Privacy Policy

Data Pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very serious­ly. We tre­at your per­so­nal data con­fi­den­ti­al and accord­ing to the legal data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this Pri­va­cy Poli­cy.
The use of our web­site is usual­ly pos­si­ble wit­hout pro­vi­ding per­so­nal data. Per­so­nal data, such as names, addres­ses or e-mail addres­ses, are always pro­vi­ded on a vol­un­ta­ry basis if 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. e-mail 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 damages to your com­pu­ter and do not con­tain viru­ses. Coo­kies allow us to make our offer more user-fri­end­ly, more effi­ci­ent and more secu­re. Coo­kies are small text files, stored by your brow­ser on your com­pu­ter.
The 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. Tho­se coo­kies enab­le us to reco­gnise your brow­ser on your next visit.

You can adjust your brow­ser that way in order to be infor­med 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.

Sever-log-files

The pro­vi­der of the­se web­sites auto­ma­ti­cal­ly collec­ts and stores infor­ma­ti­on in log files which your brow­ser auto­ma­ti­cal­ly trans­mits to us, such as
– brow­ser type/version
– ope­ra­ting sys­tem used
– refer­rer URL
– host name of the acces­sing com­pu­ter
– time of que­ry

Tho­se data can­not be asso­cia­ted with indi­vi­du­al per­sons. A mer­ging with other data sources does not take place. We reser­ve the right to retro­s­pec­tively check the data if rea­son­ab­le evi­den­ces con­cer­ning ille­gal use beco­me known.

Con­tact form

If you send enqui­ries to us via the con­tact form, your data ent­e­red into the con­tact form, inclu­ding the sta­ted con­tact data, 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.

News­let­ter

If you would like to recei­ve the news­let­ter offe­red on our web­site, we requi­re your email address as well as infor­ma­ti­on which allow us to check that you are the owner of the pro­vi­ded email address and that you agree to the recep­ti­on of the news­let­ter. Fur­ther data will not be collec­ted. We use tho­se data exclu­si­ve­ly for the sen­ding of the requested infor­ma­ti­on and do not trans­mit them to third par­ties.
The given per­mis­si­on to the sto­rage of the data, the email address as well as the use of such for the pur­po­se of sen­ding the news­let­ter can be with­drawn at any time via the “Unsubscribe”-link wit­hin the news­let­ter.

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics

This web­site uses Goog­le Ana­ly­tics, a web­site ana­ly­sis ser­vice by Goog­le Inc. (“Goog­le”). Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses so-called“cookies”, text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter to ana­ly­se your use of the web­site. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the coo­kie about your use of this web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) is sent to and stored at a Goog­le ser­ver in the U.S.A.

If the IP-anony­mi­sa­ti­on is activa­ted on this web­site, your IP-address will be shor­ten­ed prio­ry wit­hin the mem­ber sta­tes of the European Uni­on or other con­trac­tu­al sta­tes of the Trea­ty on the European Eco­no­mic Area. Only in excep­tio­nal cases your com­ple­te IP-address will be trans­mit­ted to a ser­ver in the U.S.A. and shor­ten­ed the­re. Com­mis­sio­ned by the ope­ra­tors of this web­site, Goog­le will use this infor­ma­ti­on to eva­lua­te your use of the web­site, to com­pi­le reports on web­site activi­ties for web­site ope­ra­tors and to pro­vi­de other ser­vices rela­ted to web­site and inter­net activi­ties. Goog­le will not asso­cia­te your IP address with any other data held by Goog­le.

You may pre­vent the instal­la­ti­on of coo­kies by adjus­ting the set­tings of your brow­ser; howe­ver, if you do so, you may be unab­le to use all fea­tures of this web­site. Fur­ther, you may pre­vent the collec­tion of data gene­ra­ted by coo­kies and rela­ted to the use of this web­sites by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the plug-in under the fol­lo­wing link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of etra­cker

Our web­site uses the ana­ly­sis ser­vice of etra­cker. Pro­vi­der of the­se ser­vices is etra­cker GmbH, Ers­te Brun­nen­stra­ße 1 20459 Ham­burg Ger­ma­ny. User pro­files under a pseud­onym can be crea­ted using the­se data. For this coo­kies can be used. Coo­kies are small text files that are stored local­ly in the buf­fer store of your inter­net brow­ser. The coo­kies enab­le to reco­gnise your brow­ser. The data collec­ted by etra­cker will not be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy users of our web­site and will not be mer­ged with per­son-rela­ted data about the owner of the pseud­onym wit­hout expli­cit per­mis­si­on of the invol­ved user.

