Data protection

In our privacy policy, we have compiled all essential information about our handling of your personal data and your rights in this regard.

This data protection declaration applies from 01.07.2024.

Table of contents

1. Scope of application and update of this data protection declaration

This Privacy Policy applies to the use of this website and all Ads-UAE applications, services, products and tools (collectively, “Services”), regardless of how you access or use these services, including access via mobile devices and app.

 

We may change this privacy policy at any time by publishing the amended version here and indicating the date of entry into force of the amended version. All significant changes to this privacy policy will be communicated to you by e-mail if you have registered with us.

2. Responsible

Teachuni LLC, 3833 Powerline Road, Suite 201, Fort Lauderdale, 33309 Florida, United States, is the operator of the services and responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If this privacy policy refers to “Ads-UAE”, “we” or “our”, Teachuni LLC is always referred to as the person responsible.

3. Data protection officer and contact

We have appointed a data protection officer to monitor the protection of your personal data. If you have a question about this privacy policy or in general about data protection at Ads-UAE, you can contact our data protection officer at any time by e-mail at datenschutz@ads-uae.com or by post to our above-mentioned postal address with the addition “Data Protection Officer”.

4. What personal data we collect and process

We collect your personal information when you use our services, create a new Ads-UAE account, provide us with information via a web form, add or update information about your Ads-UAE account, or otherwise contact us. We also collect personal data from other sources (such as from other members of our group of companies, credit reference agencies and other data providers).

In total, we collect the following personal data:

4.1 Personal data that you provide when using our services or when setting up an Ads-UAE account

  • Data that identifies you, such as name, salutation, address, telephone number and e-mail address, your username, date of birth or VAT identification number, which you provide when opening the Ads-UAE account or at a later time, whereby the provision of certain data, such as the telephone number, is mandatory in order to verify them, e.g. in the context of the prevention and investigation of illegal activities.

Data on ads and those that you provide in a transaction (e.g. delivery address), as well as other transaction-related content that you generate (e.g. ads and other content that you generate or that relates to your Ads-UAE account, the use of the contact function in the ads and stored search orders (including the watch list)).

Other content that you generate or that relates to your account (e.g. B. User reviews).

Content that you share in messages with other users via our messaging tools (more information below under Reviewing the messages sent through our messaging tools).

Financial information (e.g. credit card and account numbers, payment data) in connection with the use of a paid service offered by us or a payment service offered by a payment service provider as part of our services.

In some cases, optional further information about your personal situation (depending on the service). In the area of real estate search, these are, for example, marital status, work of work, employment status, net income, household size and interests. For example, if you place a job application on our offers, you can voluntarily provide us with the following information in this context: CV, function, work area, professional experience, training, contact details.

Data that we have to collect for tax reasons if you as a seller use our “Pay safely” or “Buy directly” function, including e.g. B. the tax identification number and the Member State of the European Union that issued it, your date of birth, the identifier of the financial account, the name of the holder of the financial account (if it differs from the name stored in the Ads-UAE account) and any other information used to identify the account holder, as well as any Member State of the European Union in which you are considered a resident.

If you submit a report regarding illegal content or a complaint to us: Data that identifies you, such as B. Your name and e-mail address, as well as additional information that you provide with your report or State a complaint.

You can provide us with more information via a web form or by updating or adding data to your Ads-UAE account, requests, through calls to our customer service that can be recorded with your consent, or if you contact us for other reasons regarding our services.

Other data that we are legally obliged or entitled to collect and process and that we need for your authentication, identification or verification of the data we collect.

4.2 Personal data that we automatically collect when using our services or creating an Ads-UAE account

Data that arises as part of your use of our services and is linked to your Ads-UAE account, e.g. when you save search orders or ads.

Data about your interaction with our services (such as search requests or views of ads), your settings for advertisements and your communication with us (e.g. the number of calls to our customer service); this also includes the pseudonymized information collected by us that the telephone number displayed to you individually in an ad was called.

Location data, including the approximate location (e.g. region resulting from the IP address) and the exact location of your mobile device. Please note that on most mobile devices, you can set or disable the use of location services for all applications in the settings menu of your mobile device.

