Cookie Policy

Cookies

Cookies help, among other things, to make your visit to our website easier, more pleasant and more meaningful. Cookies are information files that your web browser automatically saves on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our website. Cookies neither damage your computer’s hard drive nor do they transmit your personal data to us. We use cookies, for example, to recognize you as a registered user without you having to log in again each time. In this case, use does not mean that we receive new personal data about you as an online visitor. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can set your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or you receive a warning message when a new cookie arrives. You can find more information about this in the setting options of your browser. However, deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

Tracking-Tools

We use the web analysis service Google Analytics for the purpose of designing our website to meet your needs and continuously optimizing it. In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as:

• Browser type/version

• Operating system used

• Referrer URL (the previously visited page)

• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)

• Time of server request

• Device

are transferred to servers of Google Inc., a company of the holding company Alphabet Inc, in the USA and stored there. The IP address is shortened by activating IP anonymization (“anonymizeIP”) on this website before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area or Switzerland. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. In these cases, we ensure through contractual guarantees that Google Inc. maintains an adequate level of data protection. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and needs-based design of these websites. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. According to Google Inc., under no circumstances will the IP address be associated with other data relating to the user. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. According to Google Inc., under no circumstances will the IP address be associated with other data relating to the user. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. According to Google Inc., under no circumstances will the IP address be associated with other data relating to the user.

US authorities can take surveillance measures within the framework of US legislation, within the framework of which the general storage of all data forwarded from the European Union to the USA is possible. This is done without distinction, limitation or exception based on the objective pursued and without objective criteria that would allow US authorities to access personal data and then use it for specific, strictly limited purposes that would justify access to that data, restrict.