DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

The responsible entity within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Your rights as data subject

At the provided contact details of our data protection officer, you can exercise the following rights at any time:

• Information about your data stored with us and their processing,
• Rectification of inaccurate personal data,
• Deletion of your data stored by us,
• Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
• Objection to the processing of your data by us, and
• Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time with a complaint. Your supervisory authority is determined by the federal state of your residence, your work, or the alleged violation. A list of supervisory authorities (for the private sector) with addresses can be found at:

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

Purposes of data processing by the data controller and third parties

We only process your personal data for the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only disclose your personal data to third parties if:

• you have given your explicit consent to it,
• the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
• the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation,

the processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require the protection of personal data.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimization. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as it is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as required by the various storage periods provided for by law. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or after the expiration of these periods, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the legal requirements.

Cookies

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can disable the use of cookies at any time through the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to learn how to change these settings. Please note that certain features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Newsletter

Based on your explicit consent, we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by email to the email address you provided.

To receive the newsletter, providing your email address is sufficient. The data you provide when subscribing to our newsletter will be used solely for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by email about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (for example, changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).

For effective registration, we require a valid email address. To ensure that the registration is actually made by the owner of an email address, we use the "double-opt-in" procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email, and the receipt of the response requested with it. No further data is collected. The data is used exclusively for newsletter delivery and is not shared with third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and their use for newsletter delivery at any time. Each newsletter contains a corresponding link for this purpose. You can also unsubscribe directly on this website at any time or inform us of your corresponding request using the contact information provided at the end of this privacy policy.

Contact Form

If you contact us by email or contact form regarding any questions, you voluntarily consent to us contacting you for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. For this, a valid email address is required, which is used to assign the inquiry and subsequently answer it. Providing additional data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and any follow-up questions. After your inquiry has been processed, personal data will be automatically deleted.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand 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 transmitted 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 website activity, and to provide the website operator with further services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. Based on the use of the website and the internet, further related services should then be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; however, please note 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 collection of 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 plug-in available at the following link: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie will then be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Use of Script-Libraries

To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across different browsers, we use script and font libraries on this website.

The call to script or font libraries automatically establishes a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible - although currently unclear whether and for what purposes - that operators of such libraries may collect data.

You can find the privacy policy of the library operator Google here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Embedded YouTube-Videos

On some of our web pages, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This informs YouTube about the pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is played, the provider uses cookies to collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at "YouTube" can be found in the provider's privacy policy at:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Change to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, such as when introducing new services. For your next visit, the new privacy policy will apply.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

The data protection declaration was created with the data protection declaration generator of Datenschutzerklärungs-Generator der activeMind AG.