Preamble
Welcome to our website! We place great importance upon the protection of your data and the protection of your privacy. Following, we want to describe which data we process when, for what purpose, and on which legal basis. With this, we want to explain to you how our services work and how the protection of your personal data is guaranteed.
In the individual sections, we will also point out the right of objection to you separately (e.g. by using the note: “You have the right of objection”) if this right exists. There, you will also find further information on how to exercise your right of objection.
In order to keep the following privacy policy clear, we refer to information and data privacy statements on external websites in various places by using links (cf. section “Social Networks & External Links” in this privacy policy). We strive to keep the links listed in this privacy policy up to date. Nevertheless, due to the constant updating of the linked websites, it cannot be excluded that some links do not work properly. If you notice such a link, we would be pleased if you could inform us so that we can insert the current link.
Log-Files
Every time you visit our website, we automatically collect data and information from your device’s system and save them in so-called server-log-files. This data contains information that relate to the identified or identifiable person (here: website visitor). The data is transferred automatically by your respective browser when you visit our website. This includes the following information:
The purpose of this processing is the accessibility of our website from your device, and the enabling of a correct display of our website on our device or in your browser. Furthermore, our data is used to optimize our website and ensure the security of our systems. An evaluation of this data for the purpose of marketing does not take place.
The data is stored on our side for 7 days.
The recipient of the data is our server host, who works for us in the scope of a data processing agreement. The servers are located in Europe exclusively.
Right of objection
You have the right to object.
You can inform us about or send your objection at any time
The provision of personal data is neither required by law nor by contract, and it is not necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are also not obliged to provide personal data. However, the lack of provision may result in you not being able to use our website entirely or to its full extent.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored on your device, e.g., to make the use of a website more convenient or to recognize the device of a user and to save settings or similar. In cookies, entries and settings on a website can be saved so that you do not have to enter them each time you visit a website. Cookies contain a so-called cookie ID, which makes an identification of the device the cookie is saved on possible. In detail, we use the following cookies:
The purpose of this processing is to make the use of our website convenient for you and to offer you the opportunity to save your settings.
Right of objection
You have the right to object.
In your browser settings you can restrict or completely prevent the use of cookies. You can also prompt the automatic deletion of cookies when a browser window is closed.
You can find out how to delete and change the cookie settings of the most common browsers here:
Google Chrome: Website
Mozilla Firefox: Website
Apple Safari: Website
Microsoft Internet Explorer: Website
The provision of personal data is neither required by law nor by contract, and it is not necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are also not obliged to provide personal data. However, the lack of provision may result in you not being able to use our website entirely or to its full extent.
Other services used by us also use cookies. We point out the use of cookies with regard to individual services separately.
Information about Google services
On our website we use various services of Google LLC ("Google"), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
More detailed information about the specific Google services we use on our website can be found following in this privacy policy.
By integrating Google services, Google may collect and process information (including personal data) about you. It cannot be excluded that Google may also transfer the information to a server in a third country.
As stated in Google’s Privacy Shield certification (you can find it under https://www.privacyshield.gov/list by searching for “Google”), Google committed to comply to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework for the collection, usage, and storage of personal data from EU or Swiss member states. Google, including Google LLC and its wholly-owned subsidiaries in the USA, has stated via certification to comply to the Privacy Shield principles. Further information can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?gl=en.
We ourselves cannot influence which data is collected and processed by Google. However, Google states that, among others, the following information (including personal data) might be processed:
Information about the types of cookies Google uses can be found at Information about the types of cookies Google uses can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types..
If you are signed in using your Google account, Google may add the processed information to your account and treat it like personal data, depending on your account settings. To do so, Google does, among others, the following:
A direct addition of this data can be prevented by logging out of your Google account or by adjusting the appropriate account settings in your Google account. Furthermore, you can prevent the installation of cookies – if Google sets them – by using the appropriate settings in your browser; however we would like to point out that, in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
You can find out how to delete the cookies in the most common browsers here:
Google Chrome: Website
Mozilla Firefox: Website
Apple Safari: Website
Microsoft Internet Explorer: Website
Further information can be found in Google’s privacy policy, which can be found here:
Information about Google’s privacy settings can be found at https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html.
Usage of Google Analytics
On our website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. („Google“), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files that are saved on your device and that enabled the website to conduct an analysis of the websites you visited. Google Analytics may also use so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). Via these web beacons, information such as the visitor traffic on a website can be evaluated. The information about the usage of our website (including the IP address of the users) generated by cookies and web beacons are transmitted to and stored by a Google server that might be located in the USA or other third countries. This information might be shared by Google with Google’s contract partners.
