Data protection

THE OPERATORS OF THESE PAGES TAKE THE PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA VERY SERIOUSLY. WE TREAT YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONFIDENTIALLY AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUTORY DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS AND THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION. AS A RULE, IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE OUR WEBSITE WITHOUT PROVIDING PERSONAL DATA. INSOFAR AS PERSONAL DATA (E.G. NAME, ADDRESS OR E-MAIL ADDRESSES) IS COLLECTED ON OUR PAGES, THIS IS ALWAYS DONE, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS. THIS DATA WILL NOT BE PASSED ON TO THIRD PARTIES WITHOUT YOUR EXPRESS CONSENT. WE WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT DATA TRANSMISSION ON THE INTERNET (E.G. COMMUNICATION BY E-MAIL) CAN HAVE SECURITY GAPS. COMPLETE PROTECTION OF DATA AGAINST ACCESS BY THIRD PARTIES IS NOT POSSIBLE. OUR EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS SUBCONTRACTORS COMMISSIONED BY US, HAVE BEEN OBLIGATED TO MAINTAIN SECRECY IN ACCORDANCE WITH § 5 BDSG.

COOKIES

SOME OF THE INTERNET PAGES USE SO-CALLED COOKIES. COOKIES DO NOT CAUSE ANY DAMAGE TO 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 END DEVICE UNTIL YOU DELETE THEM. THESE COOKIES ENABLE US TO RECOGNISE YOUR BROWSER ON YOUR NEXT VISIT. YOU CAN SET 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 GENERALLY AND ACTIVATE THE AUTOMATIC DELETION OF COOKIES WHEN CLOSING THE BROWSER. IF YOU DEACTIVATE COOKIES, THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS WEBSITE MAY BE LIMITED. SERVER LOG FILESTHE PROVIDER OF THE PAGES AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTS AND STORES INFORMATION IN SO-CALLED SERVER LOG FILES, WHICH YOUR BROWSER AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITS TO US. THESE ARE: BROWSER TYPE AND BROWSER VERSION OPERATING SYSTEM USED REFERRER URL HOST NAME OF THE ACCESSING COMPUTER TIME OF THE SERVER REQUEST THIS DATA CANNOT BE ASSIGNED TO SPECIFIC PERSONS. THIS DATA IS NOT MERGED WITH OTHER DATA SOURCES. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHECK THIS DATA RETROSPECTIVELY IF WE BECOME AWARE OF CONCRETE INDICATIONS OF ILLEGAL USE. CONTACT FORMIF YOU SEND US ENQUIRIES VIA THE CONTACT FORM, YOUR DETAILS FROM THE ENQUIRY FORM, INCLUDING THE CONTACT DETAILS YOU HAVE PROVIDED THERE, WILL BE STORED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING THE ENQUIRY AND IN THE EVENT OF FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS. WE DO NOT PASS ON THIS DATA WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.

MATOMO

THIS WEBSITE USES THE OPEN SOURCE WEB ANALYTICS SERVICE MATOMO. MATOMO USES SO-CALLED "COOKIES". THESE ARE TEXT FILES THAT ARE STORED ON YOUR COMPUTER AND ENABLE AN ANALYSIS OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE INFORMATION GENERATED BY THE COOKIE ABOUT THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS STORED ON OUR SERVER. THE IP ADDRESS IS ANONYMISED BEFORE STORAGE. THE INFORMATION GENERATED BY THE COOKIE ABOUT YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL NOT BE PASSED ON TO THIRD PARTIES. YOU MAY REFUSE THE USE OF COOKIES BY SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE SETTINGS ON YOUR BROWSER, HOWEVER PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU DO THIS YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE FULL FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE STORAGE AND USE OF YOUR DATA, YOU CAN DEACTIVATE THE STORAGE AND USE HERE. IN THIS CASE, AN OPT-OUT COOKIE WILL BE STORED IN YOUR BROWSER, WHICH PREVENTS MATOMO FROM STORING USAGE DATA. IF YOU DELETE YOUR COOKIES, THIS WILL HAVE THE EFFECT THAT THE MATOMO OPT-OUT COOKIE WILL ALSO BE DELETED. THE OPT-OUT MUST BE REACTIVATED WHEN YOU VISIT OUR SITE AGAIN: HTTPS://MATOMO.ORG/DOCS/PRIVACY/

YOUTUBE

OUR WEBSITE USES PLUGINS FROM THE YOUTUBE SITE OPERATED BY GOOGLE. THE OPERATOR OF THE SITE IS YOUTUBE, LLC, 901 CHERRY AVE, SAN BRUNO, CA 94066, USA. WHEN YOU VISIT ONE OF OUR PAGES EQUIPPED WITH A YOUTUBE PLUGIN, A CONNECTION TO THE YOUTUBE SERVERS IS ESTABLISHED.THIS TELLS THE YOUTUBE SERVER WHICH OF OUR PAGES YOU HAVE VISITED. F YOU ARE LOGGED INTO YOUR YOUTUBE ACCOUNT, YOU ENABLE YOUTUBE TO ASSIGN YOUR SURFING BEHAVIOUR DIRECTLY TO YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE. YOU CAN PREVENT THIS BY LOGGING OUT OF YOUR YOUTUBE ACCOUNT. FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE HANDLING OF USER DATA CAN BE FOUND IN YOUTUBE'S PRIVACY POLICY AT: HTTPS://WWW.GOOGLE.DE/INTL/DE/POLICIES/PRIVACY. GOOGLE MAPSTHIS WEBSITE USES THE GOOGLE MAPS PRODUCT FROM GOOGLE INC. BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND USE OF AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED DATA BY GOOGLE INC, ITS REPRESENTATIVES AND THIRD PARTIES.THE TERMS OF USE OF GOOGLE MAPS CAN BE FOUND UNDER "TERMS OF USE OF GOOGLE MAPS". SSL ENCRYPTIONTHIS SITE USES SSL ENCRYPTION FOR SECURITY REASONS AND TO PROTECT THE TRANSMISSION OF CONFIDENTIAL CONTENT, SUCH AS ENQUIRIES THAT YOU SEND TO US AS SITE OPERATOR. YOU CAN RECOGNISE AN ENCRYPTED CONNECTION BY THE FACT THAT THE ADDRESS LINE OF THE BROWSER CHANGES FROM "HTTP://" TO "HTTPS://" AND BY THE LOCK SYMBOL IN YOUR BROWSER LINE. IF SSL ENCRYPTION IS ACTIVATED, THE DATA YOU TRANSMIT TO US CANNOT BE READ BY THIRD PARTIES.

RIGHT TO INFORMATION, DELETION, BLOCKING

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 AS WELL AS THE RIGHT TO CORRECT, BLOCK OR DELETE THIS DATA. YOU CAN CONTACT US AT ANY TIME AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN IN THE IMPRINT FOR THIS PURPOSE AND FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF PERSONAL DATA. CONTACTIF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF DATA PROTECTION, YOU CAN CONTACT OUR DATA PROTECTION OFFICER AT THE E-MAIL ADDRESS DATENSCHUTZ[at]LGSA[.]DE.