Data record­ing on our website

Who is the re­spon­si­ble party for the record­ing of data on this web­site (i.e. the “con­troller”)?

The data on this web­site is processed by the op­er­a­tor of the web­site, whose con­tact in­for­ma­tion is avail­able un­der sec­tion “In­for­ma­tion Re­quired by Law” on this website.

How do we record your data?

We col­lect your data as a re­sult of your shar­ing of your data with us. This may, for in­stance be in­for­ma­tion you en­ter into our con­tact form.

Our IT sys­tems au­to­mat­i­cally record other data when you visit our web­site. This data com­prises pri­mar­ily tech­ni­cal in­for­ma­tion (e.g. web browser, op­er­at­ing sys­tem or time the site was ac­cessed). This in­for­ma­tion is recorded au­to­mat­i­cally when you ac­cess our website.

What are the pur­poses we use your data for?

A por­tion of the in­for­ma­tion is gen­er­ated to guar­an­tee the er­ror free pro­vi­sion of the web­site. Other data may be used to analyse your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your in­for­ma­tion is concerned?

You have the right to re­ceive in­for­ma­tion about the source, re­cip­i­ents and pur­poses of your archived per­sonal data at any time with­out hav­ing to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to de­mand that your data are rec­ti­fied, blocked or erad­i­cated. Please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us at any time un­der the ad­dress dis­closed in sec­tion “In­for­ma­tion Re­quired by Law” on this web­site if you have ques­tions about this or any other data pro­tec­tion re­lated is­sues. You also have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent su­per­vis­ing agency.

More­over, un­der cer­tain cir­cum­stances, you have the right to de­mand the re­stric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data. For de­tails, please con­sult the Data Pro­tec­tion De­c­la­ra­tion un­der sec­tion “Right to Re­stric­tion of Data Processing.”

Analy­sis tools and tools pro­vided by third parties

There is a pos­si­bil­ity that your brows­ing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cally analysed when your visit our web­site. Such analy­ses are per­formed pri­mar­ily with cook­ies and with what we re­fer to as analy­sis pro­grammes. As a rule, the analy­ses of your brows­ing pat­terns are con­ducted anony­mously; i.e. the brows­ing pat­terns can­not be traced back to you. You have the op­tion to ob­ject to such analy­ses or you can pre­vent their per­for­mance by not us­ing cer­tain tools. For de­tailed in­for­ma­tion about this, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion De­c­la­ra­tion below.

You do have the op­tion to ob­ject to such analy­ses. We will brief you on the ob­jec­tion op­tions in this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

2. Gen­eral in­for­ma­tion and manda­tory information

Data pro­tec­tion

The op­er­a­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­sonal data very se­ri­ously. Hence, we han­dle your per­sonal data as con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion and in com­pli­ance with the statu­tory data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

When­ever you use this web­site, a va­ri­ety of per­sonal in­for­ma­tion will be col­lected. Per­sonal data com­prises data that can be used to per­son­ally iden­tify you. This Data Pro­tec­tion De­c­la­ra­tion ex­plains which data we col­lect as well as the pur­poses we use this data for. It also ex­plains how, and for which pur­pose the in­for­ma­tion is collected.

We here­with ad­vise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the In­ter­net (i.e. through e-mail com­mu­ni­ca­tions) may be prone to se­cu­rity gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­pletely pro­tect data against third party access.

In­for­ma­tion about the re­spon­si­ble party (re­ferred to as the “con­troller” in the GDPR)

The data pro­cess­ing con­troller on this web­site is:

DigiStage GmbH
Geschäfts­führer Ralf Michael Skirr
Re­ich­swald­str. 29 – 31
67663 Kaiserslautern

Tele­phone: +49 (0)631 2040 98 48
Email: impressum@digistage.de

The con­troller is the nat­ural per­son or le­gal en­tity that sin­­gle-hand­edly or jointly with oth­ers makes de­ci­sions as to the pur­poses of and re­sources for the pro­cess­ing of per­sonal data (e.g. names, e-mail ad­dresses, etc.).

Re­vo­ca­tion of your con­sent to the pro­cess­ing of data

A wide range of data pro­cess­ing trans­ac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your ex­press con­sent. You can also re­voke at any time any con­sent you have al­ready given us. To do so, all you are re­quired to do is sent us an in­for­mal no­ti­fi­ca­tion via e-mail. This shall be with­out prej­u­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data col­lec­tion that oc­curred prior to your revocation.

