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Cookie explanation

Cookie notice

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you in the manner and for the purposes set out below:

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to us. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.


Special information on cookies used by the Web Applications Framework:

  • gpv - This cookie stores the number of pages viewed by a user when visiting websites
    Ends: 32 minutes after the start of the session
  • s_cc - This cookie determines whether cookies are activated in the browser or not
    Ends: At the end of the session
  • s_fid - a random, unique ID for performance issues
    Ends: 32 minutes after session start
  • s_invisit - This cookie counts the number of visits the user has made to the website
    Ends: 32 minutes after the start of the session
  • s_lv - Time (in days) between 2 visits of the same visitor (identified by an ID number)
    Ends: 72 hours after session start
  • s_sq - Information about the previous click
    Ends: At the end of the session
  • s_vnum - Number of visits in a single day
    Ends: At midnight on the start day of the session

The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website if you reject cookies.

The legal basis for the use of cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Web analysis

1. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). By using Google Analytics, we want to ensure the needs-based design and continuous optimization of our website and statistically record the use of our website in order to optimize our offer for you. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP addresses are shortened and processed anonymously, so that they cannot be linked to a specific person. If the data collected about you is personally identifiable, it is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted immediately. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator (in particular, functions for display advertising, such as remarketing, reports on impressions in the Google Display Network, integration of DoubleClick Campaign Managers or Google Analytics reports on performance according to demographic characteristics and interests).

Under certain circumstances, Google may use cross-device functions to analyze your usage behavior across multiple devices (PC, smartphone, tablet, etc.) and evaluate it for us. For this purpose, Google can link information generated via the respective end devices with each other and with data from your Google account for the purpose of personalized advertising if you have a Google account and your settings there are set so that Google can link the browser history with the Google account and that information from the Google account may be used to personalize advertisements.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, you can click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data within this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain, if you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again): Click here to set the opt-out cookie for Google Analytics.

Information from the third-party provider: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, terms of use: www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en, as well as the privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Use of social media links

We use links on our website to our profiles on the social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Flickr and the video portal YouTube in order to make ourselves better known.

These services are only integrated as links to the corresponding social networks. No data is transferred to the providers of the social networks if you do not click on the respective links. After clicking on the integrated links, you will be redirected to the page of the respective provider. Only then will user information be transmitted to the respective provider.

Addresses of the respective providers and URLs with their data protection notices:

Embedding YouTube videos

We have embedded YouTube videos from YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA ("YouTube") in our online offering, which are stored on www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. YouTube videos are integrated to enable you to use the website conveniently. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

When you visit the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. Log data is also transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before visiting our website. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in YouTube's privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Google Maps

On this website, we use the Google Maps service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). This allows us to show you interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to use the map function conveniently. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

When you visit the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. Log data is also transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before visiting our website. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

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