Privacy policy

General 

The operator of this website collects, processes and uses personal data of a user without further consent only insofar as they are necessary for contract formation, contract processing and for billing purposes. Personal data are individual details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person (data subject). Collecting data in this regard means obtaining data from the data subject themselves. Processing includes not only storage and deletion, but also modification, blocking and transmission of personal data. Using refers to any utilization of personal data, as long as it is not processing. If necessary, inventory and traffic data of the customer can be passed on to companies associated with the operator of the website. The operator of this website is entitled, in accordance with the applicable legal regulations, to provide information to law enforcement agencies and courts for the purpose of law enforcement. The operator of this website can evaluate the customer’s inventory and traffic data for market research purposes or have them evaluated by third parties. The customer can object to this by contacting the data protection officer. 

Inventory data 

Inventory data are personal data that are necessary to establish or change the contractual relationship between the operator of this website and the user. This includes, among other things, the name and address, date of birth, telephone, email address and payment data of the user. The operator of this website will only pass on inventory data to third parties if this is necessary for the provision of the service. The operator of this website will only process and use inventory data for advertising purposes, customer advice or market research if this is necessary and the user has consented. The user can revoke their consent at any time in writing. The provision in §29 BDSG allows for the commercial collection, storage or modification of personal data for the purpose of transmission, especially in connection with the activity of credit agencies. Credit agencies link personal data originating from various sources and transmit these to third parties. The operator of this website is obliged to provide such credit agencies with the necessary data. 

Traffic data 

Traffic data are data that are collected, processed or used in the provision of a telecommunications service. The operator of this website or a third party that the operator of this website uses to provide telecommunications services, collects traffic data to enable the use of these services and to create the invoice for the respective user. As a rule, the date and time as well as the time zone of the start and end of use, the scope in bytes, the IP address and the type of teleservice used are recorded. The aforementioned data are stored for up to six months after sending the invoice, unless a longer storage period is provided within the framework of the statistic functions activated by the user. As far as billing with other companies or with other service providers or legal regulations require, the operator of this website may use, store and transmit traffic data. 

Right to information 

The operator of this website informs the user in writing on request, taking into account the legal provisions, whether and which personal data about them are stored. For this and for further questions about data protection, the data protection officer is available. 

Website tracking 

This website partly uses so-called cookies. These serve to make the offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and that your browser saves and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. You can prevent the storage of this and the cookies mentioned below by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. 

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. 

The cookies are also used for the remarketing technology of Google Inc. Through this technology, users who have already visited this website and are interested in the offer are addressed again through targeted advertising on the pages of the Google partner network. If users have agreed that their web and app browsing history is linked to their Google account and information from their Google account is used to personalize ads, the remarketing function takes place across devices. To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs from these users. This personal data is temporarily linked to Google Analytics data to form target groups. Google users can adjust their ad settings in “My Account” or deactivate personalized ads. 

You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your shortened IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de] 

In addition, Google Analytics collects performance reports according to demographic characteristics and interest. 

Social media plugins 

This website uses various functions from the social networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkeIn and Google+. By default, no data is transferred to these services when you visit our website. On some pages, after setting a check mark at the corresponding plugin or clicking on a corresponding link at the respective platform, a transmission of data can take place according to the following conditions, without the function (“Recommend”, “Tweet”, “+1”) itself being carried out. 

YouTube 

This website may use plugins from the Google-operated site YouTube. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection is established to the YouTube servers. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. 

For more information on how user data is handled, see YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy