Your rights as an affected party
Under the contact details provided, you can exercise the following rights at any time:
- Information about your stored data and its processing with us,
- Rectification of inaccurate personal data,
- Deletion of your stored data with us,
- Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
- Objection to the processing of your data with us and
- Data portability, provided you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.
If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time effective for the future.
You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for you with a complaint at any time. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, work, or the suspected violation. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Purposes of data processing by the responsible party and third parties
We only process your personal data for the purposes mentioned in this data protection declaration. Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:
- You have given your express consent for this,
- the processing is necessary to process a contract with you,
- the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,
the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in not disclosing your data.
Deletion or blocking of data
We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as required by the various storage periods provided for by law. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the legal provisions.
Collection of general information when visiting our website
When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and similar. This is exclusively information which does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the contents of websites requested by you and is mandatory when using the internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a trouble-free connection to the website,
- Ensuring smooth use of our website,
- Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
- for other administrative purposes.
The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. The recipient of the data is only the responsible body and, if applicable, the contract processor.
Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our internet presence and the technology behind it.
Cookies
Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically gives us certain data, such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.
Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate navigation and enable the correct display of our websites.
In no case will the data collected by us be passed on to third parties or a link to personal data will be established without your consent.
Of course, you can view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time in the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
Registration on our website
When registering for the use of our personalized services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and e-mail address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we offer only to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting any data provided during registration at any time as desired. Of course, we also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We would be happy to correct or delete this data upon request, provided there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary. To contact us in this context, please use the contact details provided at the end of this data protection declaration.
Comment function
If users leave comments on our website, the time of their creation and the username previously chosen by the website visitor are stored in addition to this information. This serves our security, as we can be prosecuted for illegal content on our website, even if it was created by users.
SSL encryption
In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Newsletter
On the basis of your explicit consent, we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.
The provision of your e-mail address is sufficient for receiving the newsletter. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be notified by e-mail of circumstances relevant to the service or registration (e.g. changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).
To ensure that the e-mail address given in the data is actually owned by the person concerned, we use the “double opt-in” procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation e-mail, and the receipt of the requested response. No further data is collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for the newsletter dispatch at any time. Each newsletter contains a corresponding link. You can also unsubscribe from receiving the newsletter directly on this website or inform us of your wish by using the contact option provided at the end of this data protection declaration.
Contact form
If you contact us by e-mail or contact form with questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. A valid e-mail address is required for this purpose. This serves to assign the request and then respond to it. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for any follow-up questions. After your request has been completed, personal data will be automatically deleted.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these web pages, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.
The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further associated services should then be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. You can also prevent Google from collecting data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link: set Google Analytics opt-out cookie.
Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)
In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google Webfonts are transferred to your browser’s cache to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a default font.
The call of script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. It is theoretically possible – but currently unclear whether and if so for what purposes – that operators of libraries collect data.
The library operator’s privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Use of Google Maps
This website uses the Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes, and uses data about the use of map features by visitors. For more information about Google’s data processing, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy at http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the privacy center.
For detailed instructions on how to manage your own data in connection with Google products, click here: http://www.dataliberation.org/.
Google AdWords
Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you access our website via an ad placed by Google, Google AdWords sets acookie on your computer. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be traced through AdWords customers’ websites. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers will know the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they will not receive any information that personally identifies users.
If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can refuse the necessary setting of a cookie – for example, by changing your browser settings to generally disable the automatic setting of cookies or to block cookies from the domain “googleleadservices.com”.
Please note that you may not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not wish measurement data to be recorded. If you have deleted all your cookies in your browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.
Use of Google Remarketing
This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The purpose of this function is to present website visitors within the Google advertising network with interest-related advertisements. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the visitor’s browser, ensuring recognition when the visitor accesses websites belonging to the Google advertising network. On these pages, visitors can be presented with advertisements relating to content they have previously accessed on websites using Google’s remarketing function.
According to its own statements, Google does not collect any personal data during this process. However, if you still do not want Google’s remarketing function, you can generally deactivate it by changing the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies for interest-based advertising through the Advertising Network Initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Changing our privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with current legal requirements, or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then apply to your next visit.