Privacy Policy

Data transfer to third countries

We transfer or process data to countries outside the EU (third countries) only if you consent to such processing, if required by law or if contractually necessary, and in any case only to the extent generally permitted. Your consent is in most cases the most important reason that we have data processed in third countries. Processing personal data in third countries such as the United States, where many software vendors provide services and have their server locations, may mean that personal data is processed and stored in unexpected ways. Where possible, we try to use server locations within the EU where this is offered. We provide more detailed information about data transfers to third countries, where applicable, at the appropriate places in this Privacy Policy.

Security of Data Processing

To protect personal data, we have implemented both technical and organizational measures. Where possible, we encrypt or pseudonymize personal data. In this way, we make it as difficult as possible, within the scope of our possibilities, for third parties to infer personal information from our data. Article 25 of the GDPR refers to “data protection by technical design and by data protection-friendly default settings” and thus means that both software (e.g., forms) and hardware (e.g., access to the server room) are always designed with security in mind and that appropriate measures are taken. In the following, we still go into concrete measures, if necessary.

TLS encryption with https

TLS, encryption and https sound very technical and they are. We use HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure stands for “secure hypertext transfer protocol”) to transfer data over the internet in a tap-proof manner. This means that the complete transmission of all data from your browser to our web server is secured – no one can “listen in”. By doing so, we have implemented an additional layer of security and fulfill data protection by design of technology Article 25(1) DSGVO). By using TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the Internet, we can ensure the protection of confidential data. You can recognize the use of this data transmission protection by the small lock symbol at the top left of the browser, to the left of the Internet address (e.g. examplepage.com) and the use of the scheme https (instead of http) as part of our Internet address. If you want to know more about encryption, we recommend Google search for “Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure wiki” to get good links to more information.

Web Analytics

Web Analytics Privacy Policy Summary 👥 Data subjects: website visitors. 🤝 Purpose: Evaluation of visitor information to optimize the web offer. 📓 Data processed: Access statistics containing data such as access locations, device data, access duration and time, navigation behavior, click behavior, and IP addresses. More details can be found at the respective web analytics tool used. 📅 Storage duration: depending on the web analytics tool used. Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Web Analytics?

We use software on our website to evaluate the behavior of website visitors, called Web Analytics or Web Analysis for short. This involves collecting data that the respective analytic tool provider (also called tracking tool) stores, manages and processes. The data is used to create analyses of user behavior on our website and made available to us as the website operator. In addition, most tools offer various testing options. For example, we can test which offers or content are best received by our visitors. To do this, we show you two different offers for a limited period of time. After the test (so-called A/B test), we know which product or content our website visitors find more interesting. For such test procedures, as well as for other Analytics procedures, user profiles can also be created and the data stored in cookies.

Why do we operate Web Analytics?

With our website, we have a clear goal in mind: to deliver the best web offering on the market for our industry. To achieve this goal, we want to offer the best and most interesting offer on the one hand, and on the other hand we want to make sure that you feel completely comfortable on our website. With the help of web analysis tools, we can take a closer look at the behavior of our website visitors and then improve our web offer for you and us accordingly. For example, we can see how old our visitors are on average, where they come from, when our website is most visited or which content or products are particularly popular. All this information helps us to optimize the website and thus best adapt it to your needs, interests and wishes.

What data is processed?

Exactly what data is stored depends, of course, on the analysis tools used. But as a rule, for example, what content you view on our website, which buttons or links you click on, when you access a page, which browser you use, which device (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) you use to visit the website or which computer system you use is stored. If you agreed that location data may also be collected, these may also be processed by the web analytics tool provider. In addition, your IP address will also be stored. According to the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), IP addresses are personal data. However, your IP address is usually stored pseudonymized (i.e. in an unrecognizable and shortened form). For the purpose of testing, web analysis and web optimization, no direct data, such as your name, age, address or e-mail address are stored as a matter of principle. All this data, if collected, is stored pseudonymously. This means that you cannot be identified as a person. The following example schematically shows how Google Analytics works as an example of client-based web tracking with Java Script code. How long the respective data is stored always depends on the provider. Some cookies store data only for a few minutes or until you leave the website again, other cookies can store data for several years.

Duration of data processing

We will inform you about the duration of data processing below, provided that we have further information on this. In general, we process personal data only as long as it is strictly necessary for the provision of our services and products. If it is required by law, such as in the case of accounting, this storage period may be exceeded.

Right of objection

You also have the right and the possibility to revoke your consent to the use of cookies or third-party providers at any time. This works either via our cookie management tool or via other opt-out functions. For example, you can also prevent data collection through cookies by managing, disabling or deleting cookies in your browser.

Legal basis

The use of web analytics requires your consent, which we have obtained with our cookie popup. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data, as may occur during the collection by web analytics tools. In addition to consent, there is a legitimate interest on our part to analyze the behavior of website visitors and thus to improve our offer technically and economically. With the help of web analytics, we detect website errors, can identify attacks and improve the economic efficiency. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). Since web analytics tools use cookies, we also recommend that you read our general privacy policy on cookies. To find out exactly which of your data is stored and processed, you should read the privacy statements of the respective tools. Information on specific web analytics tools, if available, can be found in the following sections.

Introduction and Overview

We have written this Privacy Policy (version 06.06.2021-311285072) to provide you with the following information in accordance with the requirements of the Primary Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and applicable national laws, to explain which personal data (data for short) we as data controller – and the processors (e.g. providers) engaged by us – process, will process in the future and what lawful options you have. The terms used are to be understood as gender-neutral. In short: We inform you comprehensively about data that we process about you. Privacy statements usually sound very technical and use legal terminology. This privacy statement, on the other hand, is intended to describe the most important things to you as simply and transparently as possible. As far as it is conducive to transparency, technical terms are explained in a reader-friendly way, links to further information are provided and graphics are used. In this way, we inform in clear and simple language that we only process personal data in the course of our business activities if there is a corresponding legal basis. This is certainly not possible by providing the most concise, unclear and legalistic explanations possible, as is often standard practice on the Internet when it comes to data protection. I hope you find the following explanations interesting and informative, and perhaps there is one or two pieces of information that you did not yet know. If you still have questions, we would like to ask you to contact the responsible office mentioned below or in the imprint, to follow the existing links and to look at further information on third party sites. Our contact details can of course also be found in the imprint.

Legal basis

In the following privacy policy, we provide you with transparent information on the legal principles and regulations, i.e. the legal bases of the General Data Protection Regulation, which enable us to process personal data. As far as EU law is concerned, we refer to REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016, which you can of course read online on EUR-Lex, the gateway to EU law, at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32016R0679. We will only process your data if at least one of the following conditions applies:

1. 1. Consent (Article 6(1) lit. a DSGVO): You have given us your consent to process data for a specific purpose. An example would be the storage of your entered data of a contact form.

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1. Contract (Article 6(1) lit. b DSGVO): In order to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual obligations with you, we process your data. For example, if we conclude a sales contract with you, we need personal information in advance.
2. Legal obligation (Article 6(1) lit. c DSGVO): If we are subject to a legal obligation, we process your data. For example, we are legally obliged to keep invoices for accounting purposes. These usually contain personal data.
3. Rightful interests (Article 6(1) lit. f DSGVO): In the case of legitimate interests that do not restrict your fundamental rights, we reserve the right to process personal data. For example, we need to process certain data in order to operate our website in a secure and economically efficient manner. This processing is therefore a legitimate interest.

Other conditions such as the exercise of recordings in the public interest and exercise of official authority and the protection of vital interests do not occur with us as a rule. Insofar as such a legal basis should nevertheless be relevant, this is shown at the appropriate place. In addition to the EU regulation, national laws also apply:

• In Austria, this is the Federal Act on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data (Data Protection Act), in short DSG.
• In Germany, the Federal Data Protection Act, in shortBDSG, applies.

If other regional or national laws apply, we will inform you about them in the following sections.

contact-data of the responsible person

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please find below the contact details of the responsible party: wotb.news E-Mail:contact@wotb.news

Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation

According to Article 13 of the GDPR, you are entitled to the following rights so that there is fair and transparent processing of data:

• According to Article 15 of the GDPR, you have the right to information about whether we are processing data about you. If this is the case, you have the right to receive a copy of the data and to know the following information:
  • • for what purpose we are processing;
    • the categories, that is, the types of data that are processed;
    • who receives this data and, if the data is transferred to third countries, how security can be guaranteed;
    • how long the data will be stored;
    • the existence of the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing and the right to object to processing;
    • that you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (links to these authorities are provided below);
    • the origin of the data if we did not collect it from you;
    • whether profiling is carried out, i.e. whether data is automatically analyzed to arrive at a personal profile of you
• According to Article 16 of the GDPR, you have a right to rectification of data, which means that we must correct data if you find errors.
• According to Article 17 of the GDPR, you have the right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”), which specifically means that you may request the deletion of your data.
• According to Article 18 of the GDPR, you have the right to restriction of processing, which means that we may only store the data but not use it further.
• According to Article 19 DSGVO, you have the right to data portability, which means that we will provide you with your data in a common format upon request.
• According to Article 21 DSGVO, you have the right to object, which entails a change in processing after enforcement.
  • If the processing of your data is based on Article 6(1)(e) (public interest, exercise of official authority) or Article 6(1)(f) (legitimate interest), you may object to the processing. We will then check as soon as possible whether we can legally comply with this objection.
  • If data is used to conduct direct marketing, you can object to this type of data processing at any time. We may not use your data thereafter for direct marketing.
  • If data is used to conduct profiling, you may object to this type of data processing at any time. We may not use your data for profiling thereafter.
• Under Article 22 of the GDPR, you may have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (for example, profiling).

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. For Austria, this is the data protection authority, whose website can be found at https://www.dsb.gv.at/ and for Germany, you can contact the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI). In short: You have rights – do not hesitate to contact the responsible body listed above with us!

Google Optimize Privacy Policy

We use Google Optimize, a website optimization tool, on our website. The service provider is the American company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. You can learn more about the data processed through the use of Google Optimize in the Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US .

