Data Protection Policy
Thank you for your interest in our online presence. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. This is why we’d like to inform you about our company’s privacy policy. Of course we comply with the legal provisions of the Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG), and other data privacy regulations.
Subject of data protection
Subject to protection are all personal data. In accordance with § 3 section 1 of the BDSG, these are details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or ascertainable natural person. This includes for example details such as name, mailing address, email address or telephone number, but also in some cases usage data such as a your IP address.
Use of data for specific purposes
We observe the principle of the use of data for specific purposes and collect, process and store your personal data only for the purposes for which you provided it. We do not pass on your personal data to third parties without your express consent, insofar as this is not necessary for the provision of our services or the fulfilment of the contract. Also, we will only transmit data to authorised state institutions and agencies in the context of legal disclosure obligations if we are mandated by court order.
Scope of data collection and storage
Generally, it is not necessary for you to provide any personal data in order to use our website. In order for us to be able to provide our services, however, we may need to request personal data from you. This applies to both the sending of informational material or the provision of services as well as to responding to individual inquiries. If you entrust us with the provision of a service, we collect and store your personal data only insofar as it is necessary for the provision of services or the fulfilment of the contract. To do so, it may be necessary to pass on your personal data to companies we hire to provide the services or fulfil the contract. These may include for example transportation companies or other service providers.
Collection and storage of usage data
In order to optimise our website, we collect and store the following data:
- Date and time of the page view,
- name of the page viewed,
- the browser used,
- the operating system used,
- the requesting domain,
- the IP address.
This is done anonymously, without identifying the user of the site personally. If necessary, user profiles are created using a pseudonym. Here too, no connection is made between the natural person behind the pseudonym and the collected usage data.
We employ cookies for the collection and storage of usage data. These are small text files that are stored on your computer and serve to store statistical information such as operating system, your internet program (browser), IP address, the previously accessed Web page (referrer URL) and the time. We collect this data exclusively for statistical purposes, to optimise our Internet presence and to be able to make our internet offerings even more attractive. The collection and storage takes place exclusively in an anonymous or pseudonym form and allows no inference to you as a natural person.
Google Analytics
This website uses Universal Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Universal Analytics is the new operating standard for Google Analytics. We would like to inform you that Universal Analytics on this website was extended with the function anonymizeIp();" in order to guarantee an anonymous registration of IP addresses (called IP Masking). Universal Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and allow analysis of your usage of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating the IP anonymisation on this website, however, your IP address is truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other states party to the treaty on the European Economic Zone. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the website in order to compile reports about the website activity and to provide further services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Universal Analytics is not consolidated with other data by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies through a setting in your browser software; we point out, however, that you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website if you do so.
In addition, you can prevent the registration of the data generated by the cookie and data related to your usage of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can prevent data collection by Universal Analytics by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the future acquisition of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics.
For more information on the terms and conditions and privacy policy, visit: www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html bzw. unter www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
Right to information and withdrawal
You may at any time and without providing a reason obtain a report of all your personal data stored by us, free of charge. You can at any time block, correct, or have deleted the data we store. You may also revoke at any time your consent to data storage and usage by us without providing a reason. To do so, please contact the address given in the Legal Notice. We are at your disposal at any time should you have further questions regarding our Data Protection Policy or our processing of your personal data.
Please note that data privacy provisions and privacy handling, e.g. at Google, are subject to change at any time. It is therefore advisable and necessary to remain informed about changes in the legal provisions and the practices of companies, e.g. Google.
Source: eRecht24.de, Datenschutzbeauftragter-info.de, rechtsanwalt-schwenke.de, http://www.datenschutzerklaerung-online.de