Data Protection

Thank you for your visit to our website and your interest in our company. Protecting your personal data is a responsibility we take very seriously. We want you to know when we collect data, what type of information we compile and how we use it. Under no circumstances is the data we collect ever sold or otherwise shared with third parties.

 

Cookies

We use cookies on a number of pages to make visiting our website more attractive and enable the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files that your browser may store on your computer in a process known as “setting a cookie.” You can customize your browser settings to be informed when cookies are set, to decide whether to accept them on a case-by-case basis or to accept or reject all cookies. Cookies can be used for various purposes, such as to detect whether your PC has ever accessed a particular online service before (persistent cookies) or to save previously viewed content (session cookies).
Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive when the browser session ends (session cookies), whereas others remain on your computer to enable us to recognize it upon your next visit (persistent cookies).
The manner in which we use cookies puts you at no disadvantage or risk whatsoever. To use our convenience functions, we recommend that you accept cookies for our website.

Inquiries

If you send us an email or a message using our feedback form, we will collect, store and process your data only to the extent needed for the processing of inquiries in particular and our correspondence in general.
If your email is confidential in nature, we strongly urge you to encrypt it in order to protect it against unauthorized access or changes during transmission. If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on our website, please be advised that any data entered into the newsletter registration screen will be used exclusively for the purpose of directing our newsletter, which contains information on all of our services. Once your registration is complete, we will send you a confirmation email containing a link on which you must click in order to finalize the order (“double opt-in”). By clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link, the registration may be undone at any time.

Facebook

This website uses plug-ins produced by the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). When you visit a page on our website that contains this plug-in, a connection is made to Facebook's web servers which then instructs your browser to display the plug-in on such page. In this way information about which of our pages you have visited is passed on to Facebook.
If you are a Facebook member and are also logged in, Facebook will associate this information with your personal Facebook account. When you use the plugin functions (by clicking the “Like” button or entering a comment, for example), this information will also be assigned to your Facebook account. You can only prevent this by logging out before using the plugin. Additional information about how Facebook gathers and uses data, as well as your on pertinent rights and how you can protect your privacy, can be found in Facebook's privacy section.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google.
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how users make use of the site. The information generated by cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
However, if what is known as “IP anonymization” is activated on the website, Google will first truncate the IP address within the member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Treaty of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA before being truncated. Acting on behalf of the owner of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website to generate reports on the activities on this website and to provide other services relating to Internet activity and usage to the website owner. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting your browser software; however, we point out that in this case may, you may not be able to use all features of this website.
In addition, you can block the transmission to Google of data captured by cookies with regard to your use of this
website (including the IP address) and may further prevent Google from processing this data by downloading and installing this browser plug-in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. For more information, please visit: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information on Google Analytics and data protection). Please be advised that, on this website, Google Analytics was expanded by the code gat._anonymizeIp(); in order to ensure the anonymized capture of IP addresses (so-called "IP masking").

Disclosure / additional information

Under Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, Germany’s federal privacy act, you are entitled to receive information about your stored personal data and may demand that such data be corrected, blocked or deleted. The deletion of your data is subject to applicable law. Moreover, you are entitled to revoke our authorization to use your personal data at any time. You may direct requests for information, or for the deletion or correction of your personal data, to the appropriate contact listed in “Contact us.”