If you have given us your consent, you may revoke it at any time with future effect.

You may file a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, such as the competent supervisory authority in the state where you reside or the authority responsible for us as the data controller.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the private sector) with their addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

If data is stored in log files, it is retained for no longer than 14 days. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, users’ IP addresses are anonymized so that the client making the request can no longer be identified.

Non-Essential Cookies

We also use cookies to better tailor the content on our website to our visitors’ interests or to generally improve the site based on statistical analyses.

Please refer to the information below regarding the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics technologies used to see which providers set cookies.

Legal basis:

The legal basis for this processing is your consent in each case, pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who act as data processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

For further recipients, please refer to the information below regarding the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics technologies used.

Transfers to third countries:

Please refer to the lists provided by the individual display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics providers for information on this.

Provision Required or Necessary:

Of course, you can generally view our website without cookies. Web browsers are typically set to accept cookies. In general, you can disable the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Withdrawal of Consent).

Please note that certain features of our website may not function properly if you have disabled cookies.

Withdrawal of Consent:

You can withdraw your consent at any time via our cookie consent tool.

Profiling:

For details on how we analyze the behavior of website visitors using pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the information below regarding the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics technologies we use.

Use of Matomo

If you have given your consent, this website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open-source software for the statistical analysis of visitor traffic. The provider of the Matomo software is InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand.

Matomo places a cookie (a text file) on your device that allows your browser to be recognized. When you visit subpages of our website, the following information is stored:

• the user’s IP address, truncated by the last two bytes (anonymized)

• the subpage accessed and the time of access

• the page from which the user arrived at our website (referrer)

• which browser, with which plugins, which operating system, and which screen resolution is being used

• the duration of the visit to the website

• the pages accessed from the subpage visited

We use Matomo to improve the quality of our website and its content. This allows us to understand how the website is used and to continuously optimize our offerings.

By anonymizing the IP address to six digits, we take into account the website visitor’s interest in the protection of personal data. The data is not used to personally identify the website user and is not combined with other data. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is not shared with third parties.

Withdrawal of Consent:

You can withdraw your consent to the storage and analysis of your data by Matomo at any time via the link provided below. A so-called opt-out cookie will then be stored on your device, which remains valid for two years. As a result, Matomo will not collect any session data. Please note, however, that the opt-out cookie will be deleted if you clear all cookies.

For more information on the privacy settings of the Matomo software, please visit the following link: https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/.

You can also prevent the use of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly; however, please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent.

Use of Script Libraries (Google Web Fonts)

To display our content correctly and in a visually appealing way across all browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”) on this website to display fonts.

For more information about Google Web Fonts, visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Embedded YouTube Videos

We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter “YouTube”). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection is established to YouTube’s servers. This notifies YouTube of which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is played, the provider uses cookies to collect information about user behavior.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy. There you will also find further information regarding your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

Withdrawal of Consent:

The provider currently does not offer a simple opt-out option or a way to block data transmission. If you wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or for all non-technically necessary cookies and data transfers in the Cookie Consent Tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website at all or only to a limited extent.

SSL Encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g., SSL) via HTTPS.

Information Regarding Your Right to Object Under Article 21 of the GDPR

Right to Object on a Case-by-Case Basis

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you that is carried out pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (data processing based on a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Article 4(4) of the GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy to ensure it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new Privacy Policy will then apply to your next visit.

This Privacy Policy was created with the assistance of activeMind AG, the experts in external data protection officers (Version #2020-09-30).