Data Pro­tec­tion Statement

Scope

In accor­dance with the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Act and the Tele­me­dia Act, this data pro­tec­tion state­ment is intend­ed to inform the users of this web­site about the nature and scope of the per­son­al data as well as infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the pur­pose, col­lec­tion and use of per­son­al data by the web­site oper­a­tor [insert your con­tact data].

The web­site oper­a­tor takes your pri­va­cy very seri­ous­ly and will treat your per­son­al infor­ma­tion con­fi­den­tial­ly and in accor­dance with the law.

Please bear in mind that in gen­er­al, data trans­mis­sion can be sub­ject to secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties. Full pro­tec­tion against access by unau­tho­rised par­ties is not possible.

Access data

The web­site oper­a­tor and/​or page provider col­lects data con­cern­ing access to the site and saves them as “serv­er log files”. The fol­low­ing data is logged:

• Web­site that is visited
• Time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source from which you came to the page
• Brows­er that is used
• Oper­at­ing sys­tem that is used
• IP address that is used

The data that is col­lect­ed is only for sta­tis­ti­cal pur­pos­es and is used to improve the web­site. How­ev­er, the web­site oper­a­tor reserves the right to ret­ro­spec­tive­ly check the serv­er log files if spe­cif­ic indi­ca­tions point to ille­gal use.

Cook­ies

This site uses cook­ies. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Your brows­er access­es these files. The use of cook­ies increas­es the user-friend­li­ness and secu­ri­ty of this website.

Com­mon­ly used browsers offer the option of not allow­ing cookies.

Note: If you make the appro­pri­ate set­tings, there is no guar­an­tee that you will be able to access all func­tions of this web­site with­out restrictions.

Change your cook­ie preferences:

Open Cook­ie Preferences

 

Your Cook­ie UID (only vis­i­bile to you):

Your con­sent history:

 

Han­dling of per­son­al data

The web­site oper­a­tor only col­lects, uses and trans­fers your per­son­al data if this is per­mit­ted by law or if you con­sent to the col­lec­tion of data.

Per­son­al infor­ma­tion is all the infor­ma­tion that is used to iden­ti­fy your per­son and that can be traced back to you – e.g. your name, e‑mail address and tele­phone number.

Han­dling con­tact information

If you con­tact the web­site oper­a­tor through the con­tact options that are offered, your details will be stored so that they can be used to process and answer your request. This data will not be dis­closed to third par­ties with­out your consent.

Google Ana­lyt­ics

This web­site uses the “Google Ana­lyt­ics” ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Inc. (1600 Amphithe­atere Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA) in order to analyse the web­site usage of users. The ser­vice uses “cook­ies” which are text files stored on your device. The infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed by the cook­ies is usu­al­ly sent to a Google serv­er in the USA and stored there.

IP anonymi­sa­tion takes place on this web­site. The IP address of the users is short­ened with­in the mem­ber states of the EU and the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area. This reduc­tion ensures that the per­son­al ref­er­ence of your IP address is elim­i­nat­ed. Under the terms of the agree­ment, which the web­site oper­a­tors have entered into with Google Inc., they use the col­lect­ed infor­ma­tion in order to com­pile an eval­u­a­tion of web­site usage & activ­i­ty and pro­vide Inter­net-relat­ed services.

You have the option of pre­vent­ing cook­ies from being stored on your device by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. If your brows­er does not allow cook­ies, there is no guar­an­tee that you will be able to access all func­tions of this web­site with­out restrictions.

Fur­ther­more, you can use a brows­er plug-in to pre­vent the infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed by cook­ies (includ­ing your IP address) from being sent to Google Inc. and used by Google Inc. The fol­low­ing link leads you to the cor­re­spond­ing plu­g­in: https://​tools​.google​.com/​d​l​p​a​g​e​/​g​a​o​p​t​o​u​t​?​h​l​=de

Alter­na­tive­ly, you can pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing by click­ing on this link:

Google Ana­lyt­ics Optout Brows­er Plugin

Google Ana­lyt­ics col­lects infor­ma­tion about you with­in this web­site. You down­load an “opt-out cook­ie” by click­ing on the link above. As a gen­er­al rule, your brows­er must there­fore allow the stor­age of cook­ies. If you delete your cook­ies reg­u­lar­ly, you will need to click on the link each time you vis­it this website.

