The person responsible within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Your Data Subject Rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our data protection officer:

• Information about your data stored with us and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
• Deletion of your data stored with us (Art. 17 GDPR),
• Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
• Objection to the processing of your data with us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
• Data portability, provided you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can contact a supervisory authority with a complaint at any time, e.g. the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found here.

Collection of General Information When Visiting Our Website

Type and Purpose of Processing:

When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and similar.

They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a problem-free connection to the website,
• Ensuring smooth use of our website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
• for the optimization of our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind may be statistically evaluated anonymously by us in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Third Country Transfer:

The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries: USA

Storage Duration:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.

In the case of data storage in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of users are anonymized so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.

Provision Required or Mandatory:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

Use of Script Libraries (Google Web Fonts)

In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”) to display fonts on this website.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found here and in Google's privacy policy.

SSL Encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS that correspond to the current state of the art.

Information About Your Right to Object According to Art. 21 GDPR

Individual Case-Related Right to Object

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Recipient of an Objection

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly: