Data protection notice
The responsible body as defined by the current data protection laws and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in particular shall be:
Ralph Becker, Benno Daum von der Heyden
Your data protection rights
Under the specified contact data of our data protection officer you are entitled to exercise the following rights at any time:
If you have given your consent, you are, at any time, entitled to withdraw your permission for the future.
At any time you can submit a complaint to the responsible regulatory authority. Your responsible regulatory authority depends on the federal state of your place of residence, your workplace, or the presumed violation. You can find a list of the competent regulatory authorities (for the private sector) including the respective address under: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Purposes of data processing by the responsible authority and by third parties
Any personal data you give is only processed for the purposes mentioned in the present data protection notice. We will not communicate your personal data to any third party for any other purposes than those mentioned here. We will only communicate your personal data to any third party, if:
the processing of your data is necessary to safeguard any legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that your own legitimate interests in the non-communication of your personal data is paramount to the legitimate interests of other parties.
Deleting or blocking data
We follow the principles of avoiding and saving data. Therefore, your personal data will only be stored until the purposes stated here have been fulfilled or until the storage periods provided by the legislation have expired. After the respective purpose has ceased to apply or the respective period has expired, the data in question will be blocked or deleted in a routine fashion and in accordance with statutory regulations.
Use of cookies
Like many other websites we also use cookies. Cookies are small text files transmitted from a website server to your hard disk. These cookies provide us automatically with certain data such as e.g. your IP, the browser you are using, your operating system, and the nature of your internet connection.
Cookies cannot be used to start software programs or to infect your computer with a virus. The information contained in the cookies will help you to navigate our website and make sure the website is displayed properly.
Under no circumstances will the collected data be forwarded to any third party or linked to any personal data without your consent.
It goes without saying that you can also look at our website without the use of cookies. Internet browsers have usually been set up to accept cookies. As a general rule you may deactivate the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to learn how to change this setting. Please be aware that certain features of our website may not work if you deactivated the use of cookies.
SSL encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Contact form
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail or the available contact form, or give us your consent to contact you. For this we need you to give us a valid e-mail address. This is necessary to properly allocate your request and to respond to the same. Further data may be disclosed as an option. The information you disclosed will be stored for the purpose of processing your request and any possible follow-up questions. Upon completion of your request your personal data will be deleted automatically.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a Google Inc. (hereinafter called Google) web analysis service. Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. text files stored on your computer permitting to analyze your use of the website. The information the cookie generates on your use of the website will normally be transmitted to a Google server located in the USA and stored there. Due to the activation of the IP anonymization function on these websites, Google will first shorten your IP in the EU member countries or in other countries which entered into this agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in certain exceptions the full IP is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the provider of this website Google will use the information to evaluate the use of the website by you to compile reports on your activities with respect to the website and to provide other services related to the use of the website and the internet for the benefit of the website provider. The IP transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be linked to any other Google data.
The purposes of data processing lie in the evaluation of the use of the website and in the compiling of reports on activities performed on the website. On the basis of the website and internet use other associated services are supposed to be provided. Processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website provider.
With a respective setting in your browser software you can prevent the storage of cookies. However, we would like to direct your attention to the fact that you may not be able to use all features of the website in question to their full extent. On top of that, you may prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie in relation to your use of the website (incl. the transmission of your IP to Google) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin made available under the following link: Browser Add On zur Deaktivierung von Google Analytics.
In addition to that or as an alternative for the browser add-on you may suppress the tracking function of Google Analytics on our websites by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your system that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website and for this browser in the future as long as this cookie is installed in your browser.
Use of script libraries (Google web fonts)
To show our content across various different browsers in a correct and graphically attractive fashion, we use script libraries and font libraries on our websites such as e.g. Google web fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google web fonts are transmitted into the cache of your browser to prevent multiple loading. If the browser does not support or blocks access to the Google web fonts, the content will be displayed in a standard font.
Accessing script or font libraries will automatically trigger a connection to the library provider. Here, there is the theoretic possibility of the provider collecting data, although we do not know whether or for what purposes this will happen.
The data protection guidelines of the Google library provider can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Embedded YouTube videos
On some of our websites you will find embedded YouTube video. Provider of the respective plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. Every time you visit a website with the YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is effected. Thus, YouTube will learn what sites you are visiting. When you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube is able to allocate your surfing habits to your very person. You can prevent this from happening by logging off your YouTube account first.
When a YouTube video is launched, the provider will use cookies to collect data on the surfing habits of the user.
Those who deactivated the storage of cookies for the program Google Ad, should not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also includes non-personal user information in other cookies. To prevent this, you have to block the storage of cookies in your browser.
For more info on data protection with respect to YouTube please refer to the data protection notice of the provider: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Modification of our data protection regulations
We reserve the right to adjust the present data protection notice so the notice will always comply with the applicable statutory requirements or to implement any possible modifications of our services into the data protection notice, e.g. when introducing new services. For your next visit, the new data protection notice shall apply.
Questions directed to the data protection officer
Should you have any questions on data protection please write an e-mail or directly contact the persons in our organization responsible for data protection issues:
Ralph Becker, Benno Daum von der Heyden
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