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Privacy Policy

Our websitemay be used without entering personal information. Different rules may apply tocertain services on our site, however, and are explained separately below. Wecollect personal information from you (e.g. name, address, email address,telephone number, etc.) in accordance with the provisions of German dataprotection statutes. Information is considered personal if it can be associatedexclusively to a specific natural person. The legal framework for dataprotection may be found in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and theTelemedia Act (TMG). The provisions below serve to provide information as tothe manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personalinformation by the provider.

Yuntai Mountain International Culture and Martial Arts School
Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, 450042 Henan China
+86 391 2117 111
info [at] shaolin-yuntai.com

Please beaware that data transfer via the internet is subject to security risks and,therefore, complete protection against third-party access to transferred datacannot be ensured.

Cookies

Our websitemakes use of so-called cookies in order to recognize repeat use of our websiteby the same user/internet connection subscriber. Cookies are small text filesthat your internet browser downloads and stores on your computer. They are usedto improve our website and services. In most cases these are so-called “sessioncookies” that are deleted once you leave our website.

To an extent, however, these cookies also pass along information used to automaticallyrecognize you. Recognition occurs through an IP address saved to the cookies. Theinformation thereby obtained is used to improve our services and to expediteyour access to the website.

You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on yourbrowser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so youmay not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Real Cookie Banner

For the management of cookies and similar technologies (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool “Real Cookie Banner.” Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” functions can be found at https://devowl.io/knowledge-base/real-cookie-banner-data-processing/.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in this context is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of cookies and similar technologies and related consents.

The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obligated to provide personal data. If you do not provide personal data, we cannot manage your consents.

Server Data

Fortechnical reasons, data such as the following, which your internet browsertransmits to us or to our web space provider (so called server log files), iscollected:

– type and version of the browser you use
– operating system
– websites that linked you to our site (referrer URL)
– websites that you visit
– date and time of your visit
– your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal information you mayhave provided, thereby making it impossible to connect it to any particularperson. The data is used for statistical purposes in order to improve ourwebsite and services.

Purpose of Registering

We offer youthe opportunity to sign up for our website. The information entered whensigning up, as shown in the registration form

Yuntai Mountain International Culture and Martial Arts School
Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, 450042 Henan China
+86 391 2117 111
info [at] shaolin-yuntai.com

is collectedand stored solely for use by our website. When signing up for our website, wealso store your IP address and the date and time you registered. This serves toprotect us in the event a third party improperly and without your knowledgemakes use of your data to sign up for our site. None of this informationis transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to anyinformation that may be collected by other components of our website.

Newsletter

Our websiteoffers you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. The newsletterprovides you periodically with information about our services. To receive ournewsletter, we require a valid email address. We will review the email addressyou provide for the purpose of determining whether you are in fact the owner ofthe email address provided or whether the actual owner of said address isauthorized to receive the newsletter. When subscribing to our newsletter, wewill store your IP address as well as the date and time you subscribed. Thisserves to protect us in the event a third party improperly and without yourknowledge makes use of your email address to subscribe to our newsletter. Wewill not collect any other data. The data thereby collected is used solely forthe purpose of receiving our newsletter. No data is transferred to thirdparties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that othercomponents of our website may collect. You may cancel your subscription to thenewsletter at any time. You will find additional details in the emailconfirming your subscription as well as in each newsletter.

Contacting Us

On ourwebsite we offer you the opportunity to contact us, either by email and/or byusing a contact form. In such event, information provided by the user is storedfor the purpose of facilitating communications with the user. No data istransferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to anyinformation that may be collected by other components of our website.

Use of Google Analytics with anonymization

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Google Analytics employs so-called “cookies“, text files that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site.

The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.

We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization feature on our website. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from member states of the European Union or signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services related to website- and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or to the extent this data is processed by third parties on Google´s behalf.

Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Google also offers a disabling option for the most common browsers, thus providing you with greater control over the data which is collected and processed by Google. If you enable this option, no information regarding your website visit is transmitted to Google Analytics. However, the activation does not prevent the transmission of information to us or to any other web analytics services we may use. For more information about the disabling option provided by Google, and how to enable this option, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Use of reCAPTCHA

In order to protect input forms on our site, we use the “reCAPTCHA” service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google.” By means of this service it can be distinguished whether the corresponding input is of human origin or is created improperly by automated machine processing.

