Data protection

Principle

The data you provide on this website (activities, form submissions, activities in the online store, etc.) are used by the website operator and the implementation partners involved exclusively to provide the services offered on the site and to optimize the use and orientation of the website. Personal information that you provide when interacting with the services offered on this website will not be passed on to third parties. In particular, no personal information is sent to the services listed below.

Social media plugin

This website uses a plugin from Addthis Inc. 1595 Spring Hill Rd, Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, which allows easy use of social media and bookmarking services.

The provider of the plugin collects aggregated data about your visit to this website, the browser used, the general geographical position of your device and the use of the plugin for sharing,
archiving and sending content from this website. Addthis uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of this and other websites to be analyzed.

No information is transmitted that can be used for personal identification. This does not apply to data that you actively provide when using the plugin. The aggregated data is made available to advertisers by the plugin operator in order to adapt ads to the user's preferences (targeting). To prevent the processing of your usage data on your browser, you can opt out by clicking on the following link.
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out

Further information can be found at http://www.addthis.com/privacy.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of 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 this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google uses this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Your IP is anonymized before the data is transferred so that it is not possible to trace your location or draw any conclusions about your device and person in this way. The anonymizeIP() function offered by Google Analytics is used for this purpose. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 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 Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Further information can be found at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Google advertising functions

This website uses the Google advertising functions. This includes the collection of extended data to determine your preferences and interests as well as your use of Google AdWords and other advertisements (banners, text ads, etc.). The Google advertising functions use so-called "cookies", text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of this and other websites. This enables the website operator to advertise services and products on the Internet for which you have shown interest on this website (remarketing). The data is also used to provide customized advertisements from advertisers (targeting); this is not limited to the operator of this website. In both cases, the ads can be customized according to geographical, demographic, interest-based or usage-based categories. Traceability to an individual person is not possible for the website operator and no personal data (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers or credit card numbers) is used. You can deactivate your Google Analytics settings for display advertising and customize the ads in the Google Display Network by accessing the ad settings: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads

Further information can be found at https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2549116