Privacy and cookie policy

1. Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our company and our services.

We take the protection of your personal data seriously and keeps strictly to the privacy provisions in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). Personal information is acquired on our website only to the extent essential to the purposes described below.

In the following text we explain which kind of data we acquire, if any, for which purpose and how we handle such information.

1.1) Collection and processing of personally identifiable information
We may collect personally identifiable information via our website (such as names, addresses, phone numbers or e-mail addresses) only when you make such data voluntarily available to us, for instance via contact and form, or have given your consent. All details provided are kept confidential, and will not be passed on, sold or distributed to third parties. Such data are not in any way linked to the access data.

The requirement for consent is clearly set out on the website. You can withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. You are, of course, entitled to request at any time for your details to be deleted.

1.2) Intended purpose
Personally identifiable information made available by you are generally used for the purposes of answering your questions, processing your orders or granting you access to certain information or 

offers. To maintain customer relations, it may be necessary for us to continue using your personally identifiable information:

to be able to respond to your business needs more effectively.

to improve our services and products. 

to provide information about offers, changes and news.

to communicate our projects together.

1.3) Communication-specific information and usage-related data (access data)

When our website is accessed via telecommunications services, access data may be stored in a log file, the server log. The dataset stored in the process contains, inter alia, the following data which are automatically generated software engineering methods:

Internet protocol address resp. usage-related information.

Information about time of the start of use and end of use as well as the telecommunication services used by you.

Date, time, access status (file found, not found, etc.) and the query made by your browser to the server.

Data quantity transferred and the name of the site from which access to the queried site was requested (IP address).

Individual pages of our website which are accessed by you.

Product and release information of the browser used (user agent) and the pre-set preferred language.

Such data cannot be assigned to certain persons by us.

We use such data to assess the user appeal of our websites and to improve them in terms of performance and contents.

The data is not merged with any other data sources. Stored data is evaluated for statistical purposes only. It is not shared with third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes. 

1.4) Security of your personally identifiable information
We adopt technical and organizational security measures to protect your personally identifiable information against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our technical and organizational security measures are continually adopted to the on-going technological progress.

If you wish to send an e-mail to us, please, note that, due to the technical structures of the Internet, you will have to take arrangements to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of you e-mail contents. To this end, you can use customary encryption software.

If you wish to send an e-mail to us directly from the contact form you should be aware that your data will be transmitted unencrypted and so no guarantee can be given as to the confidentiality und integrity of your e-mail contents.

1.5) Disclosure of your data

We do not disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties except for processing business transactions. Disclosed data are restricted to the necessary minimum. If we are obligated legally respectively by court order to disclose your personally identifiable information, such information will be disclosed only to government institutions and authorities entitled to receive information according to the statutory provisions and only for the following purposes:

Compliance with laws, regulations, coercive measures at judicial or official request

Response to duly authorized information requests of police and governmental authorities

Investigation, prevention and taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving threats to security or other malicious activities

Assertion of rights in legal claims.

Exportation and processing of data in states outside of the European Economic Area

1.6) Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a Web analysis service of Google Inc. („Google“). The information that the cookie generates about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transferred to and stored on a server operated by Google in the USA. Google will use this information for evaluating your usage of the Website, for compiling reports about the web site activities for the Website operators, and for providing further services in connection with web site usage and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will never associate your IP address with any other Google data.

Google has introduced for Google Analytics the function „anonymizeIP()“, for this purpose, the IP address is shortened to the last octet to prevent persons from being identified. Thus, our Website does not store complete IP addresses. Google, in its information about the employed technology (see also: http://www.google.com/analytics), points out that the stored information can be forwarded to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

1.7) Right to demand information

You have, at any time, the right to gain knowledge of the data stored concerning your person, the origin and the recipient of the data as well as the purpose of processing of the data. You have, at any time, also the right to request the rectification or deletion of your data, unless such data may not be deleted for statutory document retention requirements.

Information about the stored data is available by contacting us

1.8) Updating of this privacy policy

We adapt our privacy policy to altered functionalities of our Internet pages or changed statutory requirements. This is why we would like to recommend that you review this privacy policy at regular intervals. Latest Updated 2021-04 

2. Cookie Policy

Whenever you visit our site, information in the form of so-called cookies can be stored on your computer. This site and its functions may use this small files (cookies) to help us customize your experience. Our Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how they can be used, how third-parties we partner with may use cookies and your choices regarding cookies.

2.1) What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored on your device either temporarily for that session only or permanently on the hard disk (persistent cookie) and allows the website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the features more useful to you. 

2.2) How this site uses cookies?
This website may use cookies which are necessary for the functioning of the website by default. These cookies cannot be removed, or the website won’t work. We call these “Essential”. There are also other cookies that may be used that are not strictly necessary for operating this site, which you can block by changing your browser settings or alternatively choose to not continue browsing the site.

2.3) Third-­party cookies?

In addition to our own cookies (cookies which are served from our domain) we may also use various third-party cookies (cookies which are served from anywhere else than from our domain) to report usage statistics of the site and deliver advertisements.

2.4) What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser and/or use some of the suggested sites below. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

More information about cookies
You can learn more about cookies on following third-­party websites:

• AllAboutCookies: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

• Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

2.5) How you can stop receiving interest-based ads?

Visit the WebChoices tool to evaluate your browser’s internet based ads (IBA) settings and select opt-outs: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Visit the AppChoices page for directions on how to download the AppChoices app and control interest based ads (IBA) on your mobile phone: https://www.youradchoices.com/appchoices

You can also prevent getting interest-based ads on websites by adjusting the ad tracking settings on your device or browser.