Data Protection
Data Protection
The following information gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are data that help identify you personally. The owner of this site takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal data protection regulations as well as this data protection declaration.
Please note that there may be security gaps during data transmission on the internet (e.g., when communicating through email). It is not possible to completely protect such data against access by third parties.
Who is Responsible for Data Collection on This Website?
Data processing on this website is done by the website owner. You can find the provider’s contact information in the imprint.
How Is Your Information Used?
Some of the data is collected to provide a seamless website experience. Other data may be used for purposes of user behaviour analysis.
What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Data?
You have the right, at any time, to be provided with information free of charge regarding the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. Further, you are entitled to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. To do so, simply send us a request per email. The lawfulness of data processing up to the point of removal will remain unaffected by such a revocation. For any questions regarding the above or the topic of data protection in general, please contact us at the address listed in the imprint.
Analysis Tools and Tools Owned by Third-Party Providers
When visiting our website, your browsing behaviour may be evaluated for statistical purposes. This is mostly done via cookies and so-called analysis programs. Generally, the analysis of your browsing behaviour is done anonymously; your browsing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You may reject this analysis or avoid it by not using certain tools.
Data Collection on our Website
Cookies
This website may use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help us make our content more user friendly, more effective, and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies that we use on our website are so-called «session cookies». These are deleted automatically after you leave our website. Other cookies will be saved on your computer until you delete them. These cookies help us recognize the browser you are using when you visit our website in the future.
You can configure your browser so that you are informed as soon as cookies are sent, or you can only allow cookies on a case-by-case basis, reject cookies in general, or you can activate a function to automatically delete cookies when you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may cause limited functionality of this website.
Cookies that are needed to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you want to be able to use (e.g., cart functions) are saved in accordance with Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation - German: DSGVO). The website owner has a justified interest in the saving of cookies in order to be able to provide technically error-free and optimized provision of his services. If other cookies (e.g., cookies for the analysis of your browsing behaviour) are saved, these are dealt with separately in this data protection declaration.
Request Forms
When you request information via the request form, your information listed in the form, including your listed contact information, will be stored for the purpose of processing your request and in case of any follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your permission.
The data you entered in the form stays with us until you request its deletion, revoke your permission to save this data, or if there is no longer any purpose for storing your data (e.g., after a completed response to your request). Mandatory legal provisions - particularly retention periods - remain unaffected.
Google Analytics
This website uses functions offered by the web analysis provider Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called «cookies». These are text files that are saved on your computer and which allow for an analysis of your use of this website. Information gathered by cookies regarding your use of this website are generally transmitted to a Google Server in the United States and then stored there.
Google Analytics cookies are saved in accordance with Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the GDPR. The website owner has a justified interest in the analysis of user behaviour to optimize his website content as well as his advertising.
IP Anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This way, prior to the data transmission to the United States, your IP address is shortened by Google within EU Member States or in other Contracting States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. On behalf of the provider of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this website, to create reports on website activities and to render other services related to the use of this website and the internet to the website provider. The IP address transmitted from your browser via Google Analytics is not transmitted along with other data which Google has collected.
Browser Plugin
You can prevent cookies from being saved by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, please note that you if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection and use of data via cookies (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin on the following website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objection to Data Collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the collection of your data during any future visits to this website. Deactivating Google Analytics.
You can find more information about the use of personal data by Google Analytics in Google's data privacy and security declaration:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl.
Google Maps
This site uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
In order to use Google Maps functions, it is necessary for your IP address to be saved. This information is generally transmitted by a Google server to the United States and is saved there. The owner of this website has no influence on this data transmission.
The use of Google Maps provides an appealing presentation of our online offers and easy access to the locations mentioned on our website. This represents a justified interest in accordance with Article 6, Paragraph 1 of the GDPR.
You can find more information about the use of personal data in Google's data privacy and security declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Changes to this Data Protection Declaration
Changes to this data protection declaration may be made at any time. Please review this declaration on a regular basis.
