Privacy policy
The protection of your privacy is very important to us.
In the following, we will inform you about how we have implemented the protection of your data on our website:
General information
It is generally possible for you to use the website without registering as a user. No software or hardware techniques are used to collect the user's e-mail address or other personal data.
Personal data is only collected if you expressly provide it to us. Your data will always be treated confidentially and only used for the purpose for which it was provided to us.
You have the right to receive information about the personal data stored about you free of charge upon request. In addition, you have the right to correct, block and delete this data in accordance with the statutory provisions.
This website contains links to other websites or social media pages. If you click on such a link that leads to other third-party websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies. Please check their privacy policies when using these websites.
Use of cookies
The website, e-mail traffic, online services, advertising and interactive applications may use "cookies" to optimise our services.
What is a "cookie"?
A "cookie" is a sequence of text characters that we transmit via our web server to the cookie file of the browser on the hard drive of your computer. This enables our website to recognise you when a connection is established between our web server and your browser. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognise visitors to the website so that our web server can present you with a more individual and personalised website tailored to your needs.
Two types of cookies are used on this website:
Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser's cookie file until you leave our website. These cookies are necessary for certain applications or functions of the website to work properly.
Persistent cookies
We may use persistent cookies for a better user experience (e.g. to provide optimised navigation). These are cookies that remain in your browser's cookie file for a longer period of time. This period depends on the settings of your Internet browser. Persistent cookies allow information to be transmitted to a web server each time you visit the website. Persistent cookies are also known as tracking cookies.
If you would like to learn more about cookies, there are many publications available on this topic. See for example: allaboutcookies.org/
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, by activating IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be shortened 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 to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide 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 other Google data.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the 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 at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found here and here.
Log files
When you access an individual page, web servers record the name of the file accessed, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, any error messages and, if applicable, the operating system and browser software of your computer as well as the website from which you are visiting us in a log file by default. The log file data is used by us for the purposes stated under "Use of Google Analytics" and to ensure system security and to protect against misuse (e.g. detection and defence against hacker attacks).
Changes to the privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt these data protection guidelines to the current legal situation. We recommend that you read these data protection guidelines regularly in order to keep up to date with the protection of the data we collect. By continuing to use these websites or by maintaining a business relationship with us, you declare that you agree to these data protection guidelines and that they are up to date.