We attach great importance to the protection of your data and the preservation of your privacy. Below we inform you about the collection and use of personal data when using our website.

Anonymous data collection

You can visit our website without giving any personal information. We do not store any personal data in this context. In order to improve our offer, we only evaluate statistical data that does not allow any conclusion to your person.

Data collection when writing a comment

We collect personally identifiable information as part of your comments on an article or contribution only to the extent that you have communicated.

When you publish your comment, the email address you provided will not be published, just the name you provided.

Collection, processing and use of personal data

We collect personal data (details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person) only in the scope provided by you.

The processing and use of your personal data takes place to fulfill and process your order and to process your requests.

After completion of the contract, all personal data is first stored under consideration of tax and commercial retention periods and then deleted after the deadline, unless you have consented to the further processing and use.

Use of the email address for sending newsletters

Regardless of the contract, we use your email address solely for our own promotional purposes for the newsletter, unless you have expressly consented to this.

Your informed consent is as follows:

"Subscribe to Newsletter"
or
"Sign in to Newsletter" in the registration processen

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by message to us, the contact details can be found in our imprint.

Your email address will be deleted afterwards.

Disclosure of personal data

A transfer of your data to third parties without your express consent is not. Excluded from this are only our service partners, which we need to process the contractual relationship. In these cases, we strictly comply with the requirements of the Federal Data Protection Act. The amount of data transmission is limited to a minimum.

Cookies

Our website uses at several locations so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser. They serve to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser and offer you services. Cookies do not contain personal data.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if required by law or as far as third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

Google has agreed that under no circumstances will your IP address be associated with any other information that Google collects. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, please be aware that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Verwendung der Google „+1“-Schaltfläche

These sites use the "+1" button on Google Inc.'s Google Plus, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA ("Google") social network. If you call up a "+1" button on our website, you will be connected to the Google servers in the US and the button will be displayed on the website by a message to your browser. Here, both your IP address and the information on which of our website you have visited, sent to the Google server. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in to Google Plus. Even with unregistered or not logged in users will be transmitted. The "+1" button is not used to track your visits to the Internet. Google does not permanently log your browsing history when you see a "+1" button and does not otherwise evaluate your visit to a page with a "+1" button. Google stores about two weeks of data about your visit for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. However, this data is not structured according to individual profiles, usernames or URLs and will not be forwarded to us.

In addition, if you are a member of Google Plus and logged in to Google Plus at the time you use the plug-in, the information you collect about your website visit will be linked to your Google Plus account and shared with other users. Also in the case of interactions that are possible with the various Google plugins, the information about you will be collected and transmitted to Google and stored. An overview of the different types of Google Plugins can be viewed here:

https://developers.google.com/+/plugins

If you've made your profile public in Google Plus's settings, Google may include your "+1s" as references along with your profile name and photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or other sites on websites and advertisements on the Internet. If you do not want Google to map the collected information directly to your Google Plus profile, you'll need to log out of Google Plus before visiting our page.

For more information about how Google collects and uses your data, your rights and ways to protect your privacy, see the Google Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.

You also have the option of installing Google Add-ons in your browser to prevent downloading Google Plugins.

Use of Facebook plugins

This website uses plugins from the social network facebook.com operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").

If you call up Internet pages with such a plugin, a connection to the Facebook servers will be established and the plugin will be displayed on the website by a message to your browser. This will be transmitted to the Facebook server, which of our websites you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Facebook, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plugin functions (for example, clicking on the "Like" button, submitting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plugin. For more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, about your rights in this regard and ways to protect your privacy, see the privacy policy of Facebook.

Use of Addthis plugins

These websites use "Addthis" plugins provided by AddThis LLC, Inc. 8000 West Park Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210, USA; hereinafter called AddThis LLC. With the "Addthis" plug-in, AddThis LLC enables the use of so-called sharing fields (sharebuttons) with which one can recommend the individual internet pages via social networks on the Internet or save them with different bookmark providers (bookmarking service). The different Addthis logos containing the plugin can be viewed at the following link: https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing

If you visit our internet presence with such a plugin, a connection will be made to the AddThis servers in the USA and the plugin will be displayed on the website by a message to your browser. Both your IP address and the information on which of our web pages you have visited are transmitted to the AddThis server. In that regard, it comes to the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files stored locally in the cache of the site visitor's Internet browser. Cookies enable recognition of the Internet browser. AddThis LLC uses this data to create anonymized user profiles. These are used to tailor online offers even better to the respective needs.

Further information on the collection and processing of the data transmitted by AddThis LLC can be viewed at http://ww.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

You may object to the collection and storage of data by AddThis LLC at any time with future effect by setting a so-called "opt-out cookie" on the website: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out.

You also have the option of installing Add-ons in your browser to prevent the loading of Addthis plug-ins.

Use of Twitter plugins

On our website the functions of the service Twitter are included.

Twitter is a social media portal of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, (USA).

We use Twitter plugins. If you visit a corresponding website containing such a plugin, the data will be exchanged with the Twitter servers in the US.

Also in the case of interactions that are possible with the various Twitter plugins, the information about you will be collected and transmitted to Twitter and stored.

If you are also a member of Twitter and during the time you use the plugin, logged in to Twitter, the information collected about your website visit will be linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users.

If you do not want Twitter to link and merge the information with your Twitter account data, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website.

For more information about how Twitter collects and uses data, please visit https://twitter.com/privacy.

Access, rectification, blocking and deletion of data

You have the right to free information about your stored data as well as the right to correction, deletion or blocking at any time. Contact us on request. The contact details can be found in our imprint.

Liability

Although we promise to do our best to protect our privacy, we do not assume any liability.