The following information will provide you
with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal
data when you visit our website. The term “personal data” comprises all
data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed
information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult
our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this
copy.
Data recording on our
website
Who is the responsible party for the recording
of data on this website (i.e. the “controller”)?
The data on this
website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact
information is available under section “Information Required by Law” on
this website.
How do we record your
data?
We collect your data as a result of your sharing
of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter
into our contact form.
Our IT systems automatically record other
data when you visit our website. This data comprises primarily technical
information (e.g. web browser, operating system or time the site was
accessed). This information is recorded automatically when you access
our website.
What are the purposes we use
your data for?
A portion of the information is generated
to guarantee the error free provision of the website. Other data may be
used to analyse your user patterns.
What
rights do you have as far as your information is concerned?
You
have the right to receive information about the source, recipients and
purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to
pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that
your data are rectified, blocked or eradicated. Please do not hesitate
to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section
“Information Required by Law” on this website if you have questions
about this or any other data protection related issues. You also have
the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising
agency.
Moreover, under certain circumstances, you have the right
to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data. For
details, please consult the Data Protection Declaration under section
“Right to Restriction of Data Processing.” 2.
General information and mandatory
information Data
protection
The operators of this website and its pages
take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we
handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance
with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection
Declaration.
Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal
information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be
used to personally identify you. This Data Protection Declaration
explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data
for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is
collected.
We herewith advise you that the transmission of data
via the Internet (i.e. through e-mail communications) may be prone to
security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against
third party access.
Information about the
responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the
GDPR) The data
processing controller on this website is:
The controller is the natural person or legal
entity that single-handedly or jointly with others makes decisions as to
the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g.
names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
Revocation
of your consent to the processing of data
A wide range
of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your
express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have
already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an
informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the
lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your
revocation.
Right to object to the
collection of data in special cases; right to object to direct
advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)
In the event that data are
processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the
right to at any time object to the processing of your personal data
based on grounds arising from your unique situation. This also applies
to any profiling based on these provisions. To determine the legal
basis, on which any processing of data is based, please consult this
Data Protection Declaration. If you log an objection, we will no longer
process your affected personal data, unless we are in a position to
present compelling protection worthy grounds for the processing of your
data, that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or if the
purpose of the processing is the claiming, exercising or defence of
legal entitlements (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR).
If
your personal data is being processed in order to engage in direct
advertising, you have the right to at any time object to the processing
of your affected personal data for the purposes of such advertising.
This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is affiliated with
such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will
subsequently no longer be used for direct advertising purposes
(objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 2
GDPR).
Right to log a complaint with the
competent supervisory agency
In the event of violations
of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint with a
supervisory agency, in particular in the member state where they usually
maintain their domicile, place of work or at the place where the alleged
violation occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regardless
of any other administrative or court proceedings available as legal
recourses.
Right to data
portability
You have the right to demand that we hand
over any data we automatically process on the basis of your consent or
in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third party in
a commonly used, machine readable format. If you should demand the
direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done
only if it is technically feasible.
SSL
and/or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to
protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase
orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this
website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can
recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line
of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the
appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.
If the SSL or
TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by
third parties.
Information about, blockage,
rectification and eradication of data
Within the scope
of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any
time demand information about your archived personal data, their source
and recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data.
You may also have a right to have your data rectified, blocked or
eradicated. If you have questions about this subject matter or any other
questions about personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at
any time at the address provided in section “Information Required by
Law.”
Right to demand processing
restrictions
You have the right to demand the imposition
of restrictions as far as the processing of your personal data is
concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time at the address
provided in section “Information Required by Law.” The right to demand
restriction of processing applies in the following cases:
In the
event that you should dispute the correctness of your data archived by
us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time
that this investigation is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we
restrict the processing of your personal data. If the processing of
your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you have the
option to demand the restriction of the processing of your data in lieu
of demanding the eradication of this data. If we do not need your
personal data any longer and you need it to exercise, defend or claim
legal entitlements, you have the right to demand the restriction of the
processing of your personal data instead of its eradication. If you
have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights
and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it
has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to
demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data. If you
have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with
the exception of their archiving – may be processed only subject to your
consent or to claim, exercise or defend legal entitlements or to protect
the rights of other natural persons or legal entities or for important
public interest reasons cited by the European Union or a member state of
the EU.