Computer and connection information, such as statistics about your visits to the Services, information about traffic to and from the websites, referral URL, information about advertisements, your IP address, your access times, your access times including the pages accessed within our Services, your language settings and your weblog information.

4.3 Personal data that we collect in connection with the use of cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect data as part of your use of our services. We collect this data from the end devices (including mobile devices) that you use to use our services. The data collected includes the following usage and device-related information:

Data about the pages you visit, the time, frequency and duration of the views, the links you click on and other actions you take in the context of your use of our services and in advertising and e-mail content.

Data about your activities and interactions with respect to our advertising partners, including data about what ads were shown to you, how often they were shown, when and where they were shown, and whether you performed an action, such as clicking on an ad or performing a transaction.

Your affiliation to one or more user segments or User categories, such as male, 20-49 years, interested in motor vehicles.

Model or Device type, operating system and version, browser type and settings, device ID or individual device identifier, ID for advertisements, individual device tokens, and data regarding cookies (e.g. B. Cookie ID).

The IP address from which your device accesses the services.

Location data, including the approximate location (e.g. region resulting from the IP address) and the exact location of your mobile device. Please note that on most mobile devices, you can set or disable the use of location services for all applications in the settings menu of your mobile device.

Further information about our use of these technologies and your choices can be found under Cookies and similar technologies.

4.4 Personal data from other sources

We also collect personal data about you from other sources and from third parties, to the extent permitted by applicable law. This includes in particular the following data:

Data from public sources (e.g. demographic information)

Data from credit agencies (e.g. credit check data and identity confirmations)

Data from data providers (e.g. demographic information, data related to interest-based and online advertising)

We combine the data you provide with data from these other sources. When third parties provide us with personal data, we take measures to ensure that these third parties are entitled to disclose your personal data to us. We also obtain access to personal data about you from other members of our group of companies.

4.5 Data you share with us on social networks

We may allow you to share data with social networks or to use social networks or similar service providers with whom you already have an account to create an Ads UAE account or to link your Ads UAE account to your account with the respective social network or similar service providers (e.g. Meta and Google). These social networks and similar service providers may automatically give us access to certain personal data stored there about you (e.g. content that you have viewed or that you like, information about the advertisements that were displayed to you or that you clicked on, etc.). You can set the personal data that we can access via the privacy settings of the respective social network or similar service provider.

We use social media links to various social networks. With the help of these links, you can e.g. Share content or recommend products. The social media links are integrated in such a way that no personal data can be collected by the social networks when simply calling up the page. Only when the user clicks on a social media link is a connection with the respective social network established. The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by social networks as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the data protection information of the respective networks or Websites.

On our websites, we have integrated social media links to the following social networks:

Meta (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, Ireland). Meta’s privacy policy can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

X (X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA). X’s privacy policy can be found here: https://twitter.com/privacy

Pinterest (Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, USA). Pinterest’s privacy policy can be found here: http://about.pinterest.com/privacy/

YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4. Ireland). YouTube’s privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy? Hl=de-de

5. Purposes and legal basis of data processing as well as categories of recipients

We process your personal data for different purposes and on the basis of different legal bases that allow such processing. We process your personal data, among other things, to provide and improve our services, to provide you with a personalized user experience on this website, to contact you about your Ads-UAE account and our services, to provide customer service, to offer you personalized advertising and marketing communications, and to detect, prevent, contain and investigate fraudulent or illegal activity. For these purposes, we also share your data with third parties (including our processors) and other members of our group of companies in accordance with section 5.6 of this privacy policy.

Below you will find a summary – ordered by legal basis – of the purposes for which we process your personal data, including the categories of recipients to whom we transfer personal data for the purposes mentioned in each case:

5.1 We process your personal data in order to fulfill the contract concluded with you and to provide you with our services (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR). This includes the following purposes:

  • Processing of data about you or Your company for the purpose of concluding and executing the contract with you (including performing two-factor authentication using the telephone number stored in your Ads-UAE account if there is an increased risk of unauthorized access to your Ads-UAE account).

Provision of our services and their use (including billing), in particular for the publication and sharing of ads, profiles and other content of the user as well as the mediation of contact with other users with suitable offers and to measure and improve the quality and success of our services, to keep our services safe and ready for use and to adapt the content of the website and services to what you may like based on the actions you take.

