The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data which can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on the issue of data privacy can be found in the Data Privacy Policy below this text.
Who is the responsible controller for the data collected on this website?
The website operator processes data on this website. The website operator's contact data can be found in the Imprint on this website.
How do we collect your personal data?
We collect the personal data that you communicate to us. These data could, for example, be information which you enter in a contact form.
Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time at which a page is called up). These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
We collect some of your data to ensure that we can provide the website without any errors. Other data may be used to analyse the way you use the website.
What are your rights concerning your data?
You have the right to receive information at any time and at no cost about the origin and recipients of as well as the purpose for which your personal data have been stored. You also have the right to obtain rectification or erasure of these data or to have them made unavailable. You may contact us at any time at the address provided under Imprint if you have any other questions about data privacy. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.
Your surfing behaviour may be statistically analysed when you visit our website. This is primarily done using cookies and analysis programs. Your surfing behaviour is usually analysed anonymously; surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You may object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information is available in the following Data Privacy Policy.
You can withdraw your consent to such analysis. You are informed about your rights to object in this Data Privacy Policy.
The data subject is entitled to lodge a complaint about violations of data protection law with the responsible supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer for the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact information is available at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
The internet web pages use “cookies” in several places. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help us to make our website more user friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files which are placed on your computer and stored in your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies” which are automatically deleted as soon as you leave the website. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.
You can change the settings of your browser so that you are informed every time a cookie is set. This will enable you to permit cookies in specific cases, to exclude them completely, or to have them deleted automatically every time you close your browser. However, if you disable cookies, this may affect the functionality of this website.
Cookies which are needed for the performance of the electronic communication procedures or to provide certain functions (e.g. shopping cart function) requested by you are stored on the basis of Article 6(1) f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies in order to provide technically faultless and optimised services. Any other cookies (e.g. cookies used to analyse your surfing behaviour) which are stored are treated separately in this Data Privacy Policy.
The website provider automatically collects and stores information in server log files which your browser then sends to us automatically. This information concerns:
These data are not consolidated with other data sources.
The collection of these data is lawful under Article 6(1) f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically faultless presentation and optimisation of its website – this entails the recording of server log files.
This website uses the functions provided by the web analysis service Google Analytics from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses "Cookies". These are text files which are stored on your computer to analyse the way you use the website. The information about the way you use this website created by the cookie is usually sent to and stored on a Google server in the USA.
The storage of Google Analytics cookies is lawful under Article 6(1) f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user behaviour for the purpose of optimising its web services and its marketing.
We have enabled the IP anonymisation function on this website. This means that Google truncates your IP address in Member States of the European Union or in other state parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is sent to the USA. The full IP address is only sent to and truncated on a Google server in the USA in exceptional circumstances. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate the way you use the website, to collate reports on website activities and in order to provide the website operator other services related to website and internet use. The IP address sent by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data held by Google.
You can change your browser settings to prevent cookies from being stored; however, this may mean that you are then unable to make full use of functions on the website. You can also prevent the data (including your IP address) which are captured by the cookie and which relate to your use of the website being sent to or processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
You can prevent your data being collected by Google Analytics by clicking the following link. An opt out cookie is then set which prevents your data being collected the next time you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics.
More information about the way Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's data privacy statement: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
We have entered a contract with Google for the processing of data on our behalf; we implement the stringent requirements of the German data protection authorities in full when we use Google Analytics.
This website uses the Google Analytics "Demographics" function. This enables reports to be produced with information about the age, gender and interests of website users. These data originate from interest-related advertising from Google and traffic data from third-party providers. These data cannot be assigned to particular people. You can disable this function at any time by changing your display settings in your Google account or prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics entirely as explained under “Objection to data collection".