Privacy Policy

The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide you with information concerning the processing of personal data when using our website and related services within the meaning of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO).

Web analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at google.com/analytics/terms. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

Social plug-ins

This website uses AddThis provided by Oracle America, Inc. to give you the opportunity to share content in social media or via e-mail. AddThis collects information from visitors to this website. This information does not directly identify an individual and is instead designed to identify the devices used by our visitors. However, in certain circumstances, the visitor may opt to share their email address with AddThis to facilitate the services. These email addresses are not used for online behavioral advertising. AddThis collects the following information from the device used by the end user to interact with publisher sites or social media: Internet Protocol (IP) address, Mobile Advertising ID (MAID) (which allows mobile app developers to identify who is using their mobile apps), mobile application ID, browser type, browser language, type of operating system, and the date and time the End User visited a Publisher Site or Toolbar User used the Toolbar; Behavior on a Publisher Site, such as how long the End User visited the Publisher Site, End User sharing behavior of content on a Publisher Site, and scrolling behavior of an End User on a Publisher Site; The referring URL and the web search the End User used to locate and navigate to a Publisher Site; Keywords entered into the AddThis Toolbar search functionality, and whether and when the Toolbar User downloads, installs, or uninstalls the AddThis Toolbar; Information regarding how often an End User uses the AddThis Tools and how often a Toolbar User uses the AddThis Toolbar; and Geo-location data derived from an End User’s and Toolbar User’s IP address. Learn more about the AddThis privacy policy on addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy. AddThis collects non-personally identifiable information from many of the websites in which AddThis is enabled, and use that information to deliver targeted advertising and personalized content on those websites as well as other websites you may visit. If you prefer that we do not collect non-personally identifiable information about your website visits for the purpose of delivering targeted advertising, you may opt out on addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. AddThis helps make it easy to share content online. One of the most popular services, Email, can be used to share any page with friends and other people you may know. If, however, you would prefer to not receive any emails from people sharing with AddThis, you can opt out by providing your email address on addthis.com/privacy/email-opt-out.
By clicking on the respective Share button or Follow button you agree that your browser will produce a link to the respective social network's servers and transmit usage data to the respective operator of the social network and vice versa. We have no influence upon the nature and extent of the data that is then gathered by the social networks. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the linked social networks as well as your rights in this regard and settings options for the protection of your privacy can be found in the privacy policy of the linked newtworks.

YouTube videos

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Contacting us

When contacting or communicating with us, e.g. by email or phone, the data you provide (your email address, if applicable your name and your telephone number, or personal data submitted during the conversation) will be stored and processed by us in order to answer your questions, requests or for the purpose of business related correspondence. We delete the data arising in this context once storage is no longer necessary, unless statutory retention obligations exist or periods of limitation must be observed.

Your rights

As data subject affected by the data processing activity, you have the following rights with regard to your personal data according to the GDPR (DSGVO): Right of access; Right to rectification and to erasure; Right to restriction of processing; Right to data portability; and Right to object. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority “Datenschutzbehörde” concerning the processing of your personal data.