privacy

We are pleased that you are interested in our website and our company. The protection of your personal data when it is collected, processed and used when you visit our website is important to us. Your data will be collected and processed within the framework of the provisions of the data protection law of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data. You can retrieve this information on our website at any time.

Gathering of General Information

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically recorded. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the content you have requested from websites and is mandatory when using the Internet. Anonymous information of this type is statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred to your hard drive by a website server. As a result, we automatically receive certain data, e.g. B. IP address, browser used, operating system about your computer and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or deliver viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in the cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable our websites to be displayed correctly.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or be linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. You can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how you can change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Registration on our website

When registering to use our personalized services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and e-mail address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided during registration at any time. Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will also be happy to correct or delete them at your request, provided there are no legal storage requirements to the contrary. To contact us in this context, please use the contact details given at the end of this data protection declaration.

Provision of paid services

In order to provide services that are subject to a charge, we will ask for additional data, such as payment details.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

contact form

If you contact us by e-mail or contact form, the information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

Deletion or blocking of the data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided for by the various storage periods provided for by the legislature. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be blocked or deleted as a matter of routine and in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", i.e. text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

We use Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()"; this means that 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 sent 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 activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics.

You can find more information on the terms of use and data protection under https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or under https://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Use of YouTube

We use the YouTube.com platform to post our own videos and make them publicly accessible. YouTube is an offer from a third party not affiliated with us, namely YouTube LLC.

Some Internet pages of our offer contain links or links to the YouTube offer. In general, we are not responsible for the content of websites to which links are provided. If you follow a link on YouTube, however, we would like to point out that YouTube stores the data of its users (e.g. personal information, IP address) in accordance with its own data usage guidelines and uses it for business purposes.

We also embed videos stored on YouTube directly on some of our websites. With this integration, content from the YouTube website is displayed in parts of a browser window. However, the YouTube videos are only accessed by clicking on them separately. This technique is also called "framing". If you call up a (sub)page of our website on which YouTube videos are integrated in this form, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the content is displayed on the website by notifying your browser.

YouTube content is only integrated in “extended data protection mode”. YouTube provides this itself and thus ensures that YouTube will initially not save any cookies on your device. However, when the relevant pages are called up, the IP address and the information described in the “Collection of general information” section are recorded and in particular communicated which of our Internet pages you have visited. However, this information cannot be assigned to you unless you have logged in to YouTube or another Google service before accessing the page, or are logged in permanently.

As soon as you start playing an embedded video by clicking on it, YouTube only saves cookies on your device that do not contain any personally identifiable data thanks to the extended data protection mode, unless you are currently logged in to a Google service. These cookies can be prevented by appropriate browser settings and extensions.

Address and link to the data protection information of the third party:
Google/YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Data protection: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active