Privacy Policy

DATA PROTECTION AT A GLANCE

General information

The following notes will give you a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal data is all data that personally identifies you. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed at the end of this text.

Data collection on this website

How do we collect your data?

Any personal data that you share with us directly will be collected, for instance, in a contact form that you fill out.

Other additional data is automatically collected when you visit the website. These are often mostly technical data (for example, the internet browser, operating system or time of the page request). The collection of this data is automatic and performed as soon as you enter our website.

For what do we use your data?

Part of the data are collected to ensure flawless technical function of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

At any time, you have the right to obtain free information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose and for further questions about data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint below. Furthermore, you have the right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority.

General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal information is any information that personally identifies you. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmission over the Internet (for example, when communicating via e-mail) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

Information, blocking, deletion

You have the right to free information on your stored personal data, their origin and recipient, and the purpose of the data processing and, if necessary, a right to rectification, blocking, or deletion of this data. For further information on personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Data collection on our website

Cookies

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and cookies only allowed in individual cases, the acceptance of cookies for certain cases, or generally exclude and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you wish to use are processed and saved on the basis of Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for a technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (such as cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) are stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form or via sample data form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided, will be stored in order to process the request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not share this information without your consent.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is therefore exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. An informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The information you provide in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or delete the purpose for data storage (for example, after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – especially retention periods – remain unaffected.

Plugins and Tools

YouTube

This website uses plug-ins from the Google-powered YouTube site. Site operator is YouTube LLC (901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA). When you visit one of our YouTube plug-in-enabled sites, you will be connected to the servers of YouTube. It tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube will allow you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online content. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO. For more information about how to handle user information, please refer to the YouTube Privacy Policy at: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7671399?hl=en

Google Analytics

This website uses the “Google Analytics” service provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) to analyze users’ website usage. The service uses “cookies” – text files stored on your device. The information collected by the cookies is usually sent to a Google server in the US and stored there.

This website accesses the IP anonymization. The IP address of users is shortened within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area. This reduction eliminates the personal reference of your IP address. Under the terms of the agreement, which website operators have entered into with Google LLC, they use the information collected to compile an evaluation of website activity and site activity, and provide Internet-related services.

You have the option to prevent the storage of cookies on your device by making the appropriate settings in your browser. There is no guarantee that you will be able to access all features of this website without restriction if your browser does not allow cookies.

Furthermore, you can use a browser plug-in to prevent the information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to Google LLC and used by Google LLC. The following link leads you to the corresponding plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Terms of use: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html

More information on data usage by Google LLC: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Google ReCaptcha

We use the feature to detect bots, e.g. when entering into online forms (“ReCaptcha”), from the provider Google LLC (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Twitter

Our online offering may include features and content of the Twitter service offered by Twitter Inc. (1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA). For this, e.g. content such as images, videos, or text and buttons that users use to promote their content, subscribe to content creators, or subscribe to our posts. If the users are members of the platform Twitter, Twitter can assign contents and functions to the profiles of the users there. Twitter is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European privacy legislation. (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active).

Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy, Opt-Out: https://twitter.com/personalization.