Privacy Policy

Rankade Srl, Strada Contrada 309, 41126, Modena (MO), Italy ('rankade'), take the protection of your personal information very seriously. The following privacy policy will provide you with information about the personal information that is collected and how it is processed and used.

1. Subject Matter of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered on rankade internet sites, in particular the rankade portal at rankade dot com. Unless stated otherwise, this Privacy Policy exclusively regulates how rankade treats your personal information. In case you make use of services provided by third parties, the Privacy Policy conditions of these third parties apply exclusively. Rankade does not revise Privacy Policy conditions of third parties.

2. Responsible Contact

Rankade processes personal data both as a Processor and as a Controller as defined in the directive of GDPR. Responsible contact according to to the italian 'Testo unico sulla privacy' and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is rankade Srl, Strada Contrada 309, 41126, Modena (MO), Italy. In case you have any questions concerning privacy policy matters, please contact legals at rankade dot com. At this address, you can inquire about privacy issues, review, change or delete your personal information stored by rankade. Alternatively, you can also contact us using the above postal address. Please - if possible - include the online or mobile software that you have used, the server and your username.

3. Collection of Information

Generally, you can access our internet offering without disclosing any personal information to us. It is always your choice whether or not to provide us with your personal information. We collect your information to be able to fulfill the user requirement. In addition to monitoring compliance with the terms and rules this includes in particular the proper handling of your payment arrangements. If you would like to register on our internet sites, participate in sweepstakes or subscribe to our newsletter it is necessary to provide a username and a valid, registered email address. You can insert more information via Profile area, if you wish. This information includes, for example, your name, birthday, image, and other personal information which rankade may query in individual cases. In many cases it is possible to use rankade's services by using pseudonyms. Users are encouraged to make use of this feature. Rankade accesses the user's contacts only when a user sends an invite. The apps, after the user expressly gives permission to do so, access e-mail contacts (temporarily and exclusively locally on the device in use) in order that the user may select among them which contacts to send an invite to. Rankade does never save, in any way whatsoever, any contact that the user does not expressly select. Only the e-mail contact that the user sends an invite to, whether picked from the device's contacts or typed in manually, is sent to the server, and only by explicit action of the user; such address is stored for 15 days and then deleted unless the invite receives a positive reply, by explicit action of the invitee. In addition, individual information such as IP address, browser type and access time will automatically be transferred to us by your computer and stored on our server. Except for the purpose of prosecuting unauthorized use of our website, we evaluate such information only for statistical and performance-related purposes. Where possible, the information is anonymized. In order to make the visit to our internet sites as pleasant as possible, we use, like many other companies, so-called cookies (see cookies policy section). We gather, process and use personal information - unless already permitted by statutes - only with your consent. If this consent is made in an electronic manner in the context of our online offerings, we shall fulfill the legal requirements to inform you about it.

4. Use of your Personal Information

We use your personal data in order to constantly improve our range of services and to satisfy users' needs. Rankade uses your personal information for the establishment, processing and settlement of your user relationship with rankade and the processing of payments. Furthermore, we use your information in order to communicate with you. This includes that we, as the case may be, inform you about novelties of our services via email. We use your personal information in order to inform you about products, services or certain events which could be of interest to you on a regular basis. In order to stop receiving further emails for this account, please send us an email with subject 'stop emails'.

5. Transmission of Personal Information

As a matter of course, your data will not be sold to third parties. Rankade exclusively transmits your personal data to the following extent. We work together with payment providers (e.g. credit card companies, banks, PayPal, mobile services, debt collection agencies, etc.), providers that create and compile statistical data, IT service providers (e.g. data centers, hosts, backup services, database services). These service providers only have access to your data to the extent which is necessary for the completion of their tasks. These service providers are obliged to treat you data according to this privacy policy and the relevant data protection statutes. In the case that rankade, companies controlled by rankade, particular affiliated companies or shares of the company are sold, your customer information will generally be passed on with the transmitted part of the company. Of course, in this case your data is also subject to this privacy policy and the relevant data protection statutes.

6. Deletion of Data

If your data is no longer necessary for the above-mentioned purposes including the settlement, for tax purposes or other legal reasons it will be deleted.

7. Security of your Personal Information

We process the data collected from you according to the italian 'Testo unico sulla privacy' and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. All employees are obliged and have been advised to maintain data confidentiality and privacy obligations. Rankade is concerned with protecting your privacy and data, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to rankade or guarantee that your information on the rankade service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of our industry standard physical, technical or managerial safeguards. When you enter sensitive information (such as log in credentials) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We use a credit card processing company to bill you if you purchase services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.