Privacy Policy

1. Privacy at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below.

What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Data?

You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

2. Controller

The controller for data processing on this website is:

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

3. Data Collection on This Website

General Website Use

When you visit our website, our system automatically collects data and information from the calling end device. The following data is collected: IP address, requested file names, date and time of the request, data volume transferred, browser type and version, operating system, referrer URL, and screen resolution.

Processing this data is technically necessary to display the website to you and to ensure stability and security. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (pre-contractual measures) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in processing your enquiry).

Enquiry by E-Mail or Telephone

If you contact us by e-mail or telephone, your enquiry including all resulting personal data (name, enquiry) will be stored and processed for the purpose of handling your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

4. Cookies

Our website uses so-called "cookies". Cookies are small data packets that do not cause any harm to your device. They are stored either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (persistent cookies) on your device.

Where cookies are used for technically necessary purposes, this is done on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. For all other cookies, your consent is required in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

5. Hosting and CDN

Cloudflare

We use the Content Delivery Network of Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Cloudflare operates a globally distributed content delivery network with DNS. The data traffic between your browser and our servers is routed through the Cloudflare network, enabling analysis and filtering of malicious data traffic.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the secure and reliable provision of our online offering). Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).

6. Analytics and Advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics enables us to analyse the behaviour of visitors to our website, including page views, dwell time, and operating systems used.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent, revocable at any time). Google is certified under the EU-US DPF.

Google Ads

We use Google Ads to place advertisements. Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent).

7. Newsletter

If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter.

We use Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin) to send and evaluate our newsletters. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent, revocable at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter).

8. Your Rights

Access, Rectification and Erasure

Within the scope of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing and, where applicable, the right to correct or delete this data. You can contact us at any time regarding this and other questions on the subject of personal data.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place of the alleged violation.

Objection to Advertising Emails

The use of contact data published as part of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby objected to. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam emails.

9. SSL/TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser bar. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.