Data protection declaration

March 30, 2020

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According the regulations:

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following notes give a simple overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit this website visit. Personal data is all the data with which you can be personally identified. You can find detailed information on the subject of data protection in our data protection declaration below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Its contact details can be found in the imprint of this website .

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected by giving it to us to communicate. This can be, e.g., is about data you put in a contact form. Other dates are automatic generated or after your consent when you visit the website through our IT systems detected. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page access). Capturing this ata is generated automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided correctly. Other data can be used to analyze your behavior on the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request that this data be corrected or deleted. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted in certain circumstances. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint if you have any further questions about data protection.

Analysis tools and third party tools

When you visit this website, your surfing behavior may be statistical be evaluated. This happens primarily with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. Detailed information on these analysis programs can be found in the following data protection declaration.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration. When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This data protection declaration explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done. We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties can not be guarantied.

Note on the responsible body

The responsible body for data processing on this Website is: Addresse:

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Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only with your express consent possible. You can give consent that has already been given revoke at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient to us. The lawfulness of those made until revocation Data processing remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to object to data collection in special cases as well as against direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6 ABS. 1 LIT. IF OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR REASONS FOR YOUR SPECIAL SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED IS TAKEN FROM THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU SUBJECT, WE WILL NO LESS PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE CAN PROVIDE OBLIGATORY PROTECTIVE REASONS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT PROVIDES YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND DISCLAIMER, AND THE PROTECTED PROPERTY OPPOSITION UNDER ART. 21 (1) GDPR). IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED TO OPERATE DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE PUT IN THIS ADVERTISING; THIS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO PROFILING, AS FAR AS IT IS CONNECTED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT ADVERTISING (OBLIGATION UNDER ART. 21 (2) GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability

You have the right to receive data based on your consent or automatically process in fulfillment of a contract, per se or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format to be handed over. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only take place if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses for security reasons and to protect the Transfer of confidential content, such as orders or Requests that you send to us as the site operator, an SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http: //" to "https: //" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, deletion and correction

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing and, if necessary, the right to have this data corrected or deleted. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to have your processing restricted to request personal data. You can do this yourself to us at any time at the address given in the imprint turn. The right to restrict processing is: following cases:

1.) If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to check this. For the duration of the check, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

2.) If the processing of your personal data happened/happens illegally, you can request the restriction of the data processing instead of the deletion.

3.) If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of being deleted.

4.) If you have filed an objection according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, you and our interests must be weighed up. As long as it is not clear whose interests outweigh the rights, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data — apart from its storage — may only be obtained with your consent or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest the European Union or a Member State.

Objection to advertising emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

3. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files and do no damage to your device. They are either stored temporarily on your device for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain on your device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

In some cases, third-party cookies can also be stored on your device when you enter our site (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party company (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have different functions. There are numerous cookies technically necessary, since certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behavior or to display advertising.

Cookies that are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process (necessary cookies) or to provide certain functions you want (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping cart function) or to optimize the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR saved, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the storage of the relevant cookies takes place exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR); the consent can be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases that Exclude acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

Insofar as cookies from third-party companies or for analysis purposes are used, we will inform you of this separately in the context of this data protection declaration and, if necessary, ask for consent.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and saves Information in so-called server log files that your browser automatically sent to us. These are:

1.) Browser type and browser version
2.) Operating system used 3.) Referrer URL
4.) Host name of the accessing computer
5.) Time of the server request
6.) IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimization of his website - the server log files must be recorded for this.

Inquiry by email, phone or fax

If you contact us by email, phone or fax, your data of your inquiry will be including all resulting personal data (name, inquiry) be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Article 6 (1) lit. b GDPR, if your request with the fulfillment of a contract related or to carry out pre-contractual measures is required. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. GDPR) or on your Consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 a GDPR) if this has been requested.

The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - especially statutory retention periods - remain unaffected.

4. Social media

Social media plugins with Shariff

Plugins from social media are used on this website (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, XING, LinkedIn, Tumblr, ResearchGate).

You can usually find the plugins based on the respective Recognize social media logos. To protect privacy on this website guarantee, we only use these plugins together with the so-called “Shariff” solution. This application prevents the on This website integrates plug-in data as soon as you enter it transferred the page to the respective provider.

Only when you click on the respective plugin activate button, a direct connection to the server of the provider is made (consent). Once you activate the plugin, the respective provider receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you are logged in at the same time in your respective social media account (e.g. Facebook), the respective provider can assign your visit to this website to your user account.

Activating the plugin constitutes consent in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect.

Facebook plugins (Like & Share button)

On this website there are plugins from the social network Facebook integrated. The provider of this service is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. The captured data will According to Facebook, however, also in the United States and others Transfer to third countries.

You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like button” on this website. An overview of You can find the Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.

