Privacy Policy

Data Protection

The oper­a­tors of this web­site take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very seri­ous­ly. We treat your per­son­al data con­fi­den­tial­ly and accord­ing to the legal data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy.

The use of our web­site is gen­er­al­ly pos­si­ble with­out pro­vid­ing per­son­al data. Per­son­al data, such as names, address­es or email address­es, are always pro­vid­ed on a vol­un­tary basis when pos­si­ble. Those data will not be passed on to third par­ties with­out your explic­it per­mis­sion.

How­ev­er, we would like to point out that data trans­mis­sions via inter­net (e.g. email com­mu­ni­ca­tion) can­not be entire­ly secure and may have secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties. A com­plete pro­tec­tion of per­son­al details against unau­tho­rized access by third par­ties is not pos­si­ble.

Cookies

This web­site par­tial­ly uses so-called cook­ies. Cook­ies do not cause dam­age to your com­put­er and do not con­tain virus­es. Cook­ies allow us to make our prod­uct more user-friend­ly, more effi­cient and more secure. Cook­ies are small text files, stored by your brows­er on your com­put­er.

Most cook­ies that we use are so-called “ses­sion cook­ies”. They will be delet­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly after the end of your vis­it. Oth­er cook­ies remain on your ter­mi­nal device until you delete them. Those cook­ies enable us to rec­og­nize your brows­er on your next vis­it.

You can adjust your brows­er to inform you when cook­ies are placed, to indi­vid­u­al­ly allow cook­ies, or to gen­er­al­ly exclude cook­ies in cer­tain cas­es, as well as to acti­vate the auto­mat­ic dele­tion of cook­ies when clos­ing the brows­er. The deac­ti­va­tion of cook­ies may impair the func­tion­al­i­ty of this web­site.

For more Infor­ma­tion on cook­ies, please refer to our Cook­ie Pol­i­cy.

Server-log-files

The provider of these web­sites auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­lects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-called serv­er log files which your brows­er auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­mits to us, such as:

• brows­er  type/version
• used oper­at­ing sys­tem
• refer­rer URL
• host name of the access­ing com­put­er
• time of query

Those data can­not be asso­ci­at­ed with indi­vid­ual per­sons. We do not merge this data with oth­er sources. We reserve the right to ret­ro­spec­tive­ly check the data if there is any indi­ca­tion of ille­gal use.

Contact form

If you send enquiries to us via the con­tact form, your data entered into the con­tact form, includ­ing the stat­ed con­tact infor­ma­tion, are stored for the pur­pose of deal­ing with your enquiry and in case of addi­tion­al enquiries. Those data will not be passed on with­out your per­mis­sion.

Newsletter

If you would like to receive the newslet­ter offered on our web­site, we require your email address as well as infor­ma­tion which allows us to check that you are the own­er of the pro­vid­ed email address and that you agree to receive the newslet­ter. Fur­ther data will not be col­lect­ed. We use those data exclu­sive­ly for send­ing the request­ed infor­ma­tion and do not trans­mit them to third par­ties.

Per­mis­sion giv­en for the stor­age of the data and the email address, as well as their use for the pur­pose of send­ing the newslet­ter, can be with­drawn at any time via the “Unsubscribe”-link with­in the newslet­ter.

Google Analytics

This web­site uses Google Ana­lyt­ics, a web­site analy­sis ser­vice by Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Ana­lyt­ics uses so-called “cook­ies”, text files that are stored on your com­put­er to ana­lyze your use of the web­site. The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie about your use of this web­site is usu­al­ly sent to and stored at a Google serv­er in the U.S.A.

You will find more infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the treat­ment of user data by Google Ana­lyt­ics in Google’s Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Brows­er Plu­g­in

You may pre­vent the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by adjust­ing the set­tings of your brows­er; how­ev­er, if you do so, you may be unable to use all fea­tures of this web­site. Fur­ther, you may pre­vent the col­lec­tion of data gen­er­at­ed by cook­ies (includ­ing your IP address) and relat­ed to the use of these web­sites, as well as the pro­cess­ing of such data by Google, by down­load­ing and installing the plu­g­in under the fol­low­ing link:  http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Pro­cess­ing of Order Data

We have entered into a con­tract with Google con­cern­ing the pro­cess­ing of order data and ful­ly com­ply with the strict pro­vi­sions of Ger­man Data Pro­tec­tion Author­i­ties when using Google Ana­lyt­ics.

