Data protection

Privacy policy according to EU data protection basic regulation

In addition to these website-specific data protection notices, the data protection notices according to the EU data protection basic regulation also apply.

Privacy / Principle / Purpose / Security

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 legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy. We want you to know when we collect which data and how we use it.

The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. As far as personal data (e.g. name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. We use the personal data only to answer your inquiry, to process your orders or to provide access to information or sources of information. This data will not be passed on to third parties or marketed in any other way without your express consent. All our employees and all vicarious agents involved in data processing are bound by the Federal Data Protection Act and the confidential handling of personal data. Our security measures are continuously revised in accordance with technological developments.

We have taken technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access.

People who have not yet reached the age of 18 should not send us any personal data without the consent of their parents or guardians. We do not request any personal data from adolescents and children.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. However, the security measures are continuously improved in accordance with technological developments.

Rights of the person concerned / right to information

You have the right to receive information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing as well as a right to correct, block, restrict processing, data transferability or deletion of this data. If you have any questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Right of objection

You can revoke your consent to the collection and storage of your personal data by us at any time. To do so, please write to us by post or e-mail.

Cookies

Below you will find information about cookies, how we use them on our website and what options you have if you prefer to deactivate these cookies - despite their advantages. If you do not deactivate the cookies, we assume that you agree to the use of cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. The data is stored by your browser, e.g. Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit us, to make it easier for you to use the pages and to be able to design them more individually.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Instructions for managing cookies on your browser can usually be found under the help function of the browser or in the operating instructions of your smartphone. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited. Cookies do not damage your computer and cannot contain viruses.

Which cookies are used?

Cookies are used which, for example, remember your personal settings (e.g. selected language). The cookies used serve to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure.

We strive to constantly improve the website. To this end, cookies are used to provide us with overall statistics on the number of visitors, which areas of a page are most frequently viewed, information on the city or location of the users and the length of their stay, etc. These can be installed by external analysis providers commissioned by us. With the help of these cookies, only anonymous data is collected, which enables an analysis of the use of our website.

Social Plugins / Social Media Cookies

On our website we sometimes use so-called social plugins of social networks. In order to share content from our website via social media channels such as Facebook or Twitter, a cookie must be installed on your device.

By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile with the corresponding provider or are not logged in at the moment. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a server of the respective provider and stored there.

If you are logged in to one of the social networks, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile on Facebook or Twitter. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Like", "+1" or "Tweet" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published in the social network or on your Twitter account and displayed to your contacts.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights and settings options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the providers' data protection notices:

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by the providers as well as your rights and settings options for the protection of your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers:

Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). An overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

LinkedIn is operated by Linkedin Inc., 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043 United States An overview of Linkedin's plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins

Xing is operated by Xing AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg. An overview of Xing plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://dev.xing.com/plugins/share_button

Instagram is operated by Instagram LLC. An overview of the Instagram buttons and their appearance can be found here: https://instagram.com/developer/#

Instagram Privacy Policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/#

YouTube is operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 USA, represented by Google Inc. An overview of the YouTube buttons and their appearance can be found here https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube_subscribe_button

Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. An overview of the Twitter buttons and their appearance can be found here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons

Privacy notice from Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy

We have no influence on the amount of data the social network collects with the help of this plugin. Please refer to the privacy policy of the social network in question for more information.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Ltd, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5 in Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

However, in the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before this happens. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting 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. In addition, you can prevent the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being passed to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics
When using the "demographic features" feature of Google Analytics, reports are generated that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising by Google as well as from visitor data from third parties. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google Account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section "Opting out of data collection".

resistance to data acquisition
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the collection of your data on future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics. You can find more information on how Google Analytics handles user data in the Google privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Use of Google Maps

On our site we use "Google Maps" of the company Google Ireland Ltd, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5 in Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

Each time "Google Maps" is called up, Google sets a cookie to process user data and user settings when the page on which "Google Maps" is integrated is displayed. This cookie is not deleted when the browser is closed, but expires after a certain time, unless you delete it manually beforehand.

If you do not agree with this processing of your data, you have the possibility to deactivate the service of "Google Maps" and thus prevent the transmission of data to Google. To do so, you must deactivate the Java-Script function in your browser. We would like to point out, however, that in this case you will not be able to use "Google Maps", or only to a limited extent.

