Thank you very much for your interest in our online presentation. The protection of your personal data is our primary concern. At this point, we would like to inform you about data and privacy protection in our company. We comply with all data protections laws and regulations of the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Federal Data Protection - BDSG), the Telemediengesetz (German Telemedia Act - TMG) and other laws regarding privacy and data protection.
You can rely on us to protect and safeguard your personal data ! Your data will be encrypted through digital security systems and transmitted to us. Our websites are protected against damage, destruction or from unauthorised access by technical means.
Subject of data protection
The subject of data protection is personal data. According to § 3 para. 1 BDSG, person-related data is defined as any individual item of data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Also included are e.g. data as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number, eventually technical data such as your IP-address.
Scope of data acquisition and storage
In general it is not necessary to submit personal data when using our website. However, we may need your personal data, if applicable, in order to actually provide our services. This applies to the supply of information material or to ordered goods or to reply to individual inquiries.
If you instruct us to provide a service or the sending of goods, we principally collect and store your personal data only to the extend being necessary to ensure the provision of the service or the execution of the contract. This may also require a transmission of your personal data to companies that we deploy to provide the service or for execution of the contract. These are for example transport companies or further service providers. If we perform one of the above mentioned or any other action or service, we would like to collect and store your personal data. We will ask you for your explicit permission on the relevant internet site.
Once the contract management has been completed, your personal data will be blocked and deleted after expiry of the provisions under fiscal and commercial law, unless you did not expressly agree to further use of your data.
Data collection by using Google-Analytics
Our website uses Google-Analytics, a web analysis service of the Google Inc. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files which are stored on your computer to allow an analysis of the website you use. For example information such as operating system, browser, your IP-address, the previously visited website (Referrer-URL) as well as date and time of your visit at our website will be recorded. This information about the use of our website is generated by these text files and transferred to and saved on a Google server in the USA. Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our website in order to generate reports about website activity for the website operators and to provide further services related to web site usage and internet usage. As long it is regulated by law or where third parties process this data on Google`s behalf, Google may also transfer this information to these third parties. This usage is anonymous or pseudonymised. For further information follow directly the google link :
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Google uses the DoubleClick DART-cookie
Users may deactivate the application of DART-Cookies by opening the Data Protection Regulations of the Advertising Network and Content-Advertising Network of Google.
No personal data of the user will be stored, only the internet protocol address. This information is required to recognise you on our websites automatically when you visit our websites again to facilitate navigation. Cookies enable us to adjust a website to your interests or to memorise your password to avoid re-entering it every time you visit the website.
Of course, you can view our websites without cookies. If you do not want us to recognise your computer, avoid storing of cookies on your hard disk by setting up your internet browser « refuse cookies » For technical details look up the instructions given by the browser manufacturer. When you do not accept cookies, this may restrict your use of certain functions on our website.
Collection and storage of usage data
In order to optimise our website, we collect and store data such as date and time of the page view, the page from which you have accessed our site and similar. This is an anonymised process without identifying the individual user of the page. Where appropriate, user profiles can be drawn up by means of a pseudonym. Also in this case, there is no connection between the natural persons behind the pseudonym with the usage data. We also use cookies for collection and storage of usage data. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer to allow a collection of statistical information such as operating system, your browser, your IP-address, the previously visited website (Referrer-URL) and the date. We collect these data only for statistical reasons in order to further optimise our internet presence and to make our online services even more attractive. The data is only collected and stored anonymously or by means of a pseudonym and does not allow any conclusion about you as a natural person.
Assigned Data Use
We observe the principle of data use for a specific purpose and collect, process and store your personal data only for the purpose you have indicated. A transmission of your personal data to third persons without your explicit permission does not occur, provided that it is necessary for the completion of our services or for the execution of a contract. The transfer to authorized national institutions and authorities occurs only within the legal disclosure requirements or if we are obliged to disclose by a court decision.
We also take the internal privacy very seriously. Our own staff and the service providers working on our instructions are obliged to maintain discretion and to comply with the provisions of the protection legislation.
Information and cancellation
You have access to all your data stored by us at any time and for free without giving reasons. You can block, correct or delete your data stored by us at any time. You also can always cancel the consent to collect and use your data without giving any reason. For this purpose, please refer to the contact address indicated on the impressum. We will always be at your disposal for further information about our references to data protection and the processing of your personal data.
Please note that the data protection regulations and the procedures of data protection can currently change as for example at google. It is therefore advisable and necessary to stay informed about legal modifications and changes in the activity of companies such as google.
