Privacy Policy | How Celtic-Bet.com Protects Your Personal Data

At our website, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy has been created to help you understand how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you visit our site. Please read this document carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we handle it. By visiting our website, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Data Protection

Personal data, or personal information, refers to any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. This does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymized data).

What Personal Data We Collect and How

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect and store certain information, regardless of whether you have created an account with us.

Technical Information

We collect technical data such as the IP address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone settings, browser plug-ins and their versions, your internet service provider, your device type and location, your operating system and platform, and other online identification features. Although this information is often anonymous, we treat it with the same care and security as your personal data. This data is used exclusively for internal analysis of user trends to ensure we can provide all visitors with an optimal user experience on our site.

If you access the site from a mobile device, we may collect information about your mobile carrier and your specific device number.

Information About Your Visit

We collect information about your visit to our website, including complete URLs and browsing behavior on individual pages, as well as information provided through cookies.

Analytics Tools

Our website uses certain analytics tools that enable us to collect data from these analytics platforms. We use both our own analytics tools and third-party analytics tools. Information collected through analytics tools includes details about the operating system your device runs on, IP address (which can be used to determine your geographic location), access times, browser type, language settings, and the page you visited before arriving at our site. Please refer to the section on analytics tools later in this Privacy Policy for more detailed information about the specific tools we use.

Newsletter Subscription and Promotional Activities

If you choose to subscribe to our email newsletter or participate in our promotional activities, we will collect your name and email address and contact you via email.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter and all promotional communications from the site by following the instructions in each of these emails. If you unsubscribe, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails regarding your account with us.

Creating a User Account

If you register for a free user account on our site, in addition to the information mentioned above, we will collect the following data: name, date of birth, email address, and username.

If you choose to sign in through Facebook, the information we receive may include basic information from your Facebook profile (email address, status updates, and a list of contacts). We will only receive information necessary for login from Facebook and no additional data beyond this. Facebook can explain in more detail what data is used and shared when you connect with us through Facebook.

Contact

If you contact our customer service for assistance with any content on the site, we may store the information you provide to us.

How Your Personal Data Is Used

Your personal data is used by the site to:

Communicate Marketing Messages

To keep you informed about new information, announcements, relevant improvements, and other events we consider valuable to you. You will receive such information via email or other electronic communication methods only if you have opted in before registration or if you have set this preference after registration in your user account settings. You can unsubscribe from receiving these messages at any time by making the appropriate changes in your user account or by following the unsubscribe link.

Administer Promotions

If you sign up for any contests, giveaways, or sweepstakes, we use the personal data you provide to administer these activities.

Account Verification

We may use your personal data to verify the information in your user account should this become necessary for any reason.

Personalization and Interest-Based Advertising

The site serves targeted advertising based on your personal data. This means the site provides you with advertising based on your interests, which we derive from your behavior on our site, through information provided by analytics tools, or through cookies. For more information about the data collected through analytics tools that is used for these targeted advertisements and how you can opt out, please read the section on analytics tools in this Privacy Policy.

Categories of Data We Store About You

The personal data we collect and process about you can be divided into the following categories:

Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, employment status, and occupation.

Contact Data includes address, email address, and telephone number(s).

Technical Data includes IP address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone settings and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technologies on the devices you use to access the site.

Profile Data includes your username and password (encrypted), login and logout times.

Usage Data includes information about how you use our site.

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences regarding receiving marketing materials from us and our third-party providers and your preferred communication channels.

Legal Basis for Using Personal Data

Below we have provided a description of all the ways we will use your personal data and the legal basis for doing so. We have also indicated what our legitimate interests are, where applicable.

Cookies and Analytics Tools

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file consisting of letters and numbers that we store on your computer. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website in order to provide you with the most pleasant user experience while browsing our site and to improve the website.

