DECLARATION ON INFORMATION OBLIGATION (PRIVACY POLICY)
The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of legal provisions (GDPR, TKG 2003). In this data protection statement, we inform you about the most important aspects of data protection within the framework of our website.
COLLECTION OF GENERAL INFORMATION
When you access our website, information of a general nature will be automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and the like.
This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. This information is technically necessary, in order to correctly display the contents of this website and are absolutely necessary when using the internet. Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, in order to optimise our internet appearance and the technology behind it.
CONTACTING US
Wenn Sie per Formular auf der Website oder per E-Mail Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen, werden Ihre angegebenen Daten zwecks BIf you contact us using the form on our website or by email, your provided data will be saved for six months in order for us to process the request and for processing subsequent questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
DELETION OR BLOCKING OF DATA
Wir halten uns an die Grundsätze der Datenvermeidung und Datensparsamkeit. Wir speichern Ihre personenbezogenen Daten daher nur so lange, wie dies zur Erreichung der hier genannten Zwecke erforderlich ist oder wie es die vom Gesetzgeber vorgesehenen viWe adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore only store your personal data as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as long as is stipulated by the various storage periods provided by the law. After expiration of the respective purposes or expiration of these periods, the data will be routinely blocked or deleted according to the legal requirements.
IHRE RECHTE AUF AUSKUNFT, BERICHTIGUNG, SPERRE, LÖSCHUNG UND YOUR RIGHTS TO INFORMATION, CORRECTION, BLOCKING, DELETION AND OBJECTION
You have the right to obtain information about your personal data stored with us at any time. You also have the right to correction, blocking or, apart from prescribed data storage for the performance of the transaction, deletion of your personal data. Please contact us directly. The contact details can be found in our disclaimer and under contact. In order to consider a blocking of data at any time, this data must be kept for control purposes in a locked file. You can also request the deletion of data, if there is no legal archiving obligation. If such an obligation exists, we will block your data on request.
You can make changes or revoke your consent by sending a corresponding notification to us, with effect for the future.
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.
LEGITIMATE INTERESTS IN THE PROCESSING PURSUED BY THE CONTROLLER OF A THIRD PARTY
BShould the processing of personal data be based on this Art. 6(1) lit. f GDPR, it is in our legitimate interest to conduct our business activity for the good of our well-being.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Wir behalten uns vor, diese Datenschutzerklärung gelegentlich anzupassen, damit sie stets den aktuellen rechtlichen Anforderungen entWe reserve the right to amend this privacy policy, so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy e.g. when introducing new services. For your next visit, the new privacy policy then applies.
COOKIES
Unsere Website verwendet so genannte Cookies. Dabei handelt es sich um kleine Textdateien, die mit Hilfe des Browsers auf Ihrem Endgerät abgelegt werden. Sie richten keinen Schaden an. Wir nutzen Cookies dazu, unser Angebot nutzerfreundlich zu gestalten. Einige Cookies bleiben auf Ihrem Endgerät gespeichert, bis Sie diese löschen. Sie ermöglichen es uns, Ihren Browser beim nächsten BesuOur website uses so-called Cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device using the browser. They do no harm. We use Cookies in order to make our offer user-friendly. Some Cookies will stay saved on your device, until you delete them. They enable us to recognise your browser when you next visit. If you do not want this, you can configure your browser, so that it informs you about the use of Cookies and you will only allow this in individual cases. By deactivating Cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
WEB ANALYSIS GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (subsequently: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “Cookies”, i.e. text files, which will be saved on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the Cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to a server of Google in the US and stored there. Due to the activation of IP anonymization of these websites, your IP address will however 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 transferred to a server of Google in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information, in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports about website activity and to provide the website operator with other services related to the use of the website and the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged together with other information from Google.
You can set your browser software to prevent the downloading of cookies; however, we would like to point out, that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all the functions of this website. In addition to this, you can 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 downloading and installing the available browser plug in at the following link: Browser-Add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.
