1. Privacy Policy
Data Protection at a Glance
General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website.
Personal data is any information that can personally identify you. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy below.
Data Collection on Our Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice (Impressum) of this website.
How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us, e.g., by filling out a contact form.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This primarily includes technical data (e.g., browser type, operating system, or time of page access). The collection of this data occurs automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time free of charge.
You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data.
For this and other questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address provided in the legal notice.
Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
Details can be found in this privacy policy under "Right to Restrict Processing."
Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools
When visiting our website, your surfing behavior may be statistically evaluated, mainly using cookies and analytics programs.
This analysis is usually anonymous and cannot be traced back to you.
You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.
You have the option to object to this analysis.
2. General Information and Mandatory Disclosures
Data Protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously.
We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected.
Personal data is any information that can be used to personally identify you.
This privacy policy explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
Please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., communication via e-mail) may have security vulnerabilities.
A complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.
Information about the Responsible Party
The responsible party for data processing on this website can be found in the legal notice (Impressum).
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent.
You can revoke your consent at any time.
An informal e-mail making this request is sufficient.
The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)
If the data processing is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this privacy policy.
If you object, we will no longer process your affected personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection according to Article 21(1) GDPR).
If your personal data are processed for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such advertising purposes; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct advertising.
If you object, your personal data will no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection according to Article 21(2) GDPR).
Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.
The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to have data that we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format.
If you request the direct transfer of data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption.
You can recognize an encrypted connection by the address line of the browser changing from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Information, Blocking, Deletion
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data.
For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.
Objection to Promotional Emails
We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the legal notice obligation to send unsolicited advertising and information materials.
The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam emails.
3. Data Collection on Our Website
Cookies
Some of our web pages use so-called cookies.
Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses.
Cookies serve to make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies."
They are automatically deleted after your visit ends.
Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them.
These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, to accept cookies for specific cases or to generally exclude them, as well as to automatically delete cookies when closing the browser.
Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you request (e.g., shopping cart functionality) are stored on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services.
If other cookies (e.g., cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are stored, they are treated separately in this privacy policy.
Server Log Files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources.
The basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Contact Form
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your information from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in case of follow-up questions.
We do not share this data without your consent.
The processing of the data entered into the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR).
You may revoke this consent at any time.
An informal email making this request is sufficient.
The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after completing your request).
Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
4. Social Media
Twitter Plugin
Our pages integrate functions of the Twitter service.
These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users.
In the process, data will also be transmitted to Twitter.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter.
For more information, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.
5. Analytics Tools and Advertising
Google Analytics
This website uses features of the Google Analytics web analytics service.
The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies."
These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
IP Anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website.
This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
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 and internet usage to the website operator.
The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
Browser Plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software.
However, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Objection to Data Collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking the following link:
Deactivate Google Analytics
An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website.
For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google's privacy policy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
Data Processing Agreement
We have entered into a data processing agreement with Google and fully comply with the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
6. Newsletter
Newsletter Data
If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the provided email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter.
No additional data will be collected or only on a voluntary basis.
We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
The processing of the data entered into the newsletter subscription form is based exclusively on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR).
You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example, via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter.
The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you unsubscribe.
Data stored for other purposes (e.g., email addresses for the member area) remains unaffected.
7. Plugins and Tools
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, a site operated by Google.
The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established.
The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube enables you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile.
You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The use of YouTube is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings.
This constitutes a legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this site uses web fonts provided by Google.
When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, your browser must establish a direct connection to Google's servers.
Google thereby gains knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address.
The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offerings.
This constitutes a legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.
Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at:
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
and in Google's privacy policy:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps API.
The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use Google Maps features, it is necessary to store your IP address.
This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The provider of this site has no influence over this data transmission.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings and easy location of the places indicated on our website.
This constitutes a legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
More information about the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
Final Legal Notes
EU Online Dispute Resolution Platform
The EU platform for online dispute resolution can be found at:
https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/
We are neither willing nor obligated to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
Liability for Content
The website operator assumes no liability for information transmitted or stored by third parties.
There is no obligation to monitor this information.
Liability in this regard is only possible from the point in time at which a specific infringement becomes known.
Upon becoming aware of corresponding infringements, we will remove this content immediately.
Liability for Links
Our site contains links to external websites over whose content we have no control.
The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking.
Permanent monitoring of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of a violation.
If we become aware of any legal violations, we will remove such links immediately.
Copyright
The copyright for content published by the site operator lies with the site operator, unless otherwise stated.
Reproduction, editing, distribution, and any kind of use outside the limits of copyright law require the written consent of the respective author or creator.
Should any third-party content not be properly indicated, please inform us accordingly.
We will remove such content immediately.