Right to ob­ject to the col­lec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to ob­ject to di­rect ad­ver­tis­ing (Art. 21 GDPR)

In the event that data are processed on the ba­sis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to at any time ob­ject to the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data based on grounds aris­ing from your unique sit­u­a­tion. This also ap­plies to any pro­fil­ing based on these pro­vi­sions. To de­ter­mine the le­gal ba­sis, on which any pro­cess­ing of data is based, please con­sult this Data Pro­tec­tion De­c­la­ra­tion. If you log an ob­jec­tion, we will no longer process your af­fected per­sonal data, un­less we are in a po­si­tion to present com­pelling pro­tec­tion wor­thy grounds for the pro­cess­ing of your data, that out­weigh your in­ter­ests, rights and free­doms or if the pur­pose of the pro­cess­ing is the claim­ing, ex­er­cis­ing or de­fence of le­gal en­ti­tle­ments (ob­jec­tion pur­suant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR).

If your per­sonal data is be­ing processed in or­der to en­gage in di­rect ad­ver­tis­ing, you have the right to at any time ob­ject to the pro­cess­ing of your af­fected per­sonal data for the pur­poses of such ad­ver­tis­ing. This also ap­plies to pro­fil­ing to the ex­tent that it is af­fil­i­ated with such di­rect ad­ver­tis­ing. If you ob­ject, your per­sonal data will sub­se­quently no longer be used for di­rect ad­ver­tis­ing pur­poses (ob­jec­tion pur­suant to Art. 21 Sect. 2 GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent su­per­vi­sory agency

In the event of vi­o­la­tions of the GDPR, data sub­jects are en­ti­tled to log a com­plaint with a su­per­vi­sory agency, in par­tic­u­lar in the mem­ber state where they usu­ally main­tain their domi­cile, place of work or at the place where the al­leged vi­o­la­tion oc­curred. The right to log a com­plaint is in ef­fect re­gard­less of any other ad­min­is­tra­tive or court pro­ceed­ings avail­able as le­gal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to de­mand that we hand over any data we au­to­mat­i­cally process on the ba­sis of your con­sent or in or­der to ful­fil a con­tract be handed over to you or a third party in a com­monly used, ma­chine read­able for­mat. If you should de­mand the di­rect trans­fer of the data to an­other con­troller, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cally feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For se­cu­rity rea­sons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as pur­chase or­ders or in­quiries you sub­mit to us as the web­site op­er­a­tor, this web­site uses ei­ther an SSL or a TLS en­cryp­tion pro­gramme. You can recog­nise an en­crypted con­nec­tion by check­ing whether the ad­dress line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the ap­pear­ance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS en­cryp­tion is ac­ti­vated, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

En­crypted pay­ment trans­ac­tions on this website

If you are un­der an oblig­a­tion to share your pay­ment in­for­ma­tion (e.g. ac­count num­ber if you give us the au­thor­ity to debit your bank ac­count) with us af­ter you have en­tered into a fee-based con­tract with us, this in­for­ma­tion is re­quired to process payments.

Pay­ment trans­ac­tions us­ing com­mon modes of pay­ing (Visa/MasterCard, debit to your bank ac­count) are processed ex­clu­sively via en­crypted SSL or TLS con­nec­tions. You can recog­nise an en­crypted con­nec­tion by check­ing whether the ad­dress line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the ap­pear­ance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us is en­crypted, third par­ties will not be able to read the pay­ment in­for­ma­tion you share with us.

In­for­ma­tion about, block­age, rec­ti­fi­ca­tion and erad­i­ca­tion of data

Within the scope of the ap­plic­a­ble statu­tory pro­vi­sions, you have the right to at any time de­mand in­for­ma­tion about your archived per­sonal data, their source and re­cip­i­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­cess­ing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied, blocked or erad­i­cated. If you have ques­tions about this sub­ject mat­ter or any other ques­tions about per­sonal data, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us at any time at the ad­dress pro­vided in sec­tion “In­for­ma­tion Re­quired by Law.”

Right to de­mand pro­cess­ing restrictions

You have the right to de­mand the im­po­si­tion of re­stric­tions as far as the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data is con­cerned. To do so, you may con­tact us at any time at the ad­dress pro­vided in sec­tion “In­for­ma­tion Re­quired by Law.” The right to de­mand re­stric­tion of pro­cess­ing ap­plies in the fol­low­ing cases:

• In the event that you should dis­pute the cor­rect­ness of your data archived by us, we will usu­ally need some time to ver­ify this claim. Dur­ing the time that this in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing, you have the right to de­mand that we re­strict the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data.
• If the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data was/is con­ducted in an un­law­ful man­ner, you have the op­tion to de­mand the re­stric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your data in lieu of de­mand­ing the erad­i­ca­tion of this data.
• If we do not need your per­sonal data any longer and you need it to ex­er­cise, de­fend or claim le­gal en­ti­tle­ments, you have the right to de­mand the re­stric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data in­stead of its eradication.
• If you have raised an ob­jec­tion pur­suant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been de­ter­mined whose in­ter­ests pre­vail, you have the right to de­mand a re­stric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data.

