Privacy policy

Thank you for your interest in the Four Hills Tournament. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. The Organizing Committee of the Four Hills Tournament, Am Faltenbach 27, 87561 Oberstdorf, Germany, is responsible for all aspects of data protection in connection with accessing the homepage and making contact electronically.

In all data processing operations (e.g. collection, processing and transmission), we proceed in accordance with the statutory provisions. We use up-to-date technical and organizational measures to protect our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, modification or dissemination of your data by unauthorized persons. Complete protection against unauthorized access by third parties cannot be guaranteed.

Collection of general information

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content you have requested and is mandatory when using the Internet. Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Handling of personal data

We take care to collect and store only necessary data. If you send an e-mail containing personal data, such as your name and e-mail address, this is done on a voluntary basis. Your personal data will only be used on the basis of and within the scope of the request you send us and to the extent necessary for this purpose.

Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will also be happy to correct or delete this data at your request, provided there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

Logging of access to our homepage

Every access to our homepage and every retrieval of a file stored on the homepage is logged. The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes.

The following are logged Name of the retrieved file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser and requesting domain. The IP addresses of the requesting computers are also logged. Further personal data is only recorded if you provide this information voluntarily, for example as part of an inquiry or registration.

The aforementioned technical data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to ensure the compatibility of the website for all visitors, but no later than 3 months after accessing our website.

Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on your data carrier and that save certain settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser. There are basically 2 different types of cookies, so-called session cookies, which are deleted as soon as you close your browser, and temporary/permanent cookies, which are stored on your data carrier for a longer period of time or indefinitely. This storage helps us to design our websites and our offers for you accordingly and makes it easier for you to use them, for example by saving certain entries you make so that you do not have to keep repeating them. Our cookies are stored until they are deleted in your browser or, if it is a session cookie, until the session has expired.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future. In view of the discussion about the use of analysis tools with complete IP addresses, we would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” and therefore IP addresses are only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude direct personal references.”

Social Media Plugins

We use social media plugins from the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram on our website to increase awareness of the Four Hills Tournament. The responsibility for data protection-compliant operation is to be guaranteed by their respective providers.

A. Facebook

Social media plugins from Facebook are used on our website to make their use more personal. For this purpose, we use the button labeled “Facebook” or the Facebook logo. When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website.

By integrating the plugins, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and, if applicable, displayed to your Facebook friends.

Facebook may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and the needs-based design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Facebook's data protection information (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy).

B. Twitter

Plugins of the short message network of Twitter Inc (Twitter) are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Twitter plugins by the Twitter lettering or the Twitter logo on our site. You can find an overview of buttons here (https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons).

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Twitter server. Twitter thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Twitter button while you are logged into your Twitter account, you can link the content of our pages to your Twitter profile. This allows Twitter to associate your visit to our website with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter.

If you do not want Twitter to be able to assign your visit to our pages, please log out of your Twitter user account.

Further information on this can be found in Twitter's privacy policy (https://twitter.com/privacy).

C. Instagram

Our website also uses so-called social media plugins (“plugins”) from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”).

The plugins are marked with the Instagram lettering or the Instagram logo.

When you access a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Instagram's servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram.

This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can directly associate your visit to our website with your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the Instagram button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there.

The information will also be published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts there. If you do not want Instagram to assign the data collected via our website directly to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can find more information on this in Instagram's privacy policy (https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388).

Links to websites of other providers

Our homepage also contains links to other website operators, in particular to sales portals for tickets for individual ski jumping events. As long as the user does not follow a marked link, there is no data transfer there. We do not transmit any personal data to the websites that can be reached via links. We have no influence on whether the operators of these websites comply with data protection regulations.

Your rights to information, correction, blocking, deletion and objection

You have the right to receive information about your personal data stored by us at any time. You also have the right to have your personal data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can make corrections or withdraw your consent by notifying us accordingly with effect for the future.

Please use the following contact address for this purpose:

Organizing Committee Four Hills Tournament

Am Faltenbach 27

87561 Oberstdorf

Oberstdorf, Germany

Phone +49 (0) 8322/8090-300

E-Mail: [email protected]

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement technical changes in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit, which you can then access.