Enabling and carrying out transactions/contacting other users (including the transmission of your personal data required for this purpose to other Ads-UAE users), the provision and improvement of functions such as ratings and Ads-UAE account management, the provision of other services used by you (as described in connection with such services) and the safeguarding of the functionality of our services.

Offer of the “Secure payment” and the “Buy directly” functions as a seller including the transmission of your data to the payment service providers Adyen N.V (Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6-50, 1011 DJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands) cooperating with us as well as Online Payment Platform B.V., Kanaalweg 1, 2628 EB Delft, Netherlands, “OPP” for short to fulfill your contract for the processing of the purchase price payment with these payment service providers. These process your data to fulfill the contract concluded with you and to fulfill their legal obligations (e.g. B. for the prevention of money laundering) in accordance with the Adyen Data Protection Declaration or the OPP Data Protection Declaration. Some of this data (surname, first name and e-mail address) will be transmitted immediately after the placing of your advertisement so that the respective payment service provider can identify you in accordance with the anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations. Other information (date of birth, telephone number, bank details, postal address, etc.) will be provided before payment in order to be able to carry out checks in accordance with the same law.

Offer of the “Secure payment” function including the transmission of your data to the payment service provider MANGOPAY S.A. cooperating with us. (“Mangopay”) to fulfill your contract for the processing of the purchase price payment with Mangopay. Mangopay processes your data to fulfill the contract concluded with you and to fulfill its legal obligations (e.g. B. for the prevention of money laundering) in accordance with the Mangopay privacy policy.

Clarification of problems with your Ads-UAE account, enforcement of fee claims and provision of other services in the context of customer service. For these purposes, we may contact you by notification in your Ads-UAE account, by e-mail, telephone, SMS, push notification on your mobile device or by post.

Processing of general location data (such as IP address or postal code) to provide you with location-based services (such as radius search and other personalized content based on your general location data).

Enforcement of our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy and other principles.

Granting access to your ads and their content to other members of our group of companies, in particular mobile.de GmbH, or cooperating external providers of websites, applications, services and tools with whom we work in accordance with our Terms of Use, so that they publish or promote your ads and their content on their websites or in their applications, services and tools. If we pass on the content of your ads and related personal data to such external providers, this is only done on the basis of an agreement that limits the use of this personal data by the external provider to the purposes necessary to fulfill the contractual obligations to us. The external provider is contractually obliged to take appropriate security measures with regard to this data. External providers are in no way entitled to disclose personal data contained in your advertisements to third parties.

If necessary, we transfer your personal data to processors and the following other recipients for one or more of the aforementioned purposes:

Other Ads-UAE users

Members of our group of companies, in particular in accordance with section 5.6 of this data protection declaration, in particular mobile.de

External service providers (e.g. the payment service provider for the “Secure payment” function)

External operators of websites, applications, services and tools

5.2 We process your personal data in order to comply with our legal obligations (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR). This includes the following purposes:

  • Participation in proceedings (including court proceedings) carried out by state authorities, in particular for the investigation, investigation and prosecution of illegal activities.

Prevention, detection and containment (including compliance with reporting obligations) of illegal activities (e.g. fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing).

Answering requests for the assertion of your data subject rights under the GDPR, including sending passwords for corresponding files by SMS to your telephone number.

Answering requests for information from third parties based on legal information claims that third parties have against us (e.g. in the case of intellectual property infringements or trademark infringements or other legal violations).

Processing of reports of illegal content and complaints, including checking whether these reports or complaints from the same user are often manifestly unfounded.

Compliance with other legal requirements in the areas of consumer protection, online platforms and taxes.

Ensuring the information security of our services.

Storage and storage of your personal data to fulfill specific legal retention obligations (further information on the storage of your data by Ads-UAE can be found under Storage period and deletion).

If necessary, we transfer your personal data to processors and the following other recipients for one or more of the aforementioned purposes:

Law enforcement authorities, courts or other government agencies (subject to an examination of whether the transfer of your personal data that we have collected for other purposes constitutes a permissible change of purpose, including the consideration of whether your interests in the exclusion of data transfer outweigh).