To our knowledge, the referrer URL, the IP address, the behaviour of the website visitors, information about the operating system, browser and length of stay, cookies, display instructions and scripts, user input behaviour and mouse movements in the “reCAPTCHA” checkbox are conveyed to “Google.”

Google uses the information obtained, among other things, to digitize books and other printed matter as well as to optimize services such as Google Street View and Google Maps (e.g. house number and street name recognition).

The IP address provided as part of “reCAPTCHA” is not merged with other data from Google unless you are logged into your Google Account at the time the “reCAPTCHA” plug-in is used. If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data by “Google” about you and your behaviour on our website, you must log out of “Google” before you visit our site or before using the reCAPTCHA plug-in.

The use of the “reCAPTCHA” service is according to the Google Terms of Use: 

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Use of Facebook components

Ourwebsite employs components provided by facebook.com. Facebook is a service of FacebookInc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Facebookcomponent, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this Facebookcomponent. Through this process, Facebook is informed precisely which page ofour website is being visited. 

When you access our site while logged into Facebook, Facebook uses informationgathered by this component to identify the precise page you are viewing andassociates this information to your personal account on Facebook. Whenever youclick on the “Like“ button, for example, or enter a comment, this informationis transmitted to your personal account on Facebook and stored there. Inaddition, Facebook is informed of your visit to our website. This occursregardless of whether you click on a component or not.

If you wish to prevent the transfer to and storage of data by Facebook aboutyou and your interaction with our website, you must first log out of Facebookbefore visiting our website. The data protection policies of Facebook provideadditional information, in particular about the collection and use of data by Facebook,your rights in this regard as well as the options available to you forprotecting your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Youcan find an overview of Facebook plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Use of Twitter recommendation components

Our websiteemploys components provided by Twitter. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc.,795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Each time our website receives an access request equippedwith a Twitter component, the component prompts your browser to download animage of this component from Twitter. Through this process, Twitter is informedprecisely which page of our website is being visited.
We have no control over the data that Twitter collects in the process, or overthe extent of the data that Twitter collects. To the best of our knowledge,Twitter collects the URL of each website accessed as well as the IP address ofthe user, but does so solely for the purpose of displaying Twitter components. Additionalinformation may be obtained from the Twitter data privacy policy, at: http://twitter.com/privacy.

Youmay change your data privacy settings in your account settings, at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Use of YouTube components with enhanced data protection mode

On our website we use components (videos) of YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company belonging to Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To this end, we use the “ – enhanced data protection mode – ” option provided by YouTube.

When you display a page that has an embedded video, a connection will be made to the YouTube server and the content will appear on the website via a communication to your browser.

According to the information provided by YouTube, in “ – enhanced data protection mode -”, data is only transferred to the YouTube server, in particular which of our websites you have visited, if you watch the video. If you are logged onto YouTube at the same time, this information will be matched to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this from happening by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.

Further information about data protection by YouTube is provided by Google under the following link:

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Use of AddThis

Ourwebsite employs the bookmark service addthis.com. AddThis is a service ofClearspring Technologies Inc., 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210,USA. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with an AddThiscomponent, the component prompts your browser to download an image of thiscomponent from AddThis. Through this process, AddThis is informed exactly whichpage of our website is being accessed.  In addition, addthis.com alsorecords your IP address, browser type, browser language, the website previouslyaccessed as well as the date and time you visited the site and uses this datato compile an anonymized user profile. This data allows AddThis and its partnercompanies to direct targeted personalized ads at website users based on theirparticular interests. The display of advertising material occurs based on abrowser cookie put in place by addthis.com, which analyzes user interactionwith the website. You can permanently prevent addthis.com from placing a cookieon your browser by downloading and installing the opt-out cookie available atthe following link: https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com.