IP-anonymiza­tion

We use the func­tion “Acti­vate IP anonymiza­tion”. Through this, your IP address will be short­ened in advance with­in the mem­ber states of the Euro­pean Union or oth­er con­trac­tu­al states of the Treaty on the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area. Only in excep­tion­al cas­es, your com­plete IP address will be trans­mit­ted to a serv­er in the U.S.A. and short­ened there. Com­mis­sioned by the oper­a­tors of this web­site, Google will use this infor­ma­tion to eval­u­ate your use of the web­site, to com­pile reports on web­site activ­i­ties for web­site oper­a­tors and to pro­vide oth­er ser­vices relat­ed to web­site and inter­net activ­i­ties. Google will not merge your IP address with any oth­er data held by Google.

WordPress Stats

This web­site uses Word­Press Tool Stats to sta­tis­ti­cal­ly eval­u­ate vis­i­tor access. The tool is pro­vid­ed by Automat­tic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94110–4929, USA.

Word­Press Stats uses cook­ies which are stored on your com­put­er and enable the analy­sis of the use of the web­site. The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ies about the use of our web­site is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address will be anonymized after pro­cess­ing and before stor­age.

You can adjust your brows­er to be informed about the place­ment of cook­ies and to indi­vid­u­al­ly accept, to indi­vid­u­al­ly or gen­er­al­ly exclude cook­ies, as well as to acti­vate auto­mat­ic dele­tion of cook­ies when clos­ing the brows­er. On deac­ti­va­tion of cook­ies, the func­tion­al­i­ty of our web­site might be lim­it­ed.

You may object to the col­lec­tion and use of your data in the future by click­ing the link below to place an opt-out-cook­ie in your brows­er: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/

If you delete the cook­ies from your com­put­er, you will need to install the opt-out-cook­ie again.

Facebook-Plug-ins (Like-Button)

Our web­sites inte­grate plug-ins from the social net­work Face­book, Face­book Inc., 1 Hack­er Way, Men­lo Park, Cal­i­for­nia 94025, USA. You can rec­og­nize these plu­g­ins by the Face­book logo or the Like-But­ton on our site. For an overview of Face­book plu­g­ins, please see: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

If you vis­it our web­sites, a direct con­nec­tion between your brows­er and the Face­book serv­er is estab­lished by this plug-in. In this way, Face­book receives infor­ma­tion that you have vis­it­ed our web­sites with your IP-address. If you click the Face­book “Like” but­ton while you are logged on to your Face­book account, you may link the con­tents of our web­sites to your Face­book account. There­by Face­book can asso­ciate your vis­it to our web­sites with your Face­book account. We would like to point out that we as providers of these web­sites do not obtain knowl­edge about the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data as well as the use of such by Face­book. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please check the Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy of Face­book under https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not wish Face­book to asso­ciate your vis­it of our web­sites to your Face­book account, please log out of your Face­book account.

Twitter

Func­tions of the ser­vice Twit­ter are inte­grat­ed on our web­sites. These func­tions are offered by Twit­ter Inc., 1355 Mar­ket Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, USA. By using Twit­ter as well as the func­tion “Re-Tweet”, web­sites you vis­it are linked to your Twit­ter account and post­ed to oth­er users. In doing so, data will be trans­mit­ted to Twit­ter. We would like to point out that we as providers of this web­sites do not obtain knowl­edge about the con­tent of those data. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please check the Twit­ter Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy:
http://twitter.com/privacy.

The pri­va­cy set­tings of your Twit­ter account can be adjust­ed under:
http://twitter.com/account/settings

Google+

Our web­sites inte­grate ser­vices of Google+. The provider of these ser­vices is Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Col­lec­tion and for­ward­ing of Infor­ma­tion: By using the Google+ but­ton you may pub­lish infor­ma­tion world­wide. Via the Google+ but­ton you and oth­er users receive per­son­al­ized con­tent from Google and our part­ners. Google stores the infor­ma­tion that you have vot­ed +1 for con­tent, as well as infor­ma­tion about the web­site that you were vis­it­ing when you clicked the +1 but­ton. Your +1 votes may be pub­lished or dis­played as notices, togeth­er with your pro­file name and your pic­ture at Google ser­vices, such as search results, your Google pro­file or at oth­er places on web­sites.

Google records infor­ma­tion about your +1 activ­i­ties in order to improve Google ser­vices for you and oth­ers. To be able to use the Google+ but­ton, you need a glob­al­ly vis­i­ble, pub­lic Google pro­file which must con­tain at least the user name cho­sen for this pro­file. This name will be used for all Google ser­vices. In some cas­es this name may be replaced by anoth­er name which you have used when shar­ing con­tents via your Google account. Your Google account ID can be dis­played to users who know your email address or pos­sess any oth­er infor­ma­tion iden­ti­fy­ing you.

