By notifying our Data Protection Officer at the specified contact details, you can exercise the following rights at any time:• right to obtain information about your data stored and processed by us;• right to the correction of inaccurate personal data; • right to erasure of your data stored by us;• right to the restriction of the data processing, insofar as we are not permitted to delete your data yet based on legal obligations;• right to object to the processing of your data by us; and the • right to data portability if that you have consented to the data processing or concluded a contract with us. If you have granted us a consent, you can revoke it any time with effect for the future. You can lodge complaint at any time with the supervisory authority that is competent for you. The supervisory authority that is competent for you is determined by the federal state of your residence, place of work or suspected violation. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) including address can be found here: www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Purposes of the data processing by the data controller and third parties We process your personal data exclusively for the purposes specified in this Data Privacy Policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for any purposes other than the purposes specified. We transfer your personal data to third parties only if:
• you have granted your explicit consent; • the processing is required for the execution of the contract concluded with you; • the processing is required for the fulfilment of a legal obligation;
the processing is required for the protection of legitimate interest and if there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest requiring protection in not transferring your data.
Deletion or blocking dataWe adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore store your personal data only for as long, as this is required to reach the purposes specified herein or as prescribed according to the various storage periods that are mandated by law. When the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have lapsed, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with legal regulations.
CookiesLike many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small files that are transmitted from a website server to your hard drive. We receive certain data automatically, e.g. IP address, browser used, operating system and your internet connection. Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transmit viruses to a computer. By means of the information contained in the cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable the correct display of our websites. The data gathered by us is never disseminated to third parties nor is it linked to your personal data without your consent. Of course, you can generally also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are normally configured to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help feature of your web browser to find out how you can change these settings. Please notice that individual features of our website might not function when you have deactivated the use of cookies.
Registration on our website When registering for the use of our personalised services, some personal data is gathered, such as name, address, contact and communication details like the phone number and email address. If you have registered with us, you can access contents and services that we offer exclusively to registered users. Registered users furthermore have the possibility to edit or delete the data entered in the course of the registration at any time whenever necessary. Of course, we will also inform you at any time about the personal data that we have stored about you. We will also be happy to correct or delete this data on your request, unless legal retention obligations are opposed. To contact us in this context, please use the contact details specified at the end of this Data Privacy Policy.
SSL encryptionTo protect the security of your data in the transmission, we use an encryption protocol according to the current state of technology (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Contact formIf you contact us for questions of any kind via email or the contact form, you will grant us your voluntary consent for the purposes of processing your contact request. For this purpose, it is necessary to specify a valid email address. It serves to attribute the request and subsequently answering the same. Specification of further data is optional. The information provided by you will be stored for the purposes of processing the request and for potential follow-up questions. After the request you have sent is resolved, your personal data will be deleted automatically.
Use of Google MapsThis website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. In the use of Google Maps, Google also gathers, processes and uses data about the use of the map features by visitors. You can find more information on the use of data by Google in the the Google Data Privacy Policy. In the data privacy centre there, you can also modify your personal data privacy settings. Detailed instructions on the management of your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.
Embedded YouTube videosOn some of our websites, we embed YouTube videos. Operator of the corresponding plug-ins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, a connection to servers of YouTube will be established. In the process, YouTube will be told which pages you are visiting. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can attribute your browsing pattern to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that gather information on the user behaviour. Those who have deactivated the storing of cookies for the Google Ad program do not have to expect such cookies when viewing YouTube videos. YouTube, however, also stores impersonal usage information in other cookies. If you would like to prevent this, you have to block the storing of cookies in your browser. You can find more information about data privacy at “YouTube” in the provider’s data privacy policy at: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Changes in our Data Privacy PoliciesWe reserve the right adjust this Data Privacy Policy, so that it is always consistent with the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the Data Privacy Policy, e.g. if new services are launched. The new Data Privacy Policy will then apply for your returning visit.
Questions to the Data Protection OfficerIf you have questions about data privacy, please write us an email. The Data Privacy Policy was generated using the Data Privacy Policy Generator of activeMind AG.