Third parties on the basis of legal claims for information against us as well as in connection with legal proceedings, provided that a legal order, a court order or an equivalent legal order is presented to us (in each case subject to an examination of whether the transfer of your personal data that we have collected for other purposes represents a permissible change of purpose, including the consideration of whether your interests in the exclusion of the data transfer outweigh).

Tax authorities as part of the reporting procedure for platform operators.

External service providers

Credit reference agencies, if this is permitted or mandatory by law (e.g. information on payment delays, payment defaults or other irregularities that may be relevant to your credit report).

Other Ads-UAE users, insofar as the disclosure of your identity as a reporting user is strictly necessary as part of the procedure for reporting illegal content.

5.3 We process your personal data in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d) GDPR). This includes the following purposes:

  • Prevention, detection, containment and investigation of illegal acts that may lead to an impairment of your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person, unless there is already a legal obligation to do so.

If necessary, we transfer your personal data to processors and the following other recipients for one or more of the aforementioned purposes:

Law enforcement authorities, courts or other government agencies, as well as third parties involved in legal proceedings (in each case, subject to an examination of whether the transfer of your personal data that we have collected for other purposes constitutes a permissible change of purpose, including weighing whether your interests in the exclusion of the data transfer outweigh).

External service providers

5.4 We process your personal data in order to pursue our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR), provided that your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms do not prevail. In order to reconcile our interests with your rights, we have introduced appropriate control mechanisms. On this basis, we process your data for the following purposes:

  • Participation in proceedings (including legal proceedings) carried out by courts, law enforcement authorities or other state agencies, in particular for the investigation, investigation and prosecution of illegal activities, unless there is already a legal obligation to do so and we may legitimately assume that the disclosure of the data is necessary to avert imminent disadvantages or to report a suspicion of an illegal act. In such cases, we will only disclose the data required in our opinion, such as name, city, postcode, telephone number, e-mail address, previous user names, IP address, fraud complaints and ad content.

Protection of legitimate interests of third parties in the context of civil disputes, unless there is already a legal obligation to do so and we may legitimately assume that a transfer of the data to such third parties is necessary in order to avert imminent disadvantages.

Prevention, detection, containment and investigation of fraud, security breaches and other prohibited or illegal activities including violations of our terms of use and assessment of corresponding risks (e.g. by using the telephone number stored by you in your Ads-UAE account as part of risk assessments), in each case unless there is already a legal obligation to do so.

Check whether the reports submitted to us as part of the reporting procedure regarding illegal content (including unnamed or anonymous reports) are fraudulent or malicious.

Monitoring and improving the information security of our services, for example by automatically filtering and blocking bot networks on the websites of our group of companies, unless there is already a legal obligation to do so.

Execution of identity checks, evaluation of applications and information comparison for the purpose of verification.

Automatic filtering and, if applicable, manual verification of the messages sent through our messaging tools and the ads or other content posted by users to protect against fraudulent or suspicious activity or against violations of our Terms of Use or our other policies, as explained in more detail in relation to messages sent below under review of the through our messaging tools.

Provision of functions for users that make the processing of transactions easier or more convenient, such as the automatic pre-filling of the delivery address you previously specified for further transactions as well as the pre-filling of name and telephone number for further inquiries via the “Write message” function.

Analysis and improvement of the services, for example by reviewing information from our users about blocked or crashed pages in order to identify, solve problems and thereby provide you with an improved user experience.

Analysis of telephone conversations with our customer service, which we have recorded with your consent.

Sending advertising by post (unless you have objected).

Insofar as this is legally permissible without express consent, contact you by electronic mail (e.g. e-mail) or telephone to promote our services. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can also unsubscribe via the link in the e-mail you received. For technical reasons, the implementation can take a few days.

Display of references to special promotions and information about our services after logging in

Adaptation of page content to display the ads and services you might like based on the actions you take.

Assessment of the quality and success of our e-mail marketing campaigns on an aggregated basis (e.g. by analyzing opening and click rates).

Assessment of the service quality of other users (e.g. based on information to answer inquiries from interested parties).