3. Data protection
officer
Designation of a data protection officer as
mandated by law
We have appointed a data protection officer for
our company.
In
some instances, our website and its pages use so-called cookies. Cookies
do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The
purpose of cookies is to make our website more user friendly, effective
and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your
computer and stored by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use
are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after
your leave our site. Other cookies will remain archived on your device
until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser
the next time you visit our website.
You can adjust the settings
of your browser to make sure that you are notified every time cookies
are placed and to enable you to accept cookies only in specific cases or
to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific situations or in
general and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close
your browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functions of this website
may be limited.
Cookies that are required for the performance of
the electronic communications transaction or to provide certain
functions you want to use (e.g. the shopping cart function), are stored
on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a
legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error
free and optimised provision of the operator’s services. If other
cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your browsing patterns) should
be stored, they are addressed separately in this Data Protection
Declaration.
Server log
files
The provider of this website and its pages
automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log
files, which your browser communicates to us automatically. The
information comprises:
The type and version of browser used The
used operating system Referrer URL The hostname of the accessing
computer The time of the server inquiry The IP address This
data is not merged with other data sources.
This data is recorded
on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website
has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and
the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this,
server log files must be recorded.
Contact
form
If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form,
the information provided in the contact form as well as any contact
information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle
your inquiry and in the event that we have further questions. We will
not share this information without your consent.
Hence, the
processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs exclusively
based on your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right
to revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so,
all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via
e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data
collection that occurred prior to your revocation.
The
information you have entered into the contact form shall remain with us
until you ask us to eradicate the data, revoke your consent to the
archiving of data or if the purpose for which the information is being
archived no longer exists (e.g. after we have concluded our response to
your inquiry). This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal
provisions – in particular retention
periods.
5. Plug-ins and
Tools
YouTube with expanded data protection
integration
Our website uses plug-ins of the YouTube platform,
which is being operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA
94066, USA.
We use YouTube in the expanded data protection mode.
According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store any
information about visitors to this website before they watch the video.
Nevertheless, this does not necessarily mean that the sharing of data
with YouTube partners can be ruled out as a result of the expanded data
protection mode. For instance, regardless of whether you are watching a
video, YouTube will always establish a connection with the Google
DoubleClick network.
As soon as you start to play a YouTube video
on our website, a connection to YouTube’s servers will be established.
As a result, the YouTube server will be notified, which of our pages you
have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account while you
visit our site, you enable YouTube to directly allocate your browsing
patterns to your personal profile. You have the option to prevent this
by logging out of your YouTube account.
Furthermore, after you
have started to play a video, YouTube will be able to place various
cookies on your device. With the assistance of these cookies, YouTube
will be able to obtain information about our website visitor. Among
other things, this information will be used to generate video statistics
with the aim of improving the user friendliness of the site and to
prevent attempts to commit fraud. These cookies will stay on your device
until you delete them.
Under certain circumstances, additional
data processing transactions may be triggered after you have started to
play a YouTube video, which are beyond our control.
The use of
YouTube is based on our interest in presenting our online content in an
appealing manner. Pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a
legitimate interest.
This website uses so-called
Web Fonts provided by Google to ensure the uniform use of fonts on this
site. These Google fonts are locally installed so that a connection to
Google’s servers will not be established in conjunction with this
application.
Google Maps
Via
an API, this website uses the mapping service Google Maps. The provider
is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To
enable the use of the Google Maps features, your IP address must be
stored. As a rule, this information is transferred to one of Google’s
servers in the United States, where it is archived. The operator of this
website has no control over the data transfer.
We use Google Maps
to present our online content in an appealing manner and to make the
locations disclosed on our website easy to find. This constitutes a
legitimate interest as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR.