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Privacy Policy

This is an English translation provided for convenience. In case of any discrepancy, the German version shall prevail.

The controller within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Christian Tremmel
Falkengasse 26
69123 Heidelberg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 6221 / 1874943
Email: [email protected]

Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided:

If you have given us your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

You can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the German federal state of your residence, your work or the suspected infringement. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in your data not being passed on.

Erasure and blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided for by the various retention periods stipulated by law. Once the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or erased in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is collected automatically by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the web content you request and is unavoidably generated when using the internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest arising from the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the controller and, where applicable, processors.

We may statistically evaluate anonymous information of this kind in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as your IP address, the browser used, operating system and your internet connection.

Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable our web pages to be displayed correctly.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can generally view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are usually set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Registration on our website

When registering to use our personalised services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and email address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided during registration at any time. Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will also gladly correct or delete it at your request, provided there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary. To contact us in this regard, please use the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy.

Comment function

When users leave comments on our website, the time of their creation and the username previously chosen by the website visitor are stored in addition to this information. This serves our security, as we can be held liable for illegal content on our website, even if it was created by users.

Newsletter

On the basis of your expressly given consent, we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by email to the email address you have provided.

Providing your email address is sufficient to receive the newsletter. When you subscribe to our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by email about circumstances that are relevant to the service or registration (for example, changes to the newsletter offering or technical circumstances).

We require a valid email address for effective registration. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an email address, we use the “double opt-in” procedure. For this purpose, we log the newsletter order, the sending of a confirmation email and the receipt of the reply requested thereby. No further data is collected. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter and is not passed on to third parties.

You can withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. Each newsletter contains a corresponding link for this purpose. You can also unsubscribe directly on this website at any time or inform us of your request using the contact option provided at the end of this privacy notice.

Contact form

If you contact us with questions of any kind by email or contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of making contact. This requires the provision of a valid email address. It is used to assign the enquiry and to respond to it subsequently. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for possible follow-up questions. After your enquiry has been dealt with, personal data will be deleted automatically.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. 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. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred 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 the website operator with other services relating to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are the evaluation of website use and the compilation of reports on activities on the website. Further related services are then to be provided on the basis of the use of the website and the internet. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. 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 downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)

In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing way across all browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid loading them multiple times. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a standard font.

Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible – although it is currently unclear whether and, if so, for what purposes – that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps API to display geographical information visually. When Google Maps is used, Google also collects, processes and uses data about visitors' use of the map functions. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy notice. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the privacy centre.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on some of our web pages. The operator of the corresponding plug-ins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This tells YouTube which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your browsing behaviour to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behaviour.

Anyone who has deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ads programme will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos either. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement 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.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email at [email protected]

The German original of this privacy policy was created with the privacy policy generator of activeMind AG.