Privacy policy

USE OF FACEBOOK PLUGINS

This website uses plugins from the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc. 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").

When you access web pages on our website that contain such a plugin, a connection to the Facebook servers is established and the plugin is displayed on the website by notifying your browser. This tells the Facebook server which of our webpages you have visited. If you are logged in to Facebook as a member, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plugin functions (e.g. clicking the "Like" button, posting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plugin.

You can find more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy.

In principle, no personal data is collected and/or stored through the use of our website. If name, e-mail address or other personal data are required, collected and stored for special offers, this will be indicated at the appropriate place. If personal data is provided, the author and operator of this website will endeavor to comply with data protection regulations. The collection, storage and use of personal user data (e.g. name, e-mail address) is carried out exclusively in accordance with the strict regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). In particular, the data is treated confidentially. Some of the data collected is used within the group of companies and by cooperation partners for market research, marketing and advertising purposes. If this is the case, this will be indicated in the terms of use of the corresponding offers. If the author and operator of this website is requested not to use this data for further contact and/or to delete it, this will be done accordingly. You are therefore free to withdraw your consent to the use of personal data at any time. On our pages we refer to various cooperation partners who in turn offer Internet sites and services. These generally have their own data protection declarations and/or guidelines. The author and operator of this website accepts no liability for these declarations and guidelines, which are not related to us.

We use so-called cookies on our pages, which enable us to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer and remembered by your browser. The cookies remain on your computer so that our server can recognize your computer on your next visit if you wish. You can set your browser so that it informs you before accepting a cookie or no longer accepts cookies. However, we would like to point out that if you reject function-related cookies, you will only be able to use certain offers under more difficult conditions. Certain functions are only available if you accept the use of function-related cookies.

Information on data processing in connection with Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the controller responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as "Google".

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on the visitor's computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website by the site visitor (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there.

Google Analytics is used exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp()" on this website. This extension ensures anonymization of the IP address by shortening it and excludes the possibility of direct personal references. The extension shortens the IP address of 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by the corresponding browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Google will use the information collected on behalf of the website operator to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of the use of the website and the adaptation of the content. The interests of users are adequately protected by pseudonymization.

Google LLC. is certified in accordance with the Privacy Shield (list entry here) and guarantees an appropriate level of data protection on this basis. The data sent and linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 50 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

The collection by Google Analytics can be prevented by the site visitor adjusting the cookie settings for this website. The collection and storage of the IP address and the data generated by cookies can also be objected to at any time with effect for the future. The corresponding browser plugin can be downloaded and installed at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

The website visitor can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the future collection of data when visiting this website.

Further information on the use of data by Google, setting and objection options, can be found in Google's privacy policy(https://policies.google.com/privacy) and in the settings for the display of advertisements by Google(https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

reCAPTCHA

We use the reCAPTCHA service from Google Inc (Google) to protect your requests via the Internet form. The query serves to differentiate whether the input is made by a human or abusively by automated, machine processing. The query includes sending the IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. For this purpose, your input is transmitted to Google and used there. However, your IP address will 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCaptcha will not be merged with other Google data. The deviating data protection provisions of Google apply to this data. You can find more information about Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de