You may object to the collec­tion and use of data at any time with effect to the future. In order to object to the data collec­tion and use, you can obtain an Opt-Out-Coo­kie, which secu­res that no visi­tor data of your brow­ser will be collec­ted from and stored by etra­cker in the future, from etra­cker under the fol­lo­wing link: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb

By this an Opt-Out-Coo­kie named “cntcookie”will be pla­ced by etra­cker. Plea­se do not dele­te this coo­kie as long as you wish to uphold your objec­tion. Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on about the Pri­va­cy Poli­cy of etra­cker is avail­ab­le under  http://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html

Piwik

Web ana­ly­sis ser­vices This web­site uses Piwik, an open-source soft­ware for the sta­tis­ti­cal eva­lua­ti­on of visi­tor access. Piwik uses so-cal­led coo­kies, text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter and enab­le an ana­ly­sis con­cer­ning the use of the web­site. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the coo­kies about your use of this online offer will be stored on the ser­vers of the pro­vi­der in Ger­ma­ny. The IP-address will be made anony­mous imme­dia­te­ly after the pro­ces­sing and befo­re its sto­rage. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the coo­kie about the use of this web­site will not be pas­sed on to third par­ties. You can pre­vent the instal­la­ti­on of coo­kies by adjus­ting the set­tings of your brow­ser soft­ware accord­in­gly. Howe­ver, we would like to point out that you might not be able to use all func­tions of this web­site to the full extend in this case.

If you object to the use of your data, you may deac­tiva­te the sto­rage and use here. In this case an Opt-Out-Coo­kie will be pla­ced the pre­vent Piwik from sto­ring the usa­ge data. If you dele­te your coo­kies also the Opt-Out-Coo­kie will be dele­ted. On the next visit of our web­siters Opt-Out has to be activa­ted again.

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Face­book-Plug-ins

On our web­sites plug-ins of the soci­al net­work Face­book, 1601 South Cali­for­nia Ave­nue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are inte­gra­ted. You reco­gnise the­se plug-ins by the Face­book logo or the Like-But­ton on our site. For an over­view of Face­book plug-ins, plea­se see here: http://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. By that 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 of our web­sites to your Face­book account. We would like to point out that we as pro­vi­ders of the­se web­sites do not obtain know­ledge about the con­tents of the trans­mit­ted data as well as the use of such by Face­book. For fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se check the Pri­va­cy Poli­cy of Face­book under http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not wish that Face­book asso­cia­tes your visit of our web­sites to your Face­book account, plea­se log out of your Face­book account.

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Twit­ter

On our web­sites func­tions of the ser­vice Twit­ter are inte­gra­ted. The­se func­tions are offe­red by Twit­ter Inc., 795 Fol­som St., Sui­te 600, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94107, USA. By using Twit­ter as well as the func­tion “Re-Tweet” web­sites visi­ted by you are lin­ked to you 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 con­tents of tho­se data. For fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se check the Pri­va­cy Poli­cy of Twit­ter: http://twitter.com/privacy.
The pri­va­cy set­tings of your Twit­ter account can be adjus­ted under http://twitter.com/account/settings
Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Goog­le +1

Collec­tion and for­war­ding of Infor­ma­ti­on: By using the Goog­le +1 but­ton you may publish infor­ma­ti­on world­wi­de. Via the Goog­le +1 but­ton you and other users recei­ve per­so­nal-rela­ted con­tent from Goog­le and our part­ners. Goog­le stores the infor­ma­ti­on that you have voted +1 as well as infor­ma­ti­on about the web­site that you were visi­t­ing as you cli­cked the +1 but­ton. Your +1 votes may be published or dis­play­ed as noti­ces tog­e­ther with your pro­fi­le name and your pic­tu­re at Goog­le ser­vices, such as search results, your Goog­le pro­fi­le or at other pla­ces on web­sites.

Goog­le records infor­ma­ti­on about your +1 activi­ties in order to impro­ve the Goog­le sevices for you and others. To be able to use the Goog­le +1 but­ton you need a glo­bal­ly visi­ble, public Goog­le pro­fi­le which must con­tain at least the user name cho­sen for this pro­fi­le. This name will be used for all Goog­le ser­vices. In some cases this name may be repla­ced by ano­t­her name which you used when sharing con­tents via your Goog­le account. The ID of your Goog­le account can be dis­play­ed to users who know your e-mail address or pos­sess any other infor­ma­ti­on iden­ti­fy­ing you.
Use of collec­ted infor­ma­ti­on: Besi­des the above men­tio­ned desi­gna­ted pur­po­ses, the details pro­vi­ded by you are trea­ted accord­ing to cur­rent Goog­le data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons. Goog­le may publish sum­ma­ri­sed sta­tis­tics about +1 activi­ties of users or pass tho­se sta­tis­tics on to users and con­trac­tu­al part­ners like publishers, adver­ti­sers or lin­ked web­sites, respec­tively.