Matomo privacy policy

We use Matomo, a website analytics software, on our website. The service provider is the New Zealand company InnoCraft Ltd, 7 Waterloo Quay PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand. To learn more about the data processed through the use of Matomo, please see the Privacy Policy at https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/ . Questions about privacy can be directed by email to privacy@matomo.org.

etracker Privacy Policy

etracker privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: website visitors. 🤝 Purpose: analysis of visitor information to optimize the web offer. 📓 Processed data: among others, pseudonymized IP address, technical information about browser, operating system and end device, dwell time, interactions on the website. 📅 Storage duration: depending on the web analytics tool used. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is etracker?

We use the analytics tracking tool etracker Analytics on our website from the German company etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, D-20459 Hamburg. etracker Analytics is software that collects and analyzes data about your actions on our website. We receive analysis reports on how you use our website and can thus adapt our offer ever better to your wishes. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about the analysis tool and show you in particular which data is stored when, how and where. etracker Analytics is an analysis tool that can measure and analyze the performance of our website and online campaigns. For example, the software program collects data about how long you are on our website, how many users visit our website and from where you came to our website. We also receive precise evaluations of visitor behavior on our website. For example, we can find out which buttons you like to click or which subpages you like and which you tend to avoid. All this information is anonymous. This means that we do not identify you as a person through this data, but only receive general user information and statistics.

Why do we use etracker on our website?

We use the software tool to improve the quality of our website and our offer. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service. We want you to feel comfortable on our website and get exactly what you expect. To do this, of course, we need to adapt our offer to your wishes and requirements as much as possible. The data also helps us to carry out our online marketing and advertising measures more favorably and more individually. Because, of course, we really only want to show our offer to people who are also interested in it.

What data is stored by etracker?

In order for tracking to work a JavaScript code must be included in the website. etracker works on a pixel technology. By default, etracker does not use cookies or technologies for tracking on a website, as this has been implemented in the so-called cookie-less mode by privacy-by-design. In this case, only absolutely necessary cookies are set. However, if you have actively agreed to the use of cookies, etracker also uses cookies. The following data is stored and processed when you access the page:

• • Your pseudonymized IP address

• • Technical information about your browser, operating system, and the device you are using

• • Location information up to city level at most

• • The URL accessed with associated page title and optional page content information

• • Referring website: this is the website from which you came to our website

• • The following page: this is the website where you click afterwards

• • how long you stay on our website (dwell time)
  • interactions on the website. This can be, for example, clicks on the website, entered search terms, downloaded files, videos or ordered items.

web page data from the web server is used and information that the web browser transmits to the web server to retrieve web pages. This information is transmitted with each individual page request. Unlike other technologies, etracker does not read any information from the memory of your end device and does not store any data on your end device. The data is not used by etracker for any other purposes or passed on to third parties. The cookies used do not receive any information that can identify you as a person. Data such as IP address, device and domain data are encrypted or shortened during storage. Thus, the identification of individual persons is neither possible for us nor for etracker. If you have agreed to the use of cookies, the following cookies can be set: Name: GS3_v Wert: 146480958311285072-9 Purpose: This cookie is set by the etracker Optimizer web service. Expiration date: after one year. Name: _et_coid Wert: e9cc2b3efbf7807c6157e8b151baa2f3311285072-1 Purpose: This cookie is used for cookie detection and is only set during cookie activation. Expiration date: after 3 years. Name: pll_language Value:en Purpose: This cookie is used to store the default language. Expiration date: after one year. Note: Please note that the list given here is only a selection of cookies used and can not claim to be complete. Which cookies are set in a specific case depends on the respective evaluation mechanisms used. Under the following link, you can view all cookies in a list: https://www.etracker.com/docs/integration-setup/einstellungen-accounts/etracker-cookies/verwendete-cookies-zaehlung/

How long and where is the data stored?

The data center (the servers) is in Hamburg and also the entire system administration takes place in Hamburg. Thus, all data is stored exclusively on German servers. The data is stored by etracker until the contract with us as a customer expires. After a short period of time after the contract ends, all data will be permanently deleted.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

You have the right to information, correction or deletion and restriction of processing of your personal data at any time. You can also revoke your consent to the processing of data at any time. If you basically want to disable, delete or manage cookies, there are separate instructions for each browser: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies

Legal basis

The use of etracker requires your consent, which we have obtained with our cookie popup. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data, as may occur during the collection by web analytics tools. In addition to consent, there is a legitimate interest on our part to analyze the behavior of website visitors and thus to improve our offer technically and economically. With the help of etracker, we detect website errors, can identify attacks and improve the economic efficiency. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). We hope we have been able to provide you with the most important information regarding etracker’s data processing. If you want to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend that you read the company’s privacy policy at https://www.etracker.com/datenschutz/.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

Google Analytics Privacy Policy Summary 👥 Data subjects: website visitors. 🤝 Purpose: Evaluation of visitor information to optimize the web offer. 📓 Data processed: Access statistics, which include data such as locations of accesses, device data, access duration and time, navigation behavior, click behavior, and IP addresses. More details can be found below in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage duration: depending on the properties used. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Google Analytics?

We use on our website the analysis tracking tool Google Analytics (GA) of the American company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Analytics collects data about your actions on our website. For example, when you click on a link, this action is stored in a cookie and sent to Google Analytics. Using the reports we receive from Google Analytics, we can better tailor our website and service to your preferences. In the following, we will go into more detail about the tracking tool and, in particular, inform you about what data is stored and how you can prevent this. Google Analytics is a tracking tool used for traffic analysis of our website. In order for Google Analytics to work, a tracking code is built into the code of our website. When you visit our website, this code records various actions you take on our website. Once you leave our website, this data is sent to Google Analytics servers and stored there. Google processes the data and we receive reports about your user behavior. These reports may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Target group reports: via target group reports, we get to know our users better and know more precisely who is interested in our service.
• Ad reports: Through ad reports, we can analyze and improve our online advertising more easily.
• Acquisition reports: acquisition reports give us helpful information on how to attract more people to our service.
• Behavior reports: this tells us how you interact with our website. We can track which path you take on our site and which links you click on.
• Conversion reports: conversion is the name given to a process where you take a desired action based on a marketing message. For example, when you go from a mere website visitor to a buyer or newsletter subscriber. These reports help us learn more about how our marketing efforts are working for you. This is how we want to increase our conversion rate.
• Real-time reports: Here we always find out immediately what is currently happening on our website. For example, we can see how many users are currently reading this text.

Why do we use Google Analytics on our website?

Our goal with this website is clear: we want to provide you with the best possible service. Google Analytics statistics and data help us achieve this goal. The statistically evaluated data shows us a clear picture of the strengths and weaknesses of our website. On the one hand, we can optimize our site so that it can be found more easily by interested people on Google. On the other hand, the data helps us to better understand you as a visitor. Thus, we know very well what we need to improve on our website in order to provide you with the best possible service. The data also helps us to carry out our advertising and marketing measures in a more individual and cost-effective way. After all, it only makes sense to show our products and services to people who are interested in them.

What data is stored by Google Analytics?

Google Analytics uses a tracking code to create a random, unique ID associated with your browser cookie. This is how Google Analytics recognizes you as a new user. The next time you visit our site, you will be recognized as a “returning” user. All collected data is stored together with this user ID. This makes it possible to evaluate pseudonymous user profiles. In order to analyze our website with Google Analytics, a property ID must be inserted into the tracking code. The data is then stored in the corresponding property. For each newly created property, the Google Analytics 4 property is standard. Alternatively, you can also create the Universal Analytics property. Depending on the property used, data is stored for different lengths of time. Labels such as cookies and app instance IDs are used to measure your interactions on our website. Interactions are all types of actions you take on our website. If you also use other Google systems (such as a Google account), data generated through Google Analytics may be linked to third-party cookies. Google does not share Google Analytics data unless we, as the website operator, authorize it. Exceptions may occur if required by law. The following cookies are used by Google Analytics: Name: _ga Wert: 2.1326744211.152311285072-5 Purpose: By default, analytics.js uses the cookie _ga to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish the website visitors. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: _gid Wert: 2.1687193234.152311285072-1 Purpose: The cookie is also used to distinguish website visitors. Expiration date: after 24 hours. Name: _gat_gtag_UA_value: 1 Purpose: Used to lower the request rate. When Google Analytics is deployed through Google Tag Manager, this cookie is named _dc_gtm_ . Expiration date: after 1 minute. Name: AMP_TOKEN Value: not specified. Purpose: The cookie has a token that can be used to retrieve a user ID from the AMP client ID service. Other possible values indicate a logout, a request, or an error. Expiration date: after 30 seconds up to one year. Name: __utma Wert: 1564498958.1564498958.1564498958.1 Purpose: This cookie is used to track your behavior on the website and measure performance. The cookie is updated every time information is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: __utmt Value: 1 Purpose: The cookie is used like _gat_gtag_UA_ to throttle the request rate. Expiration date: after 10 minutes. Name: __utmb Wert: 3.10.1564498958 Purpose: This cookie is used to determine new sessions. It is updated every time new data or info is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration date: after 30 minutes. Name: __utmc Value: 167421564 Purpose: This cookie is used to set new sessions for returning visitors. This is a session cookie and is only stored until you close the browser again. Expiration date: After closing the browser. Name: __utmz Value: m|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/ Purpose: The cookie is used to identify the source of traffic to our website. That is, the cookie stores from where you came to our website. This may have been another page or an advertisement. Expiration date: after 6 months. Name: __utmv Value: no specification Purpose: The cookie is used to store custom user data. It is updated whenever information is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration date: after 2 years. Note: This enumeration cannot claim to be complete, as Google always changes the choice of their cookies as well. Here we show you an overview of the most important data that is collected with Google Analytics: Heatmaps: Google creates so-called heatmaps. About heatmaps you can see exactly those areas that you click. So we get information where you are “on the road” on our site. Session duration: As session duration Google refers to the time you spend on our site without leaving the page. If you have been inactive for 20 minutes, the session will end automatically. Bounce rate (English: bounce rate): We talk about a bounce when you only view one page on our website and then leave our website again. Account creation: When you create an account or make an order on our website, Google Analytics collects this data. IP address: The IP address is only displayed in shortened form, so that no clear assignment is possible. Location: About the IP address, the country and your approximate location can be determined. This process is also called IP- location determination. Technical information: Technical information includes your browser type, your Internet service provider or your screen resolution. Source of origin: Google Analytics respectively we are of course also interested in which website or which advertising you came to our site. Other data are contact details, any ratings, playing media (for example, if you play a video through our site), sharing content via social media or adding to your favorites. The enumeration does not claim to be complete and only serves as a general orientation of the data storage by Google Analytics.

