Data Protection Statement


We attach great important to protecting your data and safeguarding your private life. That is why we have provided you with the following information about the way personal data is collected and utilized when using our website.

Collection of Anonymous Data
You can visit our website without disclosing any personal details. We do not save any personal data in this context. In order to improve our service, we use purely statistical data that cannot be related to individuals.

Collection and processing when using the contact form
When using the contact form, we collect personal data (individual details concerning the personal or factual circumstances of a specific or determinable natural person) within a scope solely provided by you. We only use your e-mail address to process your inquiry. Your data is then deleted, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Collection, processing, and use of personal data
We collect personal data (individual details concerning the personal or factual circumstances of a specific or determinable natural person) within a scope solely defined by you. The processing and use of your personal data only takes place in order to fulfill and handle your order, and to process your inquiries. After the completion of the contractual handling, all personal data will initially be stored in compliance with compulsory tax and commercial retention periods. After the expiry of such periods, all personal data will be deleted, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Transfer of personal information
Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express permission. The sole exceptions to this are our service provision partners, who we need in order to implement the contractual relationship. In these cases, we will strictly observe the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz). The amount of data transmitted is kept to an absolute minimum.

Data protection Statement for the use of Facebook plugins (Like button)
Plugins from the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA) have been integrated into our website. You can recognize Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like button” (“Gefällt mir” in German) on our website. An overview of the various Facebook plugins can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our website, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This means that Facebook receives the information that you have visited our website with, such as your IP address. When you click on the Facebook “Like button” while logged into your Facebook account, you can link to the content of our website to your Facebook profile. This means that Facebook can attribute your visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as a website provider, have no knowledge of the content of the data transferred or its use by Facebook. You can find further information on this in Facebook’s Data Protection Statement which can be found at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you would prefer Facebook not to be able to attribute your visit to our website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Data Protection Statement for the use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information about your use of the website that is produced by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

The full IP address will only be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities, and to provide other services associated with the website and Internet use to the website operator. The IP address transferred as part of Google Analytics by your browser is not combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent cookies being saved by changing the settings of your browser software accordingly; however, please note that this may lead to you not being able to make full use of all the functions of this website. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by cookies and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Cookies
Our website uses so-called cookies at various points. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They help us to make our service more user friendly, effective, and safe. Cookies also enable our systems to recognize your browser and to offer you services. Cookies do not contain any personal data.

Use of Google Inc.’s remarketing or “similar target groups” function
The provider uses the remarketing or “similar target groups” function provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). The provider can use this function to target advertising at visitors to the website by showing visitors to the website personalized advertisements related to their interests, if they visit other websites in the Google Display Network. Google uses cookies in order to analyze web usage, which forms the basis for the creation of interest-related advertisements. To do so, Google saves a small file with a numerical sequence in the browsers of visitors to the website. This number is used to record visits to the website and anonymized data about their use of the website. The personal data of visitors to the website is not saved. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display Network, you will be shown advertisements that are highly likely to take into consideration previously accessed products and information. You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by going to the following link and downloading and installing the plugin provided: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers by visiting the deactivation site of the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and by following the opt out instructions. Further information on Google remarketing and Google’s Data Protection Statement can be found at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Use of Google AdWords conversion tracking
We use the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking as part of Google AdWords. Google conversion tracking is an analysis service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). When you click on an advertisement placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is stored on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity and contain no personal data, and therefore cannot be used for personal identification. If you visit particular pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that you have clicked on the website and have been directed to this page.

Every Google AdWords customer gets a different cookie. This means that there is no possibility that cookies can be traced via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained by means of the conversion cookie is used for creating conversion statistics for those AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. This means that customers are informed of the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisements and are redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that allows users to be individually identified.

If you would prefer not to participate in tracking, you can refuse this type of use by adjusting your browser software so as to prevent the installation of cookies (deactivation option). You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information and for Google’s Data Protection Statement can be found at: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

Data Protection Statement for use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information about your use of the website that is produced by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities, and to provide other services associated with the website and Internet use to the website operator. The IP address transferred as part of Google Analytics by your browser is not combined with other data from Google. You can prevent cookies being saved by changing the settings of your browser software accordingly; however, please note that this may lead to you not being able to make full use of all the functions of this website. You can also prevent the collection of the data created by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google, and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Data Protection Statement for the use of Google AdSense
This website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google AdSense uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and allow use of the website to be analyzed. Google AdSense uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons evaluate information such as user traffic on these sites.

The information about the use of this website (including your IP address) produced by cookies, web beacons, and the delivery of advertising formats will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be passed on by Google to Google’s contractual partners. Google will not, however, connect your IP address with other data saved by you.

You can prevent the cookies being installed by changing the settings of your browser software accordingly; however, please note that this may lead to you not being able to make full use of all the functions of this website. By using this website you are declaring your consent to the processing of the data concerning you that Google collects in the manner and for the purpose described above.

Data Protection Statement for the use of Google +1

Collection and transfer of information:
You can use the Google +1 button to publish information worldwide. You and other users can receive personalized content from Google and our partners via the Google +1 button. Google saves both the information that you have provided for +1 content, and the information about the websites that you have viewed when clicking on +1. Your +1s can be shown together with your profile name and your photograph in Google services, such as in the search results, on your Google profile, or elsewhere on websites and advertisements on the Internet. Google records information about your +1 activities in order to improve Google services for you and others. In order to be able use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile which must as a minimum contain the name chosen for the profile. This name is used for all Google services. In some cases, this name may also replace another name you may have used when sharing content via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be shown to users who know your e-mail address or who are in possession of other identifying information.

Use of the information collected:
In addition to the types of use outlined above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google data protection policies. Google may publish summarized statistics about the +1 activities of users or pass this on to users and partners, such as publishers, interested parties, or associated websites.

Sources: Facebook Data Protection Statement, Google Analytics Data Protection Statement, ,Google +1 Data Protection Statement
This website uses CMS software for statistical evaluation of page hits by users. The software uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information produced by the cookie concerning your use of this Internet service will be saved on the provider’s server in Germany. The IP address will be anonymized immediately after being processed and before being saved. You can prevent cookies being installed by changing the settings of your browser software accordingly; however, please note that this may lead to you not being able to make full use of all the functions of this website.