The responsible person following the Data Protection Acts, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the general manager according to the imprint.

Your Individual Rights

By using the indicated contact data of our privacy officer you can exercise your following rights at every time:

• Information on your recorded data and its handling .
• Correction of incorrect personal data.
• Deletion of your recorded data.
• Limitation of data handling in case we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal restraints.
• Lodging an objection against the handling of your data.
• Data portability, in case you have agreed to the data handling or entered into a contract with us.

Your consent given to us can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future.

In case of complaint you may contact your relevant supervising authority at any time: www.bfdi.bund.de/EN

Purpose of Data Handling by the Responsible Person and Third Parties

Your personal data are only processed for the purposes indicated in this privacy policy. There will be no transfer of your personal data to any third party for other purposes than stated therein. We shall only pass-on your personal data to third parties when:

• you have given corresponding explicit consent.
• the processing is necessary for executing a contract with you.
• the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation.
• the processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and no reason seems to apply that you have a mainly protected interest of non-transmission of your data.

Deletion respectivley Locking of Data

We adhere to the principle of data avoidance and minimization. We are therefore only recording your personal data unless it is necessary to reach the purposes stated herein or as per the numerous storage periods as provided by the lawmakers. After the respective purpose ceases to apply or after those storage periods expire the corresponding data shall be routinely locked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of General Information when Visiting our Website

When entering our website a cookie is automatically collecting general information. This information (Server-logfiles) for example include the kind of webbrowser, the used operating system, the domain-name of your internet-provider and similar but does not allow drawing any conclusions on you.

This information is technically necessary to correctly supply the website-contents required by you and mandatory when using the Internet. In particular it is used:

• to ensure a trouble-free connection of the website
• to ensure a smooth use of our website
• to analyze the security and the stability of the system and
• for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the before indicated purposes of data collection. Your data are not used to draw conclusions on your person. Only the responsible person and if necessary a processor will receive these data.

Where applicable, that kind of anonymous information will be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our web presence and the related technics.

Cookies

Such as many other websites we are also using so called ‘cookies’. Cookies are small text files which are transmitted to your hard drive by a website-server. These cookies automatically supply us with certain data such as IP-address, browser used, operating system und your connection to the internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or to transmit viruses. By means of the information included in the cookies we can facilitate your navigation and allow proper display of our websites.

Under no circumstances we shall pass-on the collected data to any third party or shall link your personal data without your approval.

Of course you can generally view our website without using cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. Usually, the use of cookies can be deactivated at any time via your browser settings. Kindly use the ‘help’-function of your internet browser to see how to change this setting. However, please consider that single applications of our website might not work when you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Contact Form

When contacting us by e-mail or via the contact form with regard to any questions you voluntarily give your permission to communicate with you. This requires the indication of a valid e-mail address which is necessary for proper alignment of the inquiry and the subsequent response. Indicating further data is optional. All indicated data are recorded for the purpose of processing the requirement as well as for possible follow-up questions. After finalization of your requirement personal data will be automatically deleted.

Use of Matomo

This website is using Matomo, a self operated web analysis service.

The purpose of data processing is to analyze the use of the website and to compile reports regarding the website activities. On basis of the use of website and internet further related services shall be furnished. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website owner.

Revision of our Data Protection Regulation

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it continually meets the current legal requirements or in order to incorporate changes in our service, e. g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy applies at your next visit.

Questions to our Responsible Privacy Officer

Please use our contact information.