Data Protec­tion

The opera­tors of this website take the protec­tion of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confi­den­ti­ally and accor­ding to the legal data protec­tion regu­la­tions and this Privacy Policy.

The use of our website is usually possible without provi­ding personal data. Personal data, such as names, addresses or e‑mail addresses, are always provided on a volun­tary basis if possible. Those data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit permis­sion.

However, we would like to point out that data trans­mis­sions via internet (e.g. e‑mail commu­ni­ca­tion) cannot be enti­rely secure and may have secu­rity vulnerabi­li­ties. A complete protec­tion of personal details against unaut­ho­rised access by third parties is not possible.

 

Cookies

This website parti­ally uses so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause damages to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies allow us to make our offer more user-friendly, more effi­cient and more secure. Cookies are small text files, stored by your browser on your computer.

The most cookies that we use are so-called “session cookies”. They will be deleted auto­ma­ti­cally after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain on your terminal device. Those cookies enable us to reco­g­nise your browser on your next visit.

You can adjust your browser that way in order to be informed when cookies are placed, to indi­vi­du­ally allow cookies or to gene­rally exclude cookies in certain cases as well as to acti­vate the auto­matic dele­tion of cookies when closing the browser. The deac­ti­va­tion of cookies may impair the func­tion­a­lity of this website.

 

Server-log-files

The provider of these websites auto­ma­ti­cally coll­ects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-called server log files which your browser auto­ma­ti­cally trans­mits to us, such as

• browser type/version
• used opera­ting system
• referrer URL
• host name of the acces­sing computer
• time of query

Those data cannot be asso­ciated with indi­vi­dual persons. A merging with other data sources does not take place. We reserve the right to retro­s­pec­tively check the data if reasonable evidences concer­ning illegal use become known.

 

Contact form

If you send enqui­ries to us via the contact form, your data entered into the contact form, inclu­ding the stated contact data, are stored for the purpose of dealing with your enquiry and in case of addi­tional enqui­ries. Those data will not be passed on without your permis­sion.

 

News­letter

If you would like to receive the news­letter offered on our website, we require your email address as well as infor­ma­tion which allow us to check that you are the owner of the provided email address and that you agree to the recep­tion of the news­letter. Further data will not be coll­ected. We use those data exclu­si­vely for the sending of the requested infor­ma­tion and do not transmit them to third parties.

The given permis­sion to the storage of the data, the email address as well as the use of such for the purpose of sending the news­letter can be with­drawn at any time via the “Unsubscribe”-link within the news­letter.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google Analy­tics

This website uses Google Analy­tics, a website analysis service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analy­tics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer to analyse your use of the website. The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually sent to and stored at a Google server in the U.S.A.

You find more infor­ma­tion concer­ning the treat­ment of user data by Google Analy­tics in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Browser Plugin

You may prevent the instal­la­tion of cookies by adjus­ting the settings of your browser; however, if you do so, you may be unable to use all features of this website. Further, you may prevent the coll­ec­tion of data gene­rated by cookies (inclu­ding your IP address) and related to the use of this websites as well as the proces­sing of such data by Google by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the plug-in under the follo­wing link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Objec­tion to Data Coll­ec­tion

You may prevent the coll­ec­tion of data by Google Analy­tics by clicking the follo­wing link. Doing so, an Opt-Out-Cookie will be placed which prevents future data coll­ec­tion when visi­ting our website: Disable Google Analy­tics

Proces­sing of Order Data

We have concluded a contract with Google concer­ning the proces­sing of order data and fully comply with the strict provi­sions of German Data Protec­tion Autho­ri­ties when using Google Analy­tics.

IP-anony­mi­sa­tion

We us the func­tion “Acti­vate IP-Anony­mi­sa­tion”. Through this, your IP-address will be shor­tened priory within the member states of the Euro­pean Union or other contrac­tual states of the Treaty on the Euro­pean Economic Area. Only in excep­tional cases your complete IP-address will be trans­mitted to a server in the U.S.A. and shor­tened there. Commis­sioned by the opera­tors of this website, Google will use this infor­ma­tion to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website acti­vi­ties for website opera­tors and to provide other services related to website and internet acti­vi­ties. Google will not merged your IP address with any other data held by Google.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of etra­cker

Our websites uses the analysis service of etra­cker. Provider of these services are the etra­cker GmbH, Erste Brun­nen­straße 1, 20459 Hamburg Germany. User profiles under a pseud­onym can be created using these data. For this cookies can be used. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the buffer store of your internet browser. The cookies enable to reco­g­nise your browser. The data coll­ected by etra­cker will not be used to perso­nally iden­tify users of our website and will not be merged with person-related data about the owner of the pseud­onym without explicit permis­sion of the involved user.

