Privacy Policy
General Information and Mandatory Disclosures
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice (Impressum) of this website.
Withdrawal of your consent to data processing
Right to complain to the competent regulatory authority
As a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of a data protection breach. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. The following link provides a list of data protection officers and their contact details: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Right to data portability
Right to Information, Rectification, Restriction of Processing, and Erasure
SSL and/or TLS encryption
Contact form
The processing of the data entered into the contact form takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your existing consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for this purpose. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal. Data submitted via the contact form will remain with us until you request its erasure, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the necessity for data storage no longer exists. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
Comment function on this website
The storage of posts and comments is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your existing consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for this purpose. The lawfulness of data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the withdrawal.
Cookies and similar technologies
As part of the analysis of website usage, we use cookies and similar technologies. We divide these into “Required Settings” and “Optional Settings.” While “Required Settings” ensure the proper operation of our website and are based on a legal basis, “Optional Settings” are used exclusively with your prior express consent.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are transmitted to your computer. These files are stored there and kept ready for later retrieval. Almost all websites on the internet use cookies. The content of the respective cookies can vary depending on their function.
Local Storage
In addition to cookies, we also use so-called local storage technology. This involves storing data locally in your browser. This data remains stored even after you close your browser. You can delete your browser’s local storage yourself at any time.
Local storage makes it possible, for example, to retain your user settings for future visits to our site.
Session Storage
Session storage technology is largely identical to local storage technology. However, data stored in session storage is automatically deleted after a user session expires.
Hosting
Cloudflare
We use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) provided by Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 Munich, Germany (Cloudflare), to increase the security and delivery speed of our website. This corresponds to our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). A CDN is a network of [globally] distributed servers capable of delivering optimized content to website users. For this purpose, personal data may be processed in Cloudflare’s server log files. Please refer to the explanations under “Hosting.”
Cloudflare is a recipient of your personal data and acts as a processor for us. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR not to operate a content delivery network ourselves. You have the right to object to the processing. Whether the objection is successful is to be determined as part of a balancing of interests. The processing of the data specified under this section is neither legally nor contractually required. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing. Your personal data will be stored by Cloudflare for as long as is necessary for the described purposes. Further information on options for objection and removal regarding Cloudflare can be found at: Cloudflare DPA
https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare_customer_SCCs-German.pdf
Cloudflare Turnstile
Cloudflare Turnstile (a service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) is an automated detection service that helps us verify whether a request has been sent by a human or a bot. This detection is necessary to prevent spam messages.
Wir verwenden Turnstile um die sichere Verwendung des Kontaktformulars zu gewährleisten. Rechtsgrundlage für diese Art der Datenverarbeitung ist unser berechtigtes Interesse an dem sicheren Betrieb des Kontaktformulars, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.
During this query for verification purposes, Cloudflare processes your IP address on Cloudflare’s servers. Cloudflare processes the data on our behalf on the basis of a data processing agreement between us and Cloudflare. This ensures that the data processing on our behalf is carried out in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation while guaranteeing the protection of the rights of the data subjects. It may happen that the IP address is transmitted to Cloudflare’s American servers. In this case, the standard contractual clauses agreed between us and Cloudflare also apply to safeguard your rights.
You have the right to object to this data processing at any time; in this case, you may under certain circumstances no longer be able to use the contact form.
Cloudflare has submitted to the Privacy Shield agreement between the European Union and the USA and has been certified. Cloudflare thereby undertakes to comply with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. Further information can be found in the linked list of Cloudflare participants below: Teilnehmer Privacy Shield
Further information from the third-party provider regarding data protection can be found on the following website: here
Google Tag Manager
As a marketer, this service allows us to manage website tags through a single interface. The tool that implements the tags is a cookie-less domain and does not collect any personal data itself. The service ensures the triggering of other tags, which in turn may collect data. The service does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it remains in effect for all tracking tags implemented with the service. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de
Google Analytics
Our website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of the web analysis service is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses “cookies.” These are small text files that your web browser stores on your end device and which enable an analysis of website usage. Information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. The server location is usually the USA.
The placement of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize our website and, if applicable, advertising.
IP Anonymization
We use Google Analytics in conjunction with the IP anonymization function. It ensures that Google truncates your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. There may be exceptional cases in which Google transmits the full IP address to a server in the USA and truncates it there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objection to Data Collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the collection of your data during future visits to our website: Disable Google Analytics.
Details on the handling of user data at Google Analytics can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Data Processing
In order to fully comply with legal data protection requirements, we have entered into a data processing agreement with Google.
Demographic Characteristics in Google Analytics
Our website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. It can be used to create reports containing statements on the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. It is not possible to assign the data to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time. This is possible via the ad settings in your Google account or by generally prohibiting the collection of your data by Google Analytics, as explained in the section “Objection to data collection.”