privacy policy
Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to inform you about data protection in our company. We naturally observe the legal provisions of the Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG) and other data protection regulations.
You can trust us with your personal data! It is encrypted using digital security systems and transmitted to us. Our websites are protected by technical measures against damage, destruction or unauthorized access.
subject of data protection
The subject of data protection is personal data. According to Section 3 Paragraph 1 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), this is individual information about the personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, information such as name, postal address, email address or telephone number, but also usage data such as your IP address.
General Data Protection Notice
(1) When you access the website of … (company) or download data from these pages, we store and process information about this in a log file. This process is anonymous. It is not possible to draw any conclusions about you personally.
(2) The following are stored: your IP address, the date and time of the page access, the page accessed or the name of the file accessed, the amount of data transferred and the message whether the access/retrieval was successful.
(3) This data will not be used for commercial purposes. The evaluation is solely for statistical purposes and for improving our Internet offering. For this purpose, we will create user profiles using a pseudonym. No connection will be made between the person behind the pseudonym and the collected usage data. After this use, your data will be deleted. Permanent storage is excluded. You can object to this data collection, storage and processing at any time.
(4) Your data will be used exclusively by us. It will not be passed on to third parties. (If applicable: The processing for the analysis of user behavior takes place in a location, state, a state outside the scope of Directive 95/46/EC by … (e.g. Google Analytics). You can object to the use and processing by using the deactivation add-on (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
(5) We also use so-called cookies to collect and store data. Cookies are small data packets that your browser stores on your device at our request. They do not cause any damage there. They do not contain viruses and do not allow us to spy on you. Two types of cookies are used. Temporary cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser (session cookies). Permanent cookies, on the other hand, have a maximum lifespan of up to … (period). This type of cookie enables you to be recognized when you visit the website again after leaving it. Cookies enable us to track your usage behavior for the purposes mentioned above and to the corresponding extent. They are also intended to enable you to surf our website in an optimized manner. We also only collect this data in an anonymized or pseudonymized form. You can set your Internet browser so that our cookies cannot be stored on your device or cookies that have already been stored are deleted. You can use the opt-out function of the following programs for this purpose: …
scope of data collection and storage
In general, it is not necessary for you to provide personal data in order to use our website. However, in order for us to actually provide our services, we may need your personal data. This applies both when sending information material or ordered goods and when answering individual inquiries.
If you commission us to provide a service or send goods, we will only collect and store your personal data to the extent that it is necessary to provide the service or execute the contract. This may require us to pass on your personal data to companies that we use to provide the service or execute the contract. These are, for example, transport companies or other service providers. If we carry out any of the actions described below or other actions or provide services, we would like to collect and store your personal data and will ask you for your express consent at the relevant point on our website:
– Sending newsletters
– Participation in competitions –
Credit or age checks to enable our services or
– Payment methods –
Personalization of our website
– Other services and offers for the collection of data for which your express consent is required.
After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be blocked and deleted after the expiry of the tax and commercial law regulations, unless you have expressly consented to any further use of the data.
If you have registered for our newsletter using your email address, we will continue to use your email address for our own advertising purposes beyond the contract execution until you unsubscribe from the newsletter.
Data collection through the use of Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. For example, information about the operating system, browser, your IP address, the website you previously visited (referrer URL) and the date and time of your visit to our website is recorded. The information on the use of our website generated by this text file is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. If this is required by law or if third parties process this data on Google’s behalf, Google will also pass this information on to these third parties. This use is anonymized or pseudonymized. You can find more information about this directly at Google http://www.google.com/intl/de/privacypolicy.html#information
Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie.
Users can opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the privacy policy of the Google ad network and content network .
No direct personal data of the user is stored, only the Internet protocol address. This information is used to automatically recognize you the next time you visit our websites and to make navigation easier for you. Cookies allow us, for example, to adapt a website to your interests or to save your password so that you do not have to enter it again each time.
Of course, you can also view our websites without cookies. If you do not want us to recognize your computer, you can prevent cookies from being saved on your hard disk by selecting “do not accept cookies” in your browser settings. Please refer to your browser manufacturer’s instructions for details on how this works. If you do not accept cookies, this may lead to functional restrictions on our offerings.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your Internet browser accordingly. To do this, you must deactivate the storage of cookies in your Internet browser. For more information, please refer to the instructions for use of your Internet browser.
collection and storage of usage data
To optimise our website, we collect and store data such as the date and time the page was accessed, the page from which you accessed our site, and similar data. This is done anonymously, without personally identifying the user of the site. User profiles may be created using a pseudonym. Here, too, no connection is made between the natural person behind the pseudonym and the usage data collected. We also use cookies to collect and store usage data. These are small text files that are saved on your computer and are used to store statistical information such as operating system, your internet usage program (browser), IP address, the previously accessed website (referrer URL) and the time. We collect this data exclusively for statistical purposes in order to further optimise our website and make our internet offerings even more attractive. The data is collected and stored exclusively in anonymised or pseudonymised form and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about you as a natural person.
Purpose-bound data use
We adhere to the principle of earmarked data use and only collect, process and store your personal data for the purposes for which you have communicated it to us. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, unless this is necessary to provide the service or to execute the contract. Data will also only be passed on to government institutions and authorities entitled to receive information within the framework of the statutory obligation to provide information or if we are obliged to provide information by a court decision.
We also take internal data protection very seriously. Our employees and the service providers we employ have been obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with data protection regulations.
right to information and revocation
You can obtain information about your data stored by us free of charge at any time without giving reasons. You can have the data we have collected blocked, corrected or deleted at any time. You can also revoke your consent to data collection and use at any time without giving reasons. To do so, please contact the contact address provided in the imprint. We are always happy to answer any further questions you may have about our privacy policy and the processing of your personal data.
