Updated 9/12/2020
Thank you for visiting our Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to Gymmade. (collectively "Gymmade,” "we,” “us,” “our”); we respect the privacy rights of our users. Gymmade’s website www.gymmade.com (the “Website”). Gymmade’s products include Gymmade Exercise Finder and Gymmade Training System (the “Products”). Collectively, the Websites and Products are referred to as the “Services.” We are committed to protecting the information collected through the Services.
We are committed to being your most trusted partner in your pursuit of health, fitness and physical performance. Whether you're here to learn more about a physical training, or looking for tools for increasing your physical performance, you're in the right place.
By visiting and interacting with our Website and Products, you may share certain information with us, as detailed below. We may share some of the information you share with us between our website to provide you with the most relevant content and may use some of the information you share with us to serve you relevant advertising.
We want to ensure you understand the information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and how you can control your information. Please read our Privacy Policy in its entirety, and don't hesitate to reach out to us via our Contact Form if you have any questions about our privacy practices.
We process your personal data when you use our Services. The processing of your personal data takes place in compliance with applicable local data privacy laws, e.g. the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“) or the German data protection act in its current form.
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains:
Your access to and use of the Services is subject to Gymmade's Terms of Use (the "Terms"). Any capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this Privacy Policy have the meanings provided in the Terms.
BY INSTALLING, USING, REGISTERING TO, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING ANY SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT VISIT, INSTALL, USE, REGISTER TO, OR OTHERWISE ACCESS ANY SERVICES.
Personal Information: "Personal Information" is information that can be used either directly or indirectly to identify an individual (you). Examples include name, email address, physical address, Internet protocol (IP) address, mobile ad ID, and your interactions with the Websites that are connected to other identifying information, such as name, email address, physical address, and Internet protocol IP address.
Controller. In general the controller of data processing is Gymmade. You can contact us via email.
Data Protection Officer. Our data protection officer can be contacted via our Contact Form. Should you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact him/her.
We receive information from or about you depending on the nature of your interaction with our Services.
You may provide us with information in several ways, including:
Registering/Signing Up in the Services: When you choose to sign up for newsletters, sign up for an account, on our Services.
Using our Products: When you search and consume content on our Services.
Transactions with the Services: When you submit an opinion or comment through the Services, contact us, or register for more information regarding products or services.
Promotions: From time to time, Gymmade may offer promotions, such as surveys or sweepstakes, on the Services, for which we need Personal Information to administer.
The Personal Information that you provide may include your name, email address, physical address, birth date and gender.
When you use our Services, we may automatically collect information, when:
Social Media and Sharing: If you post a comment or share an article with a friend/contact.
Device Information: we collect information from or about the computers, phones, or other devices where you access our Services, depending on the permissions you've granted.
Data Analytics: Web analytics services, including third-party services such as Google Analytics, collect information about how visitors use our Websites, on both an individual and aggregated basis (click here for more information about Google Analytics).
Marketing: we, and our marketing partners, collect information indicating an interest in particular subject matter.
The personal information we collect, when you use our Website , typically includes attributes such as the operating system, hardware version, device settings, device identifiers, connection information, browser type, language and time zone, mobile phone number, mobile ad ID, and IP address; social signals (including, the friends/contacts content has been shared with); and, Website use information, such as pages viewed, interactions, dwell time, and navigation.
In order to continue to provide the Services, we are supported by advertisers and other partners. As part of our advertising and partnerships, we work closely with third parties (for example, business partners, advertising networks, analytics providers and search information providers) and may receive information about you from them.
This could include demographic information, information about your likely interests based on your web browsing, and information about your interactions with advertisements delivered by our partners.
We may combine this information with other information you have provided to us or which we collected about you.
For more information on how to review or update your data preferences, please review the "YOUR RIGHTS, YOUR CHOICE, YOUR SECURITY" section.
With appropriate consent, we use cookies (and similar technologies) to help us collect, analyze, improve, secure, and market our Website and Services, and to support functionality which enhances your browsing experience. You can read more about how and why we use cookies in our Cookies Policy.
We use personal information about you in connection with the following purposes:
To Provide and Enhance the Services: We use the information we collect to deliver and enhance our services, including ensuring our content is presented in the most effective manner for your device, to personalize features and content and make suggestions for you on our Services.
Transactions: We use your Personal Information to process your transactions, to send you confirmations, to respond to your requests, and for any related communications.
Retargeting: We use your information to allow us or third parties to deliver advertisements based on your interests on our Websites, affiliated websites or third-party sites. Our retargeting activities abide by the NAI code of conduct.
Marketing: We use the information we have to improve our advertising systems so we can show you relevant interest-based advertising and measure the effectiveness and reach of advertisements and services. We may use your Personal Information for other marketing and market research purposes to learn more about our users. We will only contact you for direct marketing purposes in accordance with applicable laws. You may opt out of our use of your Personal Information for marketing, market research, or direct marketing purposes at any time by sending a rights request as set forth in the "Your Rights" section below. Occasionally, comments may be anonymized and used in marketing materials.
Analytics: We may store details of your visits to our Websites and your electronic interactions with any emails that we send to you ("Usage Data") under a pseudonym (i.e. not under your name but under an ID number), including the pages you visited and services you used. We use such Usage Data to help us learn more about our users' preferences, to be able to tailor our Websites according to your interests and preferences, to help us address problems with and improve our site design, products, and services; to analyze trends and statistics; and to present content in the clearest and most friendly manner for you.
To Communicate with You: We use your information to send you marketing communications, communicate with you about our Services, and let you know about changes to our policies and Terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us. In our Apps, we send you push notifications from time to time in order to update you about any events or promotions that we may be running. The Apps may also ask for your permission to access services on the device like location. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, or if you've initially agreed for the application to access specific services on your device and you would like to stop the Apps from accessing them, you may turn them off at the device level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user identification information.
Other Reasons: We may use and collect Personal Information for other legitimate purposes associated with protecting your interests, our interests and those of third parties, including, keeping our services safe and secure, complying with the law, and when obtaining professional advice (for example, from lawyers).
With the Gymmade Family of Websites, Apps and Platforms: We may share your information with our Platforms, Websites and Apps for purposes and uses consistent with this Privacy Policy.
To Enhance Our Services: We may share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf to help with our business activities such as ad technology providers, authentication services, email service providers, data analyzers, and business intelligence providers for the purpose of enhancing our products and services. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. These third parties currently may include: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Sporteq.
Third-Party Marketing: We provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing, but we don't share information that personally identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us permission.
Third-Party Services: When you interact with a third-party advertiser in our Services, the content creator or advertiser can receive information you share with them, as well as the information needed to complete the transaction, including contact details.
Asset Sale: We may transfer your Personal Information to a third party in the event of a transfer of all or some of our assets to a third party, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to terms similar to those of this Privacy Policy. Where required by applicable law, we will provide you with an opportunity to reject the transfer of your Personal Information in such cases.
Legal Requirements: We may access, preserve, and share your information in response to a legal request if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. We may also access, preserve, and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to detect, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you, and others, including as part of investigations.
Online Marketing: As described above, we may use, and when appropriate, disclose your Personal Information for marketing and market research purposes to learn more about our users and offer and improve our Services. We will only contact you for direct marketing purposes in accordance with applicable laws. You may opt out of our use of your Personal Information for marketing, market research, or direct marketing purposes at any time as set forth below.
Aggregated Data: We may disclose aggregated, non-personal information about Website users without restriction. We also may share information that has been “hashed” with certain third-party partners. “Hashed” information is information that has been converted to an anonymized string of characters in an effort to prevent third parties from unscrambling the anonymized string of characters to recover the underlying information. To opt out of our sharing of “hashed” information, please click here.
We keep your Personal Information for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. These periods vary depending on the nature of the information and your interactions with us.
If you are a user within the EU and you stop using our services without requesting to delete your data, we will keep it for 25 months after your last interaction with any Gymmade touchpoint. Beyond that, we only store data, if it is legally necessary or otherwise required.
When the purposes for which we processed your Personal Information have concluded, we will either permanently delete or destroy the relevant Personal Information or anonymize it, in a manner that ensures individuals are no longer identifiable.
You can make the following choices here regarding your Personal Information. To exercise your rights, you may contact us per email or in writing.
We will handle your request in accordance with the law. This means there may be legal reasons why we cannot fulfill all requests.
Access to Your Personal Information. You may request access to your personal information that we collect on our own behalf. If required by law, upon request, we will grant you reasonable access to the Personal Information that We have about you.
Right to Rectification. You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate data concerning you from us. In case the data processed by us is not correct, we will rectify these without undue delay and inform you of this rectification.
Right to Erasure. You have the right to ask us to delete data we store about you in certain circumstances.
Revocation of Consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent in relation to our processing of your personal information based on your consent.
Restriction of Processing. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Object to Processing. You have the right to object to the use or disclosures of your personal information.
Data Portability. You have the right to receive a copy of your Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us.
Online Tracking. We do not currently recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include "Do Not Track" instructions.
Promotional Emails. You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials to you, as well as targeted offers from third parties. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you service related communications.
Right to File a Complaint. You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority, if you think that the processing of data infringes applicable law.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received, and we take various precautions to protect information against loss and misuse. Nevertheless, transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information, and any transmission is at your own risk.
If you have any questions about the security of your Personal Information, you can contact us at via our Contact Form.
Our Services are for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal Information from our Website that could reasonably be used to identify children under the age of 13. We request that persons under the age of 13 not use our Website without supervision from a responsible adult.
Our Services may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those other websites and we do not accept liability for the content of any other website. Please check the privacy policy of any other website before using and submitting any Personal Information to it.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any significant material changes, then we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Legal Bases. Data protection laws regulate that we are only allowed to collect and process your data, if we have lawful bases for processing. The lawfulness of data processing stems from:
your (explicit) consent in cases where you have given (explicit) consent to the processing;
the necessity for the performance of your user contract, e.g. where data is needed for a satisfactory use of the Product; or
legitimate interests pursued by Gymmade or a third party, e.g. our use of cookies, plug-ins, or targeted advertising.
Our legitimate interests include protecting you, Gymmade, or others from security threats or fraud, complying with all applicable laws, managing and improving our business (e.g. customer service, reporting) including possible corporate transactions (e.g. M&A), enabling users to share their and connect via their fitness experiences, and express all fitness and health-related opinions.
Security Measures. We are committed to protecting your data and implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect it against any unauthorized or unlawful processing and against any accidental loss, destruction, or damage. Those security measures are constantly revised to comply with the latest technological developments.
International Transfer of Your Personal Data Outside of the EU/EEA. Depending on the personal data processing activity, your personal data is shared with different “Categories of Recipients”. Where the recipient is located outside the EU/EEA, we have implemented necessary measures such as singing the EU Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EU Commission.
If you have any comments or questions, or are concerned about the way in which we have handled any privacy matter, you can contact us via our Contact Form.
We hope that we will be able to resolve any questions or concerns you have.