This privacy policy only covers data protection topics related to the website. You can request a full privacy policy directly.

Purposes of Data Processing and Legal Basis

Use of Our Website

No personal data needs to be disclosed in order to use our website. However, the server collects a range of user information with each visit, which is temporarily stored in the server's log files. When using this general information, no assignment to a specific person takes place. The collection of this information or data is technically necessary in order to display our website and ensure its stability and security. This information is also collected in order to improve the website and analyze its use. This includes the following information in particular:

• Technical information automatically transmitted to us or our service providers, information on user behavior or website settings (e.g. IP address, UDI, device type, browser, number of clicks on the page, opening the newsletter, clicking on links, etc.).

We process this personal data for the purposes described and based on the following legal bases:

• Safeguarding legitimate interests (e.g. for administrative purposes, to improve our quality, analyze data or publicize our services)
• Consent (e.g. to the use of cookies)

Use of Our Newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your e-mail address and other contact details to send you the newsletter. You can subscribe to our newsletter with your consent. The mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address, which we store after your registration. The legal basis for the processing of your data in connection with our newsletter is your consent to the sending of the newsletter. You can revoke this consent at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter.

Tracking Technologies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity. On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you; for example, we use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a certain specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. The data processed by cookies is required for the purposes mentioned. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

Web Analysis

Google Analytics

On our websites, we use Google Analytics, the web analysis service of Google LLC, Mountain View, California, USA; Google Limited Ireland ("Google") is responsible for Europe. To deactivate Google Analytics, Google provides a browser plug-in at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Google Analytics uses cookies. These are small text files that make it possible to store specific user-related information on the user's device. These enable Google to analyze the use of our website. The information collected by the cookie about the use of our pages (including your IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code { 'anonymize_ip': true } in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). If anonymization is active, Google shortens IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which is why no conclusions can be drawn about your identity. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google may associate your IP address with other Google data. For data transfers to the USA, Google has undertaken to sign and comply with the EU standard contractual clauses.

Newsletter Tracking

We use the Mailchimp software product to send our newsletters. This software can be used to send newsletters. To carry out these analyses, we collect device and access data. With the help of these technologies, we receive information on whether the newsletter has arrived, has been opened and what content has been clicked on. We use this information to improve our newsletter and our offers. This analysis can be prevented by deactivating HTML in the e-mail program (varies depending on the e-mail program).

Data Transfer and Data Transmission

Certain personal data may be transferred to the USA (e.g. Google Analytics data) or, in exceptional cases, to other countries worldwide. If it is necessary to transfer data to other countries that do not have an adequate level of data protection, this is done on the basis of the EU standard contractual clauses (e.g. in the case of Google) or other suitable instruments.