Source: https://www.billomat.com/en/privacy-policy/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 02:33:26+00:00

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The term “personal data”, in reference to the definition of Art. 4 (1) of the 2016/2017 regulation (EU) (hereafter referred to as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or the abbreviation “GDPR”), designates all data that are personally related to you. This includes, for example, the name, address, email-addresses or user behavior. With regard to the other terminology, and in particular the terms “processing”, “controller”, “processor” and “consent”, we refer to the legal data protection definitions of the Art. 4 GDPR.
In principle, we process personal data only if it is necessary for the provision of a functional website and the content and services provided by us. The processing of personal data takes place regularly only if you give us your consent in the sense of Art. 6 (1) lit a) of the GDPRor if the processing is permitted according to statutory provisions, in particular pursuant to one of the legal bases mentioned in Art. 6 (1) lit b) to f) GDPR.
Your personal data are deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of their storage ceases. Furthermore, storage may be provided if it is stipulated by national or European provisions to which we are subject. In this case, a blocking or deletion of the data takes place if the storage period prescribed in the respective regulations has expired. The latter does not apply if further storage is necessary for the conclusion or the fulfillment of a contract. As far as we resort to commissioned providers for particular website features or if we want to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective procedures here below.
You will find further information on the controller in our impressum.
Furthermore, you have the right to complain to a data protection supervising authority about our processing of your personal data.
If you visit our website without registering or providing us with information in any other way (“informational use”), we may only collect those personal data that your web browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we will collect the data that are technically necessary for us to make it possible for you to view our website and to ensure stability and safety.
The data mentioned previously will also be saved in so-called log files on our servers. There will be no storage of these data along with other of your personal data. The collection and temporary storage of the IP address is necessary in order to enable the presentation of our website on your terminal. For this purpose, your IP address must me stored for the duration of your visit on our website. The storage in our log files serves the purpose to ensure the functionality and optimization of our website as well as the safety of our information technology systems. There will be no evaluation of these data for marketing purposes.
For the above purposes, we have a legitimate interest in processing data. The legal basis for the collection and temporary storage of the aforementioned data and the logfiles is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
The aforementioned data for the provision of our website are deleted when the corresponding session is ended. The collection of the aforementioned data for the provision of our website and the storage of these data in log files is absolutely necessary for the running of our website. There is no possibility to object.
We are using so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on a storage medium on your terminal device, such as a hard drive, and which provides us with certain information. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your terminal device. This website uses the following types of cookies, whose extent and operation principle are explained below.
Persistent cookies: These cookies are automatically deleted after a determined duration which can vary depending on the cookie. These cookies can be deleted at any time in your browser settings.
The processing of personal data through the aforementioned cookies helps us to make our website more user-friendly and effective overall. Some of our website’s features cannot be offered without the use of these cookies. In particular, some of our website’s features require that your web browser be identifiable even after a page change. In case you have an account, we will be using the cookies in order to identify you for future visits. This way, you do not need to log in again each time you visit our website. Those data processed by cookies, which are required for the provision of our website’s features, are not used for the creation of user profiles. As far as cookies are used for analysing purposes, they will serve to improve the quality and user-friendliness of our website as well as its contents and features. They allow us to understand how the website is used, which features and how often they are used. This allows us to optimize our offer continuously. For the above purposes, we have a legitimate interest in processing data. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
The aforementioned cookies are stored on your terminal device and transmitted by the latter to our server. Thus, you can configure by yourself the processing of data and information through cookies. You can proceed to the corresponding configurations in your browser settings, for example, by rejecting third party cookies or cookies altogether. In this context, we would like to point out that you may not be able to use all of our website’s features properly. In addition, we recommend a regular manual deletion of the cookies as well as your browser history.
In addition to the before mentioned informational use of our website, we also offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this purpose, it is usually necessary to provide further personal data. We need these data to provide the respective service. The aforementioned principles for data processing apply.
For the processing of these data, we partly rely on external providers, which are carefully selected and commissioned by us. These service providers are bound to our instructions and are controlled by us on a regular basis. As far as personal data are transmitted to third parties in the context of services that we provide together with partners, you can find more detailed information in the following descriptions of the individual services. If these third parties have their head office in a state outside of the European Economic Area, you can find more detailed information on the consequences of this circumstance in the following descriptions of the individual services.