This is where you will find fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing data usage by Google Inc.: https://​sup​port​.google​.com/​a​n​a​l​y​t​i​c​s​/​a​n​s​w​e​r​/​6​0​0​4​2​4​5​?​h​l​=de

Use of social media plugins

This web­site uses Face­book Social Plu­g­ins, which is oper­at­ed by Face­book Inc. (1 Hack­er Way, Men­lo Park, Cal­i­for­nia 94025, USA). The incor­po­ra­tion of the Face­book logo and/​or the terms “Like” and “Share” in the Face­book colours (blue and white) can be recog­nised. Infor­ma­tion relat­ing to all of the Face­book plu­g­ins can be found in the fol­low­ing link: https://​devel​op​ers​.face​book​.com/​d​o​c​s​/​p​l​u​g​i​ns/

The plu­g­in cre­ates a direct con­nec­tion between your brows­er and the Face­book servers. The web­site oper­a­tor has no influ­ence what­so­ev­er con­cern­ing the nature and extent of the data trans­mit­ted by the plu­g­in to the servers of Face­book Inc. Infor­ma­tion can be found here: https://​www​.face​book​.com/​h​e​l​p​/​1​8​6​3​2​5​6​6​8​0​8​5​084

The plu­g­in informs Face­book Inc. that you have vis­it­ed this web­site as a user. There is the pos­si­bil­i­ty that your IP address will be saved. If you are logged into your Face­book account while vis­it­ing this web­site, the infor­ma­tion will be linked to it.

If you use the func­tions of the plu­g­in – e.g. by shar­ing or lik­ing a post – the cor­re­spond­ing infor­ma­tion will also be trans­mit­ted to Face­book Inc.

If you want to pre­vent Face­book Inc. asso­ci­at­ing this infor­ma­tion with your Face­book account, please log out of Face­book before vis­it­ing this website.

Fur­ther­more, this web­site uses the “+1” but­ton of Google Plus. It is oper­at­ed by Google Inc. (1600 Amphithe­atere Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA). If you vis­it a page that con­tains the “+1” but­ton, a direct con­nec­tion is made between your brows­er and the Google servers. The web­site oper­a­tor there­fore has no influ­ence what­so­ev­er con­cern­ing the nature and extent of the data trans­mit­ted by the plu­g­in to the servers of Google Inc. If you click on the “+1” but­ton whilst you are logged on to Google+, you share the con­tents of the page on your pub­lic profile.

Accord­ing to Google Inc., per­son­al data will not be col­lect­ed until you click the but­ton. Among oth­er things, the IP address is stored, even in the case of logged in Google users. If you want to pre­vent Google Inc. from stor­ing this data and link­ing it to your account, please log out before vis­it­ing this website.

Fur­ther­more, this web­site uses Twit­ter but­tons. These are oper­at­ed by Twit­ter Inc. (795 Fol­som St., Suite 600, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94107, USA). If you vis­it a page that con­tains such a but­ton, a direct con­nec­tion is cre­at­ed between your brows­er and Twitter’s servers. The web­site oper­a­tor there­fore has no influ­ence what­so­ev­er con­cern­ing the nature and extent of the data trans­mit­ted by the plu­g­in to the servers of Twit­ter Inc.

Accord­ing to Twit­ter Inc., only your IP address will be col­lect­ed and stored.

For infor­ma­tion as to how per­son­al infor­ma­tion is han­dled by Twit­ter Inc., please vis­it https://​twit​ter​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​?​l​a​n​g​=de

Rights of the user: Infor­ma­tion, cor­rec­tion and deletion

As a user, you may, at your request, receive free infor­ma­tion about the per­son­al data that has been stored about you. If your request does not con­flict with a legal duty to retain data (such as data reten­tion), you are enti­tled to cor­rect incor­rect data and have your data blocked or deleted.