Our Privacy Policy
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and we adhere to the rules of the German Data Protection Laws. Our websites may contain links to the websites of contractual partners and other providers. We are not liable for the content of such websites.
The following policy gives you an overview of how we guarantee this protection and what type of data is collected for which purpose.
Data communication and logging for system internal and statistic purposes
When you access our website, your Internet browser transfers data to our web server for technical reasons. This includes the date and time of access, the URL of the referring website, the file called up, the amount of data sent, the browser type and version, operating system and IP address. These data are stored separately from other data you enter in the context of using our service. It is not possible for us to trace these data to a specific person. These data are evaluated for statistical purposes and deleted immediately afterwards.
Inventory data
If a business relation between you and ourselves is established and content is added or changed, we record and use personal data about you, insofar as this is necessary for the relevant purpose.
At the request of the competent authorities we may give information in individual cases relating to these data (inventory data), insofar as this is necessary for purposes of prosecution, for risk prevention, for the fulfilment of the legal task of protecting the constitutional authorities or military intelligence service or for the implementation of intellectual property rights.
Use data
We record and use your personal data insofar as this is necessary in order to ensure or account for the use of our Internet service. This includes specific characteristics of your identification and data at the beginning and end as well as the scope of use of our service.
If pseudonyms are used we may create user profiles for the purposes of advertising, market research and in order to fulfil the design requirements of our Internet service. You have the right to refuse this use of your data. We may not combine the use profiles with data over the user of the pseudonym.
At the request of the competent authorities we may give information in individual cases relating to these data (inventory data), insofar as this is necessary for purposes of prosecution, for risk prevention, for the fulfilment of the legal task of protecting the constitutional authorities or military intelligence service or for the implementation of intellectual property rights.
Your right to ask for information
If you send us an email (or a letter or a fax, if you prefer) we will be happy to inform you about the personal data we have stored about you. If you have read our privacy policy, though, you already know the possible answers.
Cookies
Our websites use so-called cookies in several areas. These serve the purpose of making our website user-friendlier, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text data that are saved by your browser. Your personal data are not found in our cookies in any form. Cookies do not damage your computer and they contain no viruses. The next section, "Statistics" describes the software used for the cookies that feature on our websites.
You can stop accepting cookies any time via your browser. Please do, however, take note that parts of our websites will then probably not be shown optimally and will not function efficiently.
Google Analytics
Our website additionally uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (see the “Cookies” section), which enable the analysis of your usage of the website. The information produced by the cookies about your usage of this website (including your IP address) is transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the website, to compile reports about website activities for the website operators and to provide other services connected to website and Internet usage. Google will also transfer this information to third parties if necessary insofar as this is legally required or if third parties are commissioned by Google to process this data. Google will never connect your IP address to other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies using the corresponding setting of your browser software. We would, however, like to point out that you will then not be able to fully use every function of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of the data gathered by Google about you in the previously described manner and for the previously stated purpose. You can find detailed information about Google Analytics at: http://www.google.com/analytics/de-DE/tos.html.
You can contradict the elevation and use of your IP address by Google Analytics any time with effect for the future. For closer information visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout? hl=de.
We like to point out that this website is using Google analytics, amplified by the code"gat._anonymizeIp()" in order to guarantee the anonymous registration of IP-adresses.