If you want to contact us via email, the personal data you provide us via email are stored. In addition, we offer a contact form on our website that you can use to contact us. The data entered by you into the entry form will be transmitted to us and saved.
In addition, we also collect your IP address and the time of sending. The data are used exclusively to answer your requests. As far as we do not rely on one of the third parties mentioned below for the provision of our contact feature, there will be no disclosure of your data to third parties.
The processing of the aforementioned personal data has the only purpose to process your requests. The processing of any further personal data, that result from the use of the before mentioned contact form on our website, serves to prevent any fraud and to ensure the safety of our information technology systems.
Therein lies our legitimate interest in the processing of your personal data. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing of the data is Art 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. Apart from that, the legal basis for the processing of these data is Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR, in particular for the case that you transmit the data via email to us. Insofar as you want to work towards concluding a contract through your email, Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR is an additional legal basis.
The data are deleted pursuant to the legal storage period, as soon as we completed the processing of your request. If you contact us by email, you may object to the storage of your personal data at any time. Please be aware that, in this case, your request cannot be further processed. You can state your objection by sending it via email to the email address displayed in the impressum.
If you provide further personal data when registering, the information is voluntary.
For the subscription to our newsletter, we are using the so-called Double Opt In procedure. After your registration, we will send you an email to the email address you provided, in which we will ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter in the future. If you do not confirm your registration within the period indicated in the email, the data you provided will be blocked and deleted after 7 days. In addition, we will save your IP address and the time of the registration to the newsletter as well as the time of the confirmation. In connection with the processing of the data for the dispatch of the newsletter, the data will not be transmitted to third parties. These data will be used exclusively to send the newsletter. If we do not rely on any of the below mentioned third parties to send the newsletter, the data will not be transmitted to third parties in connection with the processing of the data for the dispatch of the newsletter.
The data entered by you in the input screen during the registration are processed for the purpose of addressing you personally. After your confirmation, we will store your email address to send you the newsletter. We store the respective IP address as well as the time of registration and confirmation in order to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify a possible misuse of your personal data. Therein lies our legitimate interest. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Insofar as the processing is otherwise based on our legitimate interests, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
The aforementioned data are deleted as soon as they are not necessary anymore for the above mentioned purposes. Thus, the aforementioned data are stored as long as you are subscribed to the newsletter. After unsubscribing the newsletter, we store the aforementioned data purely statistically and anonymously.
You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe by clicking on the link contained in each newsletter email sent by us. Alternatively, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter by using the form provided on our website.
We wish to point out that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. The newsletter emails sent by us contain a so-called web beacon or a so-called tracking pixel. This is a one pixel image file that is stored on our website. These data are collected exclusively pseudonymized. This processing of the data serves the purpose to tailor the newsletter according to your individual interests, to optimize our offer and to make it more interesting for you overall. Therein lies our legitimate interest. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Insofar as the processing is otherwise based on our legitimate interests, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. If you have given us your consent to the above mentioned processing of the data, you can revoke it at any time. You can object to the evaluation of your user behavior at any time by clicking on the separate link contained in the newsletter email. In addition, if you have disabled the display of images in your email program by default, you can prevent the above mentioned evaluation of your user behavior. Please be aware that, in this case, the newsletter will not be entirely displayed and that you may not be able to use all the features of the newsletter. If you activate the display of the images manually, the above mentioned evaluation of your user behavior takes place again.
We offer a blog on our website. In this blog we publish posts on different topics. You can submit comments on the respective posts. When submitting a comment, it will be published in relation with the respective post with the user name you chose. When choosing a user name, we recommend that you use a pseudonym instead of your name. In order to use the comment feature, it is mandatory to provide the user name you chose as well as your email address. All other information provided by you is voluntary. When submitting a comment, we store your IP address for the aforementioned data.
The storage of your email address serves the purpose to contact you in case a third party reports your comment as being illegal or to defend ourselves against claims of third parties in case you publish illegal content. Therein lies our legitimate interest. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Insofar as the processing is otherwise based on our legitimate interests, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. We reserve the right to delete comments in case they are claimed to be illegal by third parties.
We store your email address as long as your comment is public.
If you have given us your consent for the storage of the data, you can revoke it at any time. You can object to the storage of the aforementioned data at any time.
