Our Privacy Policy Statement

Here you will find information about the handling of personal data when visiting our website. Responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is the website operator whose contact details you can refer to the imprint of this website. To provide the functionality and services of our website, it is sometimes necessary to collect personal information. Below we explain what data we collect, what they are required for, and what rights you have with respect to your data.

SSL encryption

In order to best protect the data transmitted to us, this website uses SSL encryption. You recognize such encrypted connections by the prefix “https: //” in the address bar of your browser. Unencrypted pages are marked by “http: //”. All data submitted to this website – such as inquiries or logins – can not be read by third parties thanks to SSL encryption.

Use for Information Purposes

If you use the website without transmitting any other data to us (e.g. by registration or use of the contact form), we will only collect the technically required data, which are transmitted automatically to our server (e.g. IP address, date and time of the request, browser type and operating system). This is a technical requirement to allow us showing you our website. If personal data are affected in this context, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR is the legal basis for the collection.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies to facilitate and improve the use of our website. Cookies are text information stored via the web browser on a computer at the visit of a website. The purpose is to recognize a visit, e.g. in case of a permanent login to a website or for the shopping cart function of an online shop.

Most of the web browsers accept cookies automatically. You may erase stored cookies at any time via the settings of your web browser. You may also adjust the settings of your web browser to bar the storing of cookies. Then, however, not all the functions of our website might be available.

Storing Period

We process and store your data only for as long as it is required for the processing or for complying with statutory duties. Once the purpose of processing no longer exists, your data will be blocked or erased. If there are any additional statutory duties to store the data, we block or erase your data upon the lapse of the statutory storing periods.

Your Rights

You have the following statutory rights against us relating to your personal data:

– Right to be informed
As the data subject (affected person), you have the right to request a confirmation on whether we process personal data relating to you. If this is the case, you have the right to be informed of such personal data as well as to further information, e.g. the purpose of processing, the recipient and the scheduled storing period or the criteria for the determination of such period, respectively.

– Right to rectification and completion
As the data subject, you have the right to request the immediate rectification of incorrect data. Taking into consideration the purpose of processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete data.

– Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
As the data subject, you have the right to erasure if processing is not necessary. This is the case e.g. if your data are no longer required for the original purposes, if you withdrew your statement of consent relating to data privacy, or if the data have been processed unlawfully.

– Right to restriction of processing
As the data subject, you also have the right to restriction of the processing if e.g. you think that the personal data would be incorrect.

– Right to data portability
As the data subject, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, customary and machine-readable format.

– Right to object
As the data subject, you have the right to raise objection against the processing of certain of your personal data at any time for reasons resulting from your situation.
In case of direct marketing, you as the data subject have the right to raise objection against the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such marketing at any time; this also applies to the profiling associated with such direct marketing.

– Right to withdraw your consent relating to data privacy
You may withdraw a consent to the processing of your personal data with effect in the future at any time. The legality of the processing made until such withdrawal, however, is not affected by the foregoing.

Moreover, you may lodge complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you feel that the data processing does not comply with data protection regulations.

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts, provided by Google, for the uniform representation of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font will be used by your computer. More information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

YouTube

Our website uses plugins / embed’s of Google’s powered YouTube page. Site operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our YouTube plug-in-enabled sites, you will be connected to the servers of YouTube. The Youtube server will be informed which of our pages you visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. For more information about how to handle user data, please read the YouTube Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy

Vimeo

We use for the integration of videos u.a. the provider Vimeo. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo, LLC, headquartered at 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011. On some of our websites we use plugins from Vimeo. If you call up the Internet pages provided with such a plugin, a connection is made to the Vimeo servers and the plugin is displayed. This will be transmitted to the Vimeo server, which of our websites you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Vimeo, Vimeo assigns this information to your personal user account. When using the plugin such. Clicking on the start button of a video also assigns this information to your user account. You can prevent this association by logging out of your Vimeo user account before using our website and deleting the corresponding cookies from Vimeo. For more information about data processing and privacy by Vimeo, see https://vimeo.com/privacy.