Data protection declaration according to the GDPR
The protection of your personal data is particularly important for us. Thus we process your data exclusively on the basis of legal regulations. In this data protection information we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing concerning our website.
The temporary storage of your IP address by the system is necessary to enable the website to be delivered to your computer. For this the IP address of the user must remain stored for the duration of the session. Our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR also lies in these purposes. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were collected.
Contact with us
If you contact us by using the form on the website or via email, your details from the request form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for processing the request and any follow-up questions for the duration of twelve months. This data is not forwarded without your approval.
Cookies
Our 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 to make our offer user-friendly. Some cookies are stored on your device until they are deleted. They allow us to recognize your browser the next time you are visiting our website. If you do not want this, you can set up your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and you can allow this only in individual cases. Deactivating cookies may limit the functionality of our website.
Web analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (www.google.com). Google Analytics uses methods that allow you to analyze the use of the website, such as so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer. The generated information about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address will be shortened prior to transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address provided by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google.
You can prevent the collection of data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website from Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. For more information about Google Analytics privacy, please refer to Google’s Security and Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Our interest in the meaning of the GDPR (legitimate interest) is to improve our website.
Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts, provided by Google, for the uniform representation of fonts. When you visit a website, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to correctly display text and fonts. For this purpose the browser used by you has to connect with the Google servers. As a result, Google learns that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a consistent and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 f GDPR. In case your browser is not supporting web fonts, a standard font of your computer is used. Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Facebook plug-ins (like & share button)
On our websites plug-ins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated. The Facebook plug-ins are marked with the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our website. An overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US. If you are visiting our websites, the plug-in will establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives in this way the information, that you visited our website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you can link the content of our sites on your Facebook profile. As a result, Facebook can associate the visit of our website with your user account. We point out that we as the provider of the websites are not aware of the content of the data transmitted and their use by Facebook. Further information about this can be found in Facebook’s Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation .
If you do not want that Facebook associates your visit to our websites with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account first.
Twitter plug-in
The functions of Twitter are integrated on our websites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Retweet” function, the websites you visit will be linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. We point out that we as the provider of the websites are not aware of the content of the data transmitted and their use by Twitter. Further information about this can be found in Twitter’s Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy. Your Twitter privacy settings can be changed in the account settings at https://twitter.com/settings/account.
Pinterest plug-in
On our website we use social plug-ins of the social network Pinterest, operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”). When you visit a website that contains such a plug-in, your browser connects directly to the servers of Pinterest. The plug-in then transmits log data to the server of Pinterest in the USA. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the websites visited, which also includes Pinterest features, browser type and settings, the date and time of the request, how you use Pinterest and cookies. For more information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest, as well as your rights in this regard and ways to protect your privacy, see the Pinterest’s Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Your rights
Basically you have the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and opposition. If you think that the processing of your data is violating the data protection law or your data protection claims have been infringed in any other way, you can direct your complaint to the relevant data protection authority.