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Data protection

The protection of your personal data during the collection, processing and use on the occasion of your visit to our homepage is very important to us. Your data will be protected within the framework of the legal regulations. Below you will find information about which data is recorded during your visit to the homepage and how it is used:

Responsible body

Responsible body in terms of data protection laws (see sidebar). If you have any questions about data protection, or would like to exercise rights or claims to your personal data, please send us an email using the support form.

1. Collection and processing of data

Every access to our homepage and every retrieval of a file stored on the homepage are logged. The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following are logged: name of the file called up, date and time of the call, amount of data transferred, notification of successful call-up, web browser and requesting domain.

Further personal data is only recorded if you provide this information voluntarily, e.g. as part of an inquiry or registration.

2. Use and disclosure of personal data

If you have provided us with personal data, we will only use this to answer your inquiries, to process contracts concluded with you and for technical administration.

Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties or otherwise transmitted if this is necessary for the purpose of contract processing - in particular passing on order data to suppliers - this is necessary for billing purposes or you have given your prior consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

The stored personal data will be deleted if you revoke your consent to storage, if your knowledge is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which it was stored, or if your storage is not permitted for other legal reasons.

3. Right to information

On written request, we will be happy to inform you about the data stored about you.

4. Consent, right of withdrawal and right of objection

Insofar as we use data for a purpose that requires your consent in accordance with the statutory provisions, we will always ask for your express consent and record your consent in accordance with data protection regulations. You can revoke a given consent at any time with effect for the future and / or object to future use of your data for purposes of advertising, market and opinion research. A simple message to us is sufficient to revoke your consent or to object. You can use the contact details given above without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariff.

Security advice:

We endeavor to save your personal data by taking all technical and organizational possibilities so that they are not accessible to third parties. When communicating by email, we cannot guarantee complete data security, so we recommend that you send confidential information by post.

Google Analytics (optional)

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the plug-in available under the following link : (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We would like to point out that on this website, Google Analytics has been expanded to include the code "gat._anonymizeIp ();" in order to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

In view of the discussion about the use of analysis tools with full IP addresses, we would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()" and therefore IP addresses are only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude direct personal reference.

Disclaimer of liability

1. Despite careful content control, we cannot accept any liability for external links to third-party content.

2. The information is provided free of charge and published by us to the best of our knowledge and belief. Despite careful examination, errors in the information and technical problems with the provider can occur. Therefore, please inform yourself thoroughly before a possible purchase / conclusion of a contract on the provider`s website. Liability on our part is excluded to the extent that this is legally possible.

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