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Data protection declaration

The person responsible within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO), is:

Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored with us and their processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
  • Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
  • Deletion of your data stored with us (Art. 17 DSGVO),
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
  • opposition to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
  • Data transferability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can always submit a complaint to a supervisory authority, e.g. to the competent supervisory authority of your state of residence or to the authority responsible for us as the responsible body.

A list of the regulatory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

use of Google Analytics

If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

For more information on terms of use and privacy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

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 further services to the website operator in connection with website and internet use.

The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. User ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

Cancellation of consent:

You can stop tracking by Google Analytics on our website by click this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

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You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.

Use of script libraries (Google Webfonts)

To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across all browsers, we use "Google Web Fonts" from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google") on this website to display fonts.

For more information about Google Web Fonts, please see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Embedded YouTube videos

On our website we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, a connection to servers of YouTube is established. This tells YouTube which pages you visit. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by first logging out of your YouTube account.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

For further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider's privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

Cancellation of consent:

The provider currently does not offer the possibility for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you wish to prevent the tracking of your activities on our website, please use the Cookie Content Tool to revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or for all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website, or only to a limited extent.

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Google AdWords

Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The company operating the Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will place a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.

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If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, cookies cannot be tracked through the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected through the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for advertisers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

More detailed information about data processing by Google can be found in the Google data protection information: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection center.

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Cancellation of consent:

The provider currently does not offer the possibility for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you wish to prevent the tracking of your activities on our website, please use the Cookie Content Tool to revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or for all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website, or only to a limited extent.

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SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.


Information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 DSGVO

Right of objection in individual cases

You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you, which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6, paragraph 1, letter f) DPA (data processing based on a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DPA.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can prove that there are compelling reasons for processing which are worthy of protection and which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Recipient of an objection

Change of our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always meets the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then apply to your next visit.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please write us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

The privacy policy was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (Version #2020-09-30).