Disclaimer: Liability for content

The contents of these pages were created with great care. For the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of content, we cannot take any responsibility. As a service provider we are responsible according to § 7 Abs.1 TMG for our own contents on these pages under the general laws. However, according to §§ 8 to 10 TMG we are not obligated as a service provider to monitor transmitted or stored information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information under the general laws remain unaffected. However, a relevant liability is only possible from the date of knowledge of a specific infringement. Upon notification of such violations, we will immediately remove this content.

Privacy Policy

We collect and use your personal data exclusively under the provisions of the data protection law of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following we will inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data. You can retrieve this information on our website at any time.

Data transmission and logging for internal and statistical purposes

For technical reasons, your Internet browser automatically transmits data to our web server when you are accessing our website. Among others, the transmitted data include the date and time of access, the URL of the referring website, retrieved file, amount of data transmitted, browser type and version, operating system and your IP address. This data is saved separately from other data you enter while using our website. An assignment of these data to a specific person is not possible for us. These data are analyzed for statistical purposes and then deleted.

Inventory data

In case a contractual relationship between you and us is to be established, provided with content or amended, we collect and use your personal information, to the extent necessary for the above-mentioned purposes.
By ordinance of the competent authorities, we reserve the right to provide information about this data in individual cases (inventory data), to the extent necessary for the purpose of law enforcement, security, enabling the constitutional protection authorities or the military counterintelligence to meet their statutory duties or as far as necessary for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Usage data

We collect and use personal information from you, to the extent necessary to permit the use of our website or settle payments (usage data). These include in particular characteristics relating to your identification, information in the beginning and end as well as the extent of use of our services.
For purposes of advertising, market research and the targeted design of our website, we may create user profiles, using pseudonyms. You have the right to object to this use of your data. We are not permitted to merge user profiles with data about the bearer of the pseudonym.
By ordinance of the competent authorities, we reserve the right to provide information about this data in individual cases (inventory data), to the extent necessary for the purpose of law enforcement, security, enabling the constitutional protection authorities or the military counterintelligence to meet their statutory duties or as far as necessary for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Use of Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and allow for the use of certain functions, we use cookies on different pages. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of every browser session, meaning after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us, or our partner companies, to recognise your browser the next time you visit the website (persistent cookies). You can set your browser in a way that ensures that you are informed about the use of cookies and decide for each cookie individually whether you acceot or refuse it in certain cases or in general. However, by blocking cookies, the functionality of our site may be limited. To find an explanation of enabling these setting in “Firefox” see the following link: http://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Use of web tracking tools Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “Cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website are usually transferred to a server of Google in the US and stored there. Due to the active IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address from Google will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this site Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other website and internet related services to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics cannot be merged with other data of Google. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, we point out that in this case it is possible, that you can not use all features of this website to the full extent. You can also prevent the data generation by the cookie relating to your usage of the website (including your IP address) and the processing by Google, by downloading and installing the following link browser plugin available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Right to information and Contact Person for Data Protection

According to the Federal Data Protection Act you have a right to information about your stored data free of charge, as well as and a right to rectification blocking or deletion of this data where required. For questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal information, the disclosure, correction, blocking or deletion of data and revocation of consents granted, please contact to the address given under “Contact”.