Data privacy

As a rule, the use of our website is possible without needing to input personal data. If personal data (for example name, address or email address) is collected on our pages, this always occurs, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to a third party without your express consent.

Please note, that holes can be present within data transmission over the internet (during email communication for example). Complete data protection against third party access is not possible.

The use of contact data, published in the context of general information obligations, by a third party to send advertising and information material that was not expressly requested, is hereby explicitly rejected. The site operator reserves the right to take legal action in the case of unsolicited forwarding of advertising information, for example through spam-emails.

Data privacy statement for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc.

(“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “Cookies”, which are text files that are stored on your computer enabling analysis of your use of the website. The information generated through cookies about your use of this website is normally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP-anonymity is activated on this website, your IP-address will be shortened by google beforehand within the member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area.

The complete IP-address will only be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional circumstances. By order of the website operator, Google will use this information to interpret your use of this website, to compile reports regarding website activity and to further provide the website operator with other services related with the use of this website and of the internet. The IP-addresses forwarded by your browser, within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent the saving of cookies by adjusting the appropriate setting in your browser software; we would like to point out, that if you do this you will potentially not be able to fully use all the functions of this website. In addition, you can prevent Google collecting data generated and obtained through cookies and from your use of the website (including your IP-address) as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the Browser-Plugin available through the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Data privacy statement for the use of facebook-plugin

Facebook plug-ins from the social network Facebook of the provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated on our website. The Facebook plug-ins can be recognised from the Facebook logo on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plug-ins here:  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established by the plug-in between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook is thereby informed that you have visited our site under your IP address. While you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile. As a result, Facebook can assign your visit to our website to your user account. We point out that we, as the provider of the website, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or how it is used by Facebook. You can find more information on this subject in Facebook’s Data Policy at: http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our website to your Facebook user account, please log off from your Facebook user account.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form including the contact data you provided will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. These data will not be passed on without your consent.