How long is the data stored and where?

Google has your servers spread all over the world. Most servers are located in America and consequently your data is mostly stored on American servers. You can read exactly where Google data centers are located here: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de. Your data will be distributed on different physical media. This has the advantage that the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected from tampering. In each Google data center, there are appropriate emergency programs for your data. If, for example, the hardware at Google fails or natural disasters paralyze servers, the risk of a service interruption at Google still remains low. The retention period of the data depends on the properties used. When using the newer Google Analytics 4 properties, the retention period of your user data is fixed at 14 months. For other so-called event data, we have the option to choose a retention period of 2 months or 14 months. For Universal Analytics properties, Google Analytics has a default retention period of 26 months for your user data. Then your user data is deleted. However, we have the option to choose the retention period of user data ourselves. We have five variants available for this purpose:

• • Deletion after 14 months

• Deletion after 26 months
• Deletion after 38 months
• Deletion after 50 months
• No automatic deletion

In addition, there is also the option that data will only be deleted if you no longer visit our website within the period we have chosen. In this case, the retention period will be reset each time you visit our website again within the specified period. Once the specified period has expired, the data is deleted once a month. This retention period applies to your data associated with cookies, user recognition and advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick domain cookies). Reporting results are based on aggregated data and are stored separately from user data. Aggregated data is a merging of individual data into a larger entity.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

According to European Union data protection law, you have the right to access, update, delete or restrict your data. Using the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js), you can prevent Google Analytics from using your data. You can download and install the browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Please note that this add-on only disables data collection by Google Analytics. If you basically want to disable, delete or manage cookies (independently of Google Analytics), there are separate instructions for each browser: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies Please note that when you use this tool, data about you may be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

The use of Google Analytics requires your consent, which we have obtained with our cookie popup. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur during the collection by web analytics tools. In addition to the consent, there is a legitimate interest on our part to analyze the behavior of website visitors and thus to improve our offer technically and economically. With the help of Google Analytics, we detect website errors, can identify attacks and improve the economic efficiency. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). We hope we have been able to provide you with the most important information regarding the data processing of Google Analytics. If you want to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend these two links: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Google Analytics reports on demographic characteristics and interests

We have turned on promotional reporting features in Google Analytics. The Demographic Characteristics and Interests reports contain information about age, gender, and interests. This allows us – without being able to assign this data to individual persons – to get a better picture of our users. You can learn more about advertising features at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3450482?hl=de_AT&utm_id=ad. You can opt-out of the use of your Google Account activity and information under “Advertising Settings” on https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated by checking the box.

Google Analytics add-on-to-data-processing

We have entered into a direct customer agreement with Google for the use of Google Analytics by accepting the “Data Processing Addendum” in Google Analytics. You can find out more about the Google Analytics Data Processing Addendum here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3379636?hl=de&utm_id=ad

Google Analytics Google Signals Privacy Policy

. We have enabled Google signals in Google Analytics. This updates existing Google Analytics features (advertising reports, remarketing, cross-device reports, and interest and demographic reports) to obtain aggregated and anonymized data from you, provided you have allowed personalized ads in your Google account. What makes this special is that it is cross-device tracking. That means your data can be analyzed across devices. By enabling Google signals, data is collected and linked to the Google account. Google can thus recognize, for example, if you view a product on our website via a smartphone and only buy the product later via a laptop. Thanks to the activation of Google signals, we can launch cross-device remarketing campaigns that would otherwise not be possible in this form. Remarketing means that we can also show you our offer on other websites. Google Analytics also collects other visitor data such as location, search history, YouTube history, and data about your actions on our website through Google signals. This gives us better advertising reports from Google and more useful information about your interests and demographics. This includes your age, what language you speak, where you live, or what gender you are. Furthermore, social criteria such as your profession, your marital status or your income are also added. All these characteristics help Google Analytics to define groups of people or target groups. The reports also help us to better assess your behavior, your wishes and interests. This allows us to optimize and adapt our services and products for you. By default, this data expires after 26 months. Please note that this data collection only occurs if you have allowed personalized advertising in your Google account. This is always aggregated and anonymous data and never individual person data. In your Google account, you can manage this data or also delete it.

WP Statistics Privacy Policy

WP Statistics Privacy Policy Summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Evaluation of visitor information to optimize the web offer. 📓 Data processed: Access statistics containing data such as anonymized IP addresses, duration of the website visit or your click behavior. 📅 Storage period: the data is stored until it is no longer needed for the purposes. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is WP Statistics?

We use the analytics plugin WP Statistics on our website. This plugin was developed by Veronalabs (5460 W Main St, Verona, NY 13478, United States), an American software company. This plugin provides us with simple statistics on how you, as a user, use our website. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about the analysis tool and show you what data is stored where and for how long. This plugin is an analytics software developed specifically for websites that use the WordPress content management system. WordPress helps us to easily edit our website even without programming skills. WP Statistics can collect data about how long you stay on our website, which subpages you visit, how many visitors are on the website or from which website you came to us. No cookies are set by WP Statistics and you cannot be identified as a person by the data collected.

Why do we use WP Statistics?

With the help of WP Statistics, we get simple statistics that help us make our website more interesting and better for you. Our website and the content, products and/or services offered on it should meet your requirements and wishes as good as possible. In order to achieve this goal, we naturally need to find out where we should make improvements and changes. The statistics received, help us to get one step closer to this goal.

What data is stored by WP Statistics?

WP Statistics does not set any cookies and through the data collected, statistics about the use of our website are generated only in an anonymous form. WP Statistics also anonymizes your IP address. You as a person cannot be identified. Through WP Statistics, visitor data (called Visitos’Data) is collected when your web browser connects to our web server. This data is stored in our database on our server. This includes for example:

• • the address (URL) of the web page accessed

• • the browser and browser version

• • the operating system used

• • the address (URL) of the previously visited page (referrer URL)
  • the hostname and IP address of the device being accessed from

• date and time
• Country/city information
• Number of visitors coming from a search engine
• Duration of website visit
• Clicks on the website

The data will not be shared or sold.

How long and where is the data stored?

All data is stored locally on our web server. The data will be stored on our web server until it is no longer needed for the purposes listed above.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

You have the right to information, correction or deletion and restriction of processing of your personal data at any time. You can also revoke your consent to the processing of data at any time.

Legal basis

The use of WP Statistics requires your consent, which we have obtained with our cookie popup. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data, as may occur during the collection by web analytics tools. In addition to consent, there is a legitimate interest on our part to analyze the behavior of website visitors and thus to improve our offer technically and economically. With the help of WP Statistics, we detect website errors, can identify attacks and improve the economic efficiency. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). We have now provided you with the most important information about data processing by WP Analytics. Due to the fact that the plugin does not use cookies and the data for statistical analysis is stored locally in the web server, your data is handled very carefully here. If you want to learn more about WP Analytics, you should check out their privacy policy at https://wp-statistics.com/privacy-and-policy/.

Facebook Social Plug-ins Privacy Policy

So-called social plug-ins of the company Facebook Inc. are installed on our website. You can recognize these buttons by the classic Facebook logo, such as the “Like” button (the hand with raised thumb) or by a clear “Facebook Plug-in” label. A social plug-in is a small part of Facebook that is integrated into our site. Each plug-in has its own function. The most commonly used functions are the well-known “Like” and “Share” buttons. The following social plug-ins are offered by Facebook:

• • “Save” button

• “Like” button, Share, Send and Quote
• Seiten-Plug-in
• Kommentare
• Messenger-Plug-in
• Embedded posts and video player
• Gruppen-Plug-in

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins for more information on how each plug-in is used. We use the social plug-ins on the one hand to offer you a better user experience on our site, and on the other hand because Facebook can optimize our advertisements through them. If you have a Facebook account or have visited facebook.com before, Facebook has already set at least one cookie in your browser. In this case, your browser sends information to Facebook via this cookie as soon as you visit our site or interact with social plug-ins (e.g. the “Like” button). The information received is deleted again or anonymized within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, which website you visited, the date, the time and other information concerning your browser. To prevent Facebook from collecting a lot of data during your visit to our website and connecting it with Facebook data, you must log out of Facebook during your website visit (log out). If you are not logged into Facebook or do not have a Facebook account, your browser will send less information to Facebook because you have fewer Facebook cookies. Nevertheless, data such as your IP address or which website you visit may be transmitted to Facebook. We would still like to explicitly point out that we do not know exactly about the exact content of the data. However, we try to inform you as best as possible about the data processing according to our current state of knowledge. You can also read how Facebook uses the data in the company’s data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update. The following cookies are set in your browser at a minimum when you visit a website with social plug-ins from Facebook: name: dpr Value: no specification. Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plug-ins on our website work. Expiration date: after session end. Name: fr Wert: 0jieyh4311285072c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j Purpose: The cookie is also necessary for the plug-ins to work properly. Expiration date:: after 3 months. Note: These cookies were set after a test, even if you are not a Facebook member. Provided you are logged into Facebook, you can change your ad settings yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. If you are not a Facebook user, you can go to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/to basically manage your usage-based online advertising. There you have the option to disable or enable providers. If you want to learn more about Facebook’s privacy policy, we recommend you check out the company’s own data policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

YouTube Subscribe Button Privacy Policy

We have included the YouTube Subscribe button on our website. You can usually recognize the button by the classic YouTube logo. The logo shows the words “Subscribe” or “YouTube” in white letters against a red background, with the white “Play” icon to the left. However, the button can also be displayed in a different design. Our YouTube channel always offers you funny, interesting or exciting videos. With the built-in “Subscribe” button, you can subscribe to our channel directly from our website and do not have to go to the YouTube website specifically. In this way, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to access our extensive content. Please note that YouTube may store and process data about you as a result. If you see a built-in subscribe button on our site, YouTube sets – according to Google – at least one cookie. This cookie stores your IP address and our URL. YouTube can also learn information about your browser, your approximate location and your preset language this way. In our test, the following four cookies were set without being logged into YouTube: Name: YSC Wert: b9-CV6ojI5311285072Y Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video watched. Expiration date: after session end. Name: PREF Wert: f1=50000000 Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google gets statistics about how you use YouTube videos on our website via PREF. Expiration date: after 8 months. Name: GPS Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location. Expiration date: after 30 minutes. Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Wert: 31128507295Chz8bagyU Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user’s bandwidth on our web pages (with embedded YouTube video). Expiration date: after 8 months. Note: These cookies were set after a test and cannot claim to be complete. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can save many of your actions/interactions on our website with the help of cookies and assign them to your YouTube account. YouTube thereby receives, for example, information on how long you surf our site, which browser type you use, which screen resolution you prefer or which actions you perform. YouTube uses this data on the one hand to improve its own services and offers, and on the other hand to provide analyses and statistics for advertisers (who use Google Ads).

