Privacy Policy

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. via email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses).

Unless a more specific storage period is stated within this Privacy Policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing no longer applies. If you submit a justified request for deletion or revoke consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, deletion takes place after these reasons cease to apply.

Data processing on this website may rest on different legal bases under the GDPR. The bases that apply in each individual case are stated in the relevant sections of this Privacy Policy. The following table summarises the most important ones:

Among other things, we use tools from companies based in the USA or other third countries that are not considered safe under data protection law. When these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in these third countries. We point out that no level of data protection comparable to the EU can be guaranteed in these countries.

For example, US companies are obliged to release personal data to security authorities without you, as the data subject, being able to take legal action against this. It cannot therefore be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) will process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for surveillance purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw consent you have already given at any time. An informal email is sufficient. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement. This right exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.

Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing and, if applicable, the right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, and for further questions on personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the review, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
• If we no longer need your personal data, but you require it for the exercise, defence or establishment of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
• If you have lodged an objection in accordance with Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data may – apart from being stored – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.

Our internet pages use so-called cookies in some places. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.

You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

The provider of these pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

This data is not merged with other data sources.

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. An informal email is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after we have finished processing your enquiry). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

You can register on our website to use additional functions on the site. We use the data entered for this purpose only for the purpose of using the respective offer or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject the registration.

For important changes such as the scope of the offering or for technically necessary changes, we use the email address provided during registration to inform you accordingly.

The data collected during registration is stored by us as long as you are registered on our website and is then deleted. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

We collect, process and use personal data only insofar as it is necessary for the establishment, content design or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data on the use of our internet pages (usage data) only insofar as this is necessary to enable the user to use the service or to bill them.

The collected customer data is deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of contract processing, for example to the credit institution commissioned to process the payment.

Data is not transferred further, or only if you have expressly consented to the transfer. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, e.g. for advertising purposes.

The basis for the data processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you, as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data, or only data on a voluntary basis, is collected. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to the storage of data, the email address and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data you have stored with us for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you have unsubscribed from the newsletter. Data that has been stored with us for other purposes remains unaffected.