privacy
Data protection & data security
Data protection In the following explanations, we will give you precise information about what data is stored on our website and how this data is treated. The following principles are continuously adapted to new circumstances, for example in the event of legal changes. We would also like to give you some tips on how you can help protect your data yourself. However, please note that our website contains links to other websites. We cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the offers of other operators. We also have no influence on whether other operators comply with the data protection regulations. 1. Data protection obligation We are committed to protecting the privacy of all persons who entrust us with their data. 2. Storage of personal data We do not spy on or collect personal data unnoticed. Techniques to prevent the unnoticed extraction of personal data on the part of the user (e.g. blocking cookies, suppressing the HTTP referrer, concealing the requesting IP - more on this below) do not lead to functional losses. Only such personal data that you voluntarily provide to us as part of a transaction will be stored electronically by us. The data stored on this website is particularly protected by organizational and technical measures. 3. Use of personal data The stored personal data will only be used for the purposes for which they were transmitted to us or which we have previously communicated to you. In particular, you can rely on the fact that data will never be passed on to third parties for commercial purposes unless you have given your express consent. 4. Deletion of personal data Personal data is deleted in accordance with legal norms, which is basically the case when knowledge of the data is no longer necessary for the storage location to perform its tasks. Storage of usage data When you access our pages, general information is automatically recorded. This logging of usage data takes place everywhere, ie on every website on the Internet, it is not a specific function of our website. What data is saved? The following information is saved with each call: 1. Name of the called file 2. Date and time of the call 3. Amount of data transferred 4. Report whether the call was successful or not 5. Operating system used 6. IP address of the computer, from the query was sent to. 7. Web browser used 8. If the request is made by clicking a link, the address of the page where the link is located (so-called HTTP referrer). Personal user profiles cannot be created with it. We anonymize the IP number within 24 hours, ie the last octet is set to 0. All stored usage data will be deleted by us after 60 days at the latest. Purpose and purpose of storing usage data The storage of usage data serves to ensure operational safety. We can use it to determine where errors in our offer occur and react accordingly. Web analytics On the other hand, we would like to constantly improve our offer and make it more attractive. We can only optimize the content according to your requirements if we know which parts of our website are visited most frequently. The web analytics is configured so that the IP numbers are only saved anonymously (last octet set to 0). The web analysis takes place on 1 & 1 servers, the data is neither passed on nor linked to other databases. Used in this way, web analytics are considered to be data protection-compliant. What are cookies? A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your PC's hard drive with your permission. Cookies allow a web application to address you individually. However, there is also a risk of using cookies to create individual profiles. Cookies are not programs, so they cannot do any harm to your PC. Cookies on our website Cookies for storing the preferred language of the user when he visits pages that are multilingual. If this cookie is missing, the German version is selected by default. Cookies for web analytics purposes. Other cookies are used on websites that are only available to a registered group of users. All cookies on our website also come from the same domain. Every current browser can be set up so that cookies are not accepted. If absolute anonymity is important to you, then prohibit cookies. This website can also be used without cookies. How do we protect your data? We use a secure transmission method, the so-called SSL transmission, to process your data. This means that any information you provide is encrypted using this secure method before it is sent to us. Why encrypt? The internet is an open network. When you send data from one point to another, it is routed through many stations, where each can be read (and with little effort). Data transmission on the Internet is therefore as open as, for example, sending a postcard. The transmission routes can only be protected in open networks by encryption. This means that the data is made so unrecognizable (encrypted) by a previously agreed procedure that only the right recipient can read it. The more complicated the encryption process, the stronger the protection of confidentiality. Good to know: Encryption always involves two partners who make agreements about the type of secret communication. Therefore, the responsibility for secure encryption is not only for the message recipient or only for the sender, but always both. If you want to tell us something that should remain confidential, this is possible on our part. But it also depends on the security of your software, especially your browser. Data protection is always self-protection.