Provision of shared content and services (such as registration for services, the processing of transactions and the provision of customer service) with cooperation partners such as banks and insurance companies.

Measures to facilitate compliance with tax regulations for the collection, disclosure and reporting of information.

Initiation, preparation and execution of a company purchase, e.g. in the event of a merger with another company or a takeover by another company. If such an event should occur, we will require the new merged company to comply with this privacy policy with respect to your personal data. If your personal data is processed for any purpose not mentioned in this privacy policy, you will be informed in advance about the processing of your data for these new purposes.

Measures to facilitate compliance with tax regulations for the collection, disclosure and reporting of information.

Initiation, preparation and execution of a company purchase, e.g. in the event of a merger with another company or a takeover by another company. If such an event should occur, we will require the new merged company to comply with this privacy policy with respect to your personal data. If your personal data is processed for any purpose not mentioned in this privacy policy, you will be informed in advance about the processing of your data for these new purposes.

Exercise or defense against legal claims, including such legal claims asserted by an Ads-UAE user against another Ads-UAE user.

If necessary, we transfer your personal data to processors and the following other recipients for one or more of the aforementioned purposes:

Members of our group of companies in accordance with section 5.6 of this privacy policy

External service providers (e.g. providers of payment services)

Other Ads UAE users

Law enforcement authorities, courts or other government agencies, as well as third parties involved in legal proceedings (in each case, subject to an examination of whether the transfer of your personal data that we have collected for other purposes constitutes a permissible change of purpose, including weighing whether your interests in the exclusion of the data transfer outweigh).

Credit reference agencies, data verification services, debt collection agencies (e.g. information on payment delays, payment defaults or other irregularities that may be relevant to your credit report).

Other companies in the context of a company purchase

Rights holders who have entered into a confidentiality agreement with us in the event of an investigation for fraud, infringement of intellectual property or any other unlawful act, if we deem the investigation of this incident to be necessary or reasonable in our sole discretion. In such cases, we will provide the name, address, city, zip code, country, telephone number, e-mail address, company name and ad content.

Information on your right to object to processing based on our legitimate interests can be found below under Rights as a data subject and with regard to the use of cookies and similar technologies below under Cookies and similar technologies.

5.5 With your consent, we process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Personalization, measurement and improvement of our advertisements and advertisements of third parties in our online offers, online offers of other members of our group of companies or third parties.

Advertising by telephone or electronic mail (such as e-mail or SMS), unless this is already permitted without your express consent, including advertising for products of other members of our group of companies or from third parties.

Analysis of user behavior to improve our services with the help of our own tools as well as third-party tools, also in the context of product development, unless the data processing for these purposes is based on another legal basis (in particular legitimate interests).

Processing of your exact location data in order to be able to provide location-based services.

Processing of your personal data on the basis of a consent that you have given so that we or third parties can enable you to use or make available to certain services.

Information about your right to revoke a given consent can be found below under Rights as a data subject and with regard to the use of cookies and similar technologies below under Cookies and similar technologies.

If necessary, we transfer your personal data to processors and the following other recipients for one or more of the aforementioned purposes:

Members of our group of companies in accordance with section 5.6 of this privacy policy

External service providers (e.g. providers of payment services)

Other third parties with whom we work to offer you certain services (as described when obtaining the respective consent).

Without your consent, we will not pass on your personal data to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes, nor do we otherwise make it available to third parties for a fee.

5.6 Data exchange between members of the group of companies:

As explained above under “Personal data from other sources”, we also get access to personal data about you from other members of the group of companies. In particular, this allows us to provide you with information about products and services that we believe may be of interest to you, to the extent required by law with your consent, and to improve our products, services, content and advertising by analyzing your use of the services of other members of our group of companies. In addition, this allows us to better prevent, detect, contain and investigate fraud, security breaches and other prohibited or illegal acts and better assess corresponding risks. We also grant other members of our group of companies access to personal data about you for the above-mentioned purposes. Insofar as other members of our group of companies have access to your personal data, they will take data protection measures that are at least the same level as the measures described in this privacy policy.