Pinterest Privacy Policy

We use buttons and widgets of the social media network Pinterest, of the company Pinterest Inc,808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA on our site. By calling up pages that use such functions, data (IP address, browser data, date and time, cookies) are transmitted to Pinterest, stored and analyzed.

Right of objection

You also have the right and the possibility to revoke your consent to the use of cookies or third-party providers such as Pinterest at any time. This works either via our cookie management tool or via other opt-out functions. For example, you can also prevent data collection through cookies by managing, disabling or deleting cookies in your browser. Since embedded Pinterest elements may use cookies, we also recommend that you read our general privacy policy on cookies. To find out exactly what data is stored and processed by you, you should read the privacy statements of the respective tools.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. The privacy policy, what information Pinterest collects and how they use it can be found at https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

AddThis-privacy-policy

AddThis privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Data Processed: Data such as user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address. More details can be found below in the privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: the collected data stored for 13 months from the date of data collection. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is AddThis?

We use plug-ins on our website from AddThis of Oracle America, Inc. (500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA). These plug-ins allow you to quickly and easily share content from our website with other people. When you visit a website with an AddThis function, data from you may be transferred to the AddThis company, stored and processed. With this privacy statement, you will learn why we use AddThis, what data is processed and how you can prevent this data transfer. Among other things, AddThis develops software tools that are embedded on websites to enable users to distribute content on various social media channels or via e-mail. In addition, AddThis also offers functions that serve website analysis. The collected data is also used to offer interest-based advertising to Internet users. The service is used by more than 15 million website owners worldwide.

Why do we use AddThis on our website?

By using AddThis buttons, you can share interesting content from our website on various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. Of course, if you like our content, we’ll be happy if you share it with your social community as well. And the easiest way to do that is to use the AddThis buttons.

What data is stored by AddThis?

If you share content with AddThis and you are logged in with the respective social media account, data such as the visit to our website and the sharing of content can be assigned to the user account of the respective social media channel. AddThis uses cookies, pixels, HTTP headers and browser identifiers to collect data about your visitor behavior. In addition, some of this data is shared with third parties after pseudonymization. Here is an example list of the data that may be processed:

• • Unique ID of a cookie placed in the web browser

• • Address of the visited web page

• • Time of the web page visit
  • Search queries a visitor used to get to the page with AddThis

• • Duration of stay on a web page
  • The IP address of the computer or mobile device

• • Mobile advertising IDs (Apple IDFA or Google AAID)
  • Information contained in HTTP headers or other transmission protocols used

• What program was used on the computer (browser) or what operating system was used (iOS)

AddThis uses cookies, which we list below as examples and excerpts. You can find out more about AddThis cookies at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy. Name: bt2 Wert: 8961a7f179d87qq69V69311285072-3 Purpose :This cookie is used to record parts of the website visited in order to recommend other parts of the website. Expiration date: after 255 days. Name: bku Wert: ra/99nTmYN+fZWX7311285072-4 Purpose: This cookie registers anonymized user data such as your IP address, geographic location, websites visited and which ads you clicked on. Expiration date: after 179 days. Note: Please keep in mind that this is an exemplary list and we cannot claim completeness. AddThis also shares aggregated information with other companies. More details can be found at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy#section5. AddThis also uses the data it receives to create target groups and interest profiles in order to offer interest-based advertising to users in the same advertising network.

How long and where is the data stored?

AddThis stores the collected data for 13 months from the date of data collection. 1% of the data is kept as a “sample record” for a maximum of 24 months to preserve the business relationship. However, in this “sample data set”, the direct and indirect identification (such as your IP address and cookie ID) is hashed. This means that the personal data can no longer be associated with you without additional information. Since the AddThis company is headquartered in the USA, the collected data is also stored on American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. If you no longer wish to see advertisements based on data collected by AddThis, you can use the opt-out button at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. This sets an opt-out cookie that you must not delete in order to continue to keep this preference. You can also set your preferences for usage-based online advertising via http://www.youronlinechoices.com/at/ in the preference management. One way to disable data processing or manage it according to your preferences is through your browser. Depending on the browser, data processing works slightly differently. Here you can find the instructions for the currently most popular browsers: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies Please note that when you use this tool, data about you may be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. If you would like to know more about how AddThis processes your data, you can find more information at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

Facebook privacy policy

Facebook privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: website visitors. 🤝 Purpose: optimization of our service performance 📓 Processed data: Data such as customer data, user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address. More details can be found below in the privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: until the data is no longer useful for Facebook’s purposes. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What are Facebook tools?

We use selected tools from Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social media network owned by Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. With the help of these tools we can offer you and people who are interested in our products and services the best possible offer. Below we provide an overview of the various Facebook tools, what data is sent to Facebook and how you can delete this data. Among many other products, Facebook also offers the so-called “Facebook Business Tools”. This is the official name of Facebook. However, since the term is hardly known, we have decided to simply call them Facebook Tools. Among them are:

• • Facebook Pixel

• social plug-ins (such as the “Like” or “Share” button)
• Facebook login
• Account Kit
• APIs (application programming interface)
• SDKs (collection of programming tools)
• Platform integrations
• Plugins
• Codes
• Specifications
• Documentations
• Technologies and services

Through these tools, Facebook extends services and has the ability to obtain information about user activity outside of Facebook.

Why do we use Facebook tools on our website?

We want to show our services and products only to people who are really interested in them. With the help of advertisements (Facebook Ads) we can reach exactly these people. However, in order to show suitable ads to users, Facebook needs information about people’s wants and needs. Thus, information about user behavior (and contact data) on our website is made available to the company. As a result, Facebook collects better user data and can show interested people the appropriate advertising about our products or services. The tools thus enable tailored advertising campaigns on Facebook. Data about your behavior on our website is called “event data” by Facebook. This is also used for measurement and analysis services. Facebook can thus create “campaign reports” on our behalf about the impact of our advertising campaigns. Furthermore, analytics give us better insight into how you use our services, website or products. As a result, we use some of these tools to optimize your user experience on our website. For example, social plug-ins allow you to share content on our site directly on Facebook.

What data is stored by Facebook tools?

By using individual Facebook tools, personal data (customer data) may be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, phone number and IP address may be sent. Facebook uses this information to match the data with the data it itself has from you (if you are a Facebook member). Before customer data is transmitted to Facebook, a so-called “hashing” takes place. This means that a data record of any size is transformed into a character string. This also serves to encrypt data. In addition to contact data, “event data” is also transmitted. Event data” refers to the information that we receive about you on our website. For example, which subpages you visit or which products you buy from us. Facebook does not share the information it receives with third parties (such as advertisers) unless the company has explicit permission or is legally required to do so. “Event data” may also be associated with contact information. This allows Facebook to offer better personalized advertising. After the matching process already mentioned, Facebook deletes the contact data again. In order to be able to deliver ads in an optimized way, Facebook only uses event data if it has been combined with other data (collected by Facebook in other ways). Facebook also uses this event data for security, protection, development, and research purposes. Much of this data is transferred to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are small text files used to store data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools you use and whether you are a Facebook member, different numbers of cookies are created in your browser. We go into more detail about individual Facebook cookies in the descriptions of each Facebook tool. You can also learn general information about the use of Facebook cookies at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

Basically, Facebook stores data until it is no longer needed for its own services and Facebook products. Facebook has servers spread around the world where its data is stored. However, customer data is deleted within 48 hours after it has been matched with its own user data.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

In accordance with the Basic Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to information, correction, portability and deletion of your data. A complete deletion of data only occurs if you delete your Facebook account completely. And this is how deleting your Facebook account works: 1) On the right side of Facebook, click Settings. 2) Then click on “Your Facebook information” in the left column. 3) Now click “Deactivation and deletion”. 4) Now select “Delete account” and then click “Continue and delete account”. 5) Now enter your password, click “Continue” and then click “Delete account”. The storage of data that Facebook receives via our site is done, among other things, via cookies (e.g. for social plugins). In your browser, you can disable, delete or manage individual or all cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies. If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. Please note that when using this tool, data from you may also be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and look at the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. We hope we have provided you with the most important information about the use and data processing by Facebook tools. If you want to learn more about how Facebook uses your data, we encourage you to review the data policies at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

Gravatar privacy policy

Gravatar privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Processed data: among others, your encrypted email address, IP address and URL of our server. More details can be found below in the privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: in principle, the data is deleted when it is no longer useful for the services of the provider. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Gravatar?

We have installed on our website the Gravatar plug-in from Automattic Inc. (60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA). Gravatar is automatically activated on all WordPress websites, among others. The function allows to display user images (avatars) on published posts or comments, provided that the corresponding email address is registered at www.gravatar.com. Through this function, data is sent to the company Gravatar or Automattic Inc., stored and processed there. In this privacy policy, we want to inform you about what data is involved, how the network uses this data and how you can manage or prevent the data storage. Gravatar basically stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar” and this means a globally available avatar (a user image) associated with the email address. The Gravatar company is the world’s leading service provider for this service. As soon as a user enters the email address on a website, which is also registered with the Gravatar company at www.gravatar.com, a previously deposited image is automatically displayed together with a published post or comment.

Why do we use Gravatar on our website?

