Privacy Policy

1. General Information

Data protection is of a particularly high priority for us. We take the private sphere of our visitors very seriously and collect only data that are necessary for optimizing the functionality and usability of our website. In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use appropriate encryption methods in line with the latest technology (e.g. SSL/TLS) and secure technical systems. Hereinafter, we would like to inform about how personal data is processed on our website.

2. Responsible entity (controller)

The controller within the meaning of Article 4 GDPR can be seen within the Imprint.

3. Storage Period

In principle, we store the data of visitors to our online offering for as long as needed to render our service or to the extent that the European body issuing directives and regulations or another legislator stipulates in laws and regulations to which we are subject. In all other cases, we delete per-sonal data once the purpose has been fulfilled, with the exception of data that we need to continue to store to comply with legal obligations (e.g. if retention periods under tax law and trade law require us to keep documents such as contracts and invoices for a certain period of time).

4. Log-Files

When you visit this website or other websites, your browser transmits data to our server. While a connection is established, the following data is recorded for communication between your browser and our server:

 IP address of the requesting computer
 Date and time of the access
 Name, URL, and amount of transferred data from the requested file
 Access status (requested file transferred, not found, etc.)
 Browser type and operating system (if sent by the requesting web browser)
 Web page from which access was obtained (if sent by the requesting web browser)

The data are also stored in our system’s logfiles. These data are not stored together with other personal data of the user. The legal basis for the temporary storage of the data and the logfiles is Article 6 GDPR. The collection of data to make the website available and the storage of the data in logfiles are absolutely essential for the operation of the website. In this instance, therefore, it is not possible for the user to object.

5. Cookies

We use ‘cookies’ on our website to make visiting our website more attractive and to enable certain functions to be used. The use of cookies serves our legitimate interest in making a visit to our website as pleasant as possible and is based on article 6 (1) (f) GDPR and article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Cookies are standard in-ternet technology used to store and retrieve login details and other usage information for all the users of a website. Cookies are small text files that are deposited on your end device. They enable us to store user settings, inter alia, to ensure that our website can be shown in a format tailored to your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of a browser session, i.e. when closing the browser (known as ‘session cookies’). Other cookies remain on the user’s end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognise the browser on the next visit (known as ‘persistent cookies’).

The browser can be set so that the user is informed when cookies are to be stored and can decide whether to accept them in each individual situation, to accept them under certain circumstances, or to exclude them in general. In addition, cookies can be retrospectively deleted to remove data that the website stored on your computer. Deactivating cookies (known as ‘opting out’) can limit our website’s functionality in some respects.

Opt-Out Internet Explorer:
support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

Opt-Out Firefox:
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature

Opt-Out Google Chrome:
support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

Opt-Out Safari:
support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

6. Contacting us

If you communicate a concern or an opinion via E-mail, post, telephone, fax or social media channels, we process the details of your concern for the purpose of processing your request. For this purpose we always uitilize the same communication channel, provided that you do not wish a switch.

7. Data Transfer

We transfer the personal data of visitors to our online offering for internal purposes (e.g. for inter-nal administration or to the HR department so we can meet statutory or contractual obligations). Internal data transfer or the disclosure of data only occurs to the extent necessary, under the pertinent data protection provisions.
It may be necessary for us to disclose personal data for the performance of contracts or to comply with legal obligations. If the data necessary in this regard is not provided to us, it may be the case that the contract cannot be concluded with the data subject.
We transfer data to countries outside the EEA (known as ‘third countries’). This occurs due to the above-mentioned purposes (transfer within the group and/or to other recipients). Transfer is only effected to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations, or on the basis of the consent that the data subject granted prior to this.
In the event of transferring personal data to a country outside the EEA, we ensure that the pro-cessing is legally permissible in the manner we intend. In this case, we have concluded standard data protection clauses including a separate regulation of appropriate technical and organisation-al measures to protect the data of data subjects best possible. A copy of the guarantee used is available at eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/

8. Rights of the data subject

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation you have the following rights:

If your personal data are processed, you have the right to receive information about the data stored about you (Article 15 GDPR).

If incorrect personal data are processed, you have the right to have them corrected (Article 16 GDPR).

Subject to specific requirements, you can request the deletion or restriction of the processing and lodge an objection to the processing (Articles 17, 18 and 21 GDPR).

If you have consented to data processing or if a contract for data processing exists and data processing is carried out using automated processes, you may have the right to withdraw your consent for the future (Article 7 GDPR) and the right to data transferability (Article 20 GDPR).

If you make use of your aforementioned rights, the public authority will check whether the legal requirements for this are met.

You also have the right to complain to a competent authority for data protection.

9. Other Information

We reserve the right to adapt this data privacy statement from time to time so that it always meets the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when new services are introduced. All website visits are subject to the relevant data privacy statement in effect at the time.