For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Analytics Tools

The site also uses analytics tools. Regardless of whether you have a user account with us, we may use Google Analytics or Matomo Analytics, as well as other analytics tools from time to time, to serve advertising to you on our site or third-party sites after you have visited our site. We and third-party providers such as Google or Matomo use our own cookies and cookies from other providers to provide you with information, optimize the site, and serve advertising based on your previous visits.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an analytics tool provided by Google that tracks visitor behavior on websites and reports on the use of the respective website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to personalize and contextualize advertisements in its own advertising network.

We use data provided by Google Analytics from other users such as age, gender, and interests to understand the behavior of our visitors. We also work with companies that collect information about your online activity to serve targeted advertising tailored to your preferences and interests. This means you may see advertising from time to time on our site or other websites you visit because we work contractually with Google and other providers to control our advertising based on data we collect through cookies and other means. These companies may continue to collect information when you click on advertising on the site, which helps measure and control the effectiveness of advertising.

You can opt out of advertising served by Google Analytics and change your settings for receiving advertising yourself by visiting the Google Ads settings page. We also recommend installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on prevents your user data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

Matomo

Our site also uses the open-source web analytics service Matomo. Matomo is an internet analytics tool that uses cookies that allow us to analyze your use of the website. To enable this, cookie data regarding the use of the site is stored either on our servers or on Matomo’s servers.

If you do not want your data to be stored and used by Matomo, you can disable this function by contacting our data protection officer. In this case, an “opt-out cookie” will be stored in your browser that prevents Matomo from storing your usage data. If you delete your cookies, the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be deleted. Therefore, you will need to opt out again if you visit our site again. For more information, please refer to Matomo’s privacy policy.

Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties

Our website will not sell, share, transfer, or disclose your personal data except in the cases outlined in this Privacy Policy or otherwise as necessary through and in accordance with applicable laws.

We seek partnerships with companies whose services, applications, or promotional activities we consider valuable to our visitors, and in such cases we will make these services, applications, or promotional activities from other companies available to you on our site.

The website reserves the right to share statistics about your use of the site, purchase transactions, visitor statistics, and other statistical data in connection with our site to third parties without disclosing your identity.

The site may share your personal data with its partners or affiliated companies for legitimate business purposes.

In the event of a business merger, restructuring, or sale of the site, we may transfer all stored personal and non-personal data to all relevant third parties. In such a case, the website will inform users in advance before their data is subject to a new privacy policy.

We may share your data if we are legally required to do so, for example in the case of ongoing investigations.

We provide no guarantee of any kind regarding the use of your data by any third parties linked with or from the site.

Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection legislation regarding your personal data:

Access to Your Personal Data

You have the right to request access to the data stored about you. We must comply with any legitimate request for access to this data. Should the request result in disproportionate work, we reserve the right to charge a fee according to applicable law that covers the work involved.

Request Correction of Your Stored Data

This gives you the right to have any incorrect or incomplete data stored with us corrected, in which case we may need to verify the data you provide.

Request Deletion of Your Personal Data

You have the right to request the deletion of all data stored about you that does not serve the purpose for which it was collected. This allows you to request deletion or removal of all personal data for which there is no reason for us to continue using it. You can also request that we delete all personal data, after which we will ask you to close your user account. In some cases, we are legally (e.g., by anti-money laundering laws) unable to delete all or some data immediately, but we will comply with the request and delete the data at the earliest possible time once any retention periods for this data have expired.

Object to the Use of Your Personal Data

You have the right to object to our use of your personal data, including data for which we or third parties have legitimate usage rights, when your specific situation requires it and you see your fundamental rights and freedoms restricted. You can also object to the use of your personal data for advertising purposes at certain points, in which case we ask you to remove the appropriate checkbox that allows us to use the data for advertising purposes before registration or afterwards in your user settings. In some cases, we may be able to demonstrate compelling and legitimate reasons to continue processing your data that override your rights and freedoms.

Request Restriction of Use of Personal Data

This allows you to request that we suspend the use of your personal data in the following cases: (a) if you want us to ensure the correctness of the data (b) if our use of the data is not lawful but you do not want us to delete this data (c) if you require us to continue storing the data even if we no longer need it because you need it to clarify any legal claims (d) if you have objected to our use of the data but we still need to verify whether we have legal grounds that preclude compliance.