People often talk about anonymity on the Internet. Through an avatar, users get a face to the people commenting. In addition, you are basically more easily recognized on the net and can build up a certain level of awareness. Many users enjoy the advantages of such a user image and also want to appear personally and authentically on the net. Of course, we want to offer you the possibility to display your Gravatar on our website as well. In addition, we also like to see faces to our commenting users. With the Gravatar feature enabled, we are also expanding our service on our website. After all, we want you to feel comfortable on our website and get a comprehensive and interesting offer.

What data is stored by Gravatar?

For example, as soon as you publish a comment on a blog post that requires an email address, WordPress checks if the email address is associated with an avatar on Gravatar. For this request, your email address is sent to Gravatar’s or Automattic’s servers in encrypted or hashed form, along with the IP address and our URL. Thus, it is checked whether this e-mail address is registered with Gravatar. If this is the case, the image (Gravatar) stored there will be displayed together with the published comment. If you have registered an e-mail address with Gravatar and comment on our website, further data will be transmitted to Gravatar, stored and processed. In addition to IP address and user behavior data, this includes, for example, browser type, unique device identifier, preferred language, dates and times of page entry, operating system and mobile network information. Gravatar uses this information to improve its own services and offers and to gain better insights into the use of its own service. The following cookies are set by Automattic when a user uses an email address registered with Gravatar to make a comment: name: gravatar Wert: 16b3191024acc05a238209d51ffcb92bdd710bd19311285072-7 Purpose:We could not find out exact information about the cookie. Expiration date: after 50 years. Name: is-logged-in Wert: 1311285072-1 Purpose: This cookie stores the information that the user is logged in via the registered email address. Expiration date: after 50 years.

How long and where will the data be stored?

Automattic deletes the collected data when it is no longer used for its own services and the company is not required by law to keep the data. Web server logs such as IP address, browser type and operating system are deleted after about 30 days. Until then, Automattic uses the data to analyze traffic on its own websites (for example, all WordPress sites) and to fix potential problems. The data is also stored on Automattic’s American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. If you have registered with Gravatar with an email address, you can delete your account or email address there at any time. Since only when using an email address registered with Gravatar a picture is displayed and thus data is transferred to Gravatar, you can also prevent the transfer of your data to Gravatar by commenting or posting on our website with an email address not registered with Gravatar. You can manage, disable or delete possible cookies set during commenting in your browser. Please only note that any commenting functions will then no longer be available to the full extent. Depending on which browser you use, cookie management works a bit differently. You can find instructions for the most popular browsers here: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies Please note that when you use this tool, data about you may be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. More details about the Privacy Policy and what data is collected by Gravatar and how can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/, general information about Gravatar at http://de.gravatar.com/.

Instagram privacy policy

Instagram privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: website visitors. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Data Processed: Data such as user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address. More details can be found below in the privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: until Instagram no longer needs the data for their purposes. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Instagram?

We have included features from Instagram on our website. Instagram is a social media platform of the company Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA. Instagram has been a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. since 2012 and is one of Facebook’s products. Embedding Instagram content on our website is called embedding. This allows us to show you content such as buttons, photos or videos from Instagram directly on our website. When you call up web pages on our website that have an Instagram function integrated, data is transmitted to Instagram, stored and processed. Instagram uses the same systems and technologies as Facebook. Your data is thus processed across all Facebook companies. In the following, we want to give you a more detailed insight into why Instagram collects data, what kind of data it is and how you can largely control the data processing. Since Instagram belongs to Facebook Inc., we obtain our information on the one hand from the Instagram policies, but on the other hand also from the Facebook data policies themselves. Instagram is one of the most popular social media networks in the world. Instagram combines the advantages of a blog with the advantages of audiovisual platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo. You can upload photos and short videos on “Insta” (as many of the users casually call the platform), edit them with various filters and also distribute them on other social networks. And if you don’t want to be active yourself, you can just follow other interesting users.

Why do we use Instagram on our website?

Instagram is that social media platform that has really gone through the roof in recent years. And of course, we have responded to this boom as well. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible on our website. That’s why a varied preparation of our content is a matter of course for us. Through the embedded Instagram features, we can enrich our content with helpful, funny or exciting content from the Instagram world. Since Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook, the data collected can also serve us for personalized advertising on Facebook. This way, only people who are really interested in our products or services receive our ads. Instagram also uses the collected data for measurement and analysis purposes. We get aggregate statistics and thus more insight about your preferences and interests. It is important to note that these reports do not identify you personally.

Which data is stored by Instagram?

When you come across one of our pages that have Instagram features (such as Instagram images or plug-ins) built in, your browser automatically connects to Instagram’s servers. In the process, data is sent to Instagram, stored and processed. And this is regardless of whether you have an Instagram account or not. This includes information about our website, about your computer, about purchases made, about advertisements you see and how you use our offer. Furthermore, the date and time of your interaction with Instagram is also stored. If you have an Instagram account or are logged in, Instagram stores significantly more data about you. Facebook distinguishes between customer data and event data. We assume that this is exactly the same for Instagram. Customer data are, for example, name, address, phone number and IP address. This customer data is only transmitted to Instagram after it has been hashed. Hashing means that a data record is transformed into a character string. This makes it possible to encrypt the contact data. In addition, the “event data” mentioned above is also transmitted. By “event data” Facebook – and consequently Instagram – understands data about your user behavior. It may also happen that contact data is combined with event data. The collected contact data is matched with the data that Instagram already has from you. Via small text files (cookies), which are usually set in your browser, the collected data is transmitted to Facebook. Depending on the Instagram functions used and whether you yourself have an Instagram account, different amounts of data are stored. We assume that Instagram’s data processing works the same as Facebook’s. This means that if you have an Instagram account or have visited www.instagram.com, Instagram has at least set a cookie. If this is the case, your browser sends info to Instagram via the cookie as soon as you come into contact with an Instagram function. At the latest after 90 days (after matching), this data is deleted again or anonymized. Although we have intensively studied Instagram’s data processing, we cannot say exactly what data Instagram collects and stores. In the following, we show you cookies that are set in your browser at least when you click on an Instagram function (such as button or an Insta image). In our test, we assume that you do not have an Instagram account. Of course, if you are logged into Instagram, significantly more cookies are set in your browser. These cookies were used in our test: Name: csrftoken Value: “” Purpose: This cookie is most likely set for security reasons, to prevent forgery of requests. However, we could not find out more precisely. Expiration date: after one year. Name: mid value: “” Purpose: Instagram sets this cookie to optimize its own services and offerings on and off Instagram. The cookie sets a unique user ID. Expiration date: after the session ends. Name: fbsr_311285072124024 Value:none specified. Purpose: This cookie stores the log-in request for users of the Instagram app. Expiration date: after the session ends. Name: rur Value:ATN Purpose: This is an Instagram cookie that provides functionality on Instagram. Expiration date: after the end of the session. Name: urlgen Wert: “{“194.96.75.33″: 1901}:1iEtYv:Y833k2_UjKvXgYe311285072” Purpose: This cookie is used for Instagram’s marketing purposes. Expiration date: after the end of the session. Note: We cannot claim completeness here. Which cookies are set in individual cases depends on the embedded features and your use of Instagram.

How long and where will the data be stored?

Instagram shares the information it receives between Facebook companies with external partners and with people you connect with around the world. The data processing is done in compliance with its own data policy. Your data is distributed on Facebook servers around the world, partly for security reasons. Most of these servers are located in the United States.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Thanks to the Basic Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to access, portability, rectification and deletion of your data. You can manage your data in the Instagram settings. If you want to completely delete your data on Instagram, you need to permanently delete your Instagram account. And this is how deleting Instagram account works: First, open the Instagram app. On your profile page, go down and click on “Help section”. Now you will get to the company’s website. On the webpage, click “Manage account” and then click “Delete your account”. If you delete your account entirely, Instagram will delete posts such as your photos and status updates. Information that other people have shared about you does not belong to your account and consequently will not be deleted. As mentioned above, Instagram stores your data primarily via cookies. You can manage, disable or delete these cookies in your browser. Depending on your browser, the management always works a bit differently. Here we show you the instructions for the most important browsers. Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies You can also basically set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not. Please note that when using this tool, data from you may also be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about data processing by Instagram. On https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 you can take an even closer look at Instagram’s data policies.

ShareThis-privacy-policy

ShareThis privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Data Processed: Data such as user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address. More details can be found below in the privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: the collected data is stored for up to 14 months. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is ShareThis?

On our website, we have added features of ShareThis from the company ShareThis Inc. (4005 Miranda Ave, Suite 100, Palo Alto, 94304 California, USA) have been incorporated. These are, for example, “share” plug-ins of various social media channels. With the help of these functions, you can share content from our website on social media channels. If you call up a website with a ShareThis function, data from you may be transferred to the company, stored and processed. With this privacy statement, you will learn why we use ShareThis, what data is processed and how you can prevent this data transfer. ShareThis is a technology company that offers website owners tools to increase website quality. By using ShareThis’ social plugins, you can share content from our website on various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and co. The company offers content sharing for over 40 different channels and is used by over 3 million website owners worldwide. The data collected by ShareThis is also used for custom ads.

Why do we use ShareThis on our website?

We want to convince with our content and of course we are happy if our content is also recommended. Then we know we are on the right track. The easiest way to do this is via “Share/Teilen-Buttons” directly on our website. Thanks to the large number of different social media channels, our content can also be presented to a wide audience. This helps us to become better known and more successful on the Internet. In addition, the plug-ins also serve you, because with just one click, you can share interesting content with your social media community.

What data is stored by ShareThis?

