Data protection

The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations as well as this data protection statement.

The use of our website is normally possible without giving personal data. If personal data (eg name, address or e-mail addresses) are collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. These data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (for example, when communicating via e-mail) can present security gaps. A complete protection of the data before access by third parties is not possible.


Use of Piwik

The web analytics service Piwik is used on our website. Piwik is an open-source software that evaluates the accesses of website visitors. The analysis is made possible by means of cookies, ie text files. Cookies collect information regarding your use of our website. These are stored on a Piwik server in Switzerland. Your IP address will be anonymized before. However, you have the option to prevent Piwik cookies from being stored on your computer. To do so, you must modify the settings on your Internet browser accordingly. This may mean that you can not use our website in its entirety.

You can decide here whether a unique web analytics cookie may be stored in your browser in order to enable the operator of the website to collect and analyze various statistical data.

If you decide not, click the following link to place the Piwik deactivation cookie in your browser.


Cookies

The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and contain no viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored 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 visit. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on the next visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about setting cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. The functionality of this website may be restricted when cookies are deactivated.


Contact form

If you send us inquiries by means of a contact form, your information from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be saved by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for the case of connection questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Use Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google". Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, thereby enabling an analysis of the use of the website by you.

The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place and frequency of your visit to the website, including your IP address, will be transferred to Google in the United States and stored there.

Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our site, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to web usage and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties, provided that this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

Under no circumstances will Google associate your IP address with other data from Google. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the functions of our website.

Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation add-on for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over what data is collected by Google from the websites you visit. The add-on notifies Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) not to provide any information about the site visit to Google Analytics. However, Google Analytics's Disabling add-on does not prevent information from being passed on to us or to other web analytics services we may use. For more information on installing the browser add-on, please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en


Registration function

We offer you the possibility to register there. The data entered in the course of this registration, which can be seen in the entry form of the registration form, is collected and stored exclusively for the use of our offer. By registering on our site, we will also save your IP address and the date and time of your registration. In the event that a third party misuses your data and registers with this data on our site without your knowledge, this serves as security for our part. There is no transfer to third parties. A comparison of the collected data with data that may be collected by other components of our site is also not.