Privacy Policy
We highly value the protection of your data. To inform you of the use of your personal data, we ask you to acknowledge the following data protection information.
Personal Data
Any personal data you electronically submitted to this website, e.g. Name, email address, address, or other personal information, is used only for stated purposes and are not passed on to third parties. The provider automatically saves information on the webserver such as the browser, operating system, referring page, IP-address, access time etc. This data cannot be associated to specific people without further sources of data and we do not analyse this data further unless presented with illegal use of our website.
Form data and comments
Should website visitors leave comments or form entries the entered data and their IP-adresses are saved. This happens to ensure safety in case of improper comments (insults, extreme leftist or right-wing propaganda, hate positings, etc.). In this case we are interested in identifying the author of such statements.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that enable this website to store specific user-related information on the visitor’s computer while they are visiting our website. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our website, as well as to make our services convenient and efficient for you. On the one hand, we use session cookies, which are only temporarily stored for the duration of your use of our website, and on the other hand, permanent cookies, which are used to record information about visitors who repeatedly access our website. The purpose of using these cookies is to offer an optimal user guidance as well as to recognize visitors and to be able to present an attractive website and interesting content in case of repeated use. The content of a permanent cookie is limited to an identification number. Name, IP address etc. are not stored. An individual profile of your usage behaviour is not created. Use of our offers is also possible without cookies. You can deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, restrict it to certain websites or set your web browser (Chrome, IE, Firefox etc.) to notify you as soon as a cookie is sent. You can also delete cookies from your PC hard drive at any time. Please note, however, that in this case you may experience a restricted display of the site and limited user guidance.
Privacy policy for the use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer 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 anonymisation 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 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 scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) 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=en-GB)
We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to guarantee an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to guarantee an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).
Privacy policy for the use of Facebook
Our pages integrate plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. 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, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. 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 in to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our Pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our Pages with 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. You can find more information on this in Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign visits to our Pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including your IP address) and delivery of advertising formats are transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be passed on by Google to contractual partners of Google. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data stored by you.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above. Further information on the use of data by Google when you use this website can be found here.
Right of access to information
You have the right at any time to obtain information about the data stored concerning your person, its origin and recipient, as well as the purpose of storage.