When you visit this website, the plugin becomes a direct one Connection between your browser and the Facebook server produced. Facebook receives the information that you are with Your IP address have visited this website. If you like the Facebook Click the “Like button” while you are in your Facebook account are logged in, you can view the contents of this website on your Link Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to visit this Assign the 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 or receive data and their use by Facebook. Further You can find information on this in the data protection declaration of Facebook at: https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to this website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

The Facebook plugins are used on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate one interest in the greatest possible visibility in the social media. If a corresponding consent is requested processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is always revocable.

Twitter plugin

Functions of the service Twitter are on this website involved. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.

By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or of their use by Twitter. Further information can be found in Twitter’s data protection declaration at: https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

The use of the Twitter plugin is based on Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate one Interest in the greatest possible visibility in the Social media. If a corresponding consent is requested processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is always revocable.

You can change your data protection settings on Twitter in the Change account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Instagram plugin

Functions of the Instagram service are on this website involved. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Instagram.

The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate one interest in the greatest possible visibility in the social media. If a corresponding consent is requested processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is always revocable.

Further information can be found in the data protection declaration from Instagram: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Linkedin plugin

Functions of the Linkedin service are on this website involved. These functions are offered by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland.

If you are logged into your Linkedin account, you can link the content of this website to your Linkedin profile by clicking the Linkedin button. This allows Linkedin to associate your visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Linkedin.

Further information can be found in the data protection declaration from Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Tumblr plugin

This website uses buttons from the Tumblr service. Provider is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, UNITED STATES.

These buttons allow you to post or post Share page on Tumblr or the provider on Tumblr consequences. If you visit one of our websites with a Tumblr button, the browser establishes a direct connection to the Tumblr servers on. We have no control over the amount of data that Tumblr collected and transmitted using this plugin. According to the current status the user’s IP address and the URL of the respective website are transmitted.

The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate one Interest in the greatest possible visibility in the Social media. If a corresponding consent is requested processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information can be found in the data protection declaration from Tumblr at: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/.

Pinterest plugin

On this website we use social plugins from social Pinterest network, operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”) is operated.

When you call up a page that contains such a plugin, Your browser connects directly to the Pinterest servers forth. The plugin transmits log data to the server of Pinterest to the United States. This log data may contain Your IP address, the address of the websites visited, also Pinterest functions included, type and settings of the browser, Date and time of the request, how you use Pinterest as well as cookies.

The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate one Interest in the greatest possible visibility in the Social media. If a corresponding consent is requested processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is always revocable.

Further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest as well as your rights and options to protect your privacy can be found in Pinterest’s data protection information: https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we need an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter . No further data is collected, or only on a voluntary basis. We only use this data to send the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form will only be processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the already Data processing operations carried out remain unaffected by the revocation.

The data stored by us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted from the newsletter distribution list after unsubscribing from the newsletter. Data that we have stored for other purposes remain unaffected.

After you have unsubscribed from the newsletter distribution list, your e-mail address may be saved in a blacklist with us or the newsletter service provider to prevent future mailings. The Data from the blacklist are only used for this purpose and not merged with other data. This serves both yours Interest as well as our interest in compliance with the legal requirements for sending newsletters (authorized Interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not limited in time. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interests.

Plugins and tools

YouTube with extended data protection

This website integrates videos from YouTube. The website is operated by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in the extended data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not save any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video look at. The transfer of data to YouTube partners, however, is not mandatory due to the extended data protection mode locked out. For example, regardless of whether you are watching a video, YouTube connects to the Google DoubleClick network.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website, one will Connected to YouTube servers. The YouTube servers informed which of our pages you visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube, your surfing behavior directly on your personal profile assign. You can prevent this from happening Log out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, YouTube can do various things after starting a video Store cookies on your device. With the help of these cookies YouTube will receive information about visitors to this website. This Information may be a. used to collect video statistics, improve usability and prevent fraud. The cookies remain on your device until you delete them.

If necessary, further data processing processes can be triggered after the start of a YouTube video, over which we have no influence.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing Presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate one Interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If one processing has been requested exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the Consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in their data protection declaration at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Web Fonts

This page uses so for the uniform representation of fonts Web fonts provided by Google. The Google Fonts are installed locally. There is no connection to Google servers. Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this page has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and to make it easier to find the places we have indicated on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

More information on handling user data can be found in the Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

OpenStreetMap

We use the map service from OpenStreetMap (OSM). The provider is the Open Street Map Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom.

If you visit a website that includes OpenStreetMap, you may a. Your IP address and further information about your behavior on this website will be forwarded to the OSMF. For this, OpenStreetMap may save cookies in your browser. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

Your location can also be recorded if you do this in your Device settings - e.g. B. on your cell phone - have approved. Of the Provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission. For details, see the privacy policy of OpenStreetMap under the following link: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

OpenStreetMap is used in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and an easy findability of the places we have indicated on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

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