Use of col­lect­ed infor­ma­tion: Besides the above men­tioned des­ig­nat­ed pur­pos­es, the details pro­vid­ed by you are treat­ed accord­ing to cur­rent Google data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions. Google may pub­lish sum­ma­rized sta­tis­tics about +1 activ­i­ties of users or pass those sta­tis­tics on to users and con­trac­tu­al part­ners like pub­lish­ers, adver­tis­ers or linked web­sites, respec­tive­ly.

Instagram

Func­tions of the ser­vice Insta­gram are embed­ded on our web­sites. These func­tions are offered by the Insta­gram Inc., 1601 Wil­low Road, Men­lo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged in to your Insta­gram account, you can link con­tent of our web­sites to your Insta­gram pro­file by click­ing the Insta­gram but­ton. Insta­gram will there­by asso­ciate vis­its to our web­sites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as providers of these web­sites, do not obtain knowl­edge about the con­tent of trans­mit­ted data as well as their use by Insta­gram.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please review the Insta­gram Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Pinterest

On our web­site we use social plu­g­ins of the social net­work Pin­ter­est which is oper­at­ed by Pin­ter­est Inc., 808 Bran­nan Street San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103–4904, USA (“Pin­ter­est”). If you access a web­site which con­tains such a plu­g­in, your brows­er estab­lish­es a direct con­nec­tion to the servers of Pin­ter­est. The plu­g­in trans­mits pro­to­col data to the Pin­ter­est servers in the U.S.A. These pro­to­col data might con­tain your IP address, the address of the web­site vis­it­ed, which also con­tains this plu­g­in, the type and set­tings of the brows­er, the date and time of query, your way of using Pin­ter­est, as well as cook­ies.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing pur­pose, extent and fur­ther pro­cess­ing and use of the data by Pin­ter­est, as well as your respec­tive rights and pos­si­bil­i­ties for the pro­tec­tion of your pri­va­cy, please read the Pin­ter­est Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Google Web Fonts

For the homoge­nous dis­play of fonts, this web­site uses so-called web fonts that are pro­vid­ed by Google. On retriev­ing a web­site your brows­er down­loads the nec­es­sary web fonts to your brows­er cache in order to cor­rect­ly dis­play texts and fonts. If your brows­er does not sup­port web fonts, your com­put­er uses a stan­dard font.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq as well as Google’s Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy:  https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

SoundCloud

Our web­sites may inte­grate plu­g­ins of the social net­work Sound­Cloud (Sound­Cloud Lim­it­ed, Bern­ers House, 47–48 Bern­ers Street, Lon­don W1T 3NF, Great Britain.). On the affect­ed web­sites the Sound­Cloud plu­g­ins can be rec­og­nized by the Sound­Cloud logo.

When vis­it­ing our web­sites, a con­nec­tion between your brows­er and the Sound­Cloud serv­er will be estab­lished after acti­va­tion of the plu­g­in. In this way, Sound­Cloud obtains the infor­ma­tion that you have vis­it­ed our web­site with your IP address. If you click the “like” or “share” but­ton while logged on to your Sound­Cloud user account, you may link and/or share the con­tents of our web­sites with your Sound­Cloud pro­file. There­by Sound­Cloud is able to asso­ciate the vis­it to our web­sites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as ser­vice providers, do not obtain knowl­edge about the con­tent of trans­mit­ted data as well as the use of such by Sound­Cloud . For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please read the Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy of Sound­Cloud under: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

If you do not wish Sound­Cloud to asso­ciate your user account with the vis­it to our web­sites, please log off from your Sound­Cloud user account before acti­vat­ing the con­tents of the Sound­Cloud plu­g­ins.

Google Maps

This web­site uses the map ser­vice Google Maps via API. This ser­vice is pro­vid­ed by Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the func­tions of Google Maps stor­age of your IP address is required. This infor­ma­tion will usu­al­ly be trans­ferred to, and stored on, a serv­er in the USA. The provider of this web­site has no influ­ence on this data trans­mis­sion.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please see Google’s Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

YouTube

Our web­site uses plu­g­ins from the Google-oper­at­ed web­site YouTube. The provider of the web­site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you vis­it one of our web­sites with an embed­ded YouTube-plu­g­in, a con­nec­tion to YouTube servers will be estab­lished. Infor­ma­tion about which of our web­sites you have vis­it­ed will then be trans­mit­ted to the YouTube serv­er.

If you are logged on to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to asso­ciate your brows­ing behav­ior with your per­son­al pro­file. You may pre­vent this by log­ging out of YouTube.

You will find fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the treat­ment of user data in the YouTube Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy under:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Google AdSense

This web­site uses Google AdSense, a Google Inc. ser­vice to embed adver­tise­ments. Provider of these ser­vices are Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google AdSense uses so-called “cook­ies”, text files that are stored on your com­put­er to ana­lyze the use of the web­site. Google AdSense also uses so-called web bea­cons (invis­i­ble images). These web bea­cons help to eval­u­ate infor­ma­tion, such as vis­i­tor traf­fic on these web­sites.