If you have re­stricted the pro­cess­ing of your per­sonal data, these data – with the ex­cep­tion of their archiv­ing – may be processed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to claim, ex­er­cise or de­fend le­gal en­ti­tle­ments or to pro­tect the rights of other nat­ural per­sons or le­gal en­ti­ties or for im­por­tant pub­lic in­ter­est rea­sons cited by the Eu­ro­pean Union or a mem­ber state of the EU.

Re­jec­tion of un­so­licited e-mails

We here­with ob­ject to the use of con­tact in­for­ma­tion pub­lished in con­junc­tion with the manda­tory in­for­ma­tion to be pro­vided in sec­tion “In­for­ma­tion Re­quired by Law” to send us pro­mo­tional and in­for­ma­tion ma­te­r­ial that we have not ex­pressly re­quested. The op­er­a­tors of this web­site and its pages re­serve the ex­press right to take le­gal ac­tion in the event of the un­so­licited send­ing of pro­mo­tional in­for­ma­tion, for in­stance via SPAM messages.

Data col­lec­tion on our website

Cook­ies

Some of our web pages use cook­ies. Cook­ies do not harm your com­puter and do not con­tain any viruses. Cook­ies help make our web­site more user-friendly, ef­fi­cient, and se­cure. Cook­ies are small text files that are stored on your com­puter and saved by your browser.

Most of the cook­ies we use are so-called „ses­sion cook­ies.” They are au­to­mat­i­cally deleted af­ter your visit. Other cook­ies re­main in your de­vice’s mem­ory un­til you delete them. These cook­ies make it pos­si­ble to rec­og­nize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can con­fig­ure your browser to in­form you about the use of cook­ies so that you can de­cide on a case-by-case ba­sis whether to ac­cept or re­ject a cookie. Al­ter­na­tively, your browser can be con­fig­ured to au­to­mat­i­cally ac­cept cook­ies un­der cer­tain con­di­tions or to al­ways re­ject them, or to au­to­mat­i­cally delete cook­ies when clos­ing your browser. Dis­abling cook­ies may limit the func­tion­al­ity of this website.

Cook­ies which are nec­es­sary to al­low elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tions or to pro­vide cer­tain func­tions you wish to use (such as the shop­ping cart) are stored pur­suant to Art. 6 para­graph 1, let­ter f of DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in the stor­age of cook­ies to en­sure an op­ti­mized ser­vice pro­vided free of tech­ni­cal er­rors. If other cook­ies (such as those used to an­a­lyze your surf­ing be­hav­ior) are also stored, they will be treated sep­a­rately in this pri­vacy policy.

Server log files

The web­site provider au­to­mat­i­cally col­lects and stores in­for­ma­tion that your browser au­to­mat­i­cally trans­mits to us in „server log files”. These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Op­er­at­ing sys­tem used
• Re­fer­rer URL
• Host name of the ac­cess­ing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP ad­dress (anonymized)

These data will not be com­bined with data from other sources.

The ba­sis for data pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which al­lows the pro­cess­ing of data to ful­fill a con­tract or for mea­sures pre­lim­i­nary to a contract.

Con­tact form

Should you send us ques­tions via the con­tact form, we will col­lect the data en­tered on the form, in­clud­ing the con­tact de­tails you pro­vide, to an­swer your ques­tion and any fol­low-up ques­tions. We do not share this in­for­ma­tion with­out your permission.

We will, there­fore, process any data you en­ter onto the con­tact form only with your con­sent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may re­voke your con­sent at any time. An in­for­mal email mak­ing this re­quest is suf­fi­cient. The data processed be­fore we re­ceive your re­quest may still be legally processed.

We will re­tain the data you pro­vide on the con­tact form un­til you re­quest its dele­tion, re­voke your con­sent for its stor­age, or the pur­pose for its stor­age no longer per­tains (e.g. af­ter ful­fill­ing your re­quest). Any manda­tory statu­tory pro­vi­sions, es­pe­cially those re­gard­ing manda­tory data re­ten­tion pe­ri­ods, re­main un­af­fected by this provision.

Newslet­ter subscription

If you would like to re­ceive our newslet­ter, we re­quire a valid email ad­dress as well as in­for­ma­tion that al­lows us to ver­ify that you are the owner of the spec­i­fied email ad­dress and that you agree to re­ceive this newslet­ter. No ad­di­tional data is col­lected or is only col­lected on a vol­un­tary ba­sis. We only use this data to send the re­quested in­for­ma­tion and do not pass it on to third parties.

