Privacy Policy

Data protection officer

This information is only required if there is an obligation to appoint a data protection officer. This applies in the following cases:

• In the company, at least 10 employees regularly process data automatically, for example using computers.
• In your company, regardless of the number of employees, you process at least one category of the following personal data: ethnic origin, race, political opinion, religious belief, trade union membership, health or sex life
• The focus of the business activity is the transmission of personal data as carried out, for example, by a credit agency, an address publisher or a market and opinion research institute.

The data protection officer can be contacted at the address of the person responsible. When contacting us by post, please add the note "Data Protection Officer" to the address. You can reach our data protection officer by email at the following email address: Insert email address of the data protection officer 

Personal data

Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"). A natural person is considered identifiable if he or she can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more special characteristics that express the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Data when visiting the website

If you only use this website to obtain information and do not provide any data, we will only process the data required to display the website on the internet-enabled device you are using. This includes in particular:

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• amount of data transferred
• the website from which the request comes
• browser type and browser version
• operating system

The legal basis for the processing of this data is legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in order to enable the display of the website in principle.

In addition, you can use various services on the website that process additional personal and non-personal data.

Your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

• You have the right to information regarding the personal data concerning you that the controller processes (Art. 15 GDPR),
• You have the right to have data concerning you rectified if it is stored incorrectly or incompletely (Art. 16 GDPR),
• You have the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
• You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data (Art. 18 GDPR),
• You have the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR),
• You have the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you (Article 21 GDPR),
• You have the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you (Article 22 GDPR),
• You have the right to complain to the competent supervisory authority in the event of a suspected violation of data protection law (Article 77 GDPR). The supervisory authority responsible is the one at your usual place of residence, place of work or at the place of the suspected violation.

Use of cookies 

When you visit the website, cookies may be stored on your device. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser you use. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your device. However, the location that places the cookies can obtain certain information. Cookies are used to make the Internet more user-friendly. Cookies can, for example, be used to recognize the device that was used to access this website when it is accessed again.

You can restrict or prevent cookies from being set using your browser settings. For example, you can block only cookies from third-party providers or you can block all cookies. However, blocking cookies may mean that you will no longer be able to use all of the functions on this website. In the rest of this privacy policy, we will provide you with specific information about where and for what purposes cookies are used on our website.

Privacy Policy for Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. For this purpose, Google places cookies on your device. These enable an analysis of website usage. The information collected is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there – including the IP address. Google Analytics is set so that IP addresses are only saved anonymously. Due to this setting, Google shortens the IP addresses recorded within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before saving them. Google uses the information collected to evaluate the use of the websites and to compile corresponding reports. Google Analytics is set so that the data is deleted within 14 months of it being created.

The data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Subparagraph 1 Letter f) GDPR with the legitimate interest in improving this website offering.

You can prevent the Analytics cookie from being set by setting your browser to reject all cookies. However, this may affect your ability to use this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting data by installing the following browser plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de . You can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link. This sets a corresponding opt-out cookie: Deactivate Google Analytics data collection for this website .  

For more information about Google’s privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html . 

Privacy policy for Facebook

This website uses social media functions from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You can share content on the Facebook social network using the Facebook Like button integrated into it. The legal basis for processing the data is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Subsection 1 Letter f) GDPR, the legitimate interest in optimizing the website offering. When you visit a page with an integrated Facebook Like button, a connection is generally established between the browser used and the Facebook servers. To prevent this immediate connection, this website uses a solution in which this transfer only takes place when the Facebook Like button is pressed. Data is only transferred to Facebook when the Facebook Like button is pressed a second time. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to it. If you do not want this data to be assigned to your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting our page and delete the cookies in your browser. Facebook has submitted to the "Privacy Shield" data protection agreement between the USA and the EU. You can find out more about Facebook's data protection at https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation .