Privacy Policy 

We collect and use your personal data exclusively in accordance with the provisions of the data protection laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDPR. Below, we provide information about the nature, scope, and purposes of the collection and use of personal data. You can access this information at any time on our website.

For technical reasons, your web browser automatically transmits data to our web server when you access our website. This data includes, among other things, the date and time of access, the URL of the referring website, the file accessed, the amount of data transmitted, the browser type and version, the operating system, and your IP address. This data is stored separately from any other data you enter while using our website. We are unable to link this data to a specific individual. This data is analyzed for statistical purposes and subsequently deleted.

If a contractual relationship between you and us is to be established, defined in detail, or modified, we will collect and use your personal data to the extent necessary for these purposes.

Upon order of the competent authorities, we may, in individual cases, disclose this information (master data) to the extent necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, to prevent threats, to fulfill the statutory duties of the domestic intelligence agencies or the Military Counter-Intelligence Service, or to enforce intellectual property rights.

We collect and use your personal data to the extent necessary to enable you to use our website or to bill you for its use (usage data). This includes, in particular, information used to identify you, as well as details regarding the start and end times and the extent of your use of our website.

For the purposes of advertising, market research, and tailoring our website to your needs, we may create usage profiles using pseudonyms. You have the right to object to this use of your data. We are not permitted to link these usage profiles to data identifying the person behind the pseudonym.

Upon order of the competent authorities, we may, in individual cases, disclose this information (master data) to the extent necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, to prevent threats, to fulfill the statutory duties of the domestic intelligence agencies or the Military Counter-Intelligence Service, or to enforce intellectual property rights.

To expand the functionality of our website and make it more convenient for you to use, we use “cookies.” These cookies allow data to be stored on your computer when you visit our website. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by adjusting the settings in your browser. However, doing so may limit the functionality of our website.

To continuously improve and optimize our services, we use tracking technologies. For this purpose, we use the services of Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer that enable Google to analyze how our website is used. The information collected by the cookie regarding the use of our websites (including your IP address) is generally transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. If IP anonymization is enabled on our websites, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Google will use the aforementioned information to evaluate your use of our websites, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide us with other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Google will only transfer this data to third parties if required by law or in the context of data processing on our behalf. Under no circumstances will Google combine your data with other data collected by Google.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data collected about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purposes stated. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all features of our website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of these websites (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
For more information about Google Analytics and data protection, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.