Person in authority according to data protection acts, particularly to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) within
the European Union and the European Economic Area:
Your rights as data subjects
Under the contact information of our Data Protection Officer mentioned above, you can exert the following rights on demand:
- Disclosure of your data stored and processed;
- Adjustment of incorrect personal data;
- Deletion of your stored data;
- Restriction of data processing in case we are not allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations;
- Objection to processing your data by us and
- Data transfer, on condition that you have agreed to data processing or concluded an agreement with us.
In case you have given us any kind of permission, you may revoke this permission at any time with future effect.
You may issue a complaint with the regulatory authority in charge. The regulatory authority in charge is determined by your
place of residence, your workplace or the location of the supposed privacy breach. Regulatory authorities (for non-public domains)
including their addresses are listed under
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.
Purposes of data processing by the responsible party and thirds
Your data are processed for the sole purposes mentioned in our data privacy statement. There will be no transfer of your personal
data to third parties for other than the mentioned purposes. A transfer of your personal data to third parties solely occurs
- With your explicit consent;
- If data processing is required to transact an agreement with you;
- If data processing is required to fulfill legal obligations;
- If data processing is required to protect our rightful interests without reason to assume that there is a predominant
interest in the non-transfer of your data worth being protected.
Collection of general data and information while visiting our website
When you access our website, general information is collected automatically by use of cookies. This kind of general information
(server logfiles) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider
and the like without allowing conclusions about you as a natural person.
This kind of information is technically required in order to deliver correctly the content of websites you request and automatically
arises while using the internet. This information is processed in particular for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth operation of the connection establishment of the website;
- Ensuring a comfortable use of our website;
- Assessing system security and stability as well as
- Further administrative purposes.
Processing your personal data is based on our rightful interest in the purposes of data collection mentioned above. We do not use your
data to draw conclusions about you as a natural person. Recipients of data are solely the responsible party and data processing companies,
if necessary.
If necessary, we evaluate anonymous information of this kind statistically in order to optimize our internet presence and the
technology behind it.
SSL encryption
To protect data security during transmission, we use ciphering methods according to the current level of technology (such as SSL) via HTTPS.
Comment feature
When users leave comments on our website, time and date of compilation as well as the user name chosen by the visitor of the
website beforehand are saved besides these entries. By this, we ensure our own security, as we are liable for unlawful content
on our website, even if this content was compiled by users.
Contact form
When you contact us via e-mail or contact form regarding questions of all sorts, you freely agree to your e-mail address being
saved for the purpose of making contact. Entering a valid e-mail address is required in order to assign your request and answering
it afterwards. Depending on the type of request, giving additional data may be necessary. Any information given will be saved for
processing your request as well as for possible subsequent questions.
Social plug-ins
In addition, our website contains programs (plug-ins) of the social network Facebook. These are exclusively operated by Facebook Inc.,
1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (Facebook). Within our internet presence, these plug-ins are identified by the logo of
Facebook or the add-in
Like
. When visiting a website of our internet presence containing such a plug-in, your browser automatically
establishes a direct connection with the servers of Facebook, by which means the content of this plug-in is transmitted in turn to your
browser and embedded in the website shown. Hereby the information that you have visited our website will be forwarded to Facebook. In
case you are logged in with your personal profile at Facebook while visiting our website, Facebook is able to allocate your visit on our
website to your personal profile. By interacting with plug-ins, for instance clicking on the
Like
button or leaving a comment,
corresponding information will be transmitted directly to Facebook and saved there. Should you wish to prevent such data transfer, you
must log out of your personal profile on Facebook before visiting our internet presence. For the purposes of data collection by Facebook
and its extent as well as further processing and use of your data there, including your corresponding rights and any possibility of
discontinuation in order to protect your privacy, please refer to the data privacy statement of Facebook
(
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation).
