DATA PROTECTION
DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
INFORMATION ON DATA PROCESSING IN CONJUNCTION WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This website makes use of Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited. If the controller for the data processing on this website is based outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the data processing by Google Analytics is performed by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are referred to hereinafter collectively as "Google".
Google Analytics makes use of what are termed "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on the computer of visitors to the website which enable analysis of how website visitors use the website. As a rule, this information on website visitors’ use of the website that is generated by these cookies (including the visitor’s abbreviated IP address) is transmitted to a Google server, where the information is stored.
Google Analytics is used exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp()" on this website. This extension ensures visitor IP addresses are anonymised by abbreviating them, thereby ruling any direct correlation to specific persons. This extension enables Google to abbreviate beforehand the visitors’ IP addresses within Member States of the European Union or other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will a complete IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States, and then abbreviated there. The abbreviated IP address transmitted in the context of Google Analytics by the website visitor’s browser is not compiled or associated with any other data held by Google.
On behalf of this website’s operator, Google uses this information to evaluate visitors’ use of the website, compiling website activity reports and providing the website’s operator with further website and Internet related services (Art. 6(1) point (f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legitimate interest in this data processing lies in optimising this website, analysing the use of the website, and adjusting its content. The interests of the users of this website are adequately respected by pseudonymisation of their data.
Google LLC offers a guarantee based on the standard contractual clauses that it will maintain an appropriate level of data protection. All transmitted data that are linked with cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs are automatically erased after 50 months. The erasure of data that have reached the end of this period of retention is performed automatically once a month.
Visitors to our website can prevent Google Analytics from collecting their data by adjusting the cookie settings for this website in their browser. Website visitors can likewise, at any time, opt out of any future recording and storage of their IP address and the data generated by cookies. The corresponding browser plug-in for this purpose can be downloaded and installed from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Persons visiting this website can prevent the recording of data by Google Analytics on this website by clicking the link below. An opt-out cookie is then placed that prevents any future recording of the visitor’s data when revisiting the website.
You’ll find further information on data usage by Google and options for settings and opting out in the Google’s Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and in the settings for display of advertising pop-ups by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).
RECAPTCHA
We use the reCAPTCHA service of the company Google LLC (Google) to protect queries and requests you submit by Internet template. The monitoring prompt serves to distinguish whether the entry is being undertaken by a human, or improperly by automated machine processing. The prompt includes transmission of your IP address and possibly other data that Google needs for the reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose, your entry is transmitted to Google and there further processed. However, Google first abbreviates your IP address within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will a complete IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States, and then abbreviated there. On behalf of this website’s operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website. The abbreviated IP address transmitted in the context of reCAPTCHA by your browser is not compiled or associated with any other data held by Google. The deviating data protection provisions of the Google company shall apply for these data. You’ll find further information on Google’s data privacy and protection guidelines at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de