Introduction
We take your privacy very seriously and will strictly abide by the prevailing Data Protection Acts. You can rest assured that your personal data will only be collected on this website to the extent required for technical processing. We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute the information you submit on our website to third parties.
The following declaration will give you a survey on how we guarantee data protection and what kind of data will be collected and for what purpose.
Statistics
We collect and automatically save your server information transmitted by your browser with your inquiry. This concerns the following data:
– Browser type/browser version
– Operating system used
– Referrer URL (website previously visited)
– Host name of accessing end device (IP-address)
– Date and time of the server request
Please note that we are not able to allocate these data to specific visitors. The collected data will be anonymous and only used to optimise our website in various ways:
– To optimise how information is displayed with different operating systems and browser types/versions
– To improve data transfer also under heavy traffic
Your data is protected by user name and password and thus only accessible by the administrators of our server provider.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on your computer and which allow an analysis of your use of this website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is normally transmitted to and stored by Google on a server in the USA. As IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to analyse your use of the website and to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website usage and internet usage. The IP-address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website you declare your agreement to the processing of data collected about you by Google in the aforementioned way, and using the aforementioned methods and for the purposes specified. You can also prevent the data created by the cookie relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being recorded by Google as well as preventing the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available via the following link: De-activation-Add-on.
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by one of the Facebook logos (white “f” on a blue tile or a thumbs-up sign) or are identified by the extension “Facebook Social Plugin”. The list and the appearance of Facebook Social Plugins can be viewed here: on Facebook.
If you call up one of our websites containing one of these plugins, your browser makes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted from Facebook directly to your browser and is integrated from this into the website. This means that we have no influence over the extent of the data that Facebook collects by means of this plugin and therefore inform you according to the information we have as follows:
Through integration of the plugin, Facebook obtains the information that you have called up the relevant page on our website. If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, by using the Like button or by posting a comment, the information will be transmitted by your browser directly to Facebook and stored there. If you are not a member of Facebook, there is still the possibility that Facebook will find out and store your IP address.
For information on the purpose and extent of data capture and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and settings options to protect your personal privacy, please refer to Facebook’s data protection information: data protection information.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website and to link this with your data stored on Facebook, you should log out of Facebook before visiting our website.
Further information
Data protection is a matter of trust and your trust is important to us. We will therefore be at your disposal if you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data at any time. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions that are not covered by this data protection statement or if you require more in-depth information on a specific issue. To do so, please use the contact form in our imprint, write us an e-mail or call us.
You can, at any time, instruct us to block, correct or delete data we have collected. In this case, please use the contact form in our imprint and state the date and time of your server request as well as the hostname of your computer (IP address).