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General information on our privacy policy

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration listed under this text.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

DATA RECORDING ON THIS WEB SITE

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details in the imprint on this website.

Your data is collected on the one hand by the fact that you communicate them to us. This may be data that you enter into a contact form, for example. Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of the page call). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

A part of the data is collected in order to guarantee an error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

ANALYSIS TOOLS & TOOLS FROM THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS

When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following data protection declaration.

DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT FOR THE USE OF FACEBOOK-PLUGINS (LIKE-BUTTON)

On our pages are plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, integrated. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the „Like-Button“ („Like“) on our page. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook „Like-Button“ while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our pages to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the Pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in the Facebook privacy policy under https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Data protection declaration for the use of GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called „cookies“. These are text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an 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 stored there.

However, in the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. 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 to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not merged 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. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being passed on to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

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This website uses the function „demographic features“ of Google Analytics. This allows us to generate reports that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising by Google and 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 „Objection to data collection“.

order data processing

We have concluded a contract with Google for commissioned data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic features at Google Analytics

Anonymization of the IP address

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. 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 to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

decision against data collection

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

Data protection declaration for the use of INSTAGRAM

On our pages functions of the service Instagram are integrated. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA integrated. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our sites with your account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. For more information, please refer to Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Data protection declaration for the use of youtube

Our website uses plugins from the Google operated site YouTube. Operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA When you visit one of our sites equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the servers of YouTube is established. When you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly match your surfing habits with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account, please see the YouTube privacy policy for more information on how we handle user data: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Newsletter dates

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected. We use these data exclusively for sending the requested information. We the newsletter dispatch we use the provider Mailchimp, so that the data of newsletter subscribers are transferred to MailChimp and processed there.

Double opt-in and logging

The registration for my newsletter is done in a so-called double opt-in procedure. That means you will receive an e-mail after registration, asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that nobody can register with foreign e-mail addresses. The registrations for the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements. This includes the storage of the registration and confirmation time as well as the IP address. Also the changes of your data stored with MailChimp are logged.

Statistical survey and analysis

Online call and data management

There are cases where I direct the newsletter recipients to the web pages of MailChimp. E.g. my newsletters contain a link with which the newsletter recipients can retrieve the newsletters online (e.g. in case of display problems in the e-mail program). Furthermore newsletter recipients can correct their data, e.g. the e-mail address, afterwards. Also the data protection declaration of MailChimp is only available on their site. In this context, I would like to point out that cookies are used on the websites of MailChimp and therefore personal data is processed by MailChimp, its partners and service providers (e.g. Google Analytics). I have no influence on this data collection. Further information can be found in the data protection declaration of MailChimp. I would like to point out the possibility to object to the collection of data for advertising purposes on the websites http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ (for the European area).

In accordance with the requirements of the basic data protection regulation (DSGVO) valid from 25 May 2018, I hereby inform you that consent to the sending of e-mail addresses is given on the basis of Art. 6 paragraph 1 lit. a, 7 DSGVO as well as § 7 para. 2 no. 3, respectively para. 3 UWG. The use of the mail service provider MailChimp, the execution of the statistical surveys and analyses as well as the logging of the registration procedure are based on my legitimate interests according to Art. 6 paragraph 1 lit. f DSGVO. I am interested in the use of a user-friendly and secure newsletter system that serves my business interests and also meets the expectations of users.

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SSL- or TLS-CLOCKING

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 address line of the browser changes from „http://“ to „https://“ and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

RIGHT TO DATA TRANSFERABILITY

You have the right to have data, which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment 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 take place to the extent that it is technically feasible.

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

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 on your next visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

BROWSER

contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

COMMENT FUNCTION ON THE WEBSITE

For the comment function on this page, in addition to your comment, information about the time of the creation of the comment, your e-mail address and, if you are not anonymous, the user name you have chosen will be saved.

Subscribe to comments

As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments after a login. You will receive a confirmation email to check if you are the owner of the email address you entered. You can unsubscribe at any time via a link in the info mails. In this case, the data entered when subscribing to comments will be deleted; however, if you have submitted this data for other purposes and elsewhere (e.g. newsletter order), it will remain with us.

Length of storage of comments

The comments and the associated data (e.g. e-mail address) are stored and remain on our website until the commented content has been completely deleted or the comments must be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. insulting comments).

legal basis

The storage of comments is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke any consent you have given at any time. For this purpose, an informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

RESPONDING ADVERTISING MAILS

USE OF AFFILIATED LINKS & THE REWARDSTYLE PARTNER PROGRAM

We are authorized to make use of our online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the economic operation of our online offer in the sense of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f. DSGVO), we are participants in the partner program of rewardStyle, which was designed to provide a medium for websites, by means of which advertising costs can be earned by placing advertisements and links to various online shops (so-called affiliate system). rewardStyle uses cookies to trace the origin of the orders. Among other things, rewardstyle can recognize that you have clicked the affiliate link on this website and subsequently purchased a product from an online shop.

For further information on data use by rewardstyle and objection possibilities, please refer to the company’s privacy policy: https://www.rewardstyle.com/privacy#eu-users

CONTROL OF DATA PROCESSING CONSENT

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke a previously given consent at any time. For this purpose an informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing that took place up to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

INFORMATION, CLEARING, LOCKING

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 data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.