INTHELOOP.ME Websites under the link "Data Protection".