Privacy Notice

Controller

The controller of the data processing of this website is the Above Zero GmbH, Mittenwalder Straße 6, 10961 Berlin, Germany.

If you visit or interact with our Beatstars, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook profile and content, the controller is Beatstars Inc., 4301 W William Cannon Dr Ste B-150, Austin, TX 787349, USA, or Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, or Meta Platform Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland. As far as we get access to insight data and a joint controller agreement have been concluded, we are joint controllers with these controllers.

Processed data

We process the following connection data, if you visit our website:

IP address of your device
date and time of visit
viewed sites (URL)
transferred amount of data
response about successful retrieval of data
operation system (OS)
browser type and version
referrer URL (previously visited site)

If you contact us via e-mail or contact form, sign up for our newsletter (e.g. via free beats) or if we establish a contractual business relationship, we may also process the following business data:

your name
your e-mail address
subject of contact
communication details and content
your address, further contact and financial information, if applicable
newsletter interaction and personlisation information, if applicable

If you visit or interact with our Beatstars or social media profile and content, we may also get access to the following insight data:

interaction information (e.g. posts, comments, reactions, sharing, following, purchases)
device information (e.g. HTTP header, user agent)
usage information (e.g. date and time of interaction)
account information (e.g. age, language, gender)
approximated location (e.g. country, region)

Purposes

We process your above-mentioned personal data for the following purposes:

provision, maintaining and ensuring security of the website
performance of contact or contractual business relationship
provision of the Beatstars website plugin to show, offer and sell beats
provision of our personalised newsletter service, including the analysis of your interaction with the newsletter
provision of our Beatstars and social media profiles and content, including access to insight data for understanding our audiences and improving our services

Legal basis

We process your above-mentioned personal data on the following legal basis:

pursuit our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR to the above-mentioned purposes, including the sending of personalised newsletters to our customers according to § 7 (3) of the German Unfair Competition Act (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb, UWG)
performance of or taking steps prior to entering into a contract according to Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR

Recipients

Our website is hosted by webgo GmbH, Heidenkampsweg 81, 20097 Hamburg, Germany, who provides our webspace on our behalf.

Furthermore, the following recipients may receive your data while embedding the Beatstars plugin on our website frontpage, signing up for our newsletter, or visiting or interacting with our Beatstars or social media profiles or content:

Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855, Luxembourg
Beatstars Inc., 4301 W William Cannon Dr Ste B-150, Austin, TX 787349, USA
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Kit, Inc., 750 West Bannock Street #761, Boise, Idaho 83701-0761, USA
Meta Platform Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland
Stripe Payments Europe Limited, 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, D02 H210, Ireland

Transfer to third countries

So far that your personal data is transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area (so-called third countries), these countries have an adequate level of protection based on an adequacy decision according to Art. 45 GDPR (including US companies which are registered for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework), appropriate safeguards according to Art. 46 GDPR are in place, or the transfer occurs for the performance of or taking steps prior to entering into a contract according to Art. 49 (1)(b) GDPR, especially in relation with the showing, offering and selling of beats at Beatstars.

Storage period

In general, your personal data will be processed as long as it is necessary to fulfil our purposes. Connection data will be processed only temporarily and will be anonymized as soon as possible. Business data will be stored a longer period, if we are legally obligated to preserve records.

Your rights

You have the following rights in relation with the processing of your personal data, which you can exercise against us by contacting us:

right to obtain information about the processing of data and right to access this data (Art. 15 GDPR)
right to rectification your personal data (Art. 16 GDPR)
right to erasure your personal data (Art. 17 GDPR)
right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR), which is not applicable for the data processing which is taken place on this website
right to object data processing on the legal basis of legitimate interests (Art. 21 GDPR)
right to obtain human intervention, express your point of view and to contest the decision in case of a decision based on an automated data processing which produces legal or similarly significantly effects to data subjects (Art. 22 GDPR)

Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), if you consider, that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.