You may object to the coll­ec­tion and use of data at any time with effect to the future. In order to object to the data coll­ec­tion and use, you can obtain an Opt-Out-Cookie, which secures that no visitor data of your browser will be coll­ected from and stored by etra­cker in the future, from etra­cker under the follo­wing link: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb&languageId=2

By this an Opt-Out-Cookie named “cntcookie” will be placed by etra­cker. Please do not delete this cookie as long as you wish to uphold your objec­tion. Further infor­ma­tion you find in the Privacy Policy of etra­cker under https://www.etracker.com/en/data-protection.html

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Piwik

Web analysis services This website uses Piwik, an open-source soft­ware for the statis­tical evalua­tion of visitor access. Piwik uses so-called cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis concer­ning the use of the website. The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the cookies about your use of this online offer will be stored on the servers of the provider in Germany. The IP-address will be made anony­mous imme­dia­tely after the proces­sing and before its storage.

The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the cookie about the use of this website will not be passed on to third parties. You can prevent the instal­la­tion of cookies by adjus­ting the settings of your browser soft­ware accor­dingly. However, we would like to point out that you might not be able to use all func­tions of this website to the full extend in this case.

If you object to the use of your data, you may deac­ti­vate the storage and use here. In this case an Opt-Out-Cookie will be placed the prevent Piwik from storing the usage data. If you delete your cookies, also the Opt-Out-Cookie will be deleted. On the next visit of our websites Opt-Out has to be acti­vated again.

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Privacy Policy for the use of Word­Press Stats

This website uses the Word­Press Tool Stats to statis­ti­cally evaluate visitor access. The tool is provided by Auto­mattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Fran­cisco, CA 94110–4929, USA.

Word­Press Stats uses so-called cookies which are stored on your computer and enable the analysis of the use of the website. The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the cookies about the use of our website is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address will be anony­mised after proces­sing and before storage.

You can adjust your browser to be informed about the place­ment of cookies and to indi­vi­du­ally accept, to indi­vi­du­ally or gene­rally exclude cookies as well as to acti­vate auto­matic dele­tion of cookies when closing the browser. On deac­ti­va­tion of cookies the func­tion­a­lity of the website might be impaired.

You may object to the coll­ec­tion and use of your date in the future by clicking the below link to place an opt-out-cookies in your browser: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/

When you delete the cookies from your computer, you need to place the opt-out-cookies again.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Face­book-Plug-ins (Like-Button)

On our websites plug-ins of the social network Face­book, Face­book Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, Cali­fornia 94025, USA are inte­grated. You reco­g­nise these plugins by the Face­book logo or the Like-Button on our site. For an over­view of Face­book plugins, please see here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

If you visit our websites, a direct connec­tion between your browser and the Face­book server is estab­lished by this plug-in. By that Face­book receives infor­ma­tion that you have visited our websites with your IP-address. If you click the Face­book “Like” button while you are logged on to your Face­book account you may link the contents of our websites to your Face­book account. Thereby Face­book can asso­ciate your visit of our websites to your Face­book account. We would like to point out that we as provi­ders of these websites do not obtain know­ledge about the contents of the trans­mitted data as well as the use of such by Face­book. For further infor­ma­tion, please check the Privacy Policy of Face­book under https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not wish that Face­book asso­ciates your visit of our websites to your Face­book account, please log out of your Face­book account.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Twitter

On our websites func­tions of the service Twitter are inte­grated. These func­tions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter as well as the func­tion “Re-Tweet” websites visited by you are linked to you Twitter account and posted to other users. In doing so, data will be trans­mitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that we as provi­ders of this websites do not obtain know­ledge about the contents of those data. For further infor­ma­tion, please check the Privacy Policy of Twitter: http://twitter.com/privacy.