In addition, we offer a service that notifies you by email when other users leave a comment on your post. In order to use this service, you need to activate the checkbox „Email service“ when writing your comment. We are using the so-called Double-Opt-In procedure for this service. When publishing a comment by activating the checkbox, you will receive an email, in which you need to confirm your email address as well as the wish to receive notification emails in the future.
Your personal data will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the service. You can deactivate the notifications at any time by clicking on the link contained in the email.
The aforementioned data are processed for the purpose of performing the application process. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Insofar as the processing of the aforementioned data takes place for the initiation of contractual relationships, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR.
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for their purpose of collection. In the event that an employment, apprenticeship, internship or any other employment relationship occurs after the application process, we will keep on storing the data first and transfer them to a personal file. Otherwise the application process ends with the receipt of a rejection. In this case, the data will be deleted with the rejection. Deletion will not occur if the further processing and storage of your personal data is required in individual cases to assert, exercise or defend legal claims In this case, we have a legitimate interest in the further processing and storage of your personal data. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit f) GDPR. A deletion does not take place even if we are obliged by law to keep on storing your personal data.
You can revoke your consent at any time. You can object to the processing of your personal data at any time. In particular, you have the option to withdraw your application. During the application process, you should only provide us the personal data that are necessary to participate in the application process and to carry it out. There is no legal or contractual obligation to provide the data. Please notice, however, that we cannot carry out the application process nor take into consideration your application without these data. The same applies in case of an objection against the processing of your data. You can modify the data stored about you at any time.
At the time of registration, the IP address as well as the data and time of the registration will also be saved. As part of the registration process, we will ask for the user’s consent to process these data. .
The registration is necessary for the provision of certain contents and services on our website. The data provided for this purpose are only used in order to put to use the respective offer or services or to provide services for which you have registered. In case of important changes in our offers, services and performances, for example, in relation with the scope of the offer or with modifications that are technically necessary, we use the email address provided during the registration in order to inform you about it. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Insofar as the registration serves to conclude or execute the contract, Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR is an additional legal basis.
You can revoke your consent at any time. The legality of the already completed data processing remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for their purpose of collection. This is the case when the registration on our website has been canceled or modified. You have the possibility to cancel the registration at any time. You can modify your personal data at any time. The legal storage time remains unaffected.
We only transfer personal data to third parties if it is necessary in the context of the contract execution. A further transmission of the data does not take place or only in case you have given your express consent to the transmission. A transmission of your data to third parties without express permission, for example for the purpose of advertising, does not take place.
Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Apart from that, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR.
We process and/or store your personal data on the server of an external provider within the European Union. This way, we guarantee that the standards and regulations of the European data protection are being complied with.
On our website, we offer you services for a fee. For this purpose, we process the personal data you provide.
The processing is for the purpose of justification and execution of a contractual relationship with you. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Apart from that, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time. You can object to the processing of your personal data at any time. However, please be aware that the conclusion of the contract is not possible without these data.
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for their purpose of collection. This is the case if we no longer need your personal data for the execution of the contractual relationship. A deletion does not take place even if we are obliged by law to keep on storing your personal data.
We offer you the possibility of using our help and support service. For this purpose, your request and your order data such as your name, email address, the order number and article number, as well as details on the product are transmitted to and processed by loqio GmbH, Hamburger Str. 11, 22083 Hamburg, Germany; salesbridge GmbH, Kleestraße 21-23, 90461 Nuremberg, Germany, a service provider commissioned by us. In this context, it may also be necessary to provide individual data to the manufacturer of the article in order to clarify your request.
The aforementioned processing operations serve the purpose to grant you the use of our help and support service. The processing of the aforementioned data also serves the purpose of quality assurance and optimization. Therein lies our legitimate interest. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Apart from that, the legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) and lit. f) GDPR. As far as the data are transmitted to the manufacturer of the article, it serves the purpose of clarifying your request and, if necessary, to observe and assert our and your rights. Therein lies our legitimate interest. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis for the transmission of the data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Apart from that, the legal basis for the transmission of the data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) and lit. f) GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time. You can object to the processing of your personal data at any time. However, please be aware that you cannot use the support service without these data.
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for their purpose of collection. This is the case when your request has been finally processed. A deletion does not take place if a further processing and storage of your personal data is necessary in individual cases for the assertion, exertion or defense of legal claims. In this case, we have a legitimate interest in the further processing and storage of your personal data. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. A deletion does not take place even if a further storage of your personal data is prescribed by legal regulations.
Your data are transmitted to and processed by the servers of a provider within the European Union. This way, we guarantee that the standards and regulations of the European data protection are being complied with.
We are using ADCELL for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve individual features and offers, as well as the user experience. Through the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Please be aware that this configuration is deleted as soon as you delete your cookies. You can object to the collection and transmission of personal data or prevent the processing of these data by deactivating the execution of the Java script in your browser. In addition, you can prevent the execution of the Java script code by installing a Java script blocker (for example https://noscript.net/ or https://www.ghostery.com). We would like to point out that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent.
On our website, we use technologies by “Bing Ads”, a service of the Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Microsoft”). Bing Ads collects and stores data from which user profiles are created based on the use of pseudonyms. Bing Ads allows us to retrace the user activities on our website, provided that the users reached our website through Bing Ads advertisements. If you reach our website through one of these ads, a cookie will be set on your terminal device. This allows us and Microsoft to understand that a user clicked on a Bing Ads advertisement and was redirected to our website. Microsoft and we can also understand that a user has reached a previously determined landing page, the so-called conversion page. We only learn the total amount of users that have clicked on a Bing Ads advertisement and that have been redirected to the conversion page. However, no personal data of the respective user are processed. The collected information is transmitted to Microsoft servers in the USA and stored there for a maximum of 180 days. Furthermore, Microsoft may track, under certain circumstances, your user behavior throughout various of your terminal devices thanks to the so-called cross-device tracking. This way, Microsoft can show you customized ads on Microsoft websites as well as in Microsoft apps.
We are using Bing Ads for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve individual features and offers, as well as the user experience. Through the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You can prevent the evaluation by deleting existing cookies and deactivating the storage of cookies in your browser settings. Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent. You can also prevent the display of customized advertisement by Microsoft by setting an Opt-Out cookie on the following website: http://choice.microsoft.com/de-de/opt-out. We would like to point out that this configuration is deleted as soon as you delete your cookies.
We are using DoubleClick for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to show you relevant and interesting ads, to improve the reports on the campaign performance or to prevent you from seeing the same ads multiple times. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by deleting existing cookies and deactivating the storage of cookies in your browser settings. Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent. You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your web browser to block the cookies from the domain „www.googleadservices.com“ (https://www.google.de/settings/ads). We remind you that these settings are deleted as soon as you delete your cookies. You can also deactivate interest-based ads via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices. Please be aware that this setting will also be deleted when you delete your cookies.
We are using “Facebook Connect” on our website, a service by Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Facebook”). Facebook Connect makes it easier to register for services on the Internet. Instead of using our website’s registration mask, you can enter your login data from Facebook and then use our website. By using “Facebook Connect”, your web browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server. To log in, you are redirected to the Facebook page. There you can log in with your user data. This will link your Facebook user account with our service. We do not have any influence on the extent and the further use of the data that are collected by Facebook via Facebook Connect. As far as we are aware, Facebook receives the information that you have visited the respective part of our website or clicked on one of our ads. In case you have a Facebook user account and you are registered, Facebook can associate the visit with your user account. Even if you are not registered to Facebook, or if you are not logged in, there is the possibility that Facebook gets to know your IP address as well as further identification features and stores them.
We are using Facebook Connect in order to make your registration and login process easier and faster. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. You can prevent the processing of the aforementioned data by Facebook by using our registration mask instead of Facebook Connect.
We are using “Facebook Custom Audiences” on our website, a remarketing tool by Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Facebook”). Facebook Custom Audiences allows us to display interest-related ads, the so-called “Facebook-Ads“, to our website’s customers as part of a visit of the social network Facebook or as part of a visit to other websites that also use Facebook Custom Audiences. By using “Facebook Custom Audiences”, your web browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server. We do not have any influence on the extent and the further use of the data that are collected by Facebook via Facebook Custom Audiences. As far as we are aware, Facebook receives the information that you have visited the respective part of our website or clicked on one of our ads. In case you have a Facebook user account and you are registered, Facebook can associate the visit with your user account. Even if you are not registered to Facebook, or if you are not logged in, there is the possibility that Facebook gets to know your IP address as well as further identification features and stores them.
We are using Facebook Custom Audiences for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to show you relevant and interesting ads and, thus, to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Please notice that these settings are also deleted as soon as you delete your cookies.
We are using Facebook Impressions for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Facebook Pixel for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to show you relevant ads on Facebook and, thus, to improve our offer, to make it more interesting for you as a user and to avoid annoying ads. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Facebook Social Plugins for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as an user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We remind you that these settings are deleted as soon as you delete your cookies. You can object to or prevent the collection and transmission of personal data as well as the processing of these data by deactivating the Java script in your browser. In addition, you can prevent the execution of the Java script code altogether by installing a Java script blocker (e.g. https://noscript.net/ or https://www.ghostery.com). Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent.
We are using “Google Adwords” on our website, a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Google”). Google Adwords allows us to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites by means of advertising materials (the so-called Google Adwords). This way, we can determine how successful our advertising measures are. These advertising materials are delivered by Google through the so-called „Ad Server“. For this purpose, we are using the so-called ad server cookies which can be used to measure certain parameters for measuring success, such as the display of ads or clicks by the users. Insofar as you have accessed our website through a Google ad, Google Adwords sets a cookie on your computer. These cookies usually lose their validity after 30 days. They are not meant to identify you personally. The following information is typically stored as analysis values for this cookie: unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant to post-view conversions), opt-out information (sign that the user does not want to be addressed anymore). These cookies allow Google to recognize your web browser. If a user visits certain pages of an Adwords customer’s website and the cookie stored on their computer has not expired, Google and the customer will be able to detect that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Adwords customer is assigned a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of Adwords customers. We do not collect and process any personal data in the aforementioned advertising measures. We receive only statistical evaluations provided by Google. On the basis of these evaluations, we can identify which of the advertising measures are particularly effective. We do not receive any further data from the use of the advertising material and, in particular, we cannot identify the users on the basis of this information. Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Google server. We do not have any influence over the extent and further use of the data collected by Google via Google AdWords. As far as we are aware, Google receives the information that you have visited the respective part of our website or clicked on one of our ads. In case you have a Google user account and you are registered, Google can associate the visit with your user account. Even if you are not registered to Google, or if you are not logged in, there is the possibility that Google gets to know your IP address and stores it.
We are using Google AdWords for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to show you relevant and interesting ads, to improve the reports on the campaign performance and to provide a fair calculation of advertising costs. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Google Analytics only for the purpose of the above mentioned activated IP anonymisation. This means that Google will only shorten and process your IP address. The reference to any person can therefore be excluded.
We are using Google Analytics in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by Google. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You can prevent the storage of the cookies generated by Google Analytics by proceeding to the corresponding settings in your web browser. Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all of our website’s features. If you wish to prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your user behavior (your IP address too) as well as the processing of these data by Google, you can download and install the web browser plugin under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
In order to oblige Google to process the data submitted in accordance with our instructions and to comply with applicable data protection regulations, we have entered into a order data processing agreement with Google.
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for their purpose of collection.
A deletion of the data takes place max. 14 months after their collection.
We are using “Google Dynamic Remarketing” on our website, a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Google”). Google Dynamic Remarketing allows us to show you ads after visiting our website as you continue to use the Internet. This is done by means of cookies that are saved in your browser, through which Google records and evaluates your user behavior when visiting different websites. This way, Google can determine your previous visit to our website. According to Google, a merging of the data collected during the remarketing and your personal data, that may be stored by Google, does not take place. In particular, according to Google, pseudonymization is used in remarketing.
We are using Google Dynamic Remarketing for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to show you relevant and interesting ads, to improve the reports on the campaign performance and to provide a fair calculation of advertising costs. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by deleting existing cookies and deactivating the storage of cookies in your browser settings. Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent. You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your web browser to block the cookies from the domain „www.googleadservices.com“ (https://www.google.de/settings/ads). We remind you that these settings are deleted as soon as you delete your cookies. You can also deactivate interest-based ads via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices. Please be aware that this configuration will also be deleted when you delete your cookies.
We are using “Google Tag Manager” on our website, a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Google”). Google Tag Manager allows us, as a marketer, to manage website tags through an interface. The tool Google Tag Manager, which implements the tags, is a domain without cookies and does not collect any personal data. Google Tag Manager triggers other tags which, for their part, may collect data. Google Tag Manager, however, does not access these data. If deactivated on the domain level or cookies level, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags that are implemented by Google Tag Manager.
We are using “Google Web Fonts” on our website, a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Google”). Google Web Fonts allows us the use of external fonts, the so-called Google Fonts. In this case the required Google Font is loaded from your web browser into the browser cache when calling up our website. This is necessary so that your browser can display a visually improved presentation of our texts. If your browser does not support this feature, a default font from your computer will be used. The integration of these web fonts takes place through a server call, in general, in combination with a Google server in the USA. It will be transmitted to the server, which of our websites you have visited. The browser’s IP address of your terminal device will also be stored by Google. We do not have any influence on the extent and the further use of the data that are collected and processed by Google via Google Web Fonts.
We are using Google Web Fonts for optimization purposes, especially in order to improve the use of our website for you and to make its design more user-friendly. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Google Web Fonts for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by deleting existing cookies and deactivating the storage of cookies in your browser settings. Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent. You can object to the collection and transmission of personal data or prevent the processing of these data by deactivating the execution of the Java script in your browser. In addition, you can prevent the execution of the Java script code altogether by installing a Java script blocker (e.g. https://noscript.net/ or https://www.ghostery.com). Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent.
We are using “Instagram” on our website, a social plugin of Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Instagram”), in order to integrate content from the social platform Instagram on our website. In this case, personal data and data referable to a person are transmitted to Instagram. In case you have an Instagram user account and you are registered, Instagram can associate the visit with your user account. Instagram stores these data as user profiles and uses them for advertising purposes, market research and/or the needs-based design of its websites. Such an evaluation takes place (also for users that are not logged in) to display needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object against the creation of these user profiles. In this case, please contact directly Instagram.
We are using Instagram in order to display and offer content and features of this social platform on our website and, thus, to improve our offer and user experience and make it more interesting. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned information. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
If you want to prevent the transmission of data, you cannot use the Instagram features. Regardless, we recommend that you log out of your local user account regularly after using a social network, but especially before activating included content, as this will prevent you from being assigned to your profile with the respective provider.
We are using LinkedIn Ads for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Please be aware that this configuration is deleted as soon as you delete your cookies.
You can object to the collection and transmission of personal data or prevent the processing of these data by deactivating the execution of the Java script in your browser. In addition, you can prevent the execution of the Java script code altogether by installing a Java script blocker (e.g. https://noscript.net/ or https://www.ghostery.com). Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the features on our website to the full extent.
We are using LinkedIn Analytics for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Information on the third party: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. Further information on data protection by the third party can be found on the following website: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
We are using LinkedIn Marketing Solutions for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Pingdom for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Twitter Ads for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Twitter Analytics for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Twitter Button for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using Twitter Conversion Tracking for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using “Adobe Typekit” on our website, a service by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California 95110, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Adobe”). Adobe Typekit allows us the use of external fonts. In this case, the required Typekit Font is loaded from your web browser into the browser cache when calling up our website. This is necessary so that your browser can display a visually improved presentation of our texts. If your browser does not support this feature, a default font from your computer will be used. The integration of these web fonts takes place through a server call, in general, in combination with an Adobe server in the USA. It will be transmitted to the server, which of our websites you have visited. The browser’s IP address of your terminal device will also be stored by Adobe.
We are using Adobe Typekit for optimization purposes, especially in order to improve the use of our website for you and to make its design more user-friendly. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Adobe complies with the Privacy Shield Agreement between the European Union and the USA and is certified accordingly. As a result, Adobe is obliged to comply with the standards and regulations of the European data protection law. Further information can be found under the following link: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNo9AAG&status=Active.
We are using XING for marketing and optimization purposes, especially in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
We are using “YouTube” on our website, a social plugin by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereafter referred to as: “Google”), in order to integrate content from the social platform YouTube on our website. In this case, data are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In case you have a Google user account and you are registered, Google can associate the visit with your user account. Google stores these data as user profiles and uses them for advertising purposes, market research and/or the needs-based design of its websites. Such an evaluation takes place (also for users that are not logged in) to display needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object against the creation of these user profiles. In this case, please contact directly Google.
We are using YouTube in order to display and offer content and features of this social platform on our website and, thus, to improve our offer and user experience and make it more interesting. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned information. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
If you want to prevent the transmission of data, you cannot use the Youtube features. Regardless, we recommend that you log out of your local user account regularly after using a social network, but especially before activating included content, as this will prevent you from being assigned to your profile with the respective provider.
We are using Matomo in order to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve particular features and offers as well as the user experience. Thanks to the statistical evaluation of the user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as an user. Therein lies our legitimate interest in processing the aforementioned data by the third party. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You can prevent the evaluation by deleting existing cookies and deactivating the storage of cookies in your browser settings. Please be aware that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the website’s features to the full extent.
The deletion of the data takes placemax. 6 months after their collection.
We are using the German affiliate marketing network Belboon. Affiliate marketing is an internet-based distribution type that allows commercial providers of internet pages, the so-called merchants or advertisers, to show ads, that are mostly remunerated via click or sales commission, on a third party’s web page. The merchant provides advertising material through the affiliate network, that is, advertising banners or other suitable means of Internet advertising which are subsequently integrated on the own web sites by an affiliate or promoted via other channels such as the keyword advertising or the email marketing. The operating company of Belboon is belboon GmbH, Weinmeisterstr. 12-14, 10178 Berlin.
Belboon sets a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. What cookies are, has already been explained above. The Belboon tracking cookie does not store any personal information. Only the identification number of the affiliate, such as the partner mediating the potential customer, as well as the serial number of the visitor of a website and of the advertising that has been clicked on are stored. The purpose of the storage of this data is the processing of commission payments between a merchant and the affiliate, which are processed via the affiliate network, that is, Belboon. You can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time, as described above, by means of the corresponding settings of the Internet browser used and thus permanently disagree with the setting of cookies. You can find the applicable data protection regulations of Belboon at https://www.belboon.com/de/ueber-uns/datenschutz/.
This website is using services provided by Ve Interactive DACH GmbH, Französische Straße 47, 10117 Berlin. The Ve Interactive Java Snippets is run on your computer when using the website in order to enable an analysis of the use you make of the website, as well as caching of form entries on the website. The resulting information is stored on a high-security server within the European Union.The collected (?) serve marketing and optimization purposes. More information and an option to disable tracking can be found at http://www.veinteractive.com/about-us/legal-policies/veads-privacy-policy/.
We are using Google Optimize, a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Optimize makes it possible to analyze different web page versions with A / B and multi-variant tests to optimize the use of our website.
You can also use our website to order the dispatch of news and information about the content and topics of our website via the messaging services “WhatsApp” or “Facebook Messenger”. We provide this service via the WhatsBroadcast GmbH, Schwanthaler Straße 32, 80336 Munich, which we have commissioned with the technical implementation of the dispatch of the news.
All messages are sent via a WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger account created in our name. If you sign up to send messages via WhatsApp and / or Facebook Messenger via our website in accordance with the instructions described there, WhatsBroadcast will receive the username stored in Whatsapp and/or the Facebook Messenger, as well as your phone number (only if you log in via WhatsApp), information about your device, all messages sent to the service, and information about which messages you have read and clicked on. You can opt out of sending WhatsBroadcast messages via WhatsApp and / or Facebook Messenger at any time by sending the message “STOP” to the WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger account through which you previously ordered the message service. You can also request deletion of the above data from WhatsBroadcast at any time by sending the message “DELETE ALL DATA” to the corresponding WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger account.
We send emails with promotional information about us and our services only with your express consent. You can object to receiving the emails at any time. The option to make an appeal can be found in every email.
On request, we conclude an order data processing agreement with our users. You can download our current version here and sign online via Hellosign. In order to keep the administrative effort low, we only sign in exceptional cases in paper form.
The cookies we use generally serve to offer you our services. Some of our services require cookies to work, and other cookies make our services better.
Depending on their function and intended use, the cookies on this website can be divided into four categories: Necessary cookies, statistics cookies, comfort cookies and cookies for targeting purposes. Choose for yourself which of the following cookies this website may use.
These are cookies that are needed to use our websites and to operate the basic features of the website. Through the use of the necessary cookies, we ensure, among other things, the stability of the website and a secure login.
We use statistics cookies to improve the user-friendliness of our website and thus the user experience. For this purpose, the statistics cookies collect information about the use of our websites, for example, about the web browser and the operating system you used, the average time you spent on the website and the pages you accessed. By measuring these data, we can improve the performance of our website. The cookies do not store any information that allows a personal identification of the user.
We use comfort cookies so that you can use our website to its full extent, for example, in order to read or comment posts, or to share them on social media channels.
Targeting cookies are used to offer targeted content that is relevant to the user and adapted to their interests. They are also used to limit the frequency of an ad and to measure and control the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They register whether you have visited a website or not, as well as what content has been used.

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