Youshould be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full useof all the functions of our website. You can find the data privacy policies forAddThis at the following internet address, along with information about thecollection and use of data by AddThis: https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html

Use of Mailjet

Newsletter Consent

This website uses the services of Mailjet SAS to send newsletters. This service is provided by Mailjet SAS, a company registered under the laws of France under number 524 536 992 with the Paris Trade & Companies Register, and having its registered office at 13-13 bis, rue de l’Aubrac 75012 Paris, France.
Mailjet is a service which organizes and analyzes the distribution of newsletters. If you provide data (e.g. your email address) to subscribe to our newsletter, it will be stored on Mailjet servers in the France.
Mailjet is certified under the US-EU Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is an agreement between the
We use Mailjet to analyze our newsletter campaigns. When you open an email sent by Mailjet, a
file included in the email (called a web beacon) connects to Mailjet’s servers in France.
This allows us to determine if a newsletter message has been opened and which links you click on. In addition, technical information is collected (e.g. time of retrieval, IP address, browser type, and operating system).
This information cannot be assigned to a specific recipient. It is used exclusively for the statistical analysis of our newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better tailor future newsletters to your interests.
If you do not want your usage of the newsletter to be analyzed by Mailjet, you will have to unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a link in every newsletter we send. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on the website.
Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time by
unsubscribing to the newsletter. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used to distribute the newsletter until you cancel your subscription when said data will be deleted from our servers and those of Mailjet. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remains unaffected.
For details, see the Mailjet privacy policy at https://www.mailjet.com/privacy-policy/

Mailjet operates under European law and is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. For details, see Mailjet security & privacy: https://www.mailjet.com/security-privacy/.

Newsletter tracking

Our newsletter includes so-called web bugs that allow us to recognise if and when an email has been opened and which links in the email have been clicked by its recipient. 

This data is stored by us so that we can best align our newsletter to the wishes and interests of our subscribers. Accordingly, the data thus collected is used to send personalised newsletters to each recipient.  

You will be asked to consent to the use of your personal data as follows:

“I agree that my data and my user responses will be stored electronically by newsletter tracking so that I can receive a personalised newsletter. The revocation of the consent to receive the newsletter constitutes a revocation of the consent for the tracking described above.”

By revoking the consent to receive the newsletter, the consent to the aforementioned tracking is revoked. 

Use of Google-Adwords

For purposesof promotion, our website also employs the Google ad tool”Google-Adwords”. As part of this, our website employs the analysisservice “Conversion-Tracking” from Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheatreParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Ifyou access our site by way of a Google ad, a cookie is placed on your computer.Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores toyour computer. These so-called “conversion cookies” cease to beactive after 30 days and are not used to identify you personally. If you visitcertain pages of our website while the cookie is still active, we and Google knowthat you, as user, have clicked on ads placed on Google and were redirected toour site.
Google usesthe information obtained through “conversion cookies” to compilestatistics for our website. These statistics tell us the total number of userswho have clicked on our ad as well as which pages of our site were thenaccessed by each user. However, neither we nor other advertisers who use”Google-Adwords” receive any kind of information that can be used topersonally identify users.
You canprevent the installation of “conversion cookies” by making theappropriate change to your browser settings, for example by setting yourbrowser so that the automatic placement of cookies is deactivated or byblocking cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com“.

You can obtain the relevant data privacy policyfrom Google at the following link:

https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html

The use of Google Remarketing

On our website, we promote the service Google Remarketing belonging to the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”. Advertisements may appear for users who have already visited our website in the past with Google Remarketing. Within the Google network, advertisements adapted to your interests can hereby be displayed on our site. Google Remarketing uses cookies for this evaluation. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer which allow the use of the website to be analyzed. This makes it possible to recognize our visitors if these sites are accessed within the advertising network of Google. In this way, advertisements can be presented within the advertising network of Google based on content which has previously been accessed on websites within the Google advertising network by visitors who are also using the Google Remarketing feature. Google does not itself collect any personal data. You can disable this feature by making the appropriate settings under http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Information/Cancellation/Deletion

On the basisof the Federal Data Protection Act, you may contact us at no cost if you havequestions relating to the collection, processing or use of your personalinformation, if you wish to request the correction, blocking or deletion of thesame, or if you wish to cancel explicitly granted consent. Please note that youhave the right to have incorrect data corrected or to have personal datadeleted, where such claim is not barred by any legal obligation to retain thisdata.