The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by cook­ies and web bea­cons about your use of this web­site (includ­ing your IP address) and the deliv­ery of adver­tis­ing for­mats is sent to and stored at a Google serv­er in the U.S.A. Google may also trans­fer this infor­ma­tion to its con­trac­tu­al part­ners. How­ev­er, Google will not asso­ciate your IP address with any oth­er data stored at Google.

You may pre­vent the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by adjust­ing the set­tings of your brows­er; how­ev­er, if you do so, you may be unable to use all fea­tures of this web­site. By using this web­site you agree to the pro­cess­ing of the col­lect­ed infor­ma­tion by Google, for the above men­tioned pur­pose.

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our web­sites use the func­tions of Google Ana­lyt­ics Remar­ket­ing in con­nec­tion with the cross-device func­tions of Google AdWords and Google Dou­bleClick. The provider of these tech­nolo­gies is Google Inc. 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

This func­tion enables a link­ing of com­mer­cial tar­get groups com­piled by Google Ana­lyt­ics Remar­ket­ing with the cross-device func­tions of Google AdWords and Google Dou­bleClick. As such, cus­tomized, inter­est-tar­get­ed com­mer­cials adapt­ed for dis­play on a ter­mi­nal device (e.g. cell phone) in accor­dance with your pre­vi­ous usage and brows­ing behav­ior can be also dis­played on anoth­er of your ter­mi­nal devices (e.g. PC, tablet).

If you have giv­en the appro­pri­ate per­mis­sion, Google will link your web and app brows­er his­to­ry with your Google account for this pur­pose. In this way, the same cus­tomized com­mer­cials will be dis­played on any ter­mi­nal device on which you are logged in to your Google account.

In order to sup­port this func­tion, Google Ana­lyt­ics col­lects Google-authen­ti­cat­ed IDs of users, which are tem­porar­i­ly linked to our Google Ana­lyt­ics Data, to iden­ti­fy and to com­pile tar­get groups for cross-device adver­tis­ing.

You can per­ma­nent­ly object to cross-device remarketing/targeting by deac­ti­vat­ing cus­tomized com­mer­cials in your Google account by using the link below: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

You will find fur­ther infor­ma­tion and data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions in Google’s Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy under:
http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

Amazon partner program

The oper­a­tors of this web­site par­tic­i­pate in the Ama­zon EU part­ner pro­gram. On our web­sites Ama­zon adver­tise­ments and links are embed­ded with which we are able to earn income by adver­tis­ing cost refund. There­fore Ama­zon places cook­ies in order to trace the ori­gin of the order. In this way, Ama­zon is able to rec­og­nize that you have clicked the part­ner link on our web­site. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the use of data by Ama­zon please view the Ama­zon Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_privacy?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3312401

Comment function on this website

For the com­ment func­tion on this web­site, your com­ment as well as details pro­vid­ed at the time of com­ment­ing, your email address and, unless you post anony­mous­ly, the cho­sen user­name will be stored.

Stor­age of the IP address

Our com­ment func­tion stores IP address­es of users who post com­ments. Since we do not check the com­ments before pub­lish­ing on our web­site, we require access to these data should the need arise for legal action against the orig­i­na­tor in the case of vio­la­tion of law, i.e. insults or pro­pa­gan­da.

Sub­scrip­tion to com­ments

As user of this web­site you may sub­scribe to com­ments after user reg­is­tra­tion. You receive a con­fir­ma­tion email to check whether you are the own­er of the pro­vid­ed email address. You can unsub­scribe from this func­tion at any time via the link in the info emails.

Right to Information, Deletion, Blocking

You have the right to be informed about your per­son­al data, their ori­gin and recip­i­ents, and the pur­pose of data pro­cess­ing, as well as the right to cor­rect, block or delete those data at any time and free of charge. For
fur­ther ques­tions, and ques­tions con­cern­ing per­son­al data, feel free to con­tact us under the address pub­lished in the site notice.

Objection to commercial mails

Providers are oblig­at­ed to pub­lish con­tact infor­ma­tion in the Legal Notice/Impressum. The use of such con­tact infor­ma­tion by third par­ties for the pur­pose of dis­trib­ut­ing unso­licit­ed adver­tise­ments or oth­er com­mer­cial infor­ma­tion is pro­hib­it­ed. The oper­a­tors of this web­site reserve the right to take legal mea­sures against senders of unso­licit­ed com­mer­cial infor­ma­tion, e.g. spam emails etc.