When you share content with ShareThis and you are logged in with the respective social media account, data such as your visit to our website and sharing of content may be associated with the user account of the respective social media channel. ShareThis uses cookies, pixels, HTTP headers and browser identifiers to collect data about your visitor behavior. In addition, some of this data is shared with third parties after pseudonymization. Here is a list of the data that may be processed:

• • Unique ID of a cookie placed in the web browser

• • General click behavior

• • Addresses of web pages visited
  • Search queries through which a visitor arrived at the ShareThis page

• • Navigation from web page to web page if this has gone through ShareThis services

• • Duration of stay on a web page
  • Which items were clicked or highlighted
  • The IP address of the computer or mobile device
  • Mobile ad IDs (Apple IDFA or Google AAID)
  • Information contained in HTTP headers or other transmission protocols used

• What program was used on the computer (browser) or what operating system was used (iOS)

ShareThis uses cookies, which we list below as examples. For more on ShareThis cookies, see https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/. Name: __unam Wert: 8961a7f179d1d017ac27lw87qq69V69311285072-5 Purpose: This cookie counts the “clicks” and “shares” on a web page. Expiration date: after 9 months. Name: __stid Wert: aGCDwF4hjVEI+oIsABW7311285072Ag== Purpose: This cookie stores user behavior, such as web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, and time spent on the website. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: __sharethis_cookie_test__ Value: 0 Purpose: This cookie monitors “clickstream” activity. This means it watches where you clicked on the web page. Expiration date: after session end. Note: We can not claim completeness here. Which cookies are set in the individual case depends on the embedded functions and your use.

How long and where is the data stored?

ShareThis retains collected data for a period of up to 14 months from the date of data collection. ShareThis cookies expire 13 months after the last update. Since ShareThis is an American company, data is transferred and stored on American ShareThis servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you no longer wish to see advertisements based on data collected by ShareThis, you can use the opt-out button at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/. This sets an opt-out cookie that you must not delete in order to continue to keep this preference. You can also set your preferences for usage-based online advertising via http://www.youronlinechoices.com/at/ in the preference management. Furthermore, you also have the option to manage, deactivate or delete data stored via cookies in your browser. How exactly the management works depends on your browser. Here you can find the instructions for the currently most popular browsers. Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies You can also set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. Please note that when you use this tool, data about you may be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. If you want to know more about how ShareThis processes your data, you can find all the information you need at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/.

Twitter privacy policy

Twitter privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Data Processed: Data such as user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address. More details can be found below in the privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: collected data from other website Twitter deletes after 30 days at the latest. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Twitter?

On our website, we have incorporated features of Twitter. These are, for example, embedded tweets, timelines, buttons or hashtags. Twitter is a short message service and a social media platform of the company Twitter Inc, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland. To our knowledge, in the European Economic Area and in Switzerland, no personal data or data relating to your web activities are transmitted to Twitter by the mere inclusion of the Twitter function. Only when you interact with the Twitter functions, such as clicking on a button, can data be sent to Twitter, stored there and processed. We have no influence on this data processing and bear no responsibility for it. Within the scope of this privacy policy, we want to give you an overview of what data Twitter stores, what Twitter does with this data and how you can protect yourself from the data transmission to a large extent. For some, Twitter is a news service, for others a social media platform and still others speak of a microblogging service. All these terms have their justification and mean more or less the same thing. Both private individuals and companies use Twitter to communicate with interested people via short messages. Twitter only allows 280 characters per message. These messages are called “tweets.” Unlike Facebook, for example, the service does not focus on expanding a network for “friends”, but wants to be understood as a worldwide and open news platform. On Twitter, it is also possible to have an anonymous account and tweets can be deleted by the company on the one hand, and by the users themselves on the other.

Why do we use Twitter on our website?

Like many other websites and companies, we try to offer our services and communicate with our customers through various channels. Twitter in particular has grown on us as a useful “little” news service. Again and again we tweet or retweet exciting, funny or interesting content. We realize that you can’t follow every channel separately. After all, you also have something else to do. That’s why we have included Twitter functions on our website. You can follow our Twitter activity “on the spot” or follow a direct link to our Twitter page. Through the integration, we want to strengthen our service and user experience on our website.

What data is stored by Twitter?

On some of our subpages you will find the built-in Twitter features. When you interact with Twitter content, such as clicking on a button, Twitter may collect and store data. This is the case even if you do not have a Twitter account yourself. Twitter calls this data “log data.” It includes demographic data, browser cookie IDs, your smartphone’s ID, hashed email addresses, and information about what pages you visited on Twitter and what actions you took. Twitter, of course, stores more data if you have a Twitter account and are logged in. Most of the time, this storage happens via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually set in your browser and transmit different information to Twitter. We will now show you which cookies are set when you are not logged in to Twitter but visit a website with built-in Twitter functions. Please consider this list as an example. We can in no way guarantee a claim to completeness here, as the choice of cookies always changes and depends on your individual actions with Twitter content. These cookies were used in our test: name: personalization_id Wert: “v1_cSJIsogU51SeE311285072” Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and which advertisements you may have come to Twitter from. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: long Value: en Purpose: This cookie stores your preset or preferred language. Expiration date: after session end. Name: guest_id Wert: 311285072v1%3A157132626 Purpose: This cookie is set to identify you as a guest. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: fm Value: 0 Purpose: Unfortunately, we could not find out the purpose for this cookie. Expiration date: after session end. Name: external_referer Wert: 3112850722beTA0sf5lkMrlGt Purpose: This cookie collects anonymous data, such as how often you visit Twitter and how long you visit Twitter. Expiration date: After 6 days. Name: eu_cn Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie stores user activity and is used for various advertising purposes by Twitter. Expiration date: After one year. Name: ct0 Wert: c1179f07163a365d2ed7aad84c99d966 Purpose: Unfortunately, we have not found any information about this cookie. Expiration date: after 6 hours. Name: _twitter_sess Wert: 53D%253D–dd0248311285072- Purpose: This cookie allows you to use features within the Twitter website. Expiration date: after session end. Note: Twitter also works with third-party providers. That’s why we also detected the three Google Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid during our test. Twitter uses the collected data on the one hand to better understand user behavior and thus improve its own services and advertising offers, on the other hand, the data also serves internal security measures.

How long and where is the data stored?

When Twitter collects data from other websites, it is deleted, aggregated or otherwise obscured after a maximum of 30 days. Twitter’s servers are located on various server centers in the United States. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the collected data is collected and stored in America. After our research, we could not clearly determine whether Twitter also has its own servers in Europe. Basically, Twitter can store the collected data until it is no longer useful to the company, you delete the data or there is a legal deletion period.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

Twitter repeatedly emphasizes in its privacy policy that it does not store data from external website visits if you or your browser are located in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. However, if you interact with Twitter directly, Twitter will of course store data from you. If you have a Twitter account, you can manage your data by clicking “More” under the “Profile” button. Then click on “Settings and privacy”. Here you can manage the data processing individually. If you do not have a Twitter account, you can go to twitter.com and then click on “Individualization”. Under the “Individualization and Data” section, you can manage your collected data. Most of the data is stored via cookies, as mentioned above, and you can manage, disable or delete them in your browser. Please note that you only “edit” cookies in the browser you choose. That means: if you use another browser in the future, you will have to manage your cookies there again according to your wishes. Here are the instructions for cookie management of the most popular browsers. Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies. You can also manage your browser in such a way that you are informed about every single cookie. Then you can always decide individually whether to allow a cookie or not. Twitter also uses the data for personalized advertising inside and outside of Twitter. In the settings, you can disable personalized advertising under “Individualization and data”. If you use Twitter on a browser, you can disable personalized advertising at http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Please note that when you use this tool, data about you may be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by integrated social media elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Most social media platforms also set cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and look at the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. We hope we have given you a basic overview of data processing by Twitter. We do not receive any data from Twitter, nor do we bear any responsibility for what Twitter does with your data. If you have any further questions about this topic, we encourage you to review Twitter’s privacy policy at https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

Vimeo Privacy Policy

Vimeo privacy policy summary Summary 👥 Data subject: Visitors to the website 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Processed data: Data such as contact details, user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address may be stored. You can find more details about this further down in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: Data is generally stored for as long as it is necessary for the purpose of the service ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Vimeo?

We also use videos from the company Vimeo on our website. The video portal is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With the help of a plug-in, we can show you interesting video material directly on our website. In the process, certain data may be transferred from you to Vimeo. In this privacy policy, we will show you what data is involved, why we use Vimeo and how you can manage or prevent your data or the data transfer. Vimeo is a video platform that was founded in 2004 and has made it possible to stream videos in HD quality since 2007. Since 2015, it has also been possible to stream in 4k Ultra HD. The portal is free to use, but paid content can also be published. Compared to the market leader YouTube, Vimeo prioritizes high-quality content. Thus, on the one hand, the portal offers a lot of artistic content such as music videos and short films, but on the other hand, it also offers documentaries worth knowing about a wide variety of topics.

Why do we use Vimeo on our website?

The goal of our web presence is to provide you with the best content possible. And to do so as easily accessible as possible. Only when we have achieved that, we are satisfied with our service. The video service Vimeo helps us to achieve this goal. Vimeo gives us the opportunity to present you with high-quality content directly on our website. Instead of just giving you a link to an interesting video, you can watch the video right there on our site. This expands our service and makes it easier for you to access interesting content. Thus, in addition to our texts and images, we also offer video content.

What data is stored on Vimeo?

