General information and mandatory disclosures under GDPR
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.
When you use this website, various pieces of personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.
Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
The party responsible for data processing on this website is:
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, or similar).
Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke any consent you have already given at any time. An informal email notification to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected.
In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the State Data Protection Officer of the German federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de - Anschriften und Links
You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser address line changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and where applicable a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address provided in the imprint.
The use of contact data published in connection with the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby objected to. The operators of these pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information, such as spam emails.
The newsletter is only sent with your explicit consent (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR) by entering your email address, clicking the subscribe button, and clicking the confirmation link in the confirmation email that is automatically sent (double opt-in).
You can revoke your consent to receiving the newsletter at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in every newsletter. Revocation does not affect the legal basis applicable up to the point of revocation.
In addition to your email address, we also process information about your usage behavior when reading the newsletter, e.g. which articles are read particularly often. We use this information to make our content more relevant and engaging for you.
Your data will be stored until you revoke your consent or unsubscribe from the newsletter.
On this website we use the software "Matomo" (www.matomo.org), a service of InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand. The software sets a cookie (a text file) on your computer that allows your browser to be recognized. When subpages of our website are accessed, the following data is stored:
• the user's IP address, shortened by the last two bytes (anonymized)
• the subpage accessed and the time of access
• the page from which the user reached our website (referrer)
• which browser with which plugins, which operating system, and which screen resolution is used
• the time spent on the website
• the pages accessed from the requested subpage
The data collected with Matomo is stored on our own servers. It is not passed on to third parties.
The legal basis on which we process personal data using Matomo is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
We need the data to analyze user browsing behavior and to obtain information about the usage of individual components of the website. This enables us to continuously optimize the website and its user-friendliness. These purposes constitute our legitimate interest under Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. By anonymizing the IP address, we take into account users' interest in protecting personal data. The data is never used to personally identify the user of the website and is not merged with other data.
The data is deleted when it is no longer needed for our purposes.
You can object to the recording of data as described above in several ways:
1. You can enable the "Do-not-Track" setting in your browser. Our Matomo system is configured to respect this setting.
2. You can set what is known as an opt-out cookie, which is valid for two years. As a result, Matomo will no longer register your further visits. Please note, however, that the opt-out cookie will be deleted if you delete all cookies.
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provided there, will be stored with us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
The processing of data entered into the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. An informal email notification to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected.
The data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after we have completed processing your inquiry). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.