We will, there­fore, process any data you en­ter onto the con­tact form only with your con­sent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You can re­voke con­sent to the stor­age of your data and email ad­dress as well as their use for send­ing the newslet­ter at any time, e.g. through the „un­sub­scribe” link in the newslet­ter. The data processed be­fore we re­ceive your re­quest may still be legally processed.

The data pro­vided when reg­is­ter­ing for the newslet­ter will be used to dis­trib­ute the newslet­ter un­til you can­cel your sub­scrip­tion when said data will be deleted. Data we have stored for other pur­poses (e.g. email ad­dresses for the mem­bers area) re­main unaffected.

Leav­ing com­ments on this website

If you use the com­ment func­tion on this site, the time at which you cre­ated the com­ment and your email ad­dress will be stored along with your com­ment, as well as your user­name, un­less you are post­ing anonymously.

Stor­age of the IP address

Our com­ment func­tion stores the IP ad­dresses of those users who post com­ments. Since we do not check com­ments on our site be­fore they go live, we need this in­for­ma­tion to be able to pur­sue ac­tion for il­le­gal or slan­der­ous content.

Sub­scrib­ing to the com­ment feed

As a user of this site, you can sign up to re­ceive the com­ment feed af­ter reg­is­ter­ing. Your email ad­dress will be checked with a con­fir­ma­tion email. You can un­sub­scribe from this func­tion at any time by click­ing the link in the emails. The data pro­vided when you sub­scribed to the com­ments feed will then be deleted, but if you have sub­mit­ted this data to us for other pur­poses or else­where (such as sub­scrib­ing to a newslet­ter), it will be retained.

How long com­ments are stored

The com­ments and the as­so­ci­ated data (e.g. IP ad­dress) are stored and re­main on our web­site un­til the con­tent com­mented upon has been com­pletely deleted or the com­ments are re­quired to be re­moved for le­gal rea­sons (slan­der, etc.).

Le­gal basis

The com­ments are stored based on your con­sent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may re­voke your con­sent at any time with fu­ture ef­fect. An in­for­mal email mak­ing this re­quest is suf­fi­cient. The data processed be­fore we re­ceive your re­quest may still be legally processed.

Pro­cess­ing of data (cus­tomer and con­tract data)

We col­lect, process, and use per­sonal data only in­so­far as it is nec­es­sary to es­tab­lish, or mod­ify le­gal re­la­tion­ships with us (mas­ter data). This is done based on Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which al­lows the pro­cess­ing of data to ful­fill a con­tract or for mea­sures pre­lim­i­nary to a con­tract. We col­lect, process and use your per­sonal data when ac­cess­ing our web­site (us­age data) only to the ex­tent re­quired to en­able you to ac­cess our ser­vice or to bill you for the same.

Col­lected cus­tomer data shall be deleted af­ter com­ple­tion of the or­der or ter­mi­na­tion of the busi­ness re­la­tion­ship. Le­gal re­ten­tion pe­ri­ods re­main unaffected.

Data trans­ferred when sign­ing up for ser­vices and dig­i­tal content

We trans­mit per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able data to third par­ties only to the ex­tent re­quired to ful­fill the terms of your con­tract with us, for ex­am­ple, to banks en­trusted to process your payments.

Your data will not be trans­mit­ted for any other pur­pose un­less you have given your ex­press per­mis­sion to do so. Your data will not be dis­closed to third par­ties for ad­ver­tis­ing pur­poses with­out your ex­press consent.

The ba­sis for data pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which al­lows the pro­cess­ing of data to ful­fill a con­tract or for mea­sures pre­lim­i­nary to a contract.

4. So­cial media

Face­book plu­g­ins (Like & Share buttons)

Our web­site in­cludes plu­g­ins for the so­cial net­work Face­book, Face­book Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, Cal­i­for­nia 94025, USA. The Face­book plu­g­ins can be rec­og­nized by the Face­book logo or the Like but­ton on our site. For an overview of Face­book plu­g­ins, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our site, a di­rect con­nec­tion be­tween your browser and the Face­book server is es­tab­lished via the plu­gin. This en­ables Face­book to re­ceive in­for­ma­tion that you have vis­ited our site from your IP ad­dress. If you click on the Face­book „Like but­ton” while you are logged into your Face­book ac­count, you can link the con­tent of our site to your Face­book pro­file. This al­lows Face­book to as­so­ciate vis­its to our site with your user ac­count. Please note that, as the op­er­a­tor of this site, we have no knowl­edge of the con­tent of the data trans­mit­ted to Face­book or of how Face­book uses these data. For more in­for­ma­tion, please see Face­book’s pri­vacy pol­icy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Face­book to as­so­ciate your visit to our site with your Face­book ac­count, please log out of your Face­book account.