Request Transfer of Your Personal Data

This allows you to request your personal data from us. We will provide you with your personal data in a structured, common, machine-readable file format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information for which you originally gave us consent or which we used to formulate a contractual relationship with you.

Right to Withdraw Consent to Direct Marketing

You have the right at any time to change your mind regarding our ability to contact you about advertising. You can exercise this right to receive no further advertising or marketing information by accessing your user settings and removing the checkmarks from the consent boxes, or by contacting our customer service. The withdrawal of this consent to use advertising-related data applies exclusively to our site.

We will keep copies of all communications you have had with us (this includes copies of all emails) to have accurate documentation of the data you have sent us.

You can exercise your rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer.

Protection of Minors

Our site is an information portal about online gambling and sports betting and therefore all advertising content, products, services, and promotional activities are not suitable for minors and the advertising is directed exclusively to persons who have reached the legal minimum age of 18 years (or the corresponding age of majority in the respective jurisdiction).

Our site will not knowingly collect personal data from persons under 18 years of age. If we determine that we have received personal data from a minor without our knowledge, we will delete this personal data as quickly as possible.

Our site bears no responsibility for the actions of minors based on the content of our site or content on our subdomains or sites and our distributed marketing materials (including but not limited to our email newsletter).

General Registration Guidelines

You can create a user account on our site for free. Please note that this is not necessary to use the site or participate in the promotional activities offered, unless otherwise stated.

Registration of a user account is not permitted for persons under 18 years of age or minors according to their respective jurisdiction. In accordance with our Privacy Policy, the site will not knowingly collect, store, or share data from persons under 18 years of age (or respective legal minimum age according to applicable legislation).

Once you have registered a user account with us, you are free at any time to request deletion or deactivation of the account. Please note that we will continue to keep the registration information in a protected location and will use it for statistical and analytical purposes, which is explained in more detail in the following section.

Storage of Your Data

You can request us to delete your data at any time by closing your user account. In this case, we will immediately delete all information except such data that we are legally required to retain for a certain period.

In some cases, we will anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you personally in order to use it for research and statistical purposes. In such a case, we can continue to use the data without informing you.

Confidentiality of Your User Data

Your personal data will only be made available to employees of our site who need access to certain data in order to perform the functions assigned to their position.

Your personal data is stored password-protected in a secure, digitally encrypted environment.

We adhere to all regulations for the protection of personal data.

General Data Security

Our site has taken all necessary digital and structural security precautions in our data storage centers to protect against loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.

Content Guidelines

Due to the workload involved in managing and updating the website and other digital content, we cannot guarantee that all content is always error-free and accurate.

For this and other purposes, we reserve the right to modify any content on the site without prior notice.

It is also important to mention that all services and offers shown are subject to regulatory and legal requirements and therefore are not available in all countries.

Therefore, it is your responsibility to ensure that all information is currently correct before you sign up for an action or take similar steps.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be announced on our site and if necessary we will inform you by email. Please check regularly to see if there have been changes to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any changes, we recommend that you contact our customer service or close your user account.

Other Websites

Once you leave our site or are redirected to another site (a “third-party site”), for example by clicking on an advertising banner from a third party shown on our site, the respective terms and conditions, privacy policies, and data processing policies of the respective third-party site (over which we have no control) apply, and our Privacy Policy and terms and conditions no longer apply to your use of any third-party sites.

Data Controller Information

The data controller responsible for this website is the entity identified in our Impressum/Contact page. For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us through the contact information provided on our website.

International Data Transfers

If your personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that all appropriate measures are taken to ensure an adequate level of data protection within the meaning of applicable data protection law.

Your personal data may be transmitted to recipients located in a country that, in the opinion of the European Commission, has an adequate level of data protection, or to recipients located in a country that, according to the European Commission, does not provide an adequate level of data protection. In this situation, we will enter into a data protection agreement with the recipient that contains standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission. This would oblige the recipient to ensure a level of security and data protection equivalent to that of applicable data protection regulations.

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date of publication and may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements.