Privacy Policy

Protecting your personal data is very important to us. With this privacy policy, we aim to explain in detail what personal data we collect when you use Peerpep.com or the Peerpep app and for what purpose the data is used.

Contact Information and Responsible Party

The party responsible for processing your personal data is:

Peerpep B.V.
Rhônedreef 40
3561 VA, Utrecht, Netherlands.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding data protection, feel free to send us an email or contact our data protection officer at [email protected].

2. Subject of Data Protection

The subject of data protection is personal data, which means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Automated Data Collection

When you visit our website or app, your device automatically sends data for technical reasons. The following data is stored separately from other data you may provide to us:

• URL of the visited page
• The latency of the network connection
• Date and time

We store this data for the following purposes:

• Load balancing, which means distributing access to our website across multiple devices to offer you the fastest possible load times.
• Ensuring the security of our IT systems, such as preventing specific attacks on our systems and identifying attack patterns.
• Ensuring the proper functioning of our IT systems, such as troubleshooting errors that can only be resolved by storing the IP address.
• Enabling prosecution, security, or legal action if there are specific indications of criminal offenses.

Your IP address is stored only for a period of 14 days. In this case, the processing is based on our overriding legitimate interests as described above (Art. 6, para. 1, lit.f GDPR).

Registration Data

To use all the functions of Peerpep, you need to register. For this, you must provide the following mandatory information:

• Email address
• Username
• Password

Alternatively, you can log in with your Facebook, Google, or Apple account. In that case, we receive the following personal data from Facebook or Apple to create a user account for you:

• Name
• Email address
• Photo (Facebook only)
• An authentication token

If you log in via Facebook, your Facebook friends who also use Peerpep can find you via the search function if you wish and have the correct settings enabled on Facebook.

Your registration data is required to create and manage a user account for you so that you can use all the functions of our website. In this case, you are entering into a (free) user agreement with us, based on which we collect this data (Art. 6, para. 1, b GDPR). To enter into the agreement, you must provide us with this data. However, you are not contractually or legally obligated to enter into the agreement and thus to provide the data.

In addition, you can provide further voluntary information during registration, such as uploading a profile picture, telling others about yourself, or indicating your favorite sport. This information is voluntary and not required for registration. Please note, however, that this information may be visible to other Peerpep users based on your settings. You can decide whether you want to be found by other users. We collect this data to offer you the corresponding functions of our website, Art. 6, para. 1, lit. b GDPR.

When you log in to Peerpep, we also temporarily store your IP address to detect and prevent possible attacks and large-scale abuse of logins to Peerpep (e.g., so-called brute force attacks) by blocking access to these IP address blocks if necessary. The processing takes place to ensure the security of the processing in accordance with Article 32 GDPR and based on our legitimate interest to protect ourselves from the misuse of our service (Art. 6, para. 1, lit.f GDPR). The storage only takes place as long as necessary for these purposes.

5. Community Features

At Peerpep, you can interact with other users, for example, by publishing personal highlights or commenting. You can also add other users as friends if you want to stay updated on their new posts. Using these features is, of course, voluntary. If you use them, we collect the data you have entered to make it available to other Peerpep users in accordance with your settings and the feature you use. If you wish, we will also inform you by email or push notification if there is news about your published contributions. You can set which notifications you receive in your settings. Your data is processed for these purposes to provide you with the functions as part of your user agreement (Art. 6, para. 1, lit. b GDPR).

6. Inquiries

If you send us inquiries via email or other means, your data will be stored and used to process the inquiry. We store inquiries related to contracts or of possible legal relevance for the retention period prescribed by law. Further processing is restricted. Once the legal retention period has expired, the data will be deleted. Inquiries are processed based on our overriding legitimate interests to respond to your inquiry (Art. 6, para. 1, lit. f GDPR). Your data will be deleted in accordance with legal regulations once we no longer need them.

7. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Our website uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that your web browser stores on your device. Our website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are described below:

• Temporary cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. They store a so-called session ID, which allows different requests from your browser to be assigned to the same session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser. Please note, however, that you may not be able to use all the functions of our website if you disable these cookies.
• We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Additionally, we use cookies to analyze the use of our website. Furthermore, we use cookies to offer advertisements or content tailored to the interests of the visitors of our website. The processing of personal data via cookies is based on our overriding legitimate interests to provide you with the best possible website experience and the effective operation of our website (Art. 6, para. 1, lit. f GDPR). Data collected for providing customized advertisements are anonymized or deleted after 30 days.

When we want to place cookies on your device, you must give your consent. The first time you visit our website, you will be asked to accept or decline cookies via a cookie banner. If you want to decline cookies, you can also change your web browser settings. You can delete cookies already stored on your device at any time. Detailed instructions can be found in the user manual of your browser or device. Please note that you need to set cookies on your device for each browser you use. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. If you want to prevent cookies from being stored on your device, you can change your browser settings accordingly.

Your Rights

As a data subject, you have certain rights under the GDPR:

• Right of access: You have the right to receive a copy of your personal data.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected.
• Right to erasure: You can request us to delete your data, provided there are no legal obligations to retain it.
• Right to restriction of processing: You can request us to restrict the processing of your data.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transfer it to another data controller.
• Right to object: You can object to the processing of your data based on our legitimate interests at any time.
• Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your data violates the GDPR.

To exercise these rights, you can contact us at [email protected].

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. Any changes will be published on our website. We recommend visiting this page regularly to stay informed of any changes.

If there are significant changes to the privacy policy, we will inform you via the app or email.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or if you want to exercise your rights as a data subject, you can contact us via the following contact details:

Peerpep B.V.
Rhônedreef 40
3561 VA, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Email: [email protected]

Last updated on: August 30, 2024