Twit­ter plugin

Func­tions of the Twit­ter ser­vice have been in­te­grated into our web­site and app. These fea­tures are of­fered by Twit­ter Inc., 1355 Mar­ket Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twit­ter and the “Retweet” func­tion, the web­sites you visit are con­nected to your Twit­ter ac­count and made known to other users. In do­ing so, data will also be trans­ferred to Twit­ter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowl­edge of the con­tent of the data trans­mit­ted or how it will be used by Twit­ter. For more in­for­ma­tion on Twit­ter’s pri­vacy pol­icy, please go to https://twitter.com/privacy.

Your pri­vacy pref­er­ences with Twit­ter can be mod­i­fied in your ac­count set­tings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

In­sta­gram plugin

Our web­site con­tains func­tions of the In­sta­gram ser­vice. These func­tions are of­fered by In­sta­gram Inc., 1601 Wil­low Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

If you are logged into your In­sta­gram ac­count, you can click the In­sta­gram but­ton to link the con­tent of our pages with your In­sta­gram pro­file. This means that In­sta­gram can as­so­ciate vis­its to our pages with your user ac­count. As the provider of this web­site, we ex­pressly point out that we re­ceive no in­for­ma­tion on the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or its use by Instagram.

For more in­for­ma­tion, see the In­sta­gram Pri­vacy Pol­icy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

LinkedIn plu­gin

Our site uses func­tions from the LinkedIn net­work. The ser­vice is pro­vided by LinkedIn Cor­po­ra­tion, 2029 Stier­lin Court, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Each time one of our pages con­tain­ing LinkedIn fea­tures is ac­cessed, your browser es­tab­lishes a di­rect con­nec­tion to the LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is in­formed that you have vis­ited our web pages from your IP ad­dress. If you use the LinkedIn “Rec­om­mend” but­ton and are logged into your LinkedIn ac­count, it is pos­si­ble for LinkedIn to as­so­ciate your visit to our web­site to your user ac­count. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowl­edge of the con­tent of the data trans­mit­ted or how it will be used by LinkedIn.

More in­for­ma­tion can be found in the LinkedIn pri­vacy pol­icy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Pin­ter­est plugin

Our web­site con­tains func­tions of the Pin­ter­est so­cial net­work, op­er­ated by Pin­ter­est Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA.

When you visit a page con­tain­ing the Pin­ter­est so­cial plu­gin, your browser es­tab­lishes a di­rect con­nec­tion to the Pin­ter­est servers. The plu­gin trans­mits this log data to Pin­ter­est servers in the United States. This log data may in­clude your IP ad­dress, the ad­dress of the web­sites vis­ited, which also in­cludes Pin­ter­est fea­tures, browser type and set­tings, the date and time of the re­quest, how you use Pin­ter­est, and cookies.

More in­for­ma­tion about the pur­pose, scope and fur­ther pro­cess­ing and use of data by Pin­ter­est, as well as your rights and op­tions to pro­tect your pri­vacy, can be found in the pri­vacy no­tices of Pin­ter­est: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

5. An­a­lyt­ics and advertising

Google An­a­lyt­ics

This web­site uses Google An­a­lyt­ics, a web an­a­lyt­ics ser­vice. It is op­er­ated by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google An­a­lyt­ics uses so-called „cook­ies”. These are text files that are stored on your com­puter and that al­low an analy­sis of the use of the web­site by you. The in­for­ma­tion gen­er­ated by the cookie about your use of this web­site is usu­ally trans­mit­ted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google An­a­lyt­ics cook­ies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in an­a­lyz­ing user be­hav­ior to op­ti­mize both its web­site and its advertising.

IP anonymiza­tion

We have ac­ti­vated the IP anonymiza­tion fea­ture on this web­site. Your IP ad­dress will be short­ened by Google within the Eu­ro­pean Union or other par­ties to the Agree­ment on the Eu­ro­pean Eco­nomic Area prior to trans­mis­sion to the United States. Only in ex­cep­tional cases is the full IP ad­dress sent to a Google server in the US and short­ened there. Google will use this in­for­ma­tion on be­half of the op­er­a­tor of this web­site to eval­u­ate your use of the web­site, to com­pile re­ports on web­site ac­tiv­ity, and to pro­vide other ser­vices re­gard­ing web­site ac­tiv­ity and In­ter­net us­age for the web­site op­er­a­tor. The IP ad­dress trans­mit­ted by your browser as part of Google An­a­lyt­ics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser plu­gin