When you visit a page on our website that has a Vimeo video embedded, your browser connects to the servers of Vimeo. This results in a data transfer. This data is collected, stored and processed on the Vimeo servers. Regardless of whether you have a Vimeo account or not, Vimeo collects data about you. This includes your IP address, technical info about your browser type, operating system or very basic device information. Furthermore, Vimeo stores information about which website you use the Vimeo service and which actions (web activities) you perform on our website. These web activities include, for example, session duration, bounce rate or which button you clicked on our website with built-in Vimeo function. Vimeo may track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies. If you are logged into Vimeo as a registered member, more data can usually be collected because more cookies may have already been set in your browser. In addition, your actions on our website are directly linked to your Vimeo account. To prevent this, you must log out of Vimeo while “surfing” our website. Below we show you cookies that are set by Vimeo when you are on a website with an integrated Vimeo function. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a Vimeo account. Name: player Value: “” Purpose: This cookie saves your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This will give you your preferred settings again the next time you watch a Vimeo video. Expiration date: after one year. Name: vuid Wert: pl1046149876.614422590311285072-4 Purpose: This cookie collects information about your actions on web pages that have a Vimeo video embedded. Expiration date: after 2 years Note: These two cookies are always set once you are on a web page with an embedded Vimeo video. When you view the video and click the button to “share” or “like” the video, for example, other cookies are set. These are also third-party cookies such as _ga or _gat_UA-76641-8 from Google Analytics or _fbp from Facebook. Exactly which cookies are set here depends on your interaction with the video. The following list shows a sample of possible cookies that are set when you interact with the Vimeo video: Name: _abexps value: %5B%5D Purpose: This Vimeo cookie helps Vimeo remember the settings you have made. This can be, for example, a preset language, region or username. In general, the cookie stores data about how you use Vimeo. Expiration date: after one year. Name: continuous_play_v3 Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie is a first-party cookie from Vimeo. The cookie collects information about how you use the Vimeo service. For example, the cookie stores when you pause or replay a video. Expiration date: after one year. Name: _ga Wert: GA1.2.1522249635.1578401280311285072-7 Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Google. By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish website visitors. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: _gcl_au Wert: 1.1.770887836.1578401279311285072-3 Purpose: This third-party cookie from Google AdSense is used to improve the efficiency of ads on websites. Expiration date: after 3 months. Name: _fbp Wert: fb.1.1578401280585.310434968 Purpose: This is a Facebook cookie. This cookie is used to display ads or advertising products from Facebook or other advertisers. Expiration date: after 3 months. Vimeo uses this data, among other things, to improve its own service, to communicate with you and to set its own targeted advertising measures. Vimeo emphasizes on its website that only first-party cookies (i.e. cookies from Vimeo itself) are used for embedded videos, as long as you do not interact with the video.

How long is the data stored and where?

Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains in the state of New York (USA). However, the services are offered worldwide. In doing so, the company uses computer systems, databases and servers in the USA and also in other countries. Your data can therefore also be stored and processed on servers in America. The data remains stored by Vimeo until the company no longer has an economic reason for storing it. Then the data is deleted or anonymized.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains, New York State, USA. However, the services are offered worldwide. In doing so, the company uses computer systems, databases and servers in the USA and also in other countries. Your data can therefore also be stored and processed on servers in America. The data remains stored by Vimeo until the company no longer has an economic reason for storing it. Then the data is deleted or anonymized.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

. You always have the option to manage cookies in your browser according to your preferences. For example, if you do not want Vimeo to set cookies and thus collect information about you, you can always delete or disable cookies in your browser settings. Depending on your browser, this works a bit differently. Please note that after disabling/deleting cookies, various features may no longer be available to the full extent. The following instructions show how to manage or delete cookies in your browser. Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage the cookies you use in the settings at Vimeo. Please note that when you use this tool, data about you may be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by embedded Vimeo elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. Vimeo also sets cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider. You can learn more about Vimeo’s use of cookies at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy, and read information about Vimeo’s privacy policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

YouTube Privacy Policy

YouTube privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Processed data: Data such as contact details, user behavior data, information about your device and your IP address may be stored. You can find more details about this further down in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: Data is generally stored for as long as it is necessary for the purpose of the service ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is YouTube?

We have included YouTube videos on our website. So we can present you interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you call up a page on our website that has a YouTube video embedded, your browser automatically connects to the YouTube or Google servers. In the process, various data are transferred (depending on the settings). Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all data processing in the European area. In the following, we would like to explain in more detail which data is processed, why we have integrated YouTube videos and how you can manage or delete your data. On YouTube, users can watch, rate, comment on and upload videos themselves free of charge. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels in the world. In order for us to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code snippet that we have included on our site.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?

YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We are committed to providing you with the best possible user experience on our website. And of course, interesting videos can’t be missing from that. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with other helpful content in addition to our text and images. In addition, the embedded videos make our website easier to find on the Google search engine. Also, when we run ads through Google Ads, Google – thanks to the collected data – can really only show these ads to people who are interested in what we have to offer.

What data is stored by YouTube?

As soon as you visit one of our pages that has a YouTube video embedded, YouTube sets at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually assign your interactions on our website to your profile using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution or your internet provider. Other data may include contact details, any ratings, sharing content via social media or adding to your favorites on YouTube. If you are not logged into a Google account or a YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier associated with your device, browser, or app. For example, your preferred language setting is retained. But a lot of interaction data can’t be stored because fewer cookies are set. In the following list, we show cookies that were set in a test in the browser. On the one hand, we show cookies that are set without a logged-in YouTube account. On the other hand, we show cookies that are set with a logged-in account. The list cannot claim to be complete, because user data always depends on the interactions on YouTube. Name: YSC Wert: b9-CV6ojI5Y311285072-1 Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video watched. Expiration date: after session end. Name: PREF Wert: f1=50000000 Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google gets statistics about how you use YouTube videos on our website via PREF. Expiration date: after 8 months. Name: GPS Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location. Expiration date: after 30 minutes. Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Value: 95Chz8bagyU Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user’s bandwidth on our web pages (with embedded YouTube video). Expiration date: after 8 months. Other cookies set when you are logged in with your YouTube account: Name: APISID Wert: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7311285072- Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile about your interests. Used the data for personalized advertisements. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: CONSENT Wert: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0 Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use different services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks. Expiration date: after 19 years. Name: HSID Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile about your interests. This data helps to display personalized advertising. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: LOGIN_INFO Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL… Purpose: This cookie stores information about your login details. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: SAPISID Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile about your interests. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: SID Wert: oQfNKjAsI311285072- Purpose: This cookie stores your Google account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form. Expiration date: after 2 years. Name: SIDCC Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and what advertisements you may have seen before visiting our site. Expiration date: after 3 months.

How long and where is the data stored?

The data that YouTube receives from you and processes are stored on Google servers. Most of these servers are located in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can see exactly where Google’s data centers are located. Your data is spread across the servers. Thus, the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against manipulation. Google stores the collected data for different lengths of time. Some data you can delete at any time, others are automatically deleted after a limited time, and still others are stored by Google for a longer period of time. Some data (such as items from “My Activity”, photos or documents, products) stored in your Google Account will remain stored until you delete it. Even if you are not signed into a Google account, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser or app.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Basically, you can delete data in Google Account manually. With the automatic deletion feature of location and activity data introduced in 2019, information will be stored depending on your decision – either 3 or 18 months and then deleted. Whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable cookies from Google. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies. If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a common privacy policy. If you want to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend reading the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Legal basis

If you have consented that data from you can be processed and stored by embedded YouTube elements, this consent is considered the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In principle, your data will also be stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. YouTube also sets cookies in your browser to store data. That is why we recommend that you read our privacy text about cookies carefully and view the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider.

Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy

On our website, we use Google Fonts from the company Google Inc. The company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for the European region. We have embedded the Google fonts locally, i.e. on our web server – not on Google’s servers. As a result, there is no connection to Google servers and thus no data transfer or storage.

What are Google Fonts?

In the past, Google Fonts was also called Google Web Fonts. This is an interactive directory of over 800 fonts that Google provides for free. With Google Fonts, you could use fonts without uploading them to your own server. But to prevent any information transfer to Google servers in this regard, we have downloaded the fonts to our server. In this way, we act in a privacy compliant manner and do not send any data to Google Fonts.

jQuery CDN Privacy Policy

In order to deliver our website or all our individual subpages (web pages) to you quickly and smoothly on different devices, we use services of jQuery CDN of the company jQuery Foundation. jQuery is distributed via the Content Delivery Network (CDN) of the American software company StackPath (LCC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA). Through this service, personal data of you is stored, managed and processed. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet. Through this network, content, especially very large files, can be delivered quickly even during large peak loads. jQuery uses JavaScript libraries to deliver our website content quickly. To do this, a CDN server loads the necessary files. As soon as a connection to the CDN server is established, your IP address is captured and stored. This only happens if this data is not already stored in your browser by a past website visit. StackPath’s privacy policy explicitly mentions that StackPath uses aggregated and anonymized data from various services (such as jQuery) to enhance security and for its own services. However, this data does not identify you as a person.

Right of objection

You always have the right to information, correction and deletion of your personal data. If you have any questions, you can also contact responsible persons of jQuery at any time. If you do not want data transmission to occur, you always also have the option to install Java script blockers such as ghostery.com or noscript.net. However, you can also simply disable the execution of JavaScript codes in your browser. If you choose to disable JavaScript codes, the functions you are used to will also change. For example, a website will no longer load as quickly. Please note that when using this tool, data from you may also be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented to jQuery CDN being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur when collected by jQuery CDN. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest in using jQuery CDN to optimize our online service and make it more secure. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). For more information on StackPath’s privacy policy, please visit https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/ and on jQuery, please visit https://openjsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/84/2019/11/OpenJS-Foundation-Privacy-Policy-2019-11-15.pdf.

jsdelivr.com-CDN Privacy Policy

To enable us to deliver our individual web pages to you quickly and flawlessly on all different devices, we use the open source services of jsdelivr.com from the Polish software company ProspectOne, Królewska 65A/1, 30-081, Kraków, Poland. This is a content delivery network (CDN). This is a network of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet. This allows content, especially large files, to be delivered quickly and optimally, even during large load peaks. jsDelivr is built to download JavaScript libraries hosted on npm and Github servers. However, WordPress plugins can also be loaded, as long as they are hosted on WordPress.org. In order to provide this service, your browser may send personal data to jsdelivr.com. jsDelivr may thus collect and store user data such as IP address, browser type, browser version, which web page is loaded or time and date of page visit. The privacy policy of jsdelivr.com explicitly states that the company does not use cookies or other tracking services.

Right of objection

You always have the right to information, correction and deletion of your personal data. If you have any questions, you can also contact responsible persons of jsdelivr.com-CDN at any time. If you want to prevent this data transfer, you can install a JavaScript blocker (see, for example, https://noscript.net/). However, please note that this will prevent the website from providing the usual service (such as fast loading speed).

Legal basis

If you have consented to jsdelivr.com-CDN being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur during the collection by jsdelivr.com-CDN. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest to use jsdelivr.com-CDN to optimize our online service and make it more secure. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). For more information on data processing by the software service jsDelivr, please see the company’s privacy policy at https://www.jsdelivr.com/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net.

Google Maps Privacy Policy

Google Maps privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: Visitors to the website 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance 📓 Processed data: Data such as search terms entered, your IP address and also latitude or longitude coordinates. You can find more details about this further down in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage duration: depending on the stored data. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Google Maps?

