The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal information. The collections of any personal data (e.g. name, address or email addresses) are as far as possible on a voluntary basis. These data are not forwarded to third parties without your expressed consent. We point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating via email) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against unauthorized access by third is not possible.
Third parties are not allowed to send us unsolicited advertisements and information materials to addresses published under the imprint obligation. The operators of these pages expressly legal steps in case of unsolicited promotional information, such as spam e-mails.
Our pages contain plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You will recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our website. For a complete list of Facebook plugins go to: developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our site, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and Facebook’s server, thereby informing Facebook about your having accessed our website with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can create links to the content of our site on your Facebook profile. As a result, Facebook can trace your visit to our site back to your user account. We hereby inform you that we, the site owners, do not receive any information on the content of the transmitted data and their use by Facebook. For more information go to Facebook’s privacy policy at https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not consent to Facebook being able to trace your visit of our site back to your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address 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. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Collection and transmission of information:
You can use the Google +1 button to share information publicly with the world. The Google +1 button helps you and other users receive personalized content from Google and our partners. Google will record the fact that you have +1’d something along with information about the page you were viewing when you clicked on +1. Your +1’s may appear to others as annotations with your profile name and picture in Google services, for example in search results or in your Google profile, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the Internet.
Google records information about your +1 activities to improve Google’s services for you and others. In order to use the Google +1 button, you need to have a public Google profile that is visible worldwide, which must contain at least the name you have chosen for the profile. This name will be used in all Google services. In some cases, this name may also replace another name you used when sharing content through your Google account. Your Google profile identity may be shown to users who know your email address or other information identifying you.
Use of the collected information:
In addition to the above-mentioned uses, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google Privacy Policy. Google may publish summary statistics on users’ +1 activities or share these with users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or connected sites.
Functions of the Twitter service are integrated in our website. These functions are offered by Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 U.S.A. By using Twitter and the “re-tweet” function, the web pages you visit will be linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. This also involves the transmission of data to Twitter.
We would like to point out that we, as owner of the site, do not receive any information on the content of the transmitted data or their use through Twitter. For more information, please see Twitter’s privacy policy at https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.
You can change your privacy protection settings for Twitter in the account settings at https://twitter.com/login?lang=en.
