Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is not required by law or contract, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Non-provision has no consequences. This only applies insofar as no other information is provided in the subsequent processing operations.

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

“Personenbezogene Daten” sind alle Informationen, die sich auf eine identifizierte oder identifizierbare natürliche Person beziehen.

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Server Logfiles

You can visit our websites without giving any personal information.

Whenever you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host / IT service provider by your Internet browser and stored in log files (so-called server log files). These stored data include, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of the access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of our predominant legitimate interest in ensuring the trouble-free operation of our website as well as to improve our offer.

Contact

Collection and processing when using the contact form

When using the contact form, we only collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, message text) to the extent that you have provided it. The data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact. By sending your message you agree to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent.

You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. We only use your e-mail address to process your enquiry. Your data will then be deleted unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

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Your data will be transferred to a third country for which an adequacy finding by the European Commission exists.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the computer system of a user. If a user calls up a website, a cookie can be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.

We use these cookies for the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a change of page.

The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of our predominant legitimate interest in guaranteeing the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our offer.

Cookies are stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your Internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and can decide individually whether to accept them, as well as prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Cookies already stored can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

Under the following links, you can find out how to manage cookies in the most important browsers (including deactivating them):

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

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

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

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

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Analysis / Advertising

The data processing described below in this section, in particular the setting of cookies, is carried out with your consent on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation.

Use of Google Analytics

We use the web analysis service Google Analytics of Google LLC on our website. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).

Insofar as you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the person responsible for your data. Google Ireland Limited is therefore the company affiliated with Google which is responsible for processing your data and for ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws.

The data processing serves the purpose of analysing this website and its visitors. To this end, Google will use the information obtained on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about 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. This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is thus committed to complying with the European data protection guidelines.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de].

To prevent data collection and storage by Google Analytics across devices, you can set an opt-out cookie. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. You must opt-out on all systems and devices in use to be fully effective. If you delete the opt-out cookie, requests will be sent to Google again. If you click here, the opt-out cookie will be set: Disable Google Analytics.

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

Use of Google’s remarketing or “similar target groups function”

​We use the remarketing or “Similar Target Groups” feature of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”) on our website.

If you are ordinarily resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the data controller. Google Ireland Limited is therefore the company affiliated with Google which is responsible for processing your data and for ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws.

The application is designed to analyse visitor behaviour and interests.

Google uses cookies to carry out the analysis of website usage, which forms the basis for the creation of interest-related advertisements. The cookies are used to record visits to the website and anonymous data on the use of the website. There is no storage of personal data of the visitors of the website. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display Network, you will see ads that most likely include previously viewed product and information areas.

Your data may be transferred to the USA. Google has been certified under the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is committed to complying with the European Data Protection Directives.

You can permanently disable Google’s use of cookies by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=de

Alternatively, you can prevent the use of cookies by third parties by going to the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and following the opt-out information provided there.

For more information about Google Remarketing and its privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Rights of data subjects and storage period

Duration of storage

After the contract has been completely processed, the data will initially be stored for the duration of the warranty period, thereafter taking into account legal, in particular tax and commercial retention periods, and then deleted after the period has expired, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

​Rights of the dada subject

If the legal requirements are met, you are entitled to the following rights in accordance with Art. 15 to 20 DSGVO: right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to data transferability.

In addition, according to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO as well as to processing for the purpose of direct advertising.

Please contact us on request. You will find the contact details in our imprint.

Right of objection

If the personal data processing listed here is based on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Paragraph 1 letter f of the DSGVO, you have the right to object to this processing at any time with effect for the future for reasons arising from your particular situation.

After the objection has been made, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct advertising, you can object to this processing at any time by notifying us. Once you have done so, we will stop processing the data concerned for the purpose of direct marketing.