Privacy policy

§1 General

The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit this website. The term “personal data” comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recording on this website

Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e., the “controller”)?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Their contact details can be found in the section "Information on the responsible body" in this privacy policy.

How do we record your data?

We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into our contact form.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems or with your consent when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page visit). This data is recorded automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What are the purposes we use your data for?

A portion of the information is generated to guarantee the error free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your information is concerned?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients, and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified or eradicated. If you have consented to data processing, you have the option to revoke this consent at any time, which shall affect all future data processing. Moreover, you have the right to demand that the processing of your data be restricted under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising agency.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues.

Storage duration

Unless a specific storage period is specified in this data protection declaration, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing no longer applies. If you make a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have any other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. tax or commercial retention periods); in the latter case, the deletion takes place after these reasons no longer apply.

Revocation of your consent to the processing of data

A wide range of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

SSL encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential information. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser's address bar changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the padlock icon in your browser's address bar. This prevents third parties from reading the data you transmit to us.

§2 Hosting

We are hosting the content of our website at the following provider:

IONOS SE
Owner: IONOS SE
Hauptstraße 68
D-02742 Friedersdorf

. Privacy information from IONOS.

§3 Data Collection

Contact form and Google reCAPTCHA

If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form, the information provided in the contact form as well as any contact information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have further questions. We will not share this information without your consent.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent to its storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your inquiry has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular, retention periods – remain unaffected.

To protect your inquiries submitted via our contact form, we use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. (Google). This query serves to distinguish whether the input is made by a human or abusively by automated, machine processing. The query involves sending your IP address and, if applicable, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. For this purpose, your input is transmitted to Google and further processed there. However, your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCAPTCHA will not be merged with other Google data. Google's separate privacy policy applies to this data.

For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Request via eMail

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

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

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:

• The type and version of browser used.
• The used operating system
• Referrer URL.
• The hostname of the accessing computer.
• The time of the server inquiry
• The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

YouTube videos

Our website includes embedded videos from the platform "YouTube". The platform is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter "YouTube").

When you visit one of our pages that includes a YouTube video, a connection to YouTube's servers is established, depending on how the video is embedded. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The videos are embedded in the so-called enhanced data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website until they actively play the video. Only when the video is played can data processing by YouTube occur, over which we have no control.

For more information about data protection at YouTube, please see Google’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Legal basis

The use of YouTube is in our legitimate interest in presenting our online content in an appealing way. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If corresponding consent has been requested (e.g., via a cookie consent banner), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR; this consent can be revoked at any time.

Language selection (Gtranslate.io)

This website uses the Gtranslate.io service to translate the website into different languages. Gtranslate.io is a service of GTranslate LLC, 4394 NW 120th Ave, Coral Springs, FL 33065, USA.

When you visit one of our pages and use the language selection, a connection is established to the servers of Gtranslate.io. This informs the Gtranslate.io server which of our pages you have visited. Gtranslate.io uses cookies to store your language preferences.

Further information on data protection at Gtranslate.io can be found in the Gtranslate.io privacy policy at: https://gtranslate.io/privacy-policy.

Legal basis

The use of Gtranslate.io is in our legitimate interest in making our online services more user-friendly. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If consent has been requested (e.g., via a cookie consent banner), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR; this consent can be revoked at any time.

Access statistics

This website uses the Internal access statistics from IONOSWe host the access statistics exclusively on our own servers, so all analysis data remains with us and is not shared.

With the help of access statistics, we are able to collect and analyze data about how visitors use our website. This allows us, among other things, to determine when page views occurred and from which region they originated. We also collect various log files (e.g., IP address, referrer, browser and operating system used).