Privacy Policy

Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the Privacy Policy set out below.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the Imprint of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This primarily includes technical data such as your internet browser, operating system or the time at which the page was accessed. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time and free of charge to obtain information about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data.

You may contact us at any time at the address provided in the Imprint if you have further questions regarding data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.

When you use this website, various types of personal data are collected. Personal data is data that can be used to personally identify you. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, what we use it for, and how and for what purpose this is done.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet, for example when communicating by email, may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information About the Responsible Entity

The entity responsible for data processing on this website is:

The responsible entity is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data such as names, email addresses or similar information.

Your Rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete and restrict the processing of your personal data.

Where the legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent or a contract concluded with you, you also have the right to data portability.

You have the right to withdraw any consent you may have given to the processing of your personal data. The lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected.

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you object, your personal data will no longer be processed for direct marketing purposes.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority:

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption.

You can recognise an encrypted connection by the change in the browser address line from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol displayed in your browser.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Access, Blocking and Deletion

Within the framework of applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time and free of charge to obtain information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing. Where applicable, you also have the right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data.

You may contact us at any time at the address provided in the Imprint if you have further questions regarding personal data.

Objection to Promotional Emails

We hereby object to the use of contact details published as part of our legal notice obligations for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and informational material.

The website operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited promotional information being sent, for example through spam emails.

Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

Our website uses cookies in some areas. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses.

Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser when you next visit our website.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set, allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general, and automatically delete cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies required for electronic communication or for providing certain functions requested by you are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services.

Where other cookies, for example cookies used to analyse your browsing behaviour, are stored, these are addressed separately in this Privacy Policy.

Server Log Files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in server log files that your browser automatically transmits to us. This includes:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Hostname of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address

This data is not combined with data from other sources.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of data entered into the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw this consent at any time. An informal email to us is sufficient for this purpose.

The lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data entered by you in the contact form remains with us until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies, for example after your enquiry has been fully processed.

Mandatory statutory provisions, particularly retention periods, remain unaffected.

Analytics Tools and Advertising

Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA (“reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

reCAPTCHA is used to determine whether data entered on our websites, for example in a contact form, is entered by a human or by an automated program.

For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of website visitors based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website.

reCAPTCHA evaluates various types of information, such as the IP address, the time spent on the website and mouse movements made by the user. Data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not specifically notified that an analysis is taking place.

Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website from abusive automated access and spam.

Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google's Privacy Policy can be found on Google's relevant privacy and reCAPTCHA information pages.

Plugins and Tools

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, a service operated by Google. The operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages containing a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behaviour directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used in the interest of presenting our online content in an appealing manner. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Google Web Fonts

This website uses web fonts provided by Google to ensure the consistent display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display text and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This allows Google to become aware that our website has been accessed via your IP address.

Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of providing a consistent and appealing presentation of our online content. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps mapping service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In order to use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States.

The provider of this website has no influence over this data transmission.

Google Maps is used in the interest of presenting our online content in an appealing manner and making it easier to find the locations specified on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.