the necessity for the performance of contract fulfillment pursuant para 1 subpara. b GDPR, as your Data is needed for a satisfactory use of the Services. and/or</li> <li>the necessity for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company or by a third party.</li> </ul>4. Information we share4.1<p>We transmit Data to third parties only if this is necessary for the Purposes, due to a request from a national authority, due to a court ruling, or if you have consented beforehand.</p>4.2<p>For some tasks we use the help of carefully chosen and instructed third parties (e.g. analytics services and tax advisors). Some of these third parties are based in the United States. Therefore, Data is transferred to third parties in third countries, all of which adhere to the EU-US privacy shield (see https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome for more information):</p>