We take the protection of your personal data seriously and will treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with data protection law.

Our following Data Protection Notice shall help you understand how we collect, use and protect the data provided by you.

Website

Our website may as a rule be used without providing any personal data. If any personal data (e.g. name, address, email address) are collected on our pages, this will always occur, where possible, on a voluntary basis.

However, the following personal data are automatically collected to enable us to show and improve the websites as well as to ensure their stability and security:

• Date and time of retrieval of one of our webpages
• IP address
• Name and version of the web-browser
• The website (URL) from which the user came to the retrieved page
• The website (URL) of the retrieved page

Legal basis is our legitimate interest to operate our websites.

Cookies

Our Websites use so called cookies. A cookie is a small text file which are stored with support of your browser on your device. They do not cause damage.

We use cookies to make our websites more user-friendly. Some cookies stay on your device until you delete them. They enable us to recognize your browser at the next visit.

If you do not want this, you can set your browser to inform you before storing cookies, enabling you to allow this only in individual cases.

The functionality of our website may be limited when cookies are disabled.

Incorporation of third party services and content

It may occur that within our website third party content, for example YouTube videos or maps of Google Maps, is incorporated. In order to display this content, it is necessary for the provider to record the IP address of the user. We do not have any influence on whether third party providers store IP addresses, for example for statistical purposes.