a) Data collection

Some data is coll­ec­ted in order to ensu­re error-free pro­vi­si­on of the web­site. Other data is coll­ec­ted when you pro­vi­de it to us (e.g. infor­ma­ti­on you enter in a cont­act form). In addi­ti­on, data is also coll­ec­ted for secu­ri­ty reasons. This data is coll­ec­ted auto­ma­ti­cal­ly and anony­mously as soon as you visit our web­site. Only the data that your brow­ser trans­mits to our ser­ver is log­ged and stored. By anony­mi­zing this data, it is not pos­si­ble to draw con­clu­si­ons about your person.

The fol­lo­wing data is collected:

• IP address (anony­mi­zed)
• Date and time
• Visi­ted website
• brow­ser used
• Ope­ra­ting sys­tem used
• Amount of data sent
• access dura­ti­on

On the ser­ver side, this data is stored for 10 days and then auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted. The data is stored for secu­ri­ty reasons, e.g. to be able to cla­ri­fy legal vio­la­ti­ons or cases of abu­se. If this data must be retai­ned for evi­den­tia­ry reasons, it will remain exempt from dele­ti­on until the inci­dent has been con­clu­si­ve­ly cla­ri­fied. This data will not be used for any other purpose.

Various secu­ri­ty tools are also used to pro­tect our web­site. The tools we use store IP addres­ses in anony­mi­zed form. The log­ged data has no per­so­nal refe­rence and is auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted after 10 days.

b) Collection of personal data

When coll­ec­ting and pro­ces­sing per­so­nal data based on your con­sent, this data is stored until this con­sent is revo­ked. This con­cerns data that you trans­mit to us

• when sen­ding an e‑mail,
• when sen­ding the cont­act form,
• when sub­scrib­ing to the newsletter,
• when sen­ding a dona­ti­on or sales form,
• when sen­ding a mes­sa­ge in the comm­ents section.

Infor­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded in the cont­act form, in e‑mails, when sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter and in dona­ti­on and sales forms, inclu­ding the resul­ting per­so­nal data, will be stored and pro­ces­sed by us for the pur­po­se of pro­ces­sing your request. This data remains with us until we are reques­ted by you to dele­te your data or you revo­ke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­po­se for the data sto­rage cea­ses to app­ly (e.g. after the pro­ces­sing of your request has been completed).

If you lea­ve us a mes­sa­ge in the comm­ents sec­tion, it will be stored inde­fi­ni­te­ly, inclu­ding meta­da­ta. If you have writ­ten a com­ment, you can request the dele­ti­on of all per­so­nal data that we have stored about you. This does not include data that we need to keep due to admi­nis­tra­ti­ve, legal or secu­ri­ty needs.

Unless other­wi­se sta­ted in this pri­va­cy poli­cy, per­so­nal data will be dele­ted when it is no lon­ger neces­sa­ry for the pur­po­ses for which it was coll­ec­ted or other­wi­se processed.

c) Passing on data to third parties

No data will be pas­sed on to third par­ties by the web­site ope­ra­tor unless the­re is a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in doing so (e.g. by law enforce­ment agencies).

a) General information about cookies

Coo­kies save lan­guage set­tings, form data or the con­tents of a shop­ping cart and can thus increase the user-fri­end­li­ne­ss and secu­ri­ty of a web­site. The use of coo­kies enables the ope­ra­tor to opti­mi­ze its web­site, as the user’s sel­ec­tions or pre­fe­ren­ces are available again on the next visit. Some func­tions of a web­site may not work pro­per­ly wit­hout cookies.

Coo­kies do not con­tain exe­cu­ta­ble code and the­r­e­fo­re do not initi­al­ly pose a secu­ri­ty risk. Howe­ver, coo­kies can also be used to record a visitor’s user beha­vi­or (track­ing cookies).

Coo­kies are mana­ged by the brow­ser. The set­tings in the brow­ser deter­mi­ne whe­ther a coo­kie may be set and how long it may be stored. Howe­ver, cor­re­spon­ding infor­ma­ti­on can also be stored on the ser­ver, for exam­p­le, to gene­ra­te sta­tis­tics about the num­ber of times web pages are cal­led up.

Coo­kies are not bad or harmful per se, but a pro­ven means for web­site opti­miza­ti­on. Nevert­hel­ess, coo­kies can pose a secu­ri­ty risk if misu­s­ed. In par­ti­cu­lar, so-cal­led „track­ing coo­kies” can com­pro­mi­se pri­va­cy and are ques­tionable from a data pro­tec­tion per­spec­ti­ve. Track­ing coo­kies are used by some pro­vi­ders to moni­tor a user’s sur­fing beha­vi­or over a lon­ger peri­od of time and across pages.

Depen­ding on their life­time, a distinc­tion is made bet­ween ses­si­on coo­kies and per­sis­tent coo­kies. Ses­si­on coo­kies are crea­ted for the dura­ti­on of a ses­si­on and are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted again as soon as the ses­si­on ends or the brow­ser is clo­sed. Ses­si­on coo­kies ful­fill basic func­tions and are indis­pensable in most cases to ensu­re the error-free ope­ra­ti­on of a web­site. Ses­si­on coo­kies are gene­ral­ly harm­less from a data pro­tec­tion point of view, as no per­so­nal refe­rence is estab­lished through the­se cookies.

