Privacy Policy
Data Protection
The operators of this website take the protection
of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to the legal
data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.
The use of our website is generally possible
without providing personal data. Personal data, such as names, addresses or email addresses, are always
provided on a voluntary basis when possible. Those data will not be passed on to third parties without your
explicit permission.
However, we would like to point out that data transmissions via internet (e.g
email communication) cannot be entirely secure and may have security vulnerabilities. A complete
protection of personal details against unauthorised access by third parties is not possible.
Cookies
This website partially uses so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause
damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies allow us to make our product more userfriendly,
more efficient and more secure. Cookies are small text files, stored by your browser on your
computer.
Most cookies that we use are so-called „session cookies“. They will be
deleted automatically after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain on your terminal device until you
delete them. Those cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.
You can
adjust your browser to inform you when cookies are placed, to individually allow cookies, or to generally
exclude cookies in certain cases, as well as to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the
browser. The deactivation of cookies may impair the functionality of this website.
Server-log-files
The provider of these websites automatically collects and stores information in
so-called server log files which your browser automatically transmits to us, such as:
- browser
type/version - used operating system
- referrer URL
- host name of the accessing
computer - time of query
Those data cannot be associated with individual persons.
We do not merge this data with other sources. We reserve the right to retrospectively check the data if
there is any indication of illegal use.
Contact form
If you send enquiries
to us via the contact form, your data entered into the contact form, including the stated contact
information, are stored for the purpose of dealing with your enquiry and in case of additional enquiries.
Those data will not be passed on without your permission.
Facebook-Plug-ins
(Like-Button)
Our websites integrate plug-ins from the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc.,
1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognise these plugins by the Facebook
logo or the Like-Button on our site. For an overview of Facebook plugins, please see:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
If you visit our websites, a direct connection
between your browser and the Facebook server is established by this plug-in. In this way, Facebook
receives information that you have visited our websites with your IP-address. If you click the Facebook
“Like” button while you are logged on to your Facebook account, you may link the contents of our websites
to your Facebook account. Thereby Facebook can associate your visit to our websites with your Facebook
account. We would like to point out that we as providers of these websites do not obtain knowledge about
the content of the transmitted data as well as the use of such by Facebook. For further information, please
check the Privacy Policy of Facebook under https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not wish Facebook to
associate your visit of our websites to your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook
account.
Functions of the service Twitter are integrated on our
websites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA
94103, USA. By using Twitter as well as the function „Re-Tweet“, websites you visit are linked
to your Twitter account and posted to other users. In doing so, data will be transmitted to Twitter. We
would like to point out that we as providers of this websites do not obtain knowledge about the content of
those data. For further information, please check the Twitter Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy.
The privacy
settings of your Twitter account can be adjusted under:: https://twitter.com/account/settings
Google Web Fonts
For the homogenous display of fonts, this website uses so-called web fonts that are provided by
Google. On retrieving a website your browser downloads the necessary web fonts to your browser cache
in order to correctly display texts and fonts. If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer
uses a standard font.
For further information, please see
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq as well as Google’s Privacy Policy:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Google Maps
This
website uses the map service Google Maps via API. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600
Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the functions of Google Maps storage of
your IP address is required. This information will usually be transferred to, and stored on, a server in the
USA. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transmission.
For further
information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Comment
function on this website
For the comment function on this website, your comment as well as
details provided at the time of commenting, your email address and, unless you post anonymously, the
chosen username will be stored.
Storage of the IP address
Our
comment function stores IP addresses of users who post comments. Since we do not check the
comments before publishing on our website, we require access to these data should the need arise for
legal action against the originator in the case of violation of law, i.e. insults or propaganda.
Subscription to comments
As user of this website you may subscribe to
comments after user registration. You receive a confirmation email to check whether you are the owner of
the provided email address. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time via the link in the info
emails.
SSL Encryption
For security reasons, and to protect the
transmission of confidential data, such as enquiries you send to us as the provider, this website uses an
SSL encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the change in the address line of the
browser from „http://“ to „https://“ and by the lock-symbol in your browser address
line.
When the SSL encryption is activated, the data you have transmitted to us cannot be
accessed by third parties.