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Lin­kedIn

Our web­site uses func­tions of the net­work Lin­kedIn. The pro­vi­der of Lin­ked in is the Lin­kedIn Cor­po­ra­ti­on, 2029 Stier­lin Court, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. On every access to our web­site which con­tain Lin­kedIn func­tions, a con­nec­tion to the ser­vers of Lin­kedIn will be estab­lished. Lin­kedIn will be infor­med that you have visi­ted our web­site with your IP address. If you press the “recommend”-button of Lin­kedIn and are log­ged in to your Lin­kedIn account, Lin­kedIn can asso­cia­te your visit of our web­site with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as pro­vi­ders of this web­site, do not obtain know­ledge about the con­tents of trans­mit­ted data as well as their use by Lin­kedIn.
For fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se review the Pri­va­cy Poli­cy of Insta­gram: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of XING

Our web­site uses func­tions of the net­work XING. Pro­vi­der of the­se func­tions are the XING AG, Damm­tor­stras­se 29–32, 20354 Ham­burg. On every access to our web­sites that con­tain the func­tions of XING, a con­nec­tion to the ser­vers of XING will be estab­lished. Accord­ing to our pre­sent sta­te know­ledge, the sto­rage of per­son-rela­ted data does not take place, espe­ci­al­ly no IP-addres­ses will be stored, neit­her will the usa­ge beha­viour be eva­lua­ted.
For fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning data pro­tec­tion and the XING sha­re but­ton, plea­se read the Pri­va­cy Poli­cy of XING under https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Goog­le AdSen­se

This web­site uses Goog­le AdSen­se, a Goog­le Inc. ser­vice to embed com­mer­ci­al infor­ma­ti­on. Goog­le Adsen­se uses so-called“cookies”, text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter to ana­ly­se the use of the web­site. Fur­ther, Goog­le AdSen­se uses so-cal­led web beacons (invi­si­ble images). The­se web beacons help to pro­cess infor­ma­ti­on, such as visi­tor traf­fic on this web­site.

The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by coo­kies and web beacons about your use of this web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) is sent to and stored at a Goog­le ser­ver in the U.S.A. Goog­le may also trans­fer this infor­ma­ti­on to their con­trac­tu­al part­ners. Howe­ver, Goog­le will not asso­cia­te your IP address with any other data stored at Goog­le.
You may pre­vent the instal­la­ti­on of coo­kies by adjus­ting the set­tings of your brow­ser; howe­ver, if you do so, you may be unab­le to use all fea­tures of this web­site. By using this web­site you agree to the pro­ces­sing of the collec­ted infor­ma­ti­on by Goog­le, accord­ing to the above men­tio­ned pur­po­se.

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy for the use of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Remar­ke­ting

Our web­sites use retar­ge­ting tech­no­lo­gies by Goog­le. Pro­vi­der of the­se tech­no­lo­gies is Goog­le Inc. 1600 Amphi­thea­t­re Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

This enab­les to address visi­tors of our web­site with cus­to­mi­sed, inte­rest-rela­ted com­mer­ci­al infor­ma­ti­on. The dis­play of com­mer­ci­als takes place accord­ing to the coo­kie-based ana­ly­sis of pre­vious usa­ge and brow­sing beha­viour. Accord­ing to our pre­sent level of know­ledge, no per­son-rela­ted data will be stored when visi­t­ing our web­site. On access, a coo­kie will be pla­ced to collect anony­mous data about inte­rests of the user and thus adapt com­mer­ci­als to such infor­ma­ti­on. The­se coo­kies are small text files which will be stored onto your com­pu­ter or mobi­le device.
You can per­man­ent­ly object to the use of coo­kies for retar­ge­ting by deac­tivat­ing cus­to­mi­sed com­mer­ci­als by Goog­le here: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on and data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons you find in Google’s Pri­va­cy Poli­cy under http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

Regis­tra­ti­on with this web­site

You can regis­ter with this web­site to be able to use addi­tio­nal func­tions on this web­site e.g. recei­ve a nerws­let­ter. The data ent­e­red for this pur­po­se will only be used for said pur­po­se for which you have regis­te­red.
We also use the pro­vi­ded e-mail address to inform you about important chan­ges, such as chan­ge of the offer ran­ge or in case of tech­ni­cal chan­ges.

Pro­ces­sing of data (custo­mer data and con­tract data)

We collect, pro­cess and use per­son-rela­ted data only as far as necessa­ry for the estab­lish­ment, con­tent-rela­ted arran­ge­ment or chan­ge of the legal rela­ti­ons­hip. We only collect, pro­cess and use per­son-rela­ted data about the use of our web­sites (usa­ge data) inso­far it is necessa­ry for enab­ling or impro­ving the infor­ma­ti­on dis­play­ed.

Right to Infor­ma­ti­on, Dele­ti­on, Blo­cking

You have the right to be infor­med about your per­so­nal data, their ori­gin and addres­see and the pur­po­se of data pro­ces­sing as well as the right to cor­rec­tion, blo­cking or dele­ti­on of tho­se data at any time and free of char­ge. For fur­ther ques­ti­ons and ques­ti­ons con­cer­ning per­son-rela­ted data, feel free to con­tact us under the address published in the legal notes.

Objec­tion to com­mer­ci­al mails

Pro­vi­ders are obli­ga­ted to publish con­tact infor­ma­ti­on in the Legal Note/Impressum. The use of such con­tact infor­ma­ti­on by third par­ties for the pur­po­se of dis­tri­bu­ting unso­li­ci­ted adver­ti­se­ments or other com­mer­ci­al infor­ma­ti­on is pro­hi­bi­ted. The ope­ra­tors of this web­site reser­ve the right to take legal mea­su­res in case of being sent unso­li­ci­ted com­mer­ci­al infor­ma­ti­on, e.g. spam mails etc.