Information on Google’s existing Privacy Shield certification and other relevant data relating to Google’s processing of data in the scope of using Google services can be found in this data processing declaration in paragraph “6) Information about Google services”.
The following types of data is processed by Google:
In addition, you can find more detailed information about the processed information at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect under “Information Google collects”, as well as at https://privacy.google.com/businesses/adsservices/.
We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled (“anonymize IP”). This results in the shortening of your IP address by Google within member states of the European Union or other states that are part of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the USA and shortened there.
Google processes the data on our behalf in order to evaluate your usage of the website, to compile reports about the website activity for us, and to provide us with further services relating to website and internet usage. Google might transfer this information to third parties when required by law or if third parties process this data on Google’s behalf.
By integrating Google Analytics, we pursue the purpose of analyzing the user behavior on our website and being able to react to it. This enables us to continuously improve our offer.
Our legitimate interest for this is the great benefit for our offer that is provided by the functions described above. The statistical evaluation of the user behavior enables us to react and optimize our offers according to the interests of our customers in particular.
Within the scope of order processing, Google is entitled to commission subcontractors. You can find a list of these subcontractors under https://privacy.google.com/businesses/subprocessors/.
Right of objection
You have the right to object. To do so, you can prevent the processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
You can also prevent the acquisition by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set, which prevents the future acquisition of your data when visiting this website: Deactivate Google Analytics
Furthermore, you can change your cookie preferences (e.g. deleting cookies, blocking cookies, etc.). More information about this can be found under “5) Cookies”.
The processed information is stored for 26 months and will be deleted automatically at the end of this period.
The provision of personal data is neither required by law nor by contract, and it is not necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are also not obliged to provide personal data. However, the lack of provision may result in you not being able to use our website entirely or to its full extent.
Usage of Google reCAPTCHA
This website uses Google reCAPTCHA (hereinafter reCAPTCHA), a captcha service of Google Inc. („Google“), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google reCAPTCHA serves to ensure that entries made on our website are actually made by real persons and not automated, e.g., via software (so-called robots).
For this purpose, reCAPTCHA (No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA) displays a clickable checkbox “I’m not a robot” to you. To do so, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of a user as soon as they visit the website based on different characteristics. If necessary, you will also be shown various images after clicking on the checkbox, which you have to assign to a given image subject by clicking on the relevant images.
The integration of reCAPTCHA takes place via an interface (“API”) to the Google services. By integrating reCAPTCHA, Google may collect and process information (including personal data). It can not be ruled out that Google also transfers the information to a server in a third country.
reCAPTCHA uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files that are saved on your device and that enabled the website to conduct an analysis of the websites you visited. Furthermore, reCAPTCHA also uses so-called web beacons, small pixels or graphics. The information generated by cookies, possibly in conjunction with the web beacons, about the usage of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by a Google server that might be located in the USA or other third countries.
Information on Google’s existing Privacy Shield certification and other relevant data relating to Google’s processing of data in the scope of using Google services can be found in this privacy policy under paragraph “6) Information about Google services”.
More information about how reCAPTCHA works can be found at: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/
Via the integration of reCAPTCHA, we pursue the purpose of determining whether inputs on our website are made by a real person or a bot.
Our legitimate interest for this is the great benefit for our offer that is provided by the functions described above. The automated check of whether a real person or a bot is making an entry accelerates and facilitates our workload and improves the level of reliability of the entries made. Furthermore, it prevents misuse. In addition, Google has a legitimate interest in the collected (personal) data in order to improve its own services.
Right of objection
You have the right to object.
Furthermore, you can change your cookie preferences (e.g. deleting cookies, blocking cookies, etc.). More information about this can be found under “5) Cookies”.
The processed information will only be stored as long as it is necessary for the purpose it was processed for.
The provision of personal data is neither required by law nor by contract, and it is not necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are also not obliged to provide personal data. However, the lack of provision may result in you not being able to use our website entirely or to its full extent.
Data security
We secure our website and other systems through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, alteration or distribution of your data by unauthorized persons. Despite regular checks, however, complete protection against all dangers is not possible.
Changes of the privacy policy
Changes in law or in our internal processes may make it necessary to adapt this privacy policy.
In case of such changes, we will notify you about this above the heading “Privacy Policy”.