You can pre­vent these cook­ies be­ing stored by se­lect­ing the ap­pro­pri­ate set­tings in your browser. How­ever, we wish to point out that do­ing so may mean you will not be able to en­joy the full func­tion­al­ity of this web­site. You can also pre­vent the data gen­er­ated by cook­ies about your use of the web­site (incl. your IP ad­dress) from be­ing passed to Google, and the pro­cess­ing of these data by Google, by down­load­ing and in­stalling the browser plu­gin avail­able at the fol­low­ing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Ob­ject­ing to the col­lec­tion of data

You can pre­vent the col­lec­tion of your data by Google An­a­lyt­ics by click­ing on the fol­low­ing link. An opt-out cookie will be set to pre­vent your data from be­ing col­lected on fu­ture vis­its to this site: Dis­able Google An­a­lyt­ics.

For more in­for­ma­tion about how Google An­a­lyt­ics han­dles user data, see Google’s pri­vacy pol­icy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Out­sourced data processing

We have en­tered into an agree­ment with Google for the out­sourc­ing of our data pro­cess­ing and fully im­ple­ment the strict re­quire­ments of the Ger­man data pro­tec­tion au­thor­i­ties when us­ing Google Analytics.

De­mo­graphic data col­lec­tion by Google Analytics

This web­site uses Google An­a­lyt­ics’ de­mo­graphic fea­tures. This al­lows re­ports to be gen­er­ated con­tain­ing state­ments about the age, gen­der, and in­ter­ests of site vis­i­tors. This data comes from in­­ter­est-based ad­ver­tis­ing from Google and third-party vis­i­tor data. This col­lected data can­not be at­trib­uted to any spe­cific in­di­vid­ual per­son. You can dis­able this fea­ture at any time by ad­just­ing the ads set­tings in your Google ac­count or you can for­bid the col­lec­tion of your data by Google An­a­lyt­ics as de­scribed in the sec­tion „Re­fusal of data collection”.

Google Ad­Sense

This web­site uses Google Ad­Sense, a ser­vice for in­clud­ing ad­ver­tise­ments from Google Inc. („Google”). It is op­er­ated by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Ad­Sense uses so-called „cook­ies”, which are text files stored in your com­puter that en­able an analy­sis of the way you use the web­site. Google Ad­Sense also uses so-called web bea­cons (in­vis­i­ble graph­ics). Through these web bea­cons, in­for­ma­tion such as the vis­i­tor traf­fic on these pages can be evaluated.

The in­for­ma­tion gen­er­ated by cook­ies and web bea­cons re­lat­ing to your use of this web­site (in­clud­ing your IP ad­dress), and de­liv­ery of ad­ver­tis­ing for­mats, is trans­mit­ted to a Google server in the US and stored there. This in­for­ma­tion can be passed on from Google to con­tract­ing par­ties of Google. How­ever, Google will not merge your IP ad­dress with other data you have stored.

Ad­Sense cook­ies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in an­a­lyz­ing user be­hav­ior to op­ti­mize both its web­site and its advertising.

You can pre­vent the in­stal­la­tion of cook­ies by set­ting your browser soft­ware ac­cord­ingly. Please be aware that in this case, you may not be able to make full use of all the fea­tures of this web­site. By us­ing this web­site, you agree to the pro­cess­ing of data re­lat­ing to you and col­lected by Google as de­scribed and for the pur­poses set out above.

Google An­a­lyt­ics Remarketing

Our web­sites use the fea­tures of Google An­a­lyt­ics Re­mar­ket­ing com­bined with the cross-de­vice ca­pa­bil­i­ties of Google Ad­Words and Dou­bleClick. This ser­vice is pro­vided by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­ater Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

This fea­ture makes it pos­si­ble to link tar­get au­di­ences for pro­mo­tional mar­ket­ing cre­ated with Google An­a­lyt­ics Re­mar­ket­ing to the cross-de­vice ca­pa­bil­i­ties of Google Ad­Words and Google Dou­bleClick. This al­lows ad­ver­tis­ing to be dis­played based on your per­sonal in­ter­ests, iden­ti­fied based on your pre­vi­ous us­age and surf­ing be­hav­ior on one de­vice (e.g. your mo­bile phone), on other de­vices (such as a tablet or computer).

Once you have given your con­sent, Google will as­so­ciate your web and app brows­ing his­tory with your Google Ac­count for this pur­pose. That way, any de­vice that signs in to your Google Ac­count can use the same per­son­al­ized pro­mo­tional messaging.

