gutopia

Privacy Policy

(As of: 11/01/2025)

This is a translation of the German privacy policy. In case of any discrepancies, the German version shall prevail.

Privacy Policy

§ 1 Information on the Collection of Personal Data

(1) In the following, we inform you about the processing of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g., name, address, email addresses, user behavior. We want to inform you about our processing procedures and at the same time comply with legal obligations, in particular from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

(2) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 para. 7 GDPR is Bildungsspender | WeCanHelp gGmbH Thüringer Str. 42 34212 Melsungen Phone +49 (0)5661 80 95 490 Fax +49 (0)5661 80 95 491 kontakt(at)gutopia.de www.gutopia.de

(3) Name and Address of the Data Protection Officer

Christian Aretz VP Compliance GmbH Heidestraße 22 13467 Berlin

(4) When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name and phone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer required, or restrict processing if statutory retention obligations exist.

§ 2 Purpose and Legal Basis of Data Processing

We offer two different tools on our websites that can be used to financially support charitable organizations. These are:

1. Charity Shopping

In charity shopping, the user selects a shop/service provider before making a purchase/booking where they want to buy or book something. Based on affiliate marketing, we receive a referral commission, which is largely donated according to the user's choice.

2. Online Donation Form

For each organization listed with us, we provide an online donation form. Users can donate online via various payment methods. The donation first goes to us and is usually forwarded to the desired organization at the donor's request, minus any fees from payment service providers.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is our terms of use (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR). To implement this service, we work with several processors:

Processors
DienstleisterLeistung
Host Europe GmbH
Hansestrasse 111
51149 Köln
Hosting of our website
Hetzner Online GmbH
Industriestr. 25
91710 Gunzenhausen
Hosting of our website
ALL-INKL.COM - Neue Medien Münnich
Hauptstraße 68
02742 Friedersdorf
Hosting of our mail servers
appack - vmapit GmbH
Pfingstweidstraße 13
68199 Mannheim
Provision and hosting of our app
Adcell - Firstlead GmbH
Rosenfelder Str. 15-16
10315 Berlin
Charity Shopping
Amazon Partnernet - Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l.
38 avenue John F. Kennedy
L-1855 Luxembourg
Charity Shopping
Awin - AWIN AG
Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 1A
10249 Berlin
Charity Shopping
Belboon - Daisycon B.V.
Alnovum Building
P.J. Oudweg 5
1314 CH Almere
Netherlands
Charity Shopping
communicationAds - communicationAds GmbH & Co. KG
Kaiserstraße 23
90403 Nürnberg
Charity Shopping
CJ - Conversant Deutschland GmbH
Arnulfstraße 60
80335 München
Charity Shopping
ebay - eBay Partner Network, Inc.
Attn: Legal Dept.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
Charity Shopping
MediaMarkt / Saturn - Media-Saturn Deutschland GmbH
Media-Saturn-Str. 1
85053 Ingolstadt
Charity Shopping
OTTO - Otto GmbH & Co. KGaA
Werner-Otto-Straße 1-7
22179 Hamburg
Charity Shopping
Partnerize - Performance Horizon Group Limited
6th Floor, West One, Forth Banks
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3PA
United Kingdom
Charity Shopping
retailAds - retailAds GmbH & Co. KG
Kaiserstraße 23
90403 Nürnberg
Charity Shopping
Takeads - Takeads GmbH
Heinz-Nixdorf-Straße 6
74172 Neckarsulm
Charity Shopping
Tradedoubler - Tradedoubler GmbH
Mainzer Straße 13
80804 München
Charity Shopping
Sozialbank - SozialBank AG
Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 85
50668 Köln
Payment processing Online Donation Form
PayPal - PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.
22-24 Boulevard Royal
L-2449 Luxembourg
Payment processing Online Donation Form

In particular, charity shopping makes it necessary for us to use so-called affiliate links - i.e., advertising/tracking links from third parties that store cookies and collect data for this purpose, without which the recording of the desired credits for charitable organizations would not be possible. These are Adcell, Amazon.de, Awin, Belboon, CommunicationAds, CJ, ebay, MediaMarkt, OTTO, Partnerize, RetailAds, Saturn, TakeAds and Tradedoubler.

These links redirect to thousands of shops that were chosen by users for purchases or booking of services and cannot be listed in detail here. For donation processing, we work with Sozialbank and PayPal.

§ 3 Your Rights

(1) You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

- Right of access, - Right to rectification or erasure, - Right to restriction of processing, - Right to object to processing, - Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us. The supervisory authority responsible for us is

The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1 65189 Wiesbaden Phone: 0611-1408 0 poststelle@datenschutz.hessen.de

§ 4 Processing of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website

When you visit our website, we process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. The data described below are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security and must therefore be processed by us. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our interest is to ensure a smooth connection setup, comfortable use, evaluation of system security and stability, and administrative management of our website.

In this context, we process the following personal data: - IP address - Content of the request (page visited) - Access status/HTTP status code - Amount of data transferred - Previously visited page - Browser - Operating system - Language and version of browser software - Selected organization - Session ID - Device number (when using the app)

You can register with us as a member. In this case, we process the following personal data: - Email address - Member number - Member short name - First and last name - Phone number (optional) - Mobile number (optional) - Homepage (optional) - IBAN (optional) - Consent to general newsletter delivery (optional) - Consent to email delivery for credits (optional)

When registering as a contact person for an organization, we additionally process: - Street and house number - Postal code and city When redirecting to a shop partner without a member account, we process the following personal data: - Selected shop partner - Date and time of click to shop partner - Tracking ID (enables assignment to the desired organization in case of a credit) - IP address

When redirecting to a shop partner with a user account, we additionally process the following personal data: - Member number (enables assignment to the member account in case of a credit)

If you use the online donation form without a member account, we process the following personal data: - Organization number - Transaction number - Payment method (such as direct debit, credit card, PayPal) - First and last name - Street and house number - Postal code and city - Email address - Donation amount - Fee of payment service provider - Donation to us - Date of donation - Status of donation (open, confirmed, canceled) - Donation receipt request (yes, no) - IBAN and BIC (for donations by direct debit) - SEPA mandate number (for donations by direct debit) - Frequency for recurring donations (monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually) - Date and time of start of recurring donation - IP address - Permission to publish personal data on our websites - Permission to share personal data with the registered organization administrator

When using the online donation form with a member account additionally: - Member number

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is our terms of use (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR).

§ 5 Newsletter

As a registered member, you can subscribe to newsletters with which we inform you about information on the portal and current offers, and/or inform you about the recording of credits triggered by you, by giving your consent.

The legal basis is your consent to receive the newsletter (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR).

You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time with effect for the future and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter email, by deactivating it in your member account, or by email to the contact details specified in the imprint.