We use on our website Google Maps of the company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Maps allows us to better show you locations and thus adapt our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transmitted to Google and stored on Google servers. Here we will now go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can prevent this. Google Maps is an internet map service provided by the company Google. With Google Maps, you can search for exact locations of cities, sights, accommodations or businesses online via a PC, tablet or app. If companies are represented on Google My Business, other information about the company is displayed in addition to the location. To show how to get there, map sections of a location can be embedded in a website using HTML code. Google Maps shows the earth’s surface as a street map or as an aerial or satellite image. Thanks to the Street View images and the high-quality satellite images, very accurate representations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

All of our efforts on this site are aimed at providing you with a useful and meaningful time on our website. By integrating Google Maps, we can provide you with the most important information about various locations. You can see at a glance where we are located. The directions always show you the best or fastest way to us. You can get the directions for routes by car, by public transport, on foot or by bike. For us, providing Google Maps is part of our customer service.

What data is stored by Google Maps?

In order for Google Maps to fully provide their service, the company must collect and store data from you. This includes, among other things, the search terms you entered, your IP address and also the latitude or longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the start address entered is also stored. However, this data storage happens on the websites of Google Maps. We can only inform you about this, but have no influence. Since we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google sets at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behavior. Google uses this data primarily to optimize its own services and to provide individual, personalized advertising for you. The following cookie is set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps: Name: NID Wert: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ311285072-5 Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize ads to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google “remembers” your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way, you will always get tailored ads. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal preferences for advertising purposes. Expiration date: after 6 months. Note: We can not guarantee completeness in the details of the stored data. Especially when using cookies, changes can never be excluded. To identify the cookie NID, a separate test page was created, where only Google Maps was included.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google servers are located in data centers around the world. However, most of the servers are located in America. For this reason, your data is also increasingly stored in the USA. You can read exactly where Google data centers are located here: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de. Google distributes the data on different data carriers. This allows the data to be retrieved more quickly and provides better protection against any attempts to tamper with it. Each data center also has special emergency programs. For example, if there are problems with Google’s hardware or a natural disaster cripples the servers, the data will pretty much remain protected anyway. Google stores some data for a set period of time. For other data, Google only offers the option to delete it manually. Furthermore, the company also anonymizes information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 and18 months, respectively.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

With the automatic location and activity data deletion feature introduced in 2019, location and web/app activity information will be stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted. In addition, you can also manually delete this data from your history at any time via your Google account. If you want to completely prevent your location tracking, you need to pause the “Web and App Activity” section in Google Account. Click “Data and personalization” and then click the “Activity setting” option. Here you can turn the activities on or off. In your browser, you can further disable, delete or manage individual cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this always works slightly differently. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari. Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies. If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. Please note that when using this tool, data from you may also be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented to Google Maps being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur during the collection by Google Maps. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest to use Google Maps to optimize our online service. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). If you want to learn more about Google’s data processing, we recommend the company’s in-house privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

OpenStreetMap Privacy Policy

OpenStreetMap privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: Visitors to the website 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance 📓 Processed data: Data such as IP address, browser information, your operating system, content of the request, limited location and usage data. More details can be found below in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: the IP address is deleted after 180 days. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is OpenStreetMap?

We have embedded map sections of the online mapping tool “OpenStreetMap” on our website. This is a so-called open source mapping, which we can access via an API (interface). This function is offered by OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom. By using this map function, your IP address will be forwarded to OpenStreetMap. This privacy policy explains why we use functions of the OpenStreetMap tool, where which data is stored and how you can prevent this data storage. The OpenStreetMap project was launched in 2004. The goal of the project is and was to create a free map of the world. Users collect data worldwide about buildings, forests, rivers and roads. Over the years, an extensive digital world map has been created by users themselves. Of course, the map, is not complete, but in most regions equipped with a lot of data.

Why do we use OpenStreetMap on our website?

First and foremost, our website should be helpful to you. And from our point of view, it is always helpful when you can find information quickly and easily. On the one hand, this is of course about our services and products, but on the other hand, we also want to provide you with other helpful information. That’s why we also use the OpenStreetMap map service. Because this way we can show you, for example, exactly how to find our company. The map will show you the best way to us and your journey will be a breeze.

What data is stored by OpenStreetMap?

When you visit one of our websites that offers OpenStreetMap, user data is transmitted to the service and stored there. OpenStreetMap collects, for example, information about your interactions with the digital map, your IP address, data about your browser, device type, operating system and on what day and time you used the service. Tracking software is also used to record user interactions for this purpose. The company specifies the analysis tool “Piwik” here in its own privacy policy. The collected data is subsequently accessible to the corresponding working groups of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. According to the company, personal data is not passed on to other persons or companies unless this is legally necessary. The third-party provider Piwik does store your IP address, but in a truncated form. The following cookie may be set in your browser when you interact with OpenStreetMap on our website: name: _osm_location Wert: 9.63312%7C52.41500%7C17%7CM Purpose: The cookie is needed to unlock OpenStreetMap content. Expiration date: after 10 years. If you want to view the full-screen map, you will be linked to the OpenStreetMap website. There, among other things, the following cookies can be stored in your browser: Name: _osm_totp_token Wert: 148253311285072-2 Purpose: This cookie is used to ensure the operation of the map section. Expiration date: after one hour. Name: _osm_session Wert: 1d9bfa122e0259d5f6db4cb8ef653a1c Purpose: The cookie can be used to store session information (i.e. user behavior). Expiration date: after session end. Name: _pk_id.1.cf09 Wert: 4a5.1593684142.2.1593688396.1593688396311285072-9 Purpose: This cookie is set by Piwik to store or measure user data such as click behavior. Expiration date: after one year.

How long and where will the data be stored?

The API servers, databases, and ancillary services servers are currently located in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and the Netherlands. Your IP address and user information, which is stored in an abbreviated form by the Piwik web analytics tool, is deleted after 180 days.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access your personal data and object to its use and processing at any time. You can manage, delete or deactivate cookies that may be set by OpenStreetMap in your browser at any time. However, this will prevent the service from working to its full extent. For each browser, managing, deleting or disabling cookies works slightly differently. Below you will find links to instructions for the most popular browsers: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome. Safari: Manage Cookies and Website Data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: delete and manage cookies. Microsoft Edge: Deleting and Managing Cookies

Legal basis

If you have consented to OpenStreetMap being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur during the collection by OpenStreetMap. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest to use OpenStreetMap to optimize our online service. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). If you want to learn more about OpenStreetMap’s data processing, we recommend reading the company’s privacy policy at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

Google Fonts Privacy Policy

Google Fonts Privacy Policy Summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: optimization of our service performance 📓 Data Processed: Data such as IP address and CSS and font requests. More details can be found below in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: Font files are stored by Google for one year. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What are Google Fonts?

On our website, we use Google Fonts. These are the “Google Fonts” of the company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. For the use of Google Fonts you do not have to log in or provide a password. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, the requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google account, you do not need to worry that your Google account information, while using Google Fonts, will be transmitted to Google. Google records the usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely. We will take a detailed look at exactly what the data storage looks like. Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google make available to their users for free. Many of these fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, while others are released under the Apache license. Both are free software licenses.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

Google Fonts allows us to use fonts on our own website, and not have to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component in keeping the quality of our website high. All Google Fonts are automatically optimized for the web and this saves data volume and is a big advantage especially for mobile use. When you visit our site, the low file size ensures a fast loading time. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different image synthesis systems (rendering) in different browsers, operating systems and mobile devices can lead to errors. Such errors can sometimes visually distort texts or entire web pages. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all major browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). So, we use the Google Fonts so that we can display our entire online service as beautifully and consistently as possible.

What data is stored by Google?

When you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded via a Google server. Through this external call, data is transmitted to the Google servers. In this way, Google also recognizes that you or your IP address is visiting our website. The Google Fonts API is designed to reduce the use, storage, and collection of end-user data to what is necessary for proper font delivery. By the way, API stands for “Application Programming Interface” and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software field. Google Fonts stores CSS and font requests securely at Google and is therefore protected. Through the collected usage figures, Google can determine how well the individual fonts are received. Google publishes the results on internal analysis pages, such as Google Analytics. In addition, Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites are using Google fonts. This data is published to the Google Fonts BigQuery database. Entrepreneurs and developers use Google’s BigQuery web service to be able to examine and move large amounts of data. However, it is still important to remember that each Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution, and browser name to Google’s servers. Whether this data is also stored is not clearly ascertainable or is not clearly communicated by Google.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google stores requests for CSS assets for one day on its servers, which are mainly located outside the EU. This allows us to use fonts with the help of a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a format template that can be used to easily and quickly change the design or font of a website, for example. The font files are stored by Google for one year. Google thus pursues the goal of fundamentally improving the loading time of web pages. If millions of web pages refer to the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and immediately reappear on all other web pages visited later. Sometimes Google updates font files to reduce file size, increase language coverage, and improve design.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Those data that Google stores for a day or a year can not be easily deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is called up. To be able to delete this data prematurely, you must contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=311285072. Data storage you prevent in this case only if you do not visit our site. Unlike other web fonts, Google allows us unlimited access to all fonts. So we can access an unlimited sea of fonts and get the most out of them for our website. You can find out more about Google Fonts and other issues at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=311285072. There, Google addresses privacy-related matters, but really detailed information about data storage is not included. It is relatively difficult to get really precise information from Google about stored data.

Legal basis

If you have consented to Google Fonts being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data, as may occur during the collection by Google Fonts. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest to use Google Font to optimize our online service. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). Which data is basically collected by Google and what this data is used for, you can also read on https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Font Awesome Privacy Policy

Font Awesome privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: visitors to the website. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance. 📓 Data processed: such as IP address and and which icon files are loaded. More details can be found below in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: files in identifiable form are stored for a few weeks. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is Font Awesome?

We use Font Awesome by the American company Fonticons (307 S. Main St., Suite 202, Bentonville, AR 72712, USA) on our website. When you visit one of our web pages, the Font Awesome web font (specifically icons) is loaded via the Font Awesome Content Delivery Network (CDN). This way, the texts or fonts and icons are