To sup­port this fea­ture, Google An­a­lyt­ics col­lects Google-au­then­ti­­cated IDs of users that are tem­porar­ily linked to our Google An­a­lyt­ics data to de­fine and cre­ate au­di­ences for cross-de­vice ad promotion.

You can per­ma­nently opt out of cross-de­vice remarketing/targeting by turn­ing off per­son­al­ized ad­ver­tis­ing in your Google Ac­count; fol­low this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The ag­gre­ga­tion of the data col­lected in your Google Ac­count data is based solely on your con­sent, which you may give or with­draw from Google per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. For data col­lec­tion op­er­a­tions not merged into your Google Ac­count (for ex­am­ple, be­cause you do not have a Google Ac­count or have ob­jected to the merge), the col­lec­tion of data is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in an­a­lyz­ing anony­mous user be­hav­ior for pro­mo­tional purposes.

For more in­for­ma­tion and the Google Pri­vacy Pol­icy, go to: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

Google Ad­Words and Google Con­ver­sion Tracking

This web­site uses Google Ad­Words. Ad­Words is an on­line ad­ver­tis­ing pro­gram from Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­ater Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, United States („Google”).

As part of Google Ad­Words, we use so-called con­ver­sion track­ing. When you click on an ad served by Google, a con­ver­sion track­ing cookie is set. Cook­ies are small text files that your in­ter­net browser stores on your com­puter. These cook­ies ex­pire af­ter 30 days and are not used for per­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the user. Should the user visit cer­tain pages of the web­site and the cookie has not yet ex­pired, Google and the web­site can tell that the user clicked on the ad and pro­ceeded to that page.

Each Google Ad­Words ad­ver­tiser has a dif­fer­ent cookie. Thus, cook­ies can­not be tracked us­ing the web­site of an Ad­Words ad­ver­tiser. The in­for­ma­tion ob­tained us­ing the con­ver­sion cookie is used to cre­ate con­ver­sion sta­tis­tics for the Ad­Words ad­ver­tis­ers who have opted for con­ver­sion track­ing. Cus­tomers are told the to­tal num­ber of users who clicked on their ad and were redi­rected to a con­ver­sion track­ing tag page. How­ever, ad­ver­tis­ers do not ob­tain any in­for­ma­tion that can be used to per­son­ally iden­tify users. If you do not want to par­tic­i­pate in track­ing, you can opt-out of this by eas­ily dis­abling the Google Con­ver­sion Track­ing cookie by chang­ing your browser set­tings. In do­ing so, you will not be in­cluded in the con­ver­sion track­ing statistics.

Con­ver­sion cook­ies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in an­a­lyz­ing user be­hav­ior to op­ti­mize both its web­site and its advertising.

For more in­for­ma­tion about Google Ad­Words and Google Con­ver­sion Track­ing, see the Google Pri­vacy Pol­icy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

You can con­fig­ure your browser to in­form you about the use of cook­ies so that you can de­cide on a case-by-case ba­sis whether to ac­cept or re­ject a cookie. Al­ter­na­tively, your browser can be con­fig­ured to au­to­mat­i­cally ac­cept cook­ies un­der cer­tain con­di­tions or to al­ways re­ject them, or to au­to­mat­i­cally delete cook­ies when clos­ing your browser. Dis­abling cook­ies may limit the func­tion­al­ity of this website.

Google re­CAPTCHA

We use „Google re­CAPTCHA” (here­inafter „re­CAPTCHA”) on our web­sites. This ser­vice is pro­vided by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­ater Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA („Google”).

re­CAPTCHA is used to check whether the data en­tered on our web­site (such as on a con­tact form) has been en­tered by a hu­man or by an au­to­mated pro­gram. To do this, re­CAPTCHA an­a­lyzes the be­hav­ior of the web­site vis­i­tor based on var­i­ous char­ac­ter­is­tics. This analy­sis starts au­to­mat­i­cally as soon as the web­site vis­i­tor en­ters the web­site. For the analy­sis, re­CAPTCHA eval­u­ates var­i­ous in­for­ma­tion (e.g. IP ad­dress, how long the vis­i­tor has been on the web­site, or mouse move­ments made by the user). The data col­lected dur­ing the analy­sis will be for­warded to Google.

The re­CAPTCHA analy­ses take place com­pletely in the back­ground. Web­site vis­i­tors are not ad­vised that such an analy­sis is tak­ing place.

Data pro­cess­ing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in pro­tect­ing its site from abu­sive au­to­mated crawl­ing and spam.

For more in­for­ma­tion about Google re­CAPTCHA and Google’s pri­vacy pol­icy, please visit the fol­low­ing links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Face­book Pixel

Our web­site mea­sures con­ver­sions us­ing vis­i­tor ac­tion pix­els from Face­book, Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cal­i­for­nia Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA („Face­book”).