For the use of "Google Maps" and the information obtained via "Google Maps" the following Google terms of use http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html as well as the additional terms and conditions for "Google Maps" https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html apply.

Server log files / server data

For technical reasons, the provider of these pages collects the following data and automatically saves information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us.

- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Website from which you visit us (referrer URL)
- Hostname of the accessing computer
- Date and time of your access / server request
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and cannot be assigned to specific individuals. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data subsequently if we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use. The data is evaluated for statistical purposes in order to optimize our Internet presence and our offers.

Use of reCAPTCHA

We protect input forms on our site by using the "reCAPTCHA" service provided by Google Ireland Ltd., Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5 in Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google". By this use it can be distinguished whether the corresponding input is of human origin or whether it is misused by automated machine processing.

To the best of our knowledge, the referrer URL, the IP address, the behaviour of the website visitors, information on the operating system, browser and duration of stay, cookies, display instructions and scripts, the input behaviour of the user as well as mouse movements in the "reCAPTCHA" checkbox area are transmitted to "Google".

Google uses the information obtained in this way to digitize books and other printed matter and to optimize services such as Google Street View and Google Maps (e.g. house number and street name recognition).

The IP address transmitted within the scope of "reCAPTCHA" is not merged with other data from Google unless you are logged into your Google account at the time of using the "reCAPTCHA" plug-in. If you wish to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by "Google", you must log out of "Google" before you visit our site or use the "reCAPTCHA" plug-in.
The use of the service "reCAPTCHA" obtained information is in accordance with the Google Terms of Use: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Use of Web Fonts

This website uses external fonts, Google Fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. The integration of these fonts takes place after local storage of the corresponding fonts on the own server or webspace and by a server call with the server location in Germany. There is no connection to Google servers. In special cases the integration of web fonts is done by a service of Google inc. (Google). The integration of these Web Fonts takes place via a server call of Google in the USA. This transfers to the server which of our Internet pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of the end device of the visitor of these Internet pages is also stored by Google. You will find more information in the Google data protection information, which you can download here: www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about oder www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Use of Google Ads

We occasionally use the Google advertising tool "Google Ads" to promote our website. Within the scope of this, we use the analysis service "Conversion Tracking" of the company Google Ireland Ltd., Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5 in Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google" on our website. If you have reached our website via a Google display, a cookie will be placed on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser places and stores on your computer. These so-called "conversion cookies" do not serve your personal identification and lose their validity after 30 days. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not expired, we and Google can recognize that you as a user clicked on one of our ads placed at Google and were redirected to our site.

The information collected through the "conversion cookies" is used by Google to compile visit statistics for our site. These statistics tell us the total number of users who clicked on our ads and which pages of our site were subsequently visited by each user. However, we or others who advertise through "Google Ads" do not receive any information that can be used to identify users personally.

You can prevent the installation of "conversion cookies" by adjusting your browser settings accordingly, for example by changing your browser settings to generally disable the automatic setting of cookies or specifically block only cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com".

You can obtain Google's data protection declaration in this regard from the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html

Publication of job advertisements / online job applications

Your application data will be collected and processed electronically by us for the purpose of handling the application procedure. If your application is followed by the conclusion of an employment contract, your transmitted data may be stored by us in your personnel file for the purpose of the usual organizational and administrative process, in compliance with the relevant legal regulations.

If your job application is rejected, the data you transmitted will be deleted automatically two months after the rejection is announced. This does not apply if longer storage is necessary due to legal requirements (e.g. the duty of proof under the General Equal Treatment Act) or if you have expressly agreed to longer storage in our database of interested parties.

Right to change

We reserve the right to adapt our data protection regulations at any time, for example due to technical developments. If you are not satisfied with the data protection measures described here or if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing and/or use of your personal data, we would be pleased to hear from you. We will try to answer your questions as soon as possible and implement your suggestions. Please get in contact with us.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection laws, the person concerned has a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in data protection matters is the data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company is located. A list of the data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Use of external content on our website:

Within the framework of our Internet presence, pages/information with external content are also used. These originate among others from:

• Adobe Stock - Photo database - stock.adobe.com

If and to the extent that users of our homepage use external links that we make available on our homepage, our privacy policy does not cover these external links. We have no influence on the compliance with data protection and security regulations by the respective providers of the external links. When you access these pages, your browser establishes a direct connection with the server of the external provider. This server may store the IP address for statistical purposes. This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. The author is responsible for the content of the external pages. In this respect, we exclude any liability for external content.