The privacy settings of your Twitter account can be adjusted under: http://twitter.com/account/settings

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google+

Our Website inte­grates services of Google+. Provider of these services are Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Coll­ec­tion and forwar­ding of Infor­ma­tion: By using the Google+ button you may publish infor­ma­tion world­wide. Via the Google+ button you and other users receive personal-related contents from Google and our part­ners. Google stores the infor­ma­tion that you have voted +1 for contents as well as infor­ma­tion about the website that you were visi­ting as you clicked the +1 button. Your +1 votes may be published or displayed as notices toge­ther with your profile name and your picture at Google services, such as search results, your Google profile or at other places on websites.

Google records infor­ma­tion about your +1 acti­vi­ties in order to improve the Google sevices for you and others. To be able to use the Google+ button you need a globally visible, public Google profile which must contain at least the user name chosen for this profile. This name will be used for all Google services. In some cases this name may be replaced by another name which you used when sharing contents via your Google account. The ID of your Google account can be displayed to users who know your e‑mail address or possess any other infor­ma­tion iden­ti­fying you.

Use of coll­ected infor­ma­tion: Besides the above mentioned desi­gnated purposes, the details provided by you are treated accor­ding to current Google data protec­tion regu­la­tions. Google may publish summa­rised statis­tics about +1 acti­vi­ties of users or pass those statis­tics on to users and contrac­tual part­ners like publishers, adver­ti­sers or linked websites, respec­tively.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Insta­gram

On our websites func­tions of the service Insta­gram are embedded. These func­tions are offered by the Insta­gram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged in to your Insta­gram account, you can link contents of our websites to your Insta­gram profile by clicking the Insta­gram button. By this ‚Insta­gram will asso­ciate the visit of our websites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as provi­ders of these websites, do not obtain know­ledge about the contents of trans­mitted data as well as their use by Insta­gram.

For further infor­ma­tion, please review the Privacy Policy of Insta­gram: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

 

Privacy Policy for the use of LinkedIn

Our website uses func­tions of the network LinkedIn. The provider of Linked in is the LinkedIn Corpo­ra­tion, 2029 Stierlin Court, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. On every access to one of our websites which contain LinkedIn func­tions, a connec­tion to the servers of LinkedIn will be estab­lished. LinkedIn will be informed that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the “recommend”-button of LinkedIn when being logged in to your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn can asso­ciate your visit of our websites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as provi­ders of these websites, do not obtain know­ledge about the contents of trans­mitted data as well as their use by LinkedIn.

For further infor­ma­tion, please review the Privacy Policy of LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Pinte­rest

On our website we use social plugins of the social network Pinte­rest which is operated by Pinte­rest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Fran­cisco, CA 94103–4904, USA (“Pinte­rest”). If you access a website which contains such a plugin, your browser estab­lishes a direct connec­tion to the servers of Pinte­rest. The plugin in trans­mits protocol data to the servers of Pinte­rest in the U.S.A. These protocol data might contain your IP-address, the address of the visited website, which also contain this plugin, type and setting of the browser, date and time of query, your way of using Pinte­rest as well as cookies.

For further infor­ma­tion concer­ning purpose, extend and further proces­sing and use of the data by Pinterst as well as your respec­tive rights and possi­bi­li­ties for the protec­tion of your privacy, please read the Privacy Policy of Pinte­rest: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google Web Fonts

For the homo­ge­nous display of fonts, this website uses so-called web fonts that are provided by Google. On retrie­ving a website your browser down­loads the neces­sary web fonts to your browser cache in order to correctly display texts and fonts. If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer uses a stan­dard font.

For further infor­ma­tion, please see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq as well as Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google Maps

This website uses the map service Google Maps via API. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the func­tions of Google Maps it is required to store your IP address. This infor­ma­tion will usually be trans­ferred to and stored on a server in the USA. The provider of this website has no influence on this data trans­mis­sion.

For further infor­ma­tion, please see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

 

Privacy Policy for the use of XING

Our website uses func­tions of the network XING. Provider of these func­tions are the XING AG, Damm­tor­strasse 29–32, 20354 Hamburg. On every access to one of our websites that contain the func­tions of XING, a connec­tion to the servers of XING will be estab­lished. Accor­ding to our present state know­ledge, the storage of person-related data does not take place, espe­ci­ally no IP-addresses will be stored, neither will the usage beha­viour be evaluated.

