Privacy

The short version

This site sets no cookies, loads nothing from other companies and runs no advertising or analytics scripts. The simulators, the quiz and the expedition game run entirely in your browser; what you enter stays on your device. Your inputs are stored in your browser's local storage so you can return to a result, and you can clear them at any time.

Visitor count

An exception to what this page otherwise says about outside services: every page loads a small counting script from analytics.axaix.app, the network's own statistics server. It is hosted in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the data is not passed on to third parties.

The script sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It records the page viewed, the page the visit came from, screen width and language, the broad device type, browser and operating system, and clicks on downloads and on links to other websites. Your IP address is used only briefly to determine country and city and to form a daily hash, then discarded and never stored. The hash changes every day, so a visitor cannot be recognised from one day to the next. Raw data is deleted after twelve months. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, the visit is not counted.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in measuring the reach of these pages with as little data as possible (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Advertising

Through the counting script, every page also loads the advertising script ad.member.show/axaix.js. On the network’s magazines it shows labelled ads from members of the member.show network, and banner.member.show serves the banner images. Both addresses belong to the network itself and are hosted by the provider Hostinger. No data is passed on to advertisers or any other third parties.

The advertising script sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and builds no user profiles. Which ad appears depends only on the page viewed and its language. Impressions and clicks are counted solely as totals per ad, page and day, and your IP address is not stored for this. A click on an ad passes briefly through ad.member.show and then on to the advertiser.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in funding the magazines through advertising and showing advertisers the reach of their ads (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Controller

NexTao GmbH, Königsallee 27, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany, e-mail info@tausim.com, telephone +49 1577 5588 888.

Hosting and server logs

The site is hosted in the European Union. When you visit, the web server processes the IP address, date and time, the requested page, the referring page and the browser identifier in order to deliver the page and keep the service secure (Article 6 (1) f GDPR). Log entries are deleted after a short retention period.

Contact form and subscription

The contact form and the sign-up for the update come from formdialog.com, the form service of NexTao GmbH. It runs on its own server at Hostinger in Frankfurt am Main, sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. With the form it learns on which tausim page it is shown.

If you write to us through the contact form, we process the data you enter (name, e-mail address, subject, message) to answer your request (Article 6 (1) b GDPR). The message is sent by e-mail to our editorial inbox, stored in the form service and deleted once it is no longer needed. To fend off abuse, the IP address of every submission is kept for 14 days (Article 6 (1) f GDPR).

The update uses double opt-in: after signing up you receive an e-mail with a confirmation link, and only the click on it subscribes you. Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days. As proof of your consent we store the time and IP address of the sign-up and of the confirmation. Your e-mail address stays on the list until you unsubscribe; every update contains an unsubscribe link, and a short e-mail to us does the same (Article 6 (1) a GDPR). We do not pass data on to third parties.

Reader polls

The reader polls store a vote against a pseudonym derived from your IP address and the current month. The address itself is not stored. The purpose is to count one vote per reader (Article 6 (1) f GDPR).

Sharing

The share links open the respective network in a new tab only when you click them. No scripts from those networks are loaded on this site. Share images are drawn in your browser and leave your device only when you choose to send them.

Your rights

You have the right to information about your personal data, to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to processing. You may lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. To exercise your rights, write to info@tausim.com and we will answer promptly.