Terms and Conditions for Referral Program
1. Terms and Conditions for Referral Program (“Terms and Conditions”)
1.1. Babbel GmbH (“Babbel”), whose registered address is Andreasstraße 72, 10243 Berlin, Germany, offers to consumers (“Advocates”) the opportunity to refer Babbel´s services to other people (“Friends”) (“Babbel’s Referral Program” or “Program”).
1.2. These Terms and Conditions apply to individuals who are accessing or using the Program both as an Advocate and a Friend (collectively referred to as “You” or “Participant”).
1.3. By participating in the Program, Advocates and Friends agree to use the Program in the manner specified in, and are fully and unconditionally bound by, these Terms and Conditions. If You do not agree to these Terms and Conditions in their entirety You are not authorised to register as an Advocate or Friend or participate in the Program in any manner.
1.4.Babbel reserves the right to modify or amend at any time these Terms and Conditions or terminate the Program entirely. Babbel shall inform You about any such amendments via e-mail. You may terminate this Agreement if You do not wish to be bound by any such amendments by sending an unambiguous message to the contact details specified in Section 5.1 within 2 weeks of receiving the amendment notice. However, by continuing to use the Program and after expiration of the 2-weeks-period mentioned above, You will be deemed to have accepted all amendments.
2. Referrals and Rewards
2.1. In order to participate in the Program, Advocates must register for free with Babbel and sign up for the Referral Program. Advocates may then invite Friends to subscribe to Babbel using the Program.
2.2.Referred Friends may use the referral code received from the Advocate in order to purchase a paid subscription to Babbel.
2.3. If referred Friends purchase a 3-month or longer subscription against payment both the referring Advocate and the referred Friend will receive a reward (“Reward”).
2.4. The Reward for Advocates shall be a 10 EUR virtual Mastercard prepaid card from Rybbon. Terms and conditions applicable to such prepaid card are outlined in Rybbon’s Terms of Service (located at https://www.rybbon.net/terms).
2.5. The Reward for Friends shall be an additional month of subscription to Babbel at no cost.
3. Limits
3.1. An Advocate may not receive more than 50 rewards resulting from the referral mechanism described above within a year’s period.
3.2.Babbel reserves the right to refuse the issue of any Reward to any Friend or Advocate and/or to exclude any Participant at any time in case of any misuse, manipulation of the system or breach of these Terms and Conditions in order to attempt any kind of participation through any method, means or process other than the one outlined in these Terms and Conditions.
3.3. A Reward received by Friends may only be applied to the purchase made as a result of the referral or to later purchases. In no case are Rewards redeemable for cash.
4. Data Processing
4.1.Any personal data received by Babbel relating to the Program or Advocates and Friends supplied as a part of the Program will be used by Babbel in accordance with current E.U. data protection legislation (“Legislation”) for the sole purposes of performing the Program and will not be disclosed or sold to any third party without the prior consent of the data subject (as defined by the Legislation).
4.2. Notwithstanding the above, Babbel will use a third-party provider Curebit, Inc. dba Talkable (“Talkable”), whose registered address is 475 Valencia Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California 94103. Talkable will collect, process and store Advocate´s and Friend´s personal data on behalf of Babbel (including but not limited to name, email address, IP address) in order to successfully manage the Program. As far as required by the Legislation, Babbel shall close data processing agreements with such third party.
4.3.Talkable may pass Advocate´s and Friend´s personal data to third-party vendors only for the necessity of carrying out the Program. Talkable will only pass personal data to third-party vendors agreed to by Babbel. These third-party vendors will not contact the customer and are not permitted to pass personal data to any other vendors. The data provided will be used by Babbel in conjunction with its Privacy Statement found at https://www.babbel.com/legal/privacy. As far as required by the Legislation, Babbel shall request that Talkable agree to data processing agreements with any such third party.
4.4 As a part of the Program, Advocate and Friend can sign up to receive newsletters from Babbel via email. You can opt-out at any time with the unsubscribe link in each email.
5. Termination of the Referral Program
5.1. You can terminate your participation in the Program at any time by contacting: support@babbel.com.