5.7 Automated decision-making:

We use technologies that are considered automated decision-making or profiling. We will not make automated decisions about you that would significantly affect you, unless such a decision is required under a contract concluded with you, we have obtained your consent or we are legally obliged to use such technologies. Information on your right to object in this regard can be found below under Rights as a data subject.

6. International data transfers

Some of the recipients of your personal data are located outside your country or have branches in countries where data protection laws may provide a different level of protection than the laws in your country. When transmitting data to such recipients, we provide appropriate guarantees.

6.1 Data transfers to members of the group of companies

Ads-UAE is part of the group of companies. As a rule, your personal data will be processed exclusively within the European Economic Area (EEA). If, exceptionally, personal data are transferred to companies of our group of companies in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), for which there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission, this transfer takes place on the basis of appropriate guarantees (e.g. standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the EU Commission, together with other appropriate protective measures, if necessary).

6.2 Other data transfers (from the European Economic Area to third countries)

We will only process your personal data on the basis of suitable guarantees from the European Economic Area (EEA) to third countries, i.e. Countries outside the EEA, transmitted. Third countries that offer an adequate level of data protection currently include Andorra, Argentina, Canada (for companies covered by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act), Switzerland, the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, the State of Israel, the Isle of Man, Japan, Jersey, South Korea, New Zealand, Uruguay, the United Kingdom and South Korea. In the other cases, Ads-UAE provides the necessary guarantees, e.g. by concluding data protection contracts issued by the European Commission (e.g. standard data protection clauses (2010/87/EU, 2001/497/EC or 2004/915/EC)), with the recipients, or by other measures provided for by law. A copy of the documentation of the measures we have taken is available from us on request.

7. Storage duration and deletion

Your personal data will be stored by us and our service providers in accordance with the applicable data protection law, insofar as and as long as this is necessary for the processing purposes mentioned in this data protection declaration (further information on the processing purposes can be found under Purposes and legal bases of data processing as well as categories of recipients). We will then delete your personal data in accordance with our data retention and deletion policies or take measures to properly anonymize the data. Something different applies if we are legally obliged to keep your personal data longer (e.g. to fulfill legal obligations or for tax, accounting and audit purposes). In Europe, the retention periods are usually between 6 and 10 years (e.g. for contracts, communications and business letters). To the extent permitted or required by law, we restrict the processing of your data instead of deleting it (e.g. by blocking it). This applies in particular in cases where we may still need the data in question for further contract processing or legal prosecution or legal defense or their storage is otherwise required or permitted by law. The decisive criterion for the duration of the restriction of processing is then the statutory limitation or Retention periods. After expiry of the relevant statute of limitations or Retention periods, the data in question will be deleted.

The specific retention periods for personal data are documented in our data retention guidelines. How long we retain personal data may vary depending on the services we offer and depending on our legal obligations under applicable national law. The following factors typically influence the storage duration:

Necessity for the provision of our services: This includes, for example, the execution of the user contract with you, the maintenance and improvement of the performance of our services, the maintenance of the security of our systems and the maintenance of correct business and financial documents. On the basis of this general rule, most of our retention periods are determined.

Special categories of personal data: If it is the storage of special categories of personal data (these are personal data that reveal racial and ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or ideological beliefs or trade union membership, as well as the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the unique identification of a natural person, health data or data on the sexual life or sexual orientation of a natural person), a shortened retention period is usually appropriate.

Consent-based processing of personal data: If we process personal data on the basis of consent (including consent to extended storage), we store the data for the period necessary for the processing of your personal data in accordance with your consent.

Statutory, contractual or other similar obligations: Corresponding storage obligations may result, for example, from laws or official orders. It may also be necessary to store personal data with regard to already pending or future legal disputes. Personal data contained in contracts, communications and business letters may be subject to legal retention obligations, depending on national law.

8. Rights as a data subject

Subject to possible restrictions under national law, you as the data subject have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of the processing and transfer of your personal data. In addition, you can revoke your consent once given and object to our processing on the basis of legitimate interests. You can also file a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Our responsible data protection supervisory authority is: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 USA https://www.ftc.gov

Your rights in detail:

Revocation of consent: You can revoke your consent once given to the processing of your personal data by us at any time. As a result, we will no longer be allowed to process your personal data on the basis of your consent in the future. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected by the revocation.

