Data protection/ GDPR
Privacy Policy/GDPR
Welcome to our website!
We attach great importance to the protection of your data and the preservation of your privacy. Below we inform you about the collection and use of personal data when using our website.
Anonymous data collection
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. We do not store any personal data in this context. In order to improve our offer, we only evaluate statistical data that do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
Collection and processing when using the contact form
When using the contact form, we collect personal data (individual information about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person) only to the extent provided by you. We only use your email address to process your request. Your data will then be deleted unless you have consented to further processing and use.
Collection, processing and use of personal data
We collect personal data (details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person) only in the scope provided by you.
Your personal data is processed and used to fulfill and process the contractually agreed services and to process your inquiries.
After the contract has been completed, the data will initially be stored, taking into account the retention periods under tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has expired, unless you have consented to further processing and use.
Disclosure of personal data
A transfer of your data to third parties without your express consent is not. Excluded from this are only our service partners, which we need to process the contractual relationship. In these cases, we strictly comply with the requirements of the Federal Data Protection Act. The amount of data transmission is limited to a minimum.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that make it possible to store specific device-related information on users' access devices (PCs, smartphones, etc.). They serve for the user-friendliness of web pages and thus the users (eg storage of login data). On the other hand, they serve to record the statistical data of the website usage and to be able to analyze it for the purpose of improving the offer. Users can influence the use of cookies. Most browsers have an option to restrict or completely prevent the storage of cookies. However, it is pointed out that the use and especially the comfort of use are limited without cookies.
You can find many online ad cookies from companies on the American side www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU side www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ Manage.
You can also make your choice through the following platforms: IAB Opt-Out Platform and Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Platform, which offer options to make a decision for all companies registered on this platform.
Cookies and traffic reports
We use "session cookies". VG word, Munich, to measure access to texts. Our website and our mobile web offer use the 'Scalable Central Measurement Method' (SZM) of the INFO Online GmbH for the determination of statistical parameters to determine the copy probability of texts.
Anonymous measurements are collected. The access number measurement alternatively uses a session cookie or a signature, which is created from various automatically transmitted information from your browser, to recognize computer systems. IP addresses are only processed in an anonymous form. At no time individual users are identified. Your identity is always protected. You will not receive any advertising through the system.
Session cookies are small pieces of information that a provider stores in the memory of the visitor's computer. A randomly generated unique identification number, a so-called session ID, is stored in a session cookie. A cookie also contains information about its origin and the storage period. Session cookies cannot store any other data. We thus enable our authors to participate in the distributions of the VG Wort, which ensure the legal remuneration for the use of copyrighted works in accordance with § 53 UrhG.
If you do not want to take part in the measurement, you can object using the following link: https://optout.ioam.de/
Google Analytics
This offer uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files which are stored on users' computers and allow an analysis of your use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website by users are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
If IP anonymization is activated on this website, the IP address of the user will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. IP anonymization is active on this website. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate the use of the website by users, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
The IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; However, this offer notifies users that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website in full. In addition, users may prevent the collection of the data (including their IP address) generated by the cookie and their use of the website to Google and the processing of this data by Google by using the browser plug-in available under the following link Download and install: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, Please click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will have to click this link again.
This website uses the Google Analytics Report for demographic characteristics and interests. Visitors can view interest-based ads on the site Ad Settings deactivate their Google profile.
Google AdSense
This offer uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google AdSense uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on the user's computer and that enable an analysis of the use of the website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this offer.
The information generated by cookies and web beacons on this website (including the IP address of the user) and delivery of advertising formats to be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information can be passed from Google to contractors of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by you.
If you would like to learn more about these methods or to know what options you have to prevent this information from being used by the companies, click here.
The User may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, the provider, the user indicates that they may not be able to use all features of this offering to their full extent in this case. By using this site, users agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described above and for the aforementioned purpose.
Mouseflow
This website uses Mouseflow, a web analysis tool from Mouseflow ApS, Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark. The data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this website and its visitors. For this purpose, data is collected and stored for marketing and optimization purposes. Usage profiles can be created from this data under a pseudonym. Cookies can be used. The web analysis tool Mouseflow records randomly selected individual visits (only with anonymized IP addresses). This creates a log of mouse movements and clicks with the intention of randomly replaying individual website visits and deriving potential improvements for the website from this. The data collected with Mouseflow will not be used to personally identify the visitor to this website without the separate consent of the person concerned and will not be combined with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR out of the legitimate interest in direct customer communication and in the needs-based design of the website. For reasons arising from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to this processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. To do this, you can globally deactivate recording on all websites that use Mouseflow for the browser you are currently using using the following link:
https://mouseflow.com/opt-out/
If you are interested in contract data processing, you can conclude this with us online directly via RightSignature:
https://mouseflow.com/legal/gdpr/
Participation in competitions / consent to newsletters
To participate in our competitions, we collect your email address. We need this to notify you by email about your win. If you win, we will also collect your address so that we can send you your prize. Your address will be deleted after the goods have been dispatched and will not be passed on to third parties. Your email address will be saved until the competition is completed and then deleted - unless you register for the newsletter using the double opt-in procedure. Your email address will be saved until revoked. In addition, your email address will be passed on to the company that provides the competition prize. You allow the respective company to also send you a newsletter by email. Your email address may only be used for their newsletter and information about their products and will not be passed on to third parties. Consent to the newsletter can be revoked at any time. Participation in one of our competitions is not dependent on your consent to the newsletter. You will receive an email to verify your email address.
If you have any questions, send an email to [email protected].