Privacy
Through our websites, we will not collect any personal data about you (e.g., your name, address, phone number or email address), unless you voluntarily choose to provide us with it (e.g., by registration, survey), or have consented to the same, or unless otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations regarding the protection of your information.
When you visit our website, we may store information relating to how the site was accessed (date, time, pages viewed). This is not personal data, but it is anonymized nevertheless. The information is used solely for statistical purposes. It will not be passed on to third parties for either commercial or non-commercial use.
If a contractual relationship is to be established, drawn up or modified, or if you make an inquiry of us, we will collect, use, and store your personal data (master data) insofar as this is required to enable you to use the web offering (usage data), taking retention periods according to fiscal and commercial law into account. We may disclose this information in response to a judicial or official instruction.
Please expressly note that the transfer of data over the Internet (e.g., via e-mail communications) is inherently insecure and cannot be fully protected against third-party access.
Disclosure, deletion, blocking
You have the right, at any time and at no cost, to view information about the personal data we have stored on you, its origin and recipients, as well as why we need to process it; you also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at the address given under "Legal information" at any time if you have questions about this or any other matters related to personal data.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files stored on your computer that enable it to analyze how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address, truncated if applicable) is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if you activate the IP anonymization feature on this website, Google will truncate your IP address in advance within European Union Member States or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity for the website operator, and providing other miscellaneous services relating to website and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate the IP address transferred by your browser in the context of Google Analytics with any other data held by Google. 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. Provided that you have the necessary system requirements, you can prevent Google from collecting data generated by cookies that relates to your use of the website (including your IP address), and from processing this data, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
By using this website, you consent to Google processing the data collected about you in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Plugins provided by the Facebook social networking site (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA) are embedded in our website. These Facebook plugins are identifiable by the Facebook logo or the Like button on our site. See here for an overview of Facebook plugins: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit one of our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Thus, Facebook receives information that you (your IP address) have visited our website. If you click the Facebook Like button while logged in to your Facebook account, you can link content from our pages to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to associate your visit to our website with your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of the web pages, receive no information as to the content of the data submitted or how it is used by Facebook. For further information, see Facebook's privacy policy at http://facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our website with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook.
Twitter functions are embedded in our website. These functions are provided by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the retweet function, the web pages you have visited are linked to your Twitter account and published to other users. This also involves transferring data to Twitter.
Please note that we, as the provider of the web pages, receive no information as to the content of the data submitted or how it is used by Twitter. For further information, see Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your data privacy settings in your Twitter account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
This website uses the XING Share button. When this site is accessed, your browser briefly establishes a connection with the servers of XING AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany ("XING"), which is used to provide the XING Share button functions (in particular, calculation/display of the share count). XING does not store any of your personal data when you access these web pages. In particular, XING does not store your IP address. Cookies are not utilized in conjunction with the XING Share button to evaluate your user behavior either. For the latest data protection information relating to the XING Share button and other additional information, see:
https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
We use plugins provided by the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA on our website. When you open a page of our website that contains a social plugin after that plugin has been activated, your browser establishes a direct connection with the LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn sends the content of the plugin direct to your browser and embeds it in the page. Thus LinkedIn directly receives the information that your browser has opened the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile with that social network or are not currently logged in. This information is transferred direct to a server in the USA and stored there. If you are also logged in to LinkedIn at the time, LinkedIn can directly associate the visit to our website with your LinkedIn profile. If you interact with the plugins, by clicking the LinkedIn Recommend button, for example, the corresponding information is again transferred direct to the LinkedIn servers and stored there. This information is published within the network and displayed to your contacts there. We, as the provider of a website, receive no information from LinkedIn as to the content, scope or purpose of the data collected via the social plugin, nor as to how it is further processed or used. For further information and settings you can use to protect your privacy, please see LinkedIn's data privacy policy:
https://linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
If you do not want LinkedIn to directly associate the data collected via our website with your profile in the social network, please log out of LinkedIn before visiting our website.