General Information
The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of the legal regulations (GDPR, TKG 2003). In this privacy policy, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within the scope of our website.
When you visit this website, certain data, including personal data, is generated and stored automatically. Our web server (computer that hosts the website) automatically stores data such as:
This data is stored in server log files. We typically do not use this data and do not forward it to third parties unless required by law. However, we reserve the right to review this log data retrospectively if concrete evidence suggests illegal use.
Personal data that you transmit electronically on this website, such as your name, email address, company/organization, subject, or message content via the contact form, will only be used by us for the purpose specified, stored securely, and not disclosed to third parties without your consent.
We therefore collect, process and use the data made available to us only for purposes agreed with you or based on your consent, or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the GDPR (e.g., fulfilling a contract, legitimate interest). An exception to this is the use for statistical purposes, provided that the data provided has been anonymized.
If you contact us via the form on the website or by e-mail, the data you provide (Name, Email Address, Company/Organization, Subject, Your Message) will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your request and in case of follow-up questions. The legal basis for this processing is typically your consent (Art. 6 para 1 lit a GDPR) or the initiation/fulfillment of a contract (Art. 6 para 1 lit b GDPR) if your request relates to our services. We will not pass on this data without your consent. We will retain this data until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage ceases to apply (e.g., after your request has been processed), unless statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.
As a data subject, you have – at any time – the right to be informed about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing, the right to rectification, the right to deletion or blocking of incorrect or inadmissibly processed data and/or data that is no longer necessary for agreed, contractual or legal purposes, the right to restrict processing, the right to data portability and the right to object to the processing.
If your personal data is stored and used on the grounds of your consent (e.g., via the contact form), you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
The protection of your data is carried out by appropriate technical and organizational measures. These measures relate in particular to protection against unauthorized, illegal or even accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation.
We use https for secure internet data transfer. The use of TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transfer, enables us to guarantee the protection of confidential data. You can recognize the use of secure data transfer by the small lock symbol in the upper left corner of your browser window and the use of https as part of our internet address.
Notwithstanding our efforts to maintain an appropriately high level of due diligence at all times, it cannot be ruled out that information that you disclose to us via the Internet may be viewed and used by other persons. Please note that we therefore accept no liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission not caused by us and/or unauthorized access by third parties (e.g., hack attack on e-mail account or server). If you send us personal data via email – not via this website’s contact form – we cannot guarantee secure transmission and the protection of your data. We therefore advise you never to send sensitive personal data by unencrypted email.
We make every effort to ensure that data breaches are detected at an early stage and, if necessary, immediately reported to you or the relevant regulatory authority, including the respective data categories that are affected.
Some of our websites use cookies to make our website more user-friendly, effective and safe. A cookie is a short data package, which is exchanged between web-browser and web server. This enables our websites to recognize you as a user when a connection is established between our web server and your browser and to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our websites. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number that no longer allows the user to be identified as a person.
Further we use permanent cookies to make our website more user-friendly. The permanent cookies we use remain stored on your device until you delete them and enable us to remember your browser when you visit us again.
If you don’t want this you can configure your browser to inform you when cookies are used and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. You can delete the cookies that are stored on your computer or totally deactivate cookies any time. The procedure varies from browser to browser. In order to find out how you can do it with your browser look for “delete cookies chrome” or deactivate cookies chrome” in Google if you use Chrome. For other browsers please replace Chrome with the name of your browser (e.g. Edge, Safari, Firefox). If you generally don’t allow us to use cookies or deactivate cookies in your browser settings this may cause a lack of functionality of specific pages.
Our newsletters are distributed through the Mailchimp system of The Rocket Science Group, LLC (675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA).
If you subscribe to a free newsletter, your data is transferred to Mailchimp. Mailchimp, therefore, stores, processes and uses your data for this purpose in the US. We would like to point out that currently, in the opinion of the European Court of Justice, there is no adequate level of protection within the meaning of the GDPR for the transfer of data to the US. This may be associated with various risks for the lawfulness and security of data processing.
We link our websites via so-called hyperlinks to websites of other providers. If you are redirected to such a website, the URL in the address bar of your browser changes. If you leave our website and follow a hyperlink to the website of another provider, we cannot guarantee or accept any responsibility for third-party content or data protection conditions of these websites (including the confidentiality of your data). Please inquire about this with the author of the respective website.
