Our social media appearances
Information on data processing on social media can be found in the Our social media appearances section at the bottom of this page.
Liability for contents
As a service provider, the operator of these pages is responsible for its own content on these pages in accordance with general legislation pursuant to Section 7 (1) of the German Telemedia Act (TMG). However, according to §§ 8 to 10 TMG, the operator as a service provider is not obliged to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information in accordance with general laws remain unaffected by this. However, liability in this regard is only possible from the point in time at which a concrete infringement of the law becomes known. Upon becoming aware of such infringements, the operator will remove such content immediately.
Liability for links
The operator's offer contains links to external websites of third parties, on whose contents the operator has no influence. Therefore, the operator cannot assume any liability for these external contents. The respective provider or operator of the sites is always responsible for the content of the linked sites. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking. Illegal contents were not recognisable at the time of linking. However, permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indications of a legal violation. If any infringements become known, the operator will remove such links immediately.
Copyright
The contents and works on these pages created by the operator are subject to German copyright law. Duplication, processing, distribution and any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright law require the written consent of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of this site are only permitted for private, non-commercial use. Insofar as the content on this site was not created by the operator, the copyrights of third parties are respected. In particular, third-party content is marked as such. Should you nevertheless become aware of a copyright infringement, the operator requests that you notify him accordingly. Upon becoming aware of any infringements, the operator will remove such content immediately.
Data protection
The operator of these pages takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. The operator treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
As a rule, it is possible to use this website without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on these pages, this is always done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.
The operator points out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to the operator. These are: Browser type/ browser version Operating system used Referrer URL Host name of the accessing computer Time of the server request.
This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. The operator reserves the right to check this data retrospectively if the operator becomes aware of concrete indications of illegal use.
Contact form
If you send the operator enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you have provided there, will be stored by the operator for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. The operator will not pass on this data without your consent.
Newsletter data
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, the operator requires an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows him to check that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected. The operator uses this data exclusively for sending the requested information and does not pass it on to third parties.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter.
Privacy policy for the use of Google Analytics
Provided you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. The data controller for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google").
Extent of data processing
Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your usage of our websites. The information collected by means of the cookies about your use of this website is generally transferred to and stored on a Google server in the USA.
We use Google Signals. This allows Google Analytics to collect additional information about users who have activated personalised ads (interests and demographics) and ads can be delivered to these users in cross-device remarketing campaigns.
Google Analytics 4 has IP anonymisation enabled by default. Due to IP anonymisation, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
During your website visit, your user behaviour is recorded in the form of "events". Events can be:
- Page views
- First visit to the website
- Start of session
- Your "click path", interaction with the website
- Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the bottom of the page (90%))
- Clicks on external links
- Internal search queries
- Interaction with videos
- file downloads
- ads seen / clicked on
- language settings
Also recorded:
- Your approximate location (region)
- your IP address (in shortened form)
- technical information about your browser and the end devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
- your internet service provider
- the referrer URL (via which website/advertising medium you came to this website)
Purposes of the processing
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on the website activities. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyse the performance of our website.
Recipients
Recipients of the data are/may be:
- Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as processor according to Art. 28 DSGVO)
- Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
- Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
It cannot be ruled out that US authorities may access the data stored by Google.
Third country transfer
Where data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection equivalent to the European standard, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider to establish an appropriate level of data protection. The parent company of Google Ireland, Google LLC, is based in California, USA. A transfer of data to the USA and access by US authorities to the data stored by Google cannot be ruled out. The USA is currently considered a third country from a data protection perspective. You do not have the same rights there as within the EU/EEA. You may not have any legal remedies against access by authorities.
Storage period
The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 14. Data that has reached its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.
Legal basis
The legal basis for this data processing is your consent in accordance with Art.6 Para.1 S.1 lit.a DSGVO.
Revocation
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by calling up the cookie settings and changing your selection there. The lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation remains unaffected.
You can also prevent the storage of cookies from the beginning by configuring your browser software accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to reject all cookies, this may restrict functionalities on this and other websites. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by
- not giving your consent to the setting of the cookie or
- downloading and installing the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics HERE.
For more information on Google Analytics' terms of use and Google's privacy policy, please visit marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/ and policies.google.com.
Google Tag Manager
We use the service called Google Tag Manager from Google. "Google" is a group of companies and consists of Google Ireland Ltd (provider of the service), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA as well as other affiliates of Google LLC.
We have concluded an order processing agreement with Google. The Google Tag Manager is an auxiliary service and only processes personal data itself for technically necessary purposes. The Google Tag Manager takes care of loading other components, which in turn may collect data. The Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
For more information on the Google Tag Manager, please see Google's privacy policy.
Please note that American authorities, such as intelligence agencies, could potentially gain access to personal data that is inevitably exchanged with Google due to the Internet Protocol (TCP) when this service is integrated, due to American laws such as the Cloud Act.