We collect and use your personal data exclusively within the framework of the provisions of the data protection legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany. Below we are providing you with information on the nature, scope and purpose of collecting and using personal data. You can consult this disclosure on our website at any time.

Data transfer and logging for internal system and statistical use

Your internet browser transfers data automatically to our web server for technical reasons whenever you access our website. That encompasses, among other things, date and time of access, the URL of the referring web page, downloaded files, amount of data sent, browser type and version, operating system, and your IP address. This data is recorded separately from the other data you submit to us yourself when you use our services. It is impossible for us to relate the automatically transferred data to any individual person. It is evaluated for statistical purposes and afterwards deleted.

User data

Where a contractual relationship is going to be established between you and us and where the content is going to be defined or amended, we collect and use your personal data, providing that this is required for this purpose.

Where requested to do so by an appropriate authority, we are allowed in an individual case to disclose this data (user data), providing this is required for the purpose of law enforcement, an emergency response, to comply with statutory duties of the authorities for the protection of the Constitution or military counterintelligence or to assert intellectual property rights.

Usage data

We collect and use your personal data where this is required for the use of our internet offering or to charge for this (usage data). In particular, this includes characteristics for your identification and information on the start, end and extent to which our offer is used.

We are allowed to create pseudonymized user profiles for purposes of advertising, market research and need-based design of our internet services. You have the right to opt out of such use of data. The user profiles are not allowed to be merged with data about the person behind the pseudonym.

Where requested to do so by an appropriate authority, we are allowed in an individual case to disclose this data (user data), providing this is required for the purpose of law enforcement, an emergency response, to comply with statutory duties of the authorities for the protection of the Constitution or military counterintelligence or to assert intellectual property rights.

Cookies

To extend the functionality of our internet services and make its use more convenient to you we use so-called "cookies". These "cookies" store data on your computer. You can disable cookies in your internet browser configuration. However that may limit the functionality of our website available to you.

Right to information

As a user of our Internet services you have the right to demand disclosure of the data related to you or your pseudonymized user. The disclosure can be delivered in electronic form on request.