You can use our websites without submit­ting perso­nal data. Every time you access our website, user data is trans­mit­ted by your inter­net brow­ser and stored in proto­col files (server log files). This stored data includes e.g. name of the site called up, date and time of the request, amount of data trans­fer­red and the provi­der making the request. This data serves exclu­si­ve­ly to ensu­re smooth opera­ti­on of our website and to impro­ve our offe­ring. It is not possi­ble to assign this data to a parti­cu­lar person.

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files which are saved in a user’s inter­net brow­ser or by the user’s inter­net brow­ser on their compu­ter system. When a user calls up a website, a cookie may be saved on the user’s opera­ting system. This cookie conta­ins a charac­te­ristic charac­ter string which allows the brow­ser to be clear­ly iden­ti­fied when the website is called up again. We use cookies to make our offe­ring more user-friend­ly, effec­ti­ve and secu­re. Cookies also allow our systems to reco­g­ni­se your brow­ser after a page chan­ge and to offer you services. Some func­tions of our website cannot be offe­red without the use of cookies. These services requi­re the brow­ser to be reco­g­nis­ed again after a page change.

Proces­sing is carri­ed out on the basis of § 15 (3) TMG (Tele­me­dia Act) as well as art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our justi­fied inte­rest in the purpo­ses above.

The data coll­ec­ted in this way is pseud­ony­mi­sed using tech­no­lo­gi­cal measu­res. It is ther­e­fo­re not possi­ble to connect the data to your person. The data will not be stored toge­ther with other perso­nal data pertai­ning to you. You have the right to veto this proces­sing of your perso­nal data accor­ding to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR by cont­ac­ting us, for reasons rela­ting to your perso­nal situa­ti­on. Cookies will be stored on your compu­ter. You ther­e­fo­re have full control over the use of cookies. By choo­sing corre­spon­ding tech­ni­cal settings in your inter­net brow­ser, you can prevent the storage of cookies and trans­mis­si­on of the data they contain. Cookies which have alre­a­dy been saved may be dele­ted at any time. We would, howe­ver, like to point out that this may prevent you from making full use of all the func­tions of this website.

Using the links below, you can find out how to mana­ge cookies (or deac­ti­va­te them, among other things) in major browsers:

Chro­me Brow­ser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en

Inter­net Explo­rer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Mozil­la Fire­fox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Safa­ri: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Our website uses the web analy­sis service Goog­le Analy­tics by Goog­le Inc. (1600 Amphi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA; “Goog­le”). The proces­sing of data serves to analy­se this website and its visi­tors. Goog­le will use this infor­ma­ti­on on behalf of the opera­tor of this website to evalua­te your use of the website, to compi­le reports on website acti­vi­ty and to provi­de other services to the website opera­tor rela­ting to website and inter­net use. The IP address commu­ni­ca­ted by your brow­ser as part of Goog­le Analy­tics is not asso­cia­ted with any other data held by Goog­le. Goog­le Analy­tics uses cookies, which make it possi­ble to analy­se your use of the website. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the cookie regar­ding your use of this website is usual­ly trans­fer­red to a Goog­le server in the USA and stored there. IP anony­mi­sa­ti­on is acti­va­ted on this website. Goog­le uses this to shor­ten your IP address before­hand within Member States of the Euro­pean Union or in other signa­to­ries to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Econo­mic Area. Only in excep­tio­nal cases will the full IP address be trans­fer­red to a Goog­le server in the USA and shor­ten­ed there. Your data may be trans­mit­ted to the USA. Trans­mis­si­on of data to the USA is cover­ed by an adequacy decis­i­on by the Euro­pean Commis­si­on. Proces­sing is carri­ed out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our justi­fied inte­rest in needs-based and targe­ted design of the website. You have the right to veto this proces­sing of your perso­nal data accor­ding to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR by cont­ac­ting us, for reasons rela­ting to your perso­nal situa­ti­on. You can prevent the storage of cookies  by choo­sing corre­spon­ding tech­ni­cal settings in your inter­net brow­ser; we would, howe­ver, like to point out that this may prevent you from making full use of all the func­tions of this website. You can also prevent coll­ec­tion of the data (inclu­ding your IP address) gene­ra­ted by the cookies and rela­ted to your use of the website by Goog­le as well as the proces­sing of this data by Goog­le by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plug-in available at the follo­wing link [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en]. You can set an opt-out cookie to prevent coll­ec­tion by Goog­le Analy­tics across devices. Opt-out cookies prevent the future coll­ec­tion of your data when you visit this website. You need to opt-out on all systems and devices in use for this to work compre­hen­si­ve­ly. If you click here, the opt-out cookie is set: Disable Goog­le Analy­tics.

You can find more detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on on the terms and condi­ti­ons of use and data protec­tion at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/ and at https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

After contrac­tu­al proces­sing has been comple­ted, the data is initi­al­ly stored for the dura­ti­on of the warran­ty peri­od, then in accordance with the reten­ti­on peri­ods prescri­bed by law, espe­ci­al­ly tax and commer­cial law, and then dele­ted after the peri­od has elap­sed, unless you have agreed to further proces­sing and use.

If the legal requi­re­ments are fulfil­led, you have the follo­wing rights accor­ding to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to infor­ma­ti­on, correc­tion, dele­ti­on, rest­ric­tion of proces­sing, data porta­bi­li­ty. You also have a right of objec­tion against proces­sing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to proces­sing for the purpo­ses of direct marke­ting, accor­ding to art. 21 (1) GDPR.

Cont­act us at any time. Our cont­act details can be found in our imprint.
 

You have the right to complain to the regu­la­to­ry autho­ri­ty accor­ding to art. 77 GDPR if you belie­ve that your data is not being proces­sed legally.