These al­low the be­hav­ior of site vis­i­tors to be tracked af­ter they click on a Face­book ad to reach the provider’s web­site. This al­lows an analy­sis of the ef­fec­tive­ness of Face­book ad­ver­tise­ments for sta­tis­ti­cal and mar­ket re­search pur­poses and their fu­ture optimization.

The data col­lected is anony­mous to us as op­er­a­tors of this web­site and we can­not use it to draw any con­clu­sions about our users’ iden­ti­ties. How­ever, the data are stored and processed by Face­book, which may make a con­nec­tion to your Face­book pro­file and which may use the data for its own ad­ver­tis­ing pur­poses, as stip­u­lated in the Face­book pri­vacy pol­icy. This will al­low Face­book to dis­play ads both on Face­book and on third-party sites. We have no con­trol over how this data is used.

Check out Face­book’s pri­vacy pol­icy to learn more about pro­tect­ing your pri­vacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You can also de­ac­ti­vate the cus­tom au­di­ences re­mar­ket­ing fea­ture in the Ads Set­tings sec­tion at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You will first need to log into Facebook.

If you do not have a Face­book ac­count, you can opt out of us­age-based ad­ver­tis­ing from Face­book on the web­site of the Eu­ro­pean In­ter­ac­tive Dig­i­tal Ad­ver­tis­ing Al­liance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

Plu­g­ins and tools

YouTube

Our web­site uses plu­g­ins from YouTube, which is op­er­ated by Google. The op­er­a­tor of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages fea­tur­ing a YouTube plu­gin, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube servers is es­tab­lished. Here the YouTube server is in­formed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube ac­count, YouTube al­lows you to as­so­ciate your brows­ing be­hav­ior di­rectly with your per­sonal pro­file. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our web­site ap­peal­ing. This con­sti­tutes a jus­ti­fied in­ter­est pur­suant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found in the data pro­tec­tion de­c­la­ra­tion of YouTube un­der https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Vimeo

Our web­site uses fea­tures pro­vided by the Vimeo video por­tal. This ser­vice is pro­vided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18^th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages fea­tur­ing a Vimeo plu­gin, a con­nec­tion to the Vimeo servers is es­tab­lished. Here the Vimeo server is in­formed about which of our pages you have vis­ited. In ad­di­tion, Vimeo will re­ceive your IP ad­dress. This also ap­plies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our web­site or do not have a Vimeo ac­count. The in­for­ma­tion is trans­mit­ted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo ac­count, Vimeo al­lows you to as­so­ciate your brows­ing be­hav­ior di­rectly with your per­sonal pro­file. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your Vimeo account.

For more in­for­ma­tion on how to han­dle user data, please re­fer to the Vimeo Pri­vacy Pol­icy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uni­form rep­re­sen­ta­tion of fonts, this page uses web fonts pro­vided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the re­quired web fonts into your browser cache to dis­play texts and fonts correctly.

When you call up a page of our web­site that con­tains a so­cial plu­gin, your browser makes a di­rect con­nec­tion with Google servers. Google thus be­comes aware that our web page was ac­cessed via your IP ad­dress. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the in­ter­est of a uni­form and at­trac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion of our web­site. This con­sti­tutes a jus­ti­fied in­ter­est pur­suant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not sup­port web fonts, a stan­dard font is used by your computer.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s pri­vacy pol­icy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps map ser­vice via an API. It is op­er­ated by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use Google Maps, it is nec­es­sary to save your IP ad­dress. This in­for­ma­tion is gen­er­ally trans­mit­ted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no in­flu­ence on this data transfer.

The use of Google Maps is in the in­ter­est of mak­ing our web­site ap­peal­ing and to fa­cil­i­tate the lo­ca­tion of places spec­i­fied by us on the web­site. This con­sti­tutes a jus­ti­fied in­ter­est pur­suant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found in the data pro­tec­tion de­c­la­ra­tion of Google at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Pay­ment ser­vice providers

Pay­Pal

Our web­site ac­cepts pay­ments via Pay­Pal. The provider of this ser­vice is Pay­Pal (Eu­rope) S.à.r.l & Cie, S.C.A. (22-24 Boule­vard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg.

If you se­lect pay­ment via Pay­Pal, the pay­ment data you pro­vide will be sup­plied to Pay­Pal based on Art. 6 (1) (a) (Con­sent) and Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO (Pro­cess­ing for con­tract pur­poses). You have the op­tion to re­voke your con­sent at any time with fu­ture ef­fect. It does not af­fect the pro­cess­ing of data pre­vi­ously collected.