This document informs about the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal information by the provider of this website (see contact information). The legal framework for data protection may be found in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). The provider of this website is the responsible party for all concerns related to data protection. Please be aware that hardware and software involved in the use of this website may exhibit vulnerabilities, which is why complete protection against third-party access to transferred data cannot be ensured. We will not grant to any third party access to your personal information that is stored in our system, except when required by law.

Your rights

You have the right to, at any time, withdraw your explicitly granted consent to the processing of personal data and object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of direct marketing, market research and opinion surveys. Further, you have the right to have incorrect personal data corrected and to have your personal data deleted, where such claims are not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data. You can also request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. Additionally, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning yourself, which we process by automated means based on your consent, in a commonly used machine-readable format. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us (see contact information). If you think that we are violating your data protection rights, you can file a complaint with your competent supervisory authority.

Server log files

For each access to our website, the following data is recorded in our server's log files:

• your IP address
• date and time of the access
• URL of the page that you visit
• HTTP status code
• length of the response sent by the server
• page that linked you to our site (referrer URL)
• type and version of the browser you use
• operating system used

You can minimize data transmitted by using a browser plugin for improved privacy. We have legitimate interest in collecting, storing and processing this data, since we require for the following purposes:

• statistical evaluation (e. g. percentage of visitors by country, device type, browser or referrer URL)
• optimization of our website and correcting mistakes (e. g. finding dead links or faulty scripts/configurations)
• acting against attacks on our website or improper use of our website

IP addresses contained within the log files are anonymized after at most 7 days by removing the last 8 bits for IPv4 addresses and the last 80 bits for IPv6 addresses. The short-term storage of unshortened IP addresses serves solely the purpose of ensuring our system's security and integrity.

Links to external websites

Our website may contain links to external websites provided by third parties. When you open such a link, your browser will connect to the linked website in order to load and display it. During this process, data such as your IP address, information regarding your browser and the address of the page you're currently visiting (referrer URL) will be transmitted. The third party provider will be able to see that you reached his website by following a link from our website. We have no control over the collection or processing of personal data carried out by these third parties. For improved data protection, our server sends a special HTTP header that instructs your browser not to send the complete referrer URL, but only the protocol and the hostname (e. g. "https://www.example.org/" instead of "https://www.example.org/page-123"). Not all browsers support this. Special browser plugins may prevent your browser from sending the referrer URL altogether.

Contacting us

On our website, we offer you the opportunity to contact us, either by e-mail and/or by using a contact form. In such event, the information provided is stored for the purpose of enabling further communication with you.

Use of Google Fonts

We make use of web fonts provided by Google Fonts in order to reduce our server's load as well as the website's loading time and the amount of data traffic. This justifies our legitimate interest in using this technology. Google Fonts is a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter referred to as "Google". For visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, 4, Ireland. Google, being certified according to the EU-US Privacy Shield, guarantees to comply with EU data protection laws when the processing of data related to EU citizens takes place in the USA. When visiting our website, your browser requests fonts from a Google server that might be located in another country. During this request, data such as your IP address and information about your browser will be transmitted. For further information on Google Fonts, visit https://fonts.google.com/about. For improved data protection, web fonts are embedded in a way that prevents your browser from sending the referrer URL, provided that your browser supports this feature.

Hint

This privacy policy was created based on the Sample Data Privacy Policy Statement provided by the Law Offices of Weiß & Partner.

Licenses

Web fonts

This website makes use of the following web font(s): Gentium Basic, Puritan. The licenses of all web fonts used can be found at https://fonts.google.com/attribution.