This is a translation for convenience. The German version of this page is the authoritative one.
We are pleased about your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about how we handle your data.
You can visit our web pages without providing any personal information. Each time a web page is called up, the web server merely stores a server log file automatically, containing for example the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of the request, the volume of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data), and documenting the request.
This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offering. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering, which prevail in a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit.
Hosting services provided by a third party As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider performs the services for hosting and presenting the website for us. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering, which prevail in a balancing of interests. All data collected in the course of using this website, or in the forms provided for that purpose on the website as described below, is processed on its servers. Processing on other servers takes place only within the scope explained here.
This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or of the European Economic Area.
We collect personal data when you provide it to us voluntarily in the course of contacting us (for example by contact form or email). Mandatory fields are identified as such, because in those cases we absolutely require the data in order to process your enquiry, and without it you cannot send the enquiry. Which data is collected is apparent from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide to process the contract and to handle your enquiries. Once the contract has been processed in full, your data is restricted for further processing and deleted after the expiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond that, where this is permitted by law and where we inform you about it in this policy.
We do not pass your data on to third parties, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond that, where this is permitted by law and where we inform you about it in this policy.
Email advertising with newsletter subscription If you subscribe to our newsletter, we use the data required for this, or communicated separately by you, in order to send you our email newsletter regularly on the basis of your consent.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for that purpose in the newsletter. After you unsubscribe we delete your email address, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond that, where this is permitted by law and where we inform you about it in this policy.
The newsletter is sent, as part of processing on our behalf, by a service provider to whom we pass your email address for this purpose.
This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or of the European Economic Area.
Postal advertising and your right to object Beyond this we reserve the right to use your first and last name and your postal address for our own advertising purposes, for example to send you interesting offers and information about our products by post. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in addressing our customers with advertising, which prevail in a balancing of interests.
The advertising mailings are carried out, as part of processing on our behalf, by a service provider to whom we pass your data for this purpose.
You can object to the storage and use of your data for these purposes at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below.
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use what are known as cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offering, which prevail in a balancing of interests. Cookies are small text files that are stored automatically on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, that is after you close your browser (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can find the storage duration in the overview in your browser’s cookie settings. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them, or exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally. Every browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:
If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis For website analysis this site uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (www.google.de). This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offering, which prevail in a balancing of interests. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Through the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, the IP address is truncated before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The anonymised IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other Google data.
Google LLC has its headquarters in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. On the basis of this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
You can prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Use of social plugins from AddThis using the Shariff solution. Social buttons from social networks are used on our website. In order to increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not embedded without restriction as plugins, but merely by means of an HTML link in the page. This form of embedding ensures that when a page of our web presence containing such buttons is called up, no connection is yet established with the servers of the provider of the respective social network.
If you click one of the buttons, a new window of your browser opens and calls up the page of the respective service provider, where you can (if necessary after entering your login details) use the like or share button, for example.
For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers on their pages, as well as a contact option and your related rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the providers’ privacy notices. http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
You have a right to free information about the data stored with us concerning you, and where applicable a right to correction, restriction of processing, data portability or deletion of this data.
If you have questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, about information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, or about revoking consent given or objecting to a particular use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.
In addition you have a right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.
Insofar as we process personal data as explained above in order to protect our legitimate interests which prevail in a balancing of interests, you may object to that processing with effect for the future. If the processing takes place for the purposes of direct marketing, you may exercise this right at any time as described above. Insofar as the processing takes place for other purposes, you have a right to object only where there are grounds arising from your particular situation.
After you exercise your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or where the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
This does not apply where the processing takes place for the purposes of direct marketing. In that case we will no longer process your personal data for that purpose.