We appreciate your visit to our website and take the protection of your personal details very seriously. We treat your personal details with strict confidentiality and in compliance with the legal data protection regulations and this data privacy statement.

Our website can generally be used without entering your personal data. Where personal data is entered on our websites (e.g. name, address or e-mail address), this is always on a voluntary basis where possible and exclusively for the purpose specified. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent.

We would like to point out that online data transfer (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security loopholes. This means seamless protection against access by third parties is not possible.

Data Privacy Statement for the use of etracker

Our website uses the analysis service etracker. The provider is etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1 20459 Hamburg Germany. This data can be used to create user profiles under a pseudonym. Cookies can be used for this. Cookies are small text files which are stored locally in the cache of your Internet browser. Cookies allow us to recognize your browser Data collected by etracker technology is not used to identify visitors of this website personally and is not combined with personally-identifiable data about user profiles under a pseudonym, without the express permission of the user concerned.

You can always object to the collection and storage of data with future effect. In order to object to the collection and storage your visitor data in the future, you can obtain an opt-out cookie from etracker from the following link, the effect is that in future the visitor data of your browser will not be collected and stored by etracker: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb

As a result, an opt-out cookie called “cntcookie” is set by etracker. Please, do not delete this cookie if you want to maintain your objection. Further information can be found in the data privacy regulations of etracker: http://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html

Data Privacy Statement for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses what are known as “cookies” – these are text files which are stored on your computer to enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address is first truncated within member states of the European Union or other signatory states to the agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional circumstances is the full address sent to a Google server in the USA and then truncated. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, to prepare reports of website activities and to provide other services associated with website and internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transferred by your browser to Google Analytics is not amalgamated with any other Google data.

You can prevent cookies being saved by changing a setting in your browser software. However, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the link below.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You can refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website:

Disable Google Analytics

Information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to free information on the personal data saved about you, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing at any time. You also have the right to correct, block or delete this data. To this end, or if you have any other questions concerning your personal data, you can use the address of the website operator in the legal information to contact us.

Cookies

In some cases, the web pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and that are saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies used by us are “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies continue to be stored on your terminal until it deletes them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit the website.

You can configure your browser in such manner that you are notified about the setting of cookies and decide on in the individual case whether to accept them or not or exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be reduced.

Server Log Files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically forwards to us. These are:

• Browser type/ browser version
• operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request

This data cannot be assigned to specific individuals. This data will not be merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently review this data if there is concrete evidence of illegal use.

Contact Form

If you send us requests via the contact form, your information from the request form including the contact information provided therein will be stored in order to process the requests and in case you have follow-up questions. We do not forward this data without your consent.

Objection to promotional e-mails

We hereby expressly object to third parties using the contact information published in the legal notice to send unsolicited advertising and information material. The page operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action against any party who sends unsolicited advertising information, including spam mails.