1. Collection, processing and use of personal data
Personal data are only collected if you disclose them to us (e.g., by registering for our newsletter). Otherwise, no personal data will be collected. Your personal data may be processed beyond the statutory authorization conditions only on the basis of your express authorization.
As part of the registration for our newsletter, you provide us with your email address and other optional information. We use these data solely for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. When you register for our newsletter, we store your data until you cancel your subscription to our newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in the newsletter intended for this purpose, or by sending us the appropriate notification. By unsubscribing, you revoke the use of your email address.
2. Use of website’s own “cookies”
This website uses its own “cookies” in order to enhance user-friendliness (“cookies” are data sets that are sent to the user’s browser from the web server, and are stored there for later recall). No personal data are stored in our own “cookies.” You can prevent the use of “cookies” in general if you disallow the storage of “cookies” in your browser.
3. Further information and contacts
Please contact us if you have questions about this Data Privacy Policy. You can find the contact address . You can request if and which data we have stored about you, at any time. Furthermore, you can send us information, requests for deletion and corrections as well as suggestions by .
4. Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (‘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 the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In the event IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will be transmitted to a Google Server in the USA and shortened there only on an exceptional basis. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services to website operators relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted under Google Analytics by your browser with other data held by Google. You may prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, we must advise you that in this case, you might not be able to use all functions of this website to the full extent. You may prevent Google from recording the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to your use of the website (including your IP address), or processing these data by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in available through the following . In view of the discussion on the use of analysis tools with complete IP addresses, we wish to advise you that this website uses Google Analytics with the expansion ‘_anonymizeIp()’; therefore, only abbreviated IP addresses will be further processed, so that a direct connection to the individual user is eliminated.