Information: You can request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if not collected directly from you, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details, whereby the right to information may be limited by national law.

Correction: You can request the immediate correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data – also by means of a supplementary declaration.

Deletion: You can request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, whereby the right to deletion may be limited by national law.

Restriction of processing: You can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you reject its deletion and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to the processing.

Data portability: You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another person responsible (“right to data portability”).

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data if there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation. This also applies to related profiling. If your personal data is processed by us for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising.

In principle, the processing of your application for the granting of data subject rights (e.g. information or deletion) is free of charge. For obviously unfounded or excessive applications, we reserve the right in individual cases to demand a reasonable fee (maximum up to the amount of our actual costs) in accordance with the applicable legal regulations or to refuse to process the application.

Exercise of your data subject rights and management of your settings

In order to exercise your data subject rights (including any information and deletion requests), please contact us via the contact options above.

If you would like to change your settings with regard to marketing communications from Ads-UAE, you can do so at any time in your Ads-UAE account under “Settings”. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can also unsubscribe via the link in the e-mail you received. For technical reasons, the implementation can take a few days. Information on how to manage your settings regarding cookies and similar technologies can be found in the next section Cookies and similar technologies.

9. Cookies and similar technologies

When you use our services, we and selected third parties may use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better, faster and safer user experience or to show you personalized advertising. Cookies are small text files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device when you use the services. Detailed information about our use of cookies and similar technologies and your choices can also be found in our statement on the use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies.

Our cookies and similar technologies have different functions:

They may be technically necessary for the provision of our services.

They help us to technically optimize our services (e.g. monitoring of error messages and loading times).

They help us to improve your user experience (e.g. storage of the font size and entered form data).

They enable us to show you more relevant advertisements.

We use cookies and similar technologies that only remain stored on your device for as long as your browser is active (session cookies), as well as cookies and similar technologies that remain stored on your device for longer (permanent cookies). If possible, we take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access to our cookies and similar technologies. A unique ID ensures that only we and/or selected third parties have access to cookie data.

Your choices regarding cookies

You are free to disable the use of cookies and similar technologies if your device supports it. You can manage your cookie settings in your browser or device settings. In addition, you can decide whether we may use cookies and similar technologies to show you personalized advertisements and analyze your usage behavior:

You can use the privacy settings to determine to what extent you consent to the use of your personal data for analysis and advertising purposes using cookies (and similar technologies).

Information on advertising-related third-party cookies (and similar technologies) and how you can prevent their use can also be found on the following websites:

www.youronlinechoices.eu

Www.aboutads.info/choices (only available in English)

Www.networkadvertising.org/choices (only available in English).

If you opt out of our processing of your personal data for advertising purposes using cookies (and similar technologies), this does not mean that you will not be shown any advertisements. It only means that these advertisements are not personalized for you using first-party or third-party cookies, web beacons or similar technologies. As a result, you will no longer receive personalized advertising in the future, but personal data may still be collected as described in this privacy policy.

10. Data security

We protect your personal data through technical and organizational security measures to minimize risks related to its loss, misuse, unauthorized access and unauthorized disclosure and modification. For this purpose, we use, for example, firewalls and data encryption, but also physical access restrictions for our data centers and authorization controls for data access. Further information on the subject of security can be found on our corresponding guide page.

11. Further important information on data protection

This section contains additional important information about privacy in connection with the use of our services, including information about whether you are required to provide personal information.

What happens if you make your personal data public to others on our websites or in our applications?

Other users have access to the information you disclose at Ads-UAE or share with other users. For example, other users can view your ads and reviews.

When you place ads, the username you provided for this purpose is displayed and is therefore visible to the public. It is linked to all your public Ads UAE activities. References to suspicious activity and violations of the policies on our websites sent to other Ads-UAE users may include your public username and specific information about articles. So if you use a username that allows conclusions to be drawn about your identity, third parties can associate your Ads UAE activities with your person..

In order to ensure the protection of your personal data, we only allow other users limited access to your information, that is, only to the extent that the data in question is necessary for the initiation of transactions.

