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Data Protection Declaration

DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

We are aware of the fact that the protection of your private sphere is an important concern to you when using our websites. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Therefore we would like you to know when we store which data and how we use it. Therefore with this Data Protection Declaration we would like to inform you of the measures we apply to protect your data.

RIGHT OF ACCESS AND RECTIFICATION

You have to right to check and rectify all your personal data that is stored by us if in your opinion they are out-of-date or incorrect. Here an email to the email address stated in the Legal Notice is sufficient.

RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL

You are entitled to withdraw your consent for the use of personal data at any time with effect for the future. Here an email to the email address stated in the Legal Notice is sufficient.

STORING DATA (DATA RETENTION)

We store personal data as long as it is required to provide the service that you have requested or consented to provided there are no legal obligations to the contrary such as ongoing court cases.

USE OF COOKIES

In some areas of the website so-called cookies are used so that we can make a more individualised service available to you. Cookies are identifiers that a web server can send to your computer in order to identify it for the duration of your visit. Most browsers are set in such a way that they automatically accept cookies. However, you can also deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the placement of cookies. If cookies are not only stored for the duration of the respective session and then automatically deleted but retained on your computer in the long term, you will be informed when such cookies are set.

SAFETY

We employ technical and organisational safety measures in order to protect the data made available by you from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. In the event that personal data is collected or processed, the information is transmitted in encrypted form in order to prevent misuse of data by third parties. Our safety measures are constantly being revised in line with technological developments.

CHILDREN

The protection of children’s privacy is an important topic for us. For this reason, we do not collect, process or use any data on our website of persons that we know are under the age of 13 without first having obtained the verifiable consent from a legal guardian. On request, the legal guardians can view the information provided by their child or request that it be deleted.

ADAPTATIONS

The constant development of the internet makes adaptations to our data protection declaration necessary from time to time. We reserve the right to implement corresponding changes at any time.

DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION FOR THE USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies“, text files, that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis to be made on the use of the website by you. The information on your use of this website generated by the cookie is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address, however, is first shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contract states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases is your full IP address transmitted to the Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information in order to assess your use of the website, compile reports on the website‘s activities and provide further services connected with the use of the website and the internet to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent cookies being stored by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to make you aware of the fact that in this case you might not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. In addition you can prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being collected by Google as well as being processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.