Data privacy statement

Data processing on this website is performed by the website operator. Their contact details are provided in the site notice.

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and handle them in accordance with relevant, applicable data protection legislation. Personal data in the context of this information is any information that can be related to your person. Please note that the security of data transmission in the Internet is basically susceptible.

The following information is meant to clarify how we process your personal data. Provided furthermore is an overview of your rights according to data protection laws.

You have the right to receive information on the origin, recipients and purposes of your stored personal data at any time free of charge. You also have the right to request rectification, blocking or deletion of these data. Regarding this and any further questions on data protection, you can consult us at any time at the address provided in the site notice. You are furthermore entitled to a right of complaint to the responsible supervisory authority.

Access data

The website operator/web page provider collects data on website access and saves them in server log files. The following details are thus logged:

• Visited website
• Time of access
• Quantity of data transmitted in bytes
• Any source/reference which directed the user to the page
• Employed browser
• Employed operating system 
• Employed IP address 

The collected data serve only for statistical evaluations and website improvement. 

Cookies  

This website uses cookies. These are small text files stored on your device. Your browser accesses these files. The use of cookies improves this website's usability and security.

Familiar browsers offer settings to disallow cookies. (Note: If you perform these settings, there is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without any restrictions.)

Handling of personal data 

The website operator collects, uses and relays your personal information only if this is legally permissible or if you have consented to data collection. Personal data is considered to be all information used to identify your person and traceable back to you – for example, your name, e-mail address and phone number.

Handling of contact details 

When you contact the website's operator via the provided options, your details are stored so that they can be used for processing and answering your requests. Without your consent, these data are not disclosed to third parties. 

Contact form

When you send us enquiries via the contact form, the details you provide on this form, including the contact information specified by you for the purpose of processing the enquiry and any follow-up questions are stored by us. We do not share these data without your consent. The data entered in the contact form are therefore processed solely on the basis of your consent (Article 6 Paragraph 1 Item a) of GDPR). You may withdraw this consent at any time. For this, it is sufficient to e-mail us an informal message. The legality of data processing operations remains unaffected by withdrawal of consent until the actual time of withdrawal. 

The data you enter in the contact form remain with us until you request us to delete them, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose of data storage no longer applies (e.g. after processing of your enquiries has been completed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular, retention periods – remain unaffected.

Google Analytics 

This website uses Google Analytics, a service offered by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) for analyses of website usage. The service uses cookies - text files which are stored on your device. The information collected by the cookies is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. IP anonymization is implemented on this website. The user's IP address is truncated within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area. This truncation eliminates the personal association of your IP address. As part of the agreement on delegated data processing concluded between the website's operators with Google Inc., the latter utilizes the collected information to evaluate website usage and activity, and provides services related to use of the Internet. 

You can prevent storage of cookies on your device by performing appropriate settings in your browser. If your browser disallows cookies, there is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without any restrictions. 

You can furthermore use a browser plug-in to prevent information (including your IP address) collected by cookies from being sent to Google Inc. and used by it. The following link leads to the plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Use of social media plug-ins and tools

This website uses the »MyWebsite« service by IONOS. For details on data privacy policy, kindly refer to the following link: https://hosting.1und1.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy/     

Google Web Fonts 

To achieve a homogeneous font appearance, this website uses web fonts which are provided by Google. When you visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its cache in order to correctly display text and typeface. For this purpose, your browser needs to establish a connection to Google's servers. Google is thereby notified that our website was accessed via your IP address. Google web fonts are used in order to achieve a homogeneous and appealing presentation of our online offer. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6, Paragraph 1, Item f) of GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer. More information on Google web fonts is provided at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq  and by Google's data privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Google Maps 

This website uses the Google Maps service via an API. This service is offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To enable use of the functions of Google maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transfer. Use of Google Maps is intended for an appealing presentation of our online offer and easy localization of the places specified at our website. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6, Paragraph 1, Item f) of GDPR. More information on handling user data is provided in the data privacy policy of Google: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

WebAnalytics
The data is determined either by a pixel or by a log file. To protect personal data, WebAnalytics does not use cookies.
The visitor's IP is transmitted when a page request is made, anonymised directly after transmission and processed without personal reference.
IONOS does not store any personal data of website visitors so that no conclusions can be drawn about individual visitors. The following data is collected:

• Referrer (previously visited website)
• Requested website or file
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Type of device used
• Time of access
• IP address in anonymised form (only used to determine the location of the access)

In WebAnalytics, data is collected exclusively for statistical evaluation and technical optimisation of the website. No data is passed on to third parties.

Website Editor 
Purpose of processing: The editing and publishing of the website.
Categories of personal data: Content data, usage data
Legal basis: Performance of contract, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO
Involved subcontractors: Duda Inc, Tel Aviv, Israel, Amazon Web Services, Inc, Seattle WA, USA

Web hosting
The following data is collected from website visitors, which is anonymised directly at the time of collection:

• Referrer (previously visited website)
• Requested website or file
• Browser type and version
• Operating system used
• Type of device used
• Time of access
• IP address in anonymised form (only used to determine the location of the access)

The data is collected out of legitimate interest to ensure the security and stability of the offer and to be able to provide the website visitors with the highest possible quality. The data will be stored for 8 weeks. Your data will not be passed on to third parties. A transfer to third countries does not take place.

Third-party cookies
Cookies do not contain any personal data that identifies you, but the personal data we store may be linked by us to the data contained in the cookies. You can remove cookies via the device settings on your device. Follow the relevant instructions when doing so. Please note that disabling cookies may result in the restriction of certain functions when using our website.

The tool we use is based on technology from Snowplow Analytics . The data we collect about the use of our website includes, for example, how often users visit the website or which areas are accessed. The tool we use does not collect any personal data and is used by our web hosting provider and service provider solely to improve their own offering.

Consent management
Purpose of processing Providing and operating a consent management function for the website.
Website visitors can use this to give consent for processing and the setting of cookies and to receive information about the functions used and the use of the data.
Categories of personal data Inventory data, traffic data, usage data
Legal basis Contract performance, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO
Involved subcontractors Usercentrics GmbH, Munich, Germany

Right of complaint to the responsible supervisory authority

In case of violations of data privacy, the affected person has a right of complaint to the responsible supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority for data privacy is the data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company has its headquarters. A list of data protection commissioners as well as their contact details are available at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html