Responsibility for personal data of other users that you receive through Ads-UAE

If you are with another user (e.g. B. a interested party) and receive personal data from him (such as name, e-mail address or other contact details and shipping information), you are independent of Ads-UAE responsible for this personal data and its processing after we have transmitted it to you..

If you are not acting for purely personal purposes, we recommend that you explain your data processing in a data protection information and protect the privacy of other users. As a seller, you must in any case comply with the applicable data protection laws and in particular protect the rights of other users as data subjects, e.g. give them the opportunity to view the personal data collected from you and request its deletion..

You may use the personal data of other users to which you have access only for the purpose of processing the contact with the other user and otherwise only for purposes to which these users have expressly consented. The use of the personal data of other users to whom you have access for any other purpose, such as adding it to mailing lists without a corresponding express consent, constitutes a violation of our terms of use.

Personal data of third parties

If you provide us with personal data of another person, you must obtain the consent of that person, or this must be permitted by law. You must inform these persons about how we process personal data in accordance with our privacy policy.

Verification of the messages sent via our news tools

All messages sent via our message tools are first received by us and then forwarded to the addressee. All messages are automatically filtered according to certain criteria. Conspicuous messages may be checked manually by our customer service. In the event of a violation of our terms of use, we reserve the right to block the transmission of the message and, if necessary, to block your Ads-UAE account.

This serves to safeguard legitimate interests such as protection against fraudulent or suspicious activities (e.g. spam, viruses, phishing or other illegal activities) or the enforcement of our terms of use and our other principles (e.g. in the case of illegal and other prohibited content)..

Are you obliged to provide us with your personal data?

Some of the personal data you provide to us (e.g. those through which we can identify you) is necessary for the conclusion of the contract for the use of our services. The provision of all other personal data is voluntary, but may be necessary to use our services, such as B. the offer or contact information required for placing an advertisement.

Privacy of children

Our services are not aimed at minors. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. Under our terms of use, minors are not permitted to use our services without the consent of their legal guardians.

Stay logged in

If you log in with your Ads-UAE account, you will remain logged in to your account for a certain period of time until you log out. If you use our app, you will always stay logged in after your registration. If you use a public computer or share your computer with other people, we recommend that you do not choose to stay logged in, but log out. You and any other user of the computer/browser you use to log in can view, access and perform certain actions of most areas of your Ads-UAE account during the period you are logged in without further authorization. You and any other user of this computer/browser can perform, among other things, the following actions and account activities:

  • Post an ad or contact a seller
  • View your activities
  • View your Ads-UAE account
  • View or edit your saved watch list and search requests
  • View profile page
  • Send messages to other users

Carry out activities after the purchase (e.g. B. leaving feedback or submitting complaints)Sie beenden die Sitzung, für die Sie eingeloggt sind, normalerweise, indem Sie sich ausloggen und/oder Ihre Cookies löschen. Wenn Sie bestimmte Datenschutzeinstellungen im Browser aktiviert haben, können Sie die Sitzung, für die Sie eingeloggt sind, auch durch einfaches Schließen des Browsers beenden. Wenn Sie einen öffentlichen Computer benutzen oder Ihren Computer mit anderen Personen teilen, sollten Sie sich ausloggen und/oder Ihre Cookies löschen, sobald Sie unsere Services nicht mehr nutzen, um Ihr Ads-UAE Konto und Ihre personenbezogenen Daten zu schützen.

12. Your privacy is important to us

We at Ads-UAE would like to thank you for entrusting us with your personal data. The protection of your privacy and the security of your data are of the utmost importance to us. We are continuously committed to offering you the best possible data protection standards and are always at your side to clarify your concerns and protect your rights.

 

Our data protection measures are regularly reviewed and updated to ensure that we always comply with the latest legal requirements and technological standards. We value your trust and take our responsibility to protect your data very seriously.

 

If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions about our privacy practice, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our dedicated team is at your disposal to help you and ensure that you always feel in good hands when using our services.

 

Your opinion is important to us. We welcome your feedback and are continuously working to improve our services and data protection measures. Together with you, we want to create a safe and trusting environment in which you can manage your classifieds without worries.

 

Thank you for using Ads-UAE and placing your trust in us.

Warm greetings,

Your Ads-UAE team

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