Privacy

Privacy policy

The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal information confidentially and do not provide it to third parties without your permission.

Our website is accessible without personal data having to be revealed. Personal data is collected (for example name, residential address or email address) on our pages on a voluntary basis.  This data will not be disclosed to third parties without your explicit consent.

We draw your attention to the fact that security lapses are involved in data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail). It is not possible to guarantee complete protection of the data from third party access.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. Google Inc. is the official provider of this service 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files which are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of how you use our website. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookies is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

However, in the case the IP anonymisation on this website is activated, your IP address will be previously abridged by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other Contracting States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the US and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage against the website operator. The IP address provided by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You may refuse to use 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 are allowed to prevent data generated by this website (including their IP-Address) cookies from being registered by Google by downloading and installing the following browser-plug in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

 

Information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to access your personal information recorded by us for free, (including the origin of this data and reason for having it recorded), to view the names of any third parties likely to have access to this data, as well as to have the right to correct, block, or delete all this data at all times. Should you have questions concerning personal data that were not answered by this data privacy statement, please feel free to contact us at any time by using the following email address.

 

Server-Log-Files

The operator of the site automatically collects and stores information transferred to the server from the internet browser and/or other software in so called server-log files that your browser automatically transmits to us with the hosting of the site. These are:

  • browser type/ browser version
  • operating system
  • referrer URL
  • hostname of the accessing computer
  • time of server request

This data cannot be used to identify you personally. The data will not be merged with any other sources. We reserve the right to check the authenticity of this information, and immediately and without prior notice deny you further access to the private material if it should appear that you do not or only partly meet the user definition imposed.

 

Cookies

The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. These are text files which are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of how you use our website.

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

You can set your browser to inform you about setting cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

 

Contact form

If you send us inquiries by means of a contact form, your information from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be saved by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for the case of connection questions. We do not transmit these data to third persons and use these data not without your approval.

 

Sending promotional emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the transmission of advertising and information materials which are not expressly requested. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example by spam e-mails.

 

Newsletter data

If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we need you to provide a valid email address plus information allowing us to check that you are the owner of the email address provided or that the owner of the email address is in agreement with the receipt of the newsletter.  Further data is not collected. We only use this data to send the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

You may revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and its use for sending the newsletters at any time, for example, via the "print out" link in the newsletter.