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The following explains the actions we take when you visit our website – naturally in compliance with applicable data security regulations, which information we collect and how we process it.
The most important data privacy information can be found below. We have organized the information by topic. The contact details of the person responsible in terms of data protection laws and provider of this website can be found in the Disclaimer.

Server log files

For security reasons (e. g. hacker attempts against our website) we store data related to each individual access to our webspace.

The only personal information we collect when you visit our websites is the information your browser communicates to our servers. When you browse our website, we collect the information required on the technical side to display our website and to ensure stability and security. The following information (called server log file) is collected:


This information is also in the system’s log files. This information is not stored together with other personal information.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interests pursued by the person in charge). This data is deleted on a weekly basis.

Deletion / Blocking of data

We adhere to the principle of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy and/or in regards to legal requirements. After discontinuation of the respective purpose or expiration of legal deadlines, the corresponding data will be (in accordance with the statutory provisions)
blocked or deleted.

Your rights to access to information, to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, and right to object

You have the right to receive information about your personal data stored by us at any time. Likewise, you have the right to correction, restriction of processing, or deletion of your personal data (if there is no contradicting legal obligation regarding the storage of certain information).

For data to be blocked, these data must be stored in a log file. You can also request the deletion of the data, as long as there is no legal archiving obligation. As far as such an obligation exists, we block your data on request. You can make changes or revoke your consent by notifying us with effect for the future.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure that it complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, for example when introducing new services. Your visit to our website after such a change will be subject to the new Privacy Policy.

Advertisement

We use outside ad companies to display ads. These ads may contain cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process and are collected by certain ad companies, and we do not have access to this information. We use Google AdX and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

1. Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our website.

Refusing and removing cookies
At all times, you may adjust your computer's web browser settings to refuse cookies (Click “Help” in the toolbar of most browsers for instructions) or allow only cookies which originate from this site (which not set any cookies by itself (except a cookie which stores the "Cookie Consent" response).
You can also remove all cookies from your computer – or specific cookies that you wish to remove –by opening your internet browser's settings and finding the privacy or content settings.

We may allow third-parties, advertising companies, and ad networks, to display advertisements on our site. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with their advertisements. Our website does not provide any personal information to these third parties, but they may collect information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the advertisements they deliver, and possibly associate this information with your subsequent visits to the advertised websites. They also may combine this information with personal information they collect from you. The collection and use of that information is subject to the third-party’s privacy policy. This information allows them to deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness.

2. Web Beacons

Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies. Unlike cookies which are stored on the user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on the web pages (or in email) and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Web beacons may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages and to understand usage patterns. We also may include web beacons in promotional or other e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. We also may receive an anonymous identification number if you come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website.

3. NAI/IAB

We are compliant with the policies of several industry groups that focus on effective communication, best practices, and policy review in the field of Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA). These organizations include the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). We are compliant with both the NAI and DAA self-regulatory codes.

Tracking

This site does not use tracking tools like Google Analytics or the freeware Matomo (formerly Piwik).