Privacy
We process personal data collected during your visit to our website confidentially and only in accordance with the statutory provisions.
Collection and processing of personal data
Personal data is only stored if you provide it to us of your own accord for the respective purpose, e.g. as part of a registration, a survey or for the performance of a contract for which you have released it. The following information is also collected when you visit our website: IP address, website from which the visit is made (referrer), pages visited (pages), files downloaded (downloads), viewing of videos/audio, clicking on individual links, search words or search phrases (site search), duration of the visit, browser used. If your visit takes place via online advertising (e.g. banners, video ads, search engine advertising, etc.), we also record which banner or search term brought you to our website.
1) Use of cookies
a) Cookies
We use cookies and active components (e.g. JavaScript) to track visitor preferences and optimize the design of our websites accordingly.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit our website. If you wish, you can delete the cookies at any time. However, this may mean that individual functions are no longer available to you. To delete cookies, please refer to the help function of your browser.
b) Cookies from third parties
Some of our web pages include content and services from other providers (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter), which in turn may use cookies and active components. We have no influence on the processing of personal data by these providers.
Please note that the option provided by us to set the cookies to be used has no effect on cookies and active components from other providers (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter).
Please refer to the websites of the respective providers for information on how they handle your data.
2) Use of external links
Our Internet pages may contain links to Internet pages of third parties, providers not affiliated with us. After clicking on the link, we no longer have any influence on the collection, storage and processing of any personal data transmitted to the third party by clicking on the link (such as the IP address or the URL of the page on which the link is located), as the behavior of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We assume no responsibility for the processing of such personal data by third parties.
3) Use of personal data and purpose limitation
We or a service company commissioned by us use your personal data for the purposes of technical administration of the websites, for customer administration, for product surveys and for your inquiries to us only to the extent necessary in each case or in accordance with the information on the processing purposes in the relevant places on our websites. Our employees and the service companies commissioned by us are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act.
All necessary technical and organizational measures are taken to ensure compliance with data protection.
4) Security
We take security precautions to protect your data managed by us against manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorized persons or unauthorized disclosure. Our security measures are constantly being improved in line with technological developments.
5) Advertising
If you provide us with personal data, we will use it to inform you about our products and services and, if necessary, to ask you about them, provided that you have expressly given us your consent to use your personal data for advertising purposes. If you have given your consent for such use, but do not wish to receive advertising from us in future, you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. Your data will then be deleted accordingly or, if it is still required for billing and accounting purposes, blocked.
6) Objection
You can also withdraw your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data at any time with future effect.
Personal data will be deleted if you revoke your consent to storage, if knowledge of the personal data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which it was stored, or if storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.
This does not affect data that is required for billing and accounting purposes or is subject to statutory retention obligations.