Privacy policy
What are cookies and how do they work?
When you visit a website, the website can place a cookie on the computer of the website visitor via the web browser. A cookie is a small text file that is used for storing information.
When the user visits the website again later, the website can read the data of the cookie stored earlier and therefore determine, for example, whether the user has visited the website before, and the areas of the website in which the user is particularly interested.
The legal bases for the use of cookies are the 1994 German Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act [Gewerbeordnung/GewO], the 2003 German Telecommunications Act [Telekommunikationsgesetz/TKG] and the 2000 German Data Protection Act [Datenschutzgesetz/DSG].
Further information about cookies can be found on Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP-Cookie
Changing cookie settings
It is possible to specify in the web browser settings how to handle cookies, and which cookies to allow or deny. Where exactly these settings are depends on the web browser. Details can be accessed via the Help function of the web browser.
If the use of cookies is restricted, under certain circumstances not all functions of this website will remain fully available.
What kinds of cookies are used on this website?
Our website primarily uses the following types of cookies:
1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are absolutely essential for the operation of our website. They are necessary in order to allow you to surf around the website and use its features. If you deactivate these cookies, the functionality of the website is limited.
2. Performance cookies
These cookies gather data on how visitors use the website and monitor the general performance of the website. Performance cookies, for instance, reveal to us which pages are most popular, they monitor the data traffic on our website and compile anonymous analytical information. Performance cookies can also be used to detect and remediate operating problems in order to improve the performance.
3. Functional cookies
These cookies enable the website to save information in order to support the automatic recognition of your preferences. Based on various data, such as your location, functional cookies can ensure that you are automatically connected with the version of our website that is especially intended for your town or region.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to store information about website users and to analyse the use of the website by website users.
The information generated by the cookies about use of this website (including the website user's IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there.
According to information provided by Google, Google will use this information to evaluate the use of the website in order to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website use and internet use.
Google will also forward this information to outside parties, where applicable, if required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.
Further information is available at Google:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Information on disabling the analytical data collection can be obtained from Google:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
(Browser add-on for disabling Google Analytics)
Social Plugins
Our website uses several third-party plugins.
When our website is accessed, a connection to the servers of the respective plugin providers will be made and data transmitted via these plugins. Exactly what data the plugin providers transfer and exactly how this data is processed by the plugin providers is unknown.
Website users have access to a user account through these plugin providers, so the plugin providers can assign the information transmitted directly to their user account. Website users can avoid this allocation under certain circumstances, by logging out from the respective user accounts before visiting our website.
Facebook: This website uses plugins from Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. These plugins are usually either marked with the word "Facebook" or recognisable by the blue "F" of Facebook.
Further information is available on Facebook:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
Google: This website uses plugins from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. These plugins are usually recognisable by the red "G+".
Further information is available on Google:
http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html
Twitter: This website uses plugins from Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. These plugins are usually recognisable by the blue Twitter logo.
Further information is available on Twitter:
https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons