Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
As a general rule, our website may be used without specifying personal data. If personal data is collected on our pages (such as name, address or e-mail address), this shall always be on a voluntary basis wherever possible. This data shall not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. Please be aware that data transmission on the internet (e.g. via e-mail) may not always be secure. It is not possible to fully protect data from being accessed by third parties. Accordingly, as the website provider, we shall not be held liable for any damages occurred as a consequence of such security risks.
We hereby expressly object to any third party using the contact details published within the scope of our statutory legal notice obligations to send unsolicited advertising and information materials. The page operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action against any party who sends unsolicited advertising information, including but not limited to spam e-mails.
Privacy Policy for using Facebook plugins
This website uses plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, United States (“Facebook”). You can recognize the Facebook plugins from the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our page. An overview of the Facebook plugins is available here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. In this way, Facebook is informed that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you can reference the contents of our pages in your Facebook profile. In this way, Facebook can map the visit to our pages to your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of the pages, are not informed about the content of the transmitted data and their use by Facebook. Further information is provided in the privacy policy of Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. If you do not wish Facebook to be able to map the visit to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out from your Facebook user account.
Privacy Policy for using Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information about your use of this website, which is generated by the cookie, is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the complete IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about the website activities and to render other services related to the use of the website and of the internet in general to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be consolidated with other data of Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by configuring your browser software accordingly; in this case, however, you may not be able to use all functions of this website. Moreover, you can prevent the collection of data concerning your use of the website (including your IP address), which are generated by the cookie, and the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in that is available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Privacy Policy for using Google+
Collection and dissemination of information:
The Google +1 button allows the user to publish information worldwide. Using Google +1 you and other users will receive personalized content of Google and our partners. Google will store both the information that you gave for +1 content, and the information on the page that you viewed while clicking +1. Your +1’s can be displayed along with your name and profile photo on Google services, e.g. in your Google profile, in search results, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the internet. Google records information about your +1 activities, in order to improve Google’s services for you and others. In order to use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile, which must contain at least the chosen name for the profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name can also substitute any other name that you used when sharing content under your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be shown to users who know your e-mail address or other identifying information you have.
Using the information collected:
In addition to the use mentioned above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policies. Google may release summary statistics on the activities of the +1 users, or transmit them to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or linked sites.
Privacy Policy for using Twitter
This website uses plugins of the social network Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”). Through the use of Twitter and the feature “Re-tweet” the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. Please note that we, as the provider of the pages, are not informed about the content of the transmitted data and its use by Twitter. For more information concerning this topic, please see the Twitter data protection/privacy statement at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter by accessing your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.