For further infor­ma­tion concer­ning data protec­tion and the XING share button, please read the Privacy Policy of XING under https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Tumblr

Our websites use the buttons of the service Tumblr. Provider of Tumblr is the Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. These buttons enable you to share a posting or a website on Tumblr or to follow the origi­nator on Tumblr. If you access our website contai­ning Tumblr buttons, the browser estab­lishes a direct connec­tion to the servers of Tumblr. We have no influence on the extent of date that are coll­ected and trans­mitted by Tumblr through the aid of this plugin. Accor­ding to the latest state of know­ledge, IP addresses as well as the URL of the respec­tive website will be trans­mitted.

Further infor­ma­tion can be found in privacy policy of Tumblr under https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of YouTube

Our website uses plugins of the Google-operated website YouTube. Provider of the website is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our website having a YouTube-plugin embedded, a connec­tion to YouTube servers will be estab­lished. The YouTube server will then be submitted the infor­ma­tion that you have visited our websites.

If you are logged on to your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to asso­ciate your brow­sing beha­viour with your personal profile. You may prevent this by logging out of YouTube.

You find further infor­ma­tion concer­ning the treat­ment of user data in the Privacy Policy of YouTube under: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google Adsense

This website uses Google AdSense, a Google Inc. service to embed commer­cial infor­ma­tion. Provider of these services are Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Adsense uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer to analyse the use of the website. Further, Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invi­sible images). These web beacons help to process infor­ma­tion, such as visitor traffic on this website.

The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by cookies and web beacons about your use of this website (inclu­ding your IP address) and dispatch of adver­ti­sing formates is sent to and stored at a Google server in the U.S.A. Google may also transfer this infor­ma­tion to their contrac­tual part­ners. However, Google will not asso­ciate your IP address with any other data stored at Google’s.

You may prevent the instal­la­tion of cookies by adjus­ting the settings of your browser; however, if you do so, you may be unable to use all features of this website. By using this website you agree to the proces­sing of the coll­ected infor­ma­tion by Google, accor­ding to the above mentioned purpose.

 

Privacy Policy for the use of Google Analy­tics Remar­ke­ting

Our websites use retar­ge­ting tech­no­lo­gies by Google. Provider of these tech­no­lo­gies are Google Inc. 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

This enables to address visi­tors of our website with custo­mised, inte­rest-related commer­cial infor­ma­tion. The display of commer­cials takes place accor­ding to the cookie-based analysis of previous usage and brow­sing beha­viour. Accor­ding to our present stat of know­ledge, no person-related data will be stored when visi­ting our website. On access, a cookie will be placed to collect anony­mous data about inte­rests of the user and so to adapt commer­cials to such infor­ma­tion. These cookies are small text files which will be stored onto your computer or terminal device.

You can perma­nently object to the use of cookies for retar­ge­ting by deac­ti­vating custo­mised commer­cials by Google here: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

Further infor­ma­tion and data protec­tion regu­la­tions you find in Google’s Privacy Policy under http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

 

Regis­tra­tion with this websites

You can register with this website to be able to use addi­tional func­tions on this website. The data entered for this purpose will only be used for purpose of use of the respec­tive offer or service for which you have regis­tered.

We also use the provided email address to inform you about important changes, such as change of the offer range or in case of tech­nical changes.

 

Comment func­tion on this website

For the comment func­tion on this website, your comment as well as details provided at the time of commen­ting and, unless you post anony­mous, the chosen user­name will be stored.

 

SSL Encryp­tion

For secu­rity reasons and to protect the trans­mis­sion of confi­den­tial data, such as enqui­ries you sent to us as the provider, this website uses an SSL encryp­tion. You reco­g­nise an encrypted trans­mis­sion by the change of the address line of the browser from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock-symbol in your browser address line.

If the SSL encryp­tion is active, the data you have trans­mitted to us cannot be accessed by third parties.

 

Right to Infor­ma­tion, Dele­tion, Blocking

You have the right to be informed about your person-related data, their origin and addressee and the purpose of data proces­sing as well as the right to correc­tion, blocking or dele­tion of those data at any time and free of charge. For further ques­tions and ques­tions concer­ning person-related data, feel free to contact us under the address published in the impressum/legal notice.

 

Objec­tion to commer­cial mails

Provi­ders are obli­gated to publish contact infor­ma­tion in the Legal Note/Impressum. The use of such contact infor­ma­tion by third parties for the purpose of distri­bu­ting unso­li­cited adver­ti­se­ments or other commer­cial infor­ma­tion is prohi­bited. The opera­tors of this website reserve the right to take legal measures in case of being sent unso­li­cited commer­cial infor­ma­tion, e.g. spam mails etc.