In addition to this, or as an alternative browser add on, you can prevent the tracking of Google Analytics on our pages, by clicking on the required settings under Privacy. In doing so, an opt-out cookie is installed on your device. This means that the collection of data by Google Analytics is prevented for this website and this browser, as long as the cookies are remain installed on your browser.
Further information and the applicable data protection regulations of Google can be obtained at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US and at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/. Google Analytics is explained in more detail under this link https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.
USE OF SCRIPT LIBRARIES (GOOGLE WEB FONTS)
In order to present our content in a correct and graphically appealing way, we use website script libraries and script libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/ ). Google Web Fonts will be transferred to the cache of your browser to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content is shown in a default font.
The opening of script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. It is theoretically possible – but currently also unclear whether and if so for what purposes – that the operator in this case, Google collects data.
The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here:
USE OF GOOGLE MAPS
This website uses Google Maps API, to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of the map functions by visitors. For more information about data processing by Google, please visit Google Privacy Policy. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center. Detailed instructions for managing your own data in connection with Google Products can be found at this link.
EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS
On some of our websites, we embed Youtube videos. The operator of the corresponding plug ins is Youtube, LLC, 901 Cherry Av., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you would like to visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, a connection to the servers of YouTube will be made. This informs YouTube, which pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can then assign your surfing behaviour to your personally. You can prevent this, by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.
If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information on user behaviour.
If the storing of cookies by the Google ad program is prevented, you can expect that no such cookies will be active while watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also saves non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to avoid this, you must block cookies from being saved in your browser.
Additional information about data protection on Youtube can be found in the Privacy Policy of the operator at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
INTRODUCTION AND USE OF FACEBOOK
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If the data subject lives outside the USA or Canada, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland is responsible for processing personal data.
Each time you visit one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically initiated by the respective Facebook components, causing a display of the respective Facebook components to be downloaded from Facebook. A complete overview of all Facebook plug ins can be obtained at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. As part of this technical process, Facebook is informed about which specific sub page of our website is visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognises with each opening of our website by the data subject and during the entire duration of the respective stay on our website, which exact sub pages the data subject has visited on our website. This information will be collected by the Facebook components and assigned to the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example, the “Like” button, or the data subject comments, Facebook assigns this information to the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and saves this personal data.
Facebook always receives information via the Facebook components, that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time as accessing our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component. If such a transmission of this information to Facebook is not wanted by the data subject, they can prevent this transmission by logging out of their Facebook account before accessing our website.
The Privacy Policy, which is available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains, which settings options Facebook offers the data subject for the protection of their privacy, In addition to this, different applications are available, which make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook, for example, the Facebook Blocker of the provider Web Graph, which can be obtained at http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ . Such applications can be used by the data subject in order to suppress a data transmission to Facebook.
INTRODUCTION AND USE OF GOOGLE+
The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. Each time one of the individual pages of this website is accessed, upon which a Google+ button has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective Google+ button to download a representation of the corresponding Google+ button from Google. As part of this technical process, Google is informed about which specific sub page of our website is visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ can be obtained at https://developers.google.com/+/.
If the data subject is logged into Google+ at the same time, Google recognises with each opening of our website by the data subject and during the entire duration of the respective stay on our website, which exact sub pages the data subject has visited on our website. This information will be collected by the Google+ button and assigned to the respective Google account of the data subject by Google.
Google always receives information via the Google+ button, that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject is logged into Google+ at the same time as accessing our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Google+ button.
If a transmission of this personal information to Google is not wanted by the data subject, they can prevent this transmission by logging out of their Google+ account before accessing our website.
Further information and the applicable data protection regulations of Google can be obtained at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US. Further information from Google about the Google+1 button can be obtained at https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
EXISTENCE OF AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING
As a responsible company, we do not use automated decision-making.
Stand: 25.05.2018