Privacy

The protection of your personal data is particularly important to us. Your data is processed by us on the basis of legal provisions (General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679 – hereinafter “GDPR” as well as national data protection regulations).

The controller within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is the operator of this website according to the information in the imprint (also referred to as “We”, “Us” in this privacy policy). There you will also find all necessary contact details for asserting your rights (point 6).

We only process personal data that you provide to us (by visiting our website or through the information you provide in a contact form or newsletter registration), such as: first name, last name, email address, phone number, date of birth/age, gender, bank details (e.g., credit card number, account number), IP address; not all of the specified data types are affected or must be provided in every case. Special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 GDPR are not processed by us on this website.

The processing of your personal data is primarily carried out to fulfill a contract or to implement pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR), as we cannot prepare, conclude, or fulfill a contract with you without this data. Furthermore, processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of third parties (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR), in particular for purposes of operational security of the website, debt management, direct marketing in analog and digital form, customer retention advertising, statistical evaluation, and improvement of our service offering and its quality (for the right of withdrawal, see point 6).

We will only process your personal data to the extent covered by the GDPR. As a rule, your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties. If transmission to third parties should be necessary – for example, to fulfill a contract – this transmission will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR. In this case, we ask you to also observe the privacy policies of these third parties, as they may apply. Excluded from this is the use for statistical and similar purposes; for this purpose, however, no personal data is transmitted, but only anonymized data that does not allow identification of a natural person and cannot be assigned to a specific natural person (see also points 8, 9, 10).

The protection of your personal data is ensured through organizational and technical measures, such as protection against unauthorized access and technical data security precautions.

Please note, however, that despite these efforts, it cannot be completely ruled out that data disclosed by you via the internet could still be viewed and potentially used by other persons. We therefore cannot accept any liability or responsibility for errors in data transmission or unauthorized access by third parties (e.g., hacker attacks, spyware, malware, etc.).

Your personal data will only be retained by us for as long as necessary to fulfill contractual or legal obligations (corresponding retention obligations may arise, for example, in particular from tax law provisions or from provisions on product liability). If this necessity no longer exists, the data will be deleted.

Subject to the existence of any legal confidentiality obligations, you have the right to receive information at any time about your stored personal data, its origin, the purpose of processing, and, if applicable, the recipient of this data. Furthermore, you have the right to request the correction, transfer, restriction of processing, blocking, or deletion of your personal data if it is incorrect or if the basis for data processing no longer applies. You also have the option to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (“protection of legitimate interests”).

We ask you to direct all of these claims to one of the contact options/contact persons disclosed in our website’s imprint.

We point out that any objection has no influence on the permissibility of processing personal data on the basis of other legal grounds under Art. 6 GDPR.

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection regulations or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (according to Art. 77 GDPR).

To design the website according to your needs and to collect certain information, we use various technologies, including so-called cookies. Cookies serve to simplify internet use and communication.

Cookies are small text files that our website sends to your browser and that are stored on your computer to save them there as an anonymous identifier. The purpose of these cookies is, for example, better control of the connection during your visit to our website and more effective support when you return to our website. Without this temporary “caching,” some applications would require previously entered information to be entered again. A cookie only contains the data that a server outputs or/and that the user enters on request (e.g., structure: information on domain, path, expiration date, cookie name and value). Cookies therefore contain purely technical information, no personal data. Cookies also cannot spy on the user’s hard drive, cause damage, or the like.

The following types of cookies may be used:

– Session Cookies: These are automatically deleted when the internet browser is closed.

– Persistent Cookies: These remain stored on your computer for a certain period of time; the duration depends on the stored expiration date.

– Third Party Cookies: These may include cookies from various social media platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, etc.) or other internet service providers (such as Google). These cookies collect information such as time spent, page views, movement via links, etc. They are used, for example, to display certain advertising content that results from search histories, visited websites, and the like. These cookies cannot be read by us.

If you wish, you can generally suppress the storage of cookies (or certain types of cookies) via your web browser or decide whether you want storage via notification or not. However, not accepting cookies may result in some pages no longer being displayed correctly or usability being restricted.

The 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 enable an analysis of your use of the platform. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on the website/platform, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website/platform, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide other services related to website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. 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 this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Google offers to prevent collection by Google Analytics. Please visit the corresponding Google website for this purpose.

The 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 enable an analysis of your use of the platform. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on the website/platform, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website/platform, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide other services related to website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. 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 this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Google offers to prevent collection by Google Analytics. Please visit the corresponding Google website for this purpose.

We must reserve the right to adjust this privacy policy if necessary, for example to reflect legal developments in the area of data protection. The adjusted/amended privacy provisions will then apply to future use of our website. We therefore recommend reviewing them from time to time.