Privacy Policy

General information

The following information provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information on the subject of data protection see our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details can be found in the section “Information on the responsible party” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected by you providing it to us. This can be for example data that you enter in a contact form. Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. collected. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of the page of the page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What are we using your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior. When using these data and information, we do not draw any conclusions about the data subject. The data will be processed by us for the following purposes:

  • deliver the content of our website correctly 
  • ensure long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology
  • optimize content of our website and its advertisement 
  • provide law enforcemetn authorities with the information necessary for the criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack
What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have a right to demand the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time.

Analysis tools and third-party tools

When visiting this website, your surfing behavior may be statistically analyzed. This is done mainly mainly with so-called analysis programs. Detailed information on these analysis programs can be found in the following Privacy Policy.

2. Hosting

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data that is collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This can be IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

 The use of the hoster is for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. b GDPR) supply of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR) Insofar as a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Sec. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent allows the storage of of cookies or access to information in the user’s terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) in the within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. Our hoster will process your data only insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of his service obligations necessary and follow our instructions with regard to this data.


We use the following hoster:

HOSTINGER, UAB

Jonavos street 60C

44192 Kaunas

3. General notes and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of these pages 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 privacy policy. 

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the responsible entity

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.). The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Keno Nielsen

Leibnizstraße 4, 28790 Schwanewede, Germany

Phone : +49 (0) 17653788644

E-Mail: ke-nie@mgp1.official.com

 

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified within this Privacy Policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing ceases to apply. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax law or commercial law). In the the latter case, the data will be deleted after these reasons cease to apply.

General information on the legal basis for data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR or rather Art. 9 Sec. 2 lit. a GDPR, provided that special categories of data according to Art. 9 Sec. 1 GDPR are processed. In the event of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you consent to the storage of cookies or to the access to information on your device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data processing will also be carried out on the basis of on the basis of § 25 Sec. 1 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for fulfillment of the contract or for the performance of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. b GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data providing that they are necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. c GDPR. Furthermore, the data processing may be based on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR. Information on the relevant legal bases in each individual case is provided in the following paragraphs of this privacy policy.

Note on data transfer to the USA and other third countries

We use tools from companies based in the USA or other third countries that are not secure under data protection law. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to these third countries and processed there. We would like to point out that no level of data protection comparable to that in the EU can be guaranteed in these countries. For example, US companies are obligated to release personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can therefore not be eliminated that authorities (e.g. intelligence services) process, evaluate, use your data on US servers for surveillance purposes and store it permanently. We have no influence on these processing activities.

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke already given consent at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out until the consent revocation data processing remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases as well as to Direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6 SEC. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS, THAT RESULT FROM YOUR EXPLICIT SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO A PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. FOR THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED, PLEASE SEE THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR THE PROCESSING  WHICH OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 Sec. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING, AS LONG AS IT IS CONNECTED WITH SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21 SEC. 2 GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory board (Art. 77 GDPR)

In the event of violations of the GDPR, the affected parties have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory board, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract, to be handed over to yourself or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible this will only be done as long as it is technically possible.

SSL- or TLS-Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, deletion and correction

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to information about your stored personal data, their origin, recipient, the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data at any time and free of charge. For this as well as other questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time.

Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. For this purpose, you can contact us at any time. The right to restriction of processing exists in following cases:

  • If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to check this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data
  • If the processing of your personal data has happened/is happening unlawfully, you may request the restriction of the data processing instead of the deletion
  • If we no longer need your personal data, but you wish to use it for the exercise, defense or assertion of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of the deletion.
  • If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sec. 1 GDPR, a balancing between your interests and ours will be carried out. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests are prevail, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, apart from its storage , this data can only be processed with your consent or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State of the European Union.

Objection to advertising e-mails

The use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not explicitly requested advertising and information material is objected. The operators of the site explicitly reserve themselves the right to take legal steps in case unwanted advertising, such as spam e-mails.

4. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our Internet pages use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files and do not cause harm to your device. They are stored either temporarily for the duration of one session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

In some cases, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your device when you enter our site (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party company (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are necessary, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behavior or to display advertising. 

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process, to provide functions that you have requested (e.g. for the shopping cart function) or for optimizing the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) are necessary (necessary cookies) and stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified.The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. As long as consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, the processing is carried out on the basis of this consent (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Sec. 1 TTDSG) exclusively; the consent can be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set and to allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies in general or for certain cases as well as activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

If cookies are used by third parties or for analysis purposes, we will inform you about this separately within the scope of this privacy policy and, if necessary, request your consent.

Server log-files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • the browser types and versions used
  • the operating system used by the accessing system
  • the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called Referral-URLs)
  • the sub-websites
  • the date and time of access to the Internet site
  • an Internet protocol address (IP address)
  • the Internet service provider of the accessing system 
  • any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems

This data is not merged with other data sources. The collection of this data is based on Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free display and optimization of his website. For this purpose, the server log files must be collected.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for the case of follow-up questions. We do not disclose this data without your consent. 

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. b GDPR, provided that your request is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR) if it has been requested; the consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after the processing of your enquiry has been completed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular storage periods – remain unaffected.

Enquiry per e-mail or telephone

If you contact us by e-mail or phone, your enquiry, including all resulting personal data (name and enquiry) for the purpose of processing your request. stored and processed by us. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. b GDPR, provided that your request is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR) if it has been requested; the consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after the processing of your enquiry has been completed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular storage periods – remain unaffected.

Comment function on this website

For the comment function on this site, in addition to your comment, details of the time the comment was made, your e-mail address and, if you do not post anonymously, the user name you have chosen will be stored.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of users who post comments. Since we do not check comments on this website before they are published, we need this data in order to be able to take action against the author in the event of legal violations such as insults or propaganda.

Storage period of the comments

The comments and the associated data are stored and remain on this website until the commented content has been completely deleted or the comments have to be deleted for legal legal reasons (e.g. offensive comments).

Legal basis

The storage of comments is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal email to us. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

5. Social medias

Facebook

Elements of the social network Facebook are integrated on this website. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. According to Facebook, the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries. An overview of the Facebook social media elements can be found here:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US

When the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your end device and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can view the content with your Facebook account. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out, that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in the data protection declaration of Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

As long as consent has been obtained, the service mentioned above is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, the service is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in the greatest possible visibility in social medias.

As long as personal data is collected on our website with the help of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). The joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of the data and its transfer to Facebook. The processing by Facebook after the transfer is not part of the joint responsibility. The obligations incumbent jointly on us have been set out in a joint processing agreement. The text of the agreement can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum

According to this agreement, we are responsible for issuing information when using the Facebook tool and for the secure implementation of the tool on our website. Facebook is responsible for the data security of the Facebook-products. Data subject rights (e.g. requests for information) regarding the data processed by Facebook can be asserted directly with Facebook. If you assert the data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook. Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: 

https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum

https://www.facebook.com/help/566994660333381

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on this website. These functions are offered by the Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland. When the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your end device and the Twitter server. Twitter thereby receives information about your visit to this website. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. You can find more information on this in Twitter’s privacy policy at:

https://twitter.com/en/privacy

As long as consent has been obtained, the service mentioned above is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, the service is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in the greatest possible visibility in social medias.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: 

https://gdpr.twitter.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html

You can change your Twitter privacy settings in the account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Instagram

Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on this website. These functions are offered by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. When the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your end device and the Instagram server.  Instagram thereby receives information about your visit to this website by you.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to this website to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data its use by Instagram.

As long as consent has been obtained, the service mentioned above is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, the service is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in the greatest possible visibility in social medias.

As long as personal data is collected on our website with the help of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). The joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of the data and its transfer to Facebook. The processing by Facebook after the transfer is not part of the joint responsibility. The obligations incumbent jointly on us have been set out in a joint processing agreement. The text of the agreement can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum

According to this agreement, we are responsible for issuing information when using the Facebook tool and for the secure implementation of the tool on our website. Facebook is responsible for the data security of the Facebook-products. Data subject rights (e.g. requests for information) regarding the data processed by Facebook can be asserted directly with Facebook. If you assert the data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook. Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: 

https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

https://www.facebook.com/help/566994660333381

For further information, please see Instagram’s privacy policy:

https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Pinterest

On this website, we use elements of the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Europe Ltd., Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. When you call up a page that contains such an element, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Pinterest servers. This social media element transmits log data to the Pinterest server in the USA. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the websites visited that are also the address of the previously visited websites  that also contain Pinterest functions, the type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, cookies and how you use Pinterest.

As long as consent has been obtained, the service mentioned above is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, the service is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in the greatest possible visibility in social medias.

Further information on the purpose, scope, further processing and use of the data by Pinterest, as well as your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy, can be found in the Pinterest’s privacy policy:

https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

6. Newsletter

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected or will only be collected on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example by using the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legitimacy of the data processing procedures already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider and will be deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you have unsubscribed from the newsletter or after the purpose has ceased to exist. We reserve the right to delete e-mail addresses from our newsletter distribution list at our own discretion within the scope of our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR.

After you have unsubscribed from the newsletter distribution list, your e-mail address may be stored by us or the newsletter service provider on a blacklist, if it is necessary to prevent future mailings.The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be combined with other data. This serves your interest as well as our interest in complying with the legal requirements for sending newsletters (legitimate interest as defined in Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR). The storage in the blacklist is not limited in time. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

7. Plugins and tools

Web-Analytics

We use a number of web analysis services which use cookies to statistically record the use of our website, to evaluate them for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you and to further develop our offer and in particular our website. In this respect, the processing of these cookies is based on your explicit permission to do so covered by Art. 6 (1) (1) (a) GDPR.

Google Analytics

For the purpose of demand-oriented design and continuous optimization of our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”). In this context, pseudonymized user profiles are created and Cookies are used (see No. 7). The information generated by the Cookie about your use of this website such as Browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address) and time of the server request are transferred from your browser to a Google server in the USA and stored on Google servers.

You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the Cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). For more information about privacy in connection with Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics Help Center (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en).

Google Analytics is used for statistical purposes of our website, to evaluate them for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you and to further develop our offer and in particular our website. Data transmission to the USA is no longer based on the former EU-US Data Protection Shield which is why we ask you for your explicit consent to transfer your personal data to the USA or we make use of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) in place with our US partners or store data on servers located within the EU. If your browser does not support Google Analytics or you deactivate this function, no data transfer takes place.

The pseudonymized user profiles are deleted after 14 months. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services associated with the use of the website and the Internet for the purposes of market research and demand-oriented design of these websites. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of the company. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other data from Google. The IP addresses are anonymized so that an assignment is not possible (IP masking). You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly (DO-NOT-TRACK).

Google AdSense

On this website, third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads on your previous visit(s) to our website(s) and/or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit(s) to our site(s) and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. (Alternatively you can opt out of thirs-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info)

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts provided by Google. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This enables Google to know that this website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google WebFonts is based on Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of the typeface on its website. As long as a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Sec. 1 TTDSG, as long as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. 

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer. You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Google Maps

This site uses the map service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission. If Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Web Fonts for the purpose of uniform display of fonts. When you call up Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and making it easy to find the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR. As long as a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Sec. 1 TTDSG, as long as the consent allows the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user’s device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/

More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

 

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether the data input on this website (e.g. in a contact form) has been entered by a human being or by an automated programme. For this purpose reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, length of time the website visitor stays on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analysis runs completely in the background. Website visitors are not made aware that an analysis is taking place. The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from improper automated spying and SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Sec. 1 TTDSG, as long as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in device of the user (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoced at any time.

For more information on Google reCAPTCHA, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service at the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.