DATA PROTECTION

General

The operator of this website collects, processes and uses a user’s personal data without further consent only to the extent that it is necessary for the establishment and execution of the contract and for billing purposes.

Personal data are individual details about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject).

The collection of data means the acquisition of data by the data subject himself. In addition to storing and deleting, processing also includes changing, blocking and transmitting personal data. Use is any use of personal data that does not involve processing. The operator of this website is entitled, in accordance with the applicable legal provisions, to provide information to law enforcement authorities and courts for the purposes of criminal prosecution. The operator of this website can evaluate the customer's inventory and traffic data for market research purposes or have it evaluated by third parties. The customer can object to this by contacting the data protection officer.

Inventory data

Inventory data is personal data that is required to establish or change the contractual relationship between the operator of this website and the user. This includes, among other things, the user's name and address, date of birth, telephone number, email address and payment details.

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 the inventory data for the purposes of advertising, customer advice or market research if this is necessary and the user has consented. The user can revoke the consent in writing at any time.

The provision in Section 29 of the Federal Data Protection Act allows the commercial collection, storage or modification of personal data for the purpose of transmission, particularly in connection with the activities of credit agencies. Credit agencies link personal data that originates from various sources and transmit it to third parties. The operator of this website is obliged to provide such credit agencies with the necessary data.


Traffic data

Traffic data is data that is collected, processed or used when providing 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 in order to enable the use of these services. The date and time as well as the time zone of the start and end of use, the volume in bytes and the IP address are usually recorded. The aforementioned data is stored for up to two months after the invoice is sent, unless longer storage is provided for as part of the statistics functions activated by the user. The operator of this website may use, store and transmit traffic data to the extent that billing with other companies or other service providers or legal regulations require it.


right of providing information

The operator of this website will inform the user upon request in writing, taking into account the legal requirements, whether and which personal data about him is stored. The data protection officer is available to answer this and other questions about data protection.



Website tracking

This website sometimes uses so-called cookies. These are designed to make the service more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser; they enable an analysis of your use of the website. You can prevent the storage of this and the cookies listed below by setting your browser software accordingly; 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 provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred 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 the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. 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 Google Inc.'s remarketing technology. This technology allows users who have already visited this website and shown an interest in the service to be contacted again with targeted advertising on the pages of the Google Partner Network. If users have agreed that Google may link their web and app browsing history to their Google account and that information from their Google account may be used to personalize ads, the remarketing function is used across devices. To support this function, Google Analytics records Google-authenticated IDs of these users. This personal data is temporarily linked to the Google Analytics data in order to create target groups. Google users can adjust their ad settings under "My Account" or deactivate personalized ads.

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

Additionally, Google Analytics collects reports on performance by demographics and interest.



Social Plugins

This website uses various functions from the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google+. By default, no data is transferred to these services when you visit our website. On some pages, after ticking the corresponding plugin or clicking on a corresponding link on the respective platform, data can be transferred in accordance with the following conditions without the function ("Recommend", "Tweet", "+1") itself being carried out.



YouTube

This website uses plug-ins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The site is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. 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.

Further information on how user data is handled can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy