CommenZ respects your individual privacy and knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared. The commenZ Privacy Policy is including our standards for the protection of your personal information. Please read the following to learn more about it.
By visiting the commenZ website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

The following areas are covered by this Privacy Policy
- commenZ's treatment of personal information that commenZ gathers when you are on the commenZ website and when you use commenZ tools and services.
- It does not apply to the practices of third parties that commenZ does not own or control, or to individuals that commenZ does not employ or manage.

The following information about users can or will be collected by commenZ
The main goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a very high level of customer service. It enables us to provide you a friendly, customized, and efficient experience and give you convenient access to the platforms’ services. Furthermore through this we enable you to focus on topics of greatest interest to you and it helps us keep you posted on the latest service announcements, specials and events you might like to hear and read about. We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of the commenZ service. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you. We collect the following types of information from you as a commenZ user:

Information you provide to us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information. But if you do so you may not be able to take advantage of commenZ’ certain features. The personal information you provide is used for e.g.:

Registration:
In order for you to use commenZ services, such as submitting new pages and your commenZ/ statements/ ratings to the website, you need to complete a small registration form. As part of this registration form, you need to submit your email address as well as information where you live and what language you speak.

Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. CommenZ automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, commenZ cookie information, and the page you requested.
CommenZ uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.

Social sharing of data: CommenZ allows other users to browse commenZ, ratings and reply-commenZ you have submitted or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile or via clicking onto your commenZ member name in certain commenZ or reply-commenZ or you wrote. CommenZ may choose to post this data on other features of the commenZ platform/ service in the future.

Profile information: CommenZ may allow its users to browse your member name, location, and other optional information you might save in your personal profile.

Syndication: CommenZ uses RSS feeds as a way of syndication for all public information made available on its website.

Watchlist/ Friends Data: CommenZ may allow other users to browse through your watchlists (users, certain commenZ, URLs,…).


Information about cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. CommenZ cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your member name or email address is.
In the settings area of your Web browser you are able to view and change the settings for cookies whenever you want to. You can set the your browser informs you if and when a new cookie should be saved to your computer and you’re also able to fully disable cookies.
Certain business partners of commenZ may use cookies on our website (e.g. advertisers) but we have no control of these ones.

When we disclose your information
CommenZ takes your privacy very seriously. CommenZ does not sell or rent your contact and personal information to other marketers. We share your personal information only as described below.

CommenZ Personnel:
To help us provide an outstanding service, your personal information may be shared with legal entities within the people working for commenZ who will take steps to safeguard it in accordance with commenZ’s privacy policy.

Business Transfers:
In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that need to be transferred. Moreover, if commenZ, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.

Protection of commenZ and others:
We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law, enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements or protect the rights, property, or safety of CommenZ, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Are my personal information secure?
CommenZ takes precautions - including administrative, technical, and physical measures - to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Your commenZ account information is protected by a password. Change your passwords often using a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure web browser.

Starting from which age users can use commenZ?
You must be 13 years and older to register to use the CommenZ website. As a result, commenZ does not specifically collect information about children.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
CommenZ may update its privacy policy from time to time. When we change the policy a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated privacy policy.

Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit CommenZ website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of German law.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 10, 2007