Privacy Policy

Like most website operators, Propaganda Solutions GmbH collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Propaganda Solutions GmbH may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Propaganda Solutions GmbH also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on www.propaganda-solutions.com blog posts. Propaganda Solutions GmbH only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying InformationCertain visitors to Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s websites choose to interact with Propaganda Solutions GmbH in ways that require Propaganda Solutions GmbH to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Propaganda Solutions GmbH gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at www.propaganda-solutions.com to provide a username and email address.

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Propaganda Solutions GmbH and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Propaganda Solutions GmbH discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s behalf or to provide services available at Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Propaganda Solutions GmbH will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Propaganda Solutions GmbH discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Propaganda Solutions GmbH believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Propaganda Solutions GmbH, third parties or the public at large.If you are a registered user of https://propaganda-solutions.com and have supplied your email address, Propaganda Solutions GmbH may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Propaganda Solutions GmbH and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Propaganda Solutions GmbH takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Propaganda Solutions GmbH may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website.
Propaganda Solutions GmbH may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Propaganda Solutions GmbH does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Propaganda Solutions GmbH uses for a continuous optimisation of its marketing communication the analytical software “Google Analytics” by Google LLC, Mountain View, California, United States. It allows for tracking online behavior in terms of time, geographic location and usage of this Site. This information is collected via web beacons and/or cookies. The information gained via web beacons and/or cookies is anonymous and will not be connected to personal data. All information that is necessary for this analysis is stored on servers in the United States of America. Propaganda Solutions GmbH does not share this information with any third party for its independent use.The information generated by beacons or cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Please note that on this Site, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymise IP” to ensure an anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-masking). Google will, therefore, truncate/anonymise the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On our behalf Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on Site activity for us as website operator and providing other services relating to Site activity and internet usage to us. 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 Site. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout? the link provided.

You can refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: Disable Google Analytics.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/ or at https://policies.google.com
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Propaganda Solutions GmbH respects the privacy of every individual who visits the Site. This privacy policy section outlines the information Propaganda Solutions GmbH may collect and store, and how it will be used. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purposes of data protection, the data controller is Propaganda Solutions GmbH a company registered under the laws of Germany and having its registered office at Reinhardtstraße 48, 10117, Berlin, Germany. With respect to any questions regarding the protection of your personal data or your rights under the applicable data protection law, please contact our data protection office at [email protected]

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence for the time necessary to answer your request and 90 days thereafter. Our legitimisations under applicable data protection law is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. (f) GDPR; our reasonable interest in keeping such records is our ability to better answer any subsequent questions you may have. We consider that our legitimate interests abide by the law and the legal rights and freedoms of our users.

We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes which, however, regularly will be made on an anonymous basis and otherwise based on consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. (a).

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include your IP address shortened by the last four characters, the type of internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our Site or advertisement. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

When you view the Site, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file and will help us in many ways. To read more about the types of cookies in use on this site, please read the paragraphs above.

We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (that is, your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) (“personal data”) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it.
If you have already submitted personal data and would like it removed from our records, please contact us at the e-mail address or phone number listed at the bottom of this privacy policy section. We will delete your personal data from our records unless we are legitimized to keep personal data stored (e.g. since we are obliged to do so under applicable law).

We will never sell your personal data. Your personal data will only be disclosed to Propaganda Solutions GmbH, its affiliated or associated companies, retailers and companies used by Propaganda Solutions GmbH as subcontractors to fulfill our obligations towards you (“select third parties”).

We may ask you for your consent that we may use your personal data to keep you informed about new products, existing, products, services, market research, and special offers, and to measure and improve how we serve you, and we and/or our select third parties may contact you about these by post, telephone, e-mail or text messages/SMS.
If you are an existing customer, we and/or our select third parties might contact you with information relating to the products of Propaganda Solutions GmbH.

If you are a new customer, we and/or our select third parties will contact you only if you have consented to this.
Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our retailers, partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check the respective policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Your personal data is collected, processed, transferred and used by Propaganda Solutions GmbH and affiliated or associated companies, retailers, agents, suppliers and companies used by Propaganda Solutions GmbH as subcontractors to process your request(s) or message(s) as well as for marketing purposes, market research, tracking of sales data and in order to contact you. Your personal data may be transferred and processed outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) (in particular, for the purpose of storage and processing by the commissioned data processing company in the U.S.). All steps reasonably necessary will be taken to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with applicable laws. Propaganda Solutions GmbH to their knowledge fully comply with German law requirements to ensure that the data protection standards for the transfer of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area or Switzerland and will enter into the same or an agreement based on the EU model clauses “controller to processor” adapted to satisfy German law requirements or the transborder data flow agreement published by the German Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, with any other recipients of personal data established in a country outside the EEA and Switzerland.All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers located [within the EU/in the U.S.]. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

You may contact Propaganda Solutions GmbH also via our Social Media Channels (i.e. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). E.g., if you send us a message or post something on our Social Media Channels, we may use the information in your message or post to follow-up with you on the issue you contacted us for via the Social Media Channel which you used. In order to give you the assistance you requested, we may ask you to provide via direct or private message further information such as details on the issue, name, email, VIN, phone, location (city/state) and/or make, model and year of the vehicle. The information you provide will not be used for direct marketing; market research for service and product improvement will only be carried out on bases of aggregated (anonymized) data.Please note that you should not include any sensitive data (such as information on racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, or health) into you post or message. Be aware that if you post something on a public Social Media Channel, anyone might be able to read it.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s use of cookies.

Those who engage in transactions with Propaganda Solutions GmbH – by purchasing Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s services or products are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Propaganda Solutions GmbH collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Propaganda Solutions GmbH. Propaganda Solutions GmbH does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Propaganda Solutions GmbH may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Propaganda Solutions GmbH’s sole discretion. Propaganda Solutions GmbH encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.