Per­sis­tent coo­kies extend the func­tion­a­li­ty or impro­ve the usa­bi­li­ty of a web­site. Per­sis­tent coo­kies are stored until the „life­time” spe­ci­fied by the web­site ope­ra­tor is rea­ched or remain per­ma­nent­ly – at least until they are manu­al­ly dele­ted by the user.

Depen­ding on whe­ther coo­kies are set by the web­site ope­ra­tor its­elf or by a third par­ty, a distinc­tion is made bet­ween first-par­ty coo­kies (coo­kies set by the web­site ope­ra­tor) and third-par­ty coo­kies (coo­kies set by a third par­ty). Coo­kies that are set by a third par­ty do not ori­gi­na­te from the web­site itself.

b) Cookies of the website operator

As a mat­ter of prin­ci­ple, the web­site ope­ra­tor does not use coo­kies that coll­ect per­so­nal data or eva­lua­te the user’s behavior.

Ses­si­on coo­kies are used on our web­site. Ses­si­on coo­kies are first-par­ty coo­kies and do not requi­re con­sent. The sole pur­po­se of the­se coo­kies is to enable the func­tion and dis­play of our website.

Con­tent from You­Tube is inte­gra­ted on our web­site (see: third-par­ty coo­kies). In order for this con­tent to be dis­play­ed in a user-fri­end­ly man­ner and in com­pli­ance with data pro­tec­tion laws, your con­sent is obtai­ned befo­re the first call. For this pur­po­se, we set a so-cal­led con­sent coo­kie. This has the func­tion of per­ma­nent­ly sto­ring your set­ting, so that the next time you visit our web­site, your con­sent does not have to be obtai­ned again.

The coo­kie has a life­span of 30 days and is then auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted. Wit­hout your con­sent, the func­tion­a­li­ty remains limi­t­ed in that con­tent from You­Tube is not dis­play­ed on our website.

If this func­tion is no lon­ger requi­red or if the coo­kie is to be dele­ted from your brow­ser pre­ma­tu­re­ly, you can make this set­ting below.

c) Third-party cookies

On our web­site, con­tent is embedded that is loca­ted on the ser­vers of You­Tube. You­Tube is a video por­tal that belongs to Goog­le. The ope­ra­tor is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

Depen­ding on the set­tings in your brow­ser, You­Tube stores coo­kies on your ter­mi­nal device in order to reco­gni­ze you on your next visit. Play­ing this con­tent on our web­site is only pos­si­ble if you have given your con­sent (see: Coo­kies of the web­site ope­ra­tor).

You­Tube con­tent can­not be play­ed on our web­site wit­hout your con­sent. A con­nec­tion to You­Tube is only estab­lished when the video is played.

d) Privacy policy

Accor­ding to their pri­va­cy poli­cy, Goog­le and thus also You­Tube use the coll­ec­ted data pri­ma­ri­ly for the pro­vi­si­on and impro­ve­ment of their ser­vices. By „impro­ve­ment” is meant, abo­ve all, personalization.

By eva­lua­ting all available infor­ma­ti­on about its users, Goog­le can, on the one hand, pre­fe­ren­ti­al­ly dis­play con­tent of hig­her rele­van­ce and, on the other hand, offer tail­o­red adver­ti­sing. Thus, data pro­tec­tion is to a cer­tain ext­ent also oppo­sed to YouTube’s own busi­ness model.

If you are log­ged in to Goog­le when you visit our web­site, all data that is stored when you use You­Tube con­ver­ges in your Goog­le account. Sin­ce the video por­tal belongs to Goog­le, all pri­va­cy set­tings for You­Tube must be made in your Goog­le account. In the case of You­Tube, the acti­vi­ties on You­Tube are of par­ti­cu­lar importance. For exam­p­le, what a user sear­ches for and which vide­os he or she wat­ches are recorded.

If you are log­ged in with your You­Tube account, it is pos­si­ble for You­Tube to assign your sur­fing beha­vi­or direct­ly to your per­so­nal pro­fi­le. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your You­Tube account beforehand.

Fur­ther­mo­re, You­Tube can save various coo­kies on your end device after you have view­ed a video or use com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. In this way, You­Tube can obtain infor­ma­ti­on about visi­tors to this website.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about YouTube’s pri­va­cy poli­cy, plea­se see their pri­va­cy poli­cy.

e) Deleting cookies

If you wish to remo­ve coo­kies from your brow­ser, you can do so in your browser’s coo­kie manage­ment set­tings. Plea­se note that each brow­ser dif­fers in how it mana­ges coo­kie settings.

With the fol­lo­wing set­ting, you can revo­ke your con­sent to the sto­rage of coo­kies by the web­site ope­ra­tor. The coo­kie set by the web­site ope­ra­tor will then be remo­ved from your brow­ser. Plea­se note that the con­tent of the media libra­ry will no lon­ger be available.
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