Privacy policy

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Welcome to our website!

We attach the greatest importance to the safety of your data and the protection of your privacy. Therefore, we inform you as follows, about collection and usage of your personal data when using our website

Anonymous data collection
You are welcome to visit our website, without giving any information about yourself. In this case, we safe no personal data. We only analyze statistical data for improving our services, which do not permit any conclusion about your person.

Collecting, processing and usage of personal data
We collect personal data (particulars about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or definable natural person) in the scope supplied by you.
The storage and usage of your personal data occurs for the performance and fulfillment of the contractually agreed services as well as for handling of your requests.
After complete processing of the contract, the data will be initially stored considering retention periods in accordance with tax- and commercial law and finally deleted after the end of the prescribed period, as far as you have not agreed in further processing and usage.

Transfer of personal data
Any transmission of your data to third parties will not take place without your express declaration of consent. Exempt from this are only our service partners, which we need for the processing of the contractual relationship. In those cases, we respect strictly the guidelines of the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz [German Federal Privacy Protection Act]. The amount of such data transfer is limited to a minimum.

Cookies
Our websites use so called cookies in several places. Cookies are small text-files, which are filed onto your computer and which your browser stores. They help to make our offerings more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, cookies allow our systems, to recognize your browser and to offer services to you. Cookies do not contain personal data.

Information, correction, locking and deleting of data
You have the right to request information, free of charge, regarding the data saved about you at any time and also the right to have such data deleted, corrected or blocked. Contact us on demand. The contact data, you will find in our imprint.

Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so called "cookies" (small text-files), which are saved on your computer and which allow to analyze the use of the website by you.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activated IP anonymisation on this Website, your IP-address will be shortened before by Google within EU member states or in other contracting states of the agreement about the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, your full IP-address will be transmitted to a server from Google in the United States and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website and for other services towards the operator of the website concerning the usage of the website and the internet. Google will not associate your IP-address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Additionally, you can prevent the collection and usage of your data by Google, which are related to your use of this website (including you IP-address) and generated by the cookie, by downloading and installing the browser add-on, which you will find here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We inform about, that this website uses Google Analytics solely with the "_gat._anonymizeIp()" add-on. Your IP-address will be processed only in shortened form. The identification of the visitor of the web-site is impossible.

(Version: 12.28.2011)