GDPR and Journalism

We, as the controller of your personal data, are:

If you want to contact us, you can:

• via the contact form on our website or app;
• by e-mail sent to the e-mail address [email protected];
• by letter sent to the above postal address.

We have appointed a data protection officer who you can contact for all matters related to the processing of your personal data and the exercise of your rights by e-mail at [email protected].

The personal data that is published in the context of journalistic content in various forms on our platforms or processed in the preparation of such content, the content of which is determined by the extent of the public's interest in sports information, includes a wide variety of information relating to the persons concerned and, where applicable, your personal data, as well as information relating to sports personalities, sports clubs and organisations, sports matches, sports performances and other related events. This information includes in particular:

• Identifying information, in particular name, age and nationality.
• Photographs, audiovisual recordings and speeches of a personal nature, especially your interviews and comments.
• Details of your affiliations, which relate to your involvement in sport and public life or your affiliation to a particular group (e.g. a sports club).
• Sports activity data, i.e. data related to your sporting or professional activity (e.g. no/participation in sports matches, sports performance and statistics).
• Special categories of personal data directly related to your sporting or professional activity (e.g. your injury and related medical condition). We will only process and, where appropriate, disclose these special categories of personal data in a proportionate way if we have concluded that there is a significant general public interest in processing and disclosing them.
• Further details in the table of contents. This is any additional information about you that may be contained in the content, such as information related to your marriage, information about family members, information about your employment and financial circumstances, including income, achievements and education. We also process and, where appropriate, disclose these categories of personal data in a proportionate manner only if we have concluded that there is a significant public interest in processing and disclosing them.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is the provisions of applicable data protection legislation. Your personal data may be processed in a reasonable manner for journalistic purposes or for the purposes of academic, artistic or literary expression. Another legal basis for the processing of your personal data is also the exercise of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression and the right to information and, last but not least, our legitimate interest in protecting ourselves against legal claims by the persons concerned or third parties and for the possible substantiation of the veracity of the content published by us.

We will process your personal data for the duration of the legal basis for processing.

If personal data is processed as a basis for the preparation of journalistic content, we will stop processing it if it is not used in this way and we do not consider that the data will be used in other material being prepared or considered.

If the personal data is published as part of journalistic content, it will be processed in electronic form by storing it in the relevant data storage used for the operation of the relevant platform or for archiving the journalistic content on the platform in electronic form without time limitation.

If the personal data is processed to prove a legitimate interest in the processing of personal data, in case of disputes, and to prove the truthfulness of the content published by us, it may be processed without time limitation depending on its nature. We will terminate the processing ourselves if the reason for it ceases to exist.

If personal data is processed for the creation of keywords and profiles, it will be processed in electronic form by storing it in the relevant data storage used for the operation of the relevant platform for the duration of the storage of the relevant content to which it refers.

If the personal data is processed by storing it in a photobank or other database of audiovisual content, it will be processed for the duration of the licence or other authorisation to publish the relevant audiovisual content (i.e. in some cases without time limit) or for the duration of the copyright in that content.

All of the above-mentioned personal data are processed by us as the controller. This means that we determine for what purpose and by what means your personal data will be processed, i.e. in particular collected, recorded, sorted and, where appropriate, disclosed, and we are responsible for the proper implementation of such processing of your personal data.

We also use the services of other processors for the processing of personal data, who process personal data only on our instructions and for the purposes described above. Such processors are persons who provide technical activities for us, including persons providing hosting and software development services, as well as our external processors of journalistic content and other companies in our group.

Your personal data within the journalistic content will be published and will be available to the public on the Internet or to a limited number of our users.

We may place your personal data as part of journalistic content on social networks. In this case, your data may be "transferred to third countries (outside the EU)" within the meaning of the GDPR, even to countries for which the European Commission has not yet decided on adequate protection identical to EU law. In this case, we will ensure that your personal data is processed and protected in accordance with our standard privacy policy, but also through the appropriate safeguards set out in Article 46 of the GDPR.

When processing your personal data, you have certain rights which we are obliged to exercise to the extent appropriate.

However, as we process your personal data for journalistic purposes, certain exceptions apply to the exercise of rights. The exercise of the rights to erasure and rectification is governed by applicable legislation. Specific conditions are also set out in the case of the right to restriction of processing.

You have the right to ask us to provide you with information about what personal data we process, for what purpose, and for how long it will be processed. We have the right to protect the source and content of the information. We are not obliged to provide you with the source from which the personal data originates, or information about whether it comes from publicly available sources. We may not comply with your request if the personal data is not published by us and is processed solely for journalistic purposes or for the purposes of academic, artistic or literary expression.

If you discover that the personal data we process about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected without undue delay (if technically possible) or to have it rectified if the inaccuracy or incompleteness has unreasonably affected your personality.

In the event of a correction of personal data, we will inform you of this fact by indicating the last update directly in the published content.

If you find that the processing of your personal data has unreasonably affected your personality, you have the right to request that we delete your personal data.

In the event of deletion of personal data, we will inform you of this fact by indicating the last update directly in the published content, if available, or by other appropriate means.

Even if your personal data is processed for journalistic purposes, you may in some cases exercise the right to limit the processing of personal data. This right allows you to request that the data not be subject to any further processing operations for a limited period of time. We must restrict the processing of personal data when all of the following conditions are met:

• We no longer need your personal data for the above processing purposes;
• You require your personal data to establish, exercise or defend your legal claims; and at the same time, enabling us to exercise this right does not require disproportionate effort on our part.

You have the right to object, but always only to a specific disclosure or publication of personal data that is based on our legitimate interest. In this case, please provide specific reasons showing that in your case the legitimate interest in protecting your rights and freedoms outweighs the public interest in freedom of expression. If we consider that it has been demonstrated that your interest is overridden, we will stop disclosing the personal data in question.

Exercising your rights in the above manner does not affect your right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. You can exercise this right in particular if you believe that we are processing your personal data unlawfully or in violation of generally binding legal regulations. You can file a complaint against our processing of personal data with the appropriate data protection authority.