PRIVACY POLICY
This policy explains the what, how, and why of the information we collect when you visit one of our websites, or when you use the Fit Drills mobile apps. It also explains the specific ways we use and disclose that information.
IN GENERAL
The collection, administration and use of personal details by Fit Drills complies with applicable data protection laws by ensuring that each user is able to decide herself, which personal details shall be made accessible to others.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY FIT DRILLS
Fit Drills collects information from users upon registration on its website FitDrills.com.
To register the user shares the following personally identifying information with Fit Drills:
PRIVACY SETTINGS
The Fit Drills application and website does not need any privacy related user settings, because the Fit Drills application and website do not have any features to automatically collect personally identifying information at this stage. Some users might choose to actively share their personally identifiable information or use the social media plugins to do so.
USE AND SHARING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES
Fit Drills does not pass on personally identifiable information to third parties, except as required by law or with the explicit consent of the user. Fit Drills implements all reasonable measures to prevent the unauthorized access by third parties to saved details.
The user explicitly consents to the storage and use of personally identifiable information, upon registration for the Fit Drills newsletter (see section Newsletter). First and last name and email of such users will be shared with our partner MailChimp.
The user explicitly consents to the storage and use of non-personally identifiable information on www.fitdrills.com by Fit Drills or its partners.
PLUGINS AND WIDGETS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
The FitDrills.com website includes social media plugins, such as
Such plugins can recognize a user’s IP address and the page visited on the FitDrills.com website, and, possibly, store cookies, so that the services offered by Fit Drills work properly. Social media plugins and widgets are hosted either by third party providers or directly by us. Your interactions with these plugins are subject to this privacy policy or the privacy policy of any third party that offers such feature. Fit Drills is not responsible for the use of, or guidelines regarding the use of, personal data by third party providers.
Users may recognize the respective plugins, e.g., by the respective logo or other respective characteristic typical for the respective social media-platform on our pages.
You can find an overview of plugins here:
If a user interacts with the plugins, e. g. by clicking on the Facebook “Like-Button” or entering a comment, while being logged in to such user’s Social Media-account on Facebook, Instagram, Google+ , Youtube, Twitter or LinkedIn, a user links the contents of the Fit Drills pages to her respective social media-profile. Thereby, the social media-platform can associate a user’s visit of the Fit Drills page with such user’s social media-account. Fit Drills as the provider of the FitDrills.com website does not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its usage by Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Youtube, Twitter or LinkedIn. Users can find more information on that issue in the privacy policy of the respective social media-platform:
If users do not want to have the respective social media-platform associate their visits on our site with their social media-account, users must log out from their social media-account.
COOKIES
Several areas of the Fit Drills website use cookies ─ small text files that are placed on the user’s computer and stored by the browser. They are used by Fit Drills to provide a more user-friendly, effective and secure service. Cookies also enable Fit Drills to identify a user’s browser and offer services to such user. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by entering the corresponding settings in your browser software. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to use the complete range of functions of the FitDrills.com website to its full extent.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
The FitDrills.com website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’ (see section Cookies). The information about your visit collected by the cookies, including your IP address, is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there.
To the extent that the FitDrills.com website has activated IP anonymization, Google first abbreviates your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there.
Google will use the information collected on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the FitDrills.com website, to compile reports about your activities within the FitDrills.com website, and to provide further services to Fit Drills related to use of the FitDrills.com website and Internet use.
Google will under no circumstances associate the IP address transmitted by your browser within the operations of Google Analytics with other Google data.
Deactivating Google Analytics
You can prevent the data related to your use of the FitDrills.com website, including your IP address, generated by the cookies from being recorded by Google and Google’s processing of this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the following link:
Deactivating Google Analytics with browser plugin
Furthermore, you can prevent the future data capture by setting an opt-out cookie via the following link:
Deactivating Google Analytics with opt-out cookie
Further information regarding terms of use and privacy provisions may be found on the Google websites terms and policies.
The FitDrills.com platform expanded the Google Analytics-Service with the “anonymizeIP”- Code to anonymize the user’s IP-address.
The FitDrills.com platform uses Google DoubleClick for Publishers (“DFP”). DFP uses Cookies to provide the user with user-relevant advertisements – further information may be found at the following link.
The user may disable the DFP’s cookie placement and the placement of user-relevant advertisements via the following link.
Mixpanel
We use technologies from Mixpanel, Inc. within some of our products to perform statistical evaluations. This allows us to improve and optimize product features and make their designs more appealing.
For our Internet-security-related products, Mixpanel uses Cookies to detect your browser type, operating system, language settings, the search criteria that you enter and your IP address. Mixpanel then sends this data to a Mixpanel server in the USA. Mixpanel anonymizes your IP address and only the anonymized IP address is sent to Fit Drills, ensuring that your privacy remains protected. If you do not want to consent to such data collection, please see our instructions for disabling Cookies in the cookie-related section above. Furthermore, you can opt out of Mixpanel collecting and storing such data at any time by following the instructions in the following link:
More information about Mixpanel and its privacy policy can be found here.
NEWSLETTER
Fit Drills will send newsletters to users who register to receive them (opt in). By accepting the terms and conditions, the user allows Fit Drills to send newsletters to the provided email address. The user can opt out of receiving a newsletter each time such newsletter is received. Upon opting out, the user will not receive any further newsletters from Fit Drills.
Fit Drills uses the services of Mail Chimp to support newsletters. Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by
With registration for the newsletter the user agrees that the information he provides is shared with Mail Chimp and transferred to a Mail Chimp server in the USA and saved there.
The Mail Chimp privacy policy can be found here.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
If Fit Drills decides to change its privacy policy, it will post those changes on this page.
This policy was last modified on 25 March, 2017.
YOUR CONSENT
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
Please also visit our terms of service site establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website here.
If you have any questions or comments, or if you want to update, delete, or change any Personal Information we hold, or you have a concern about the way in which we have handled any privacy matter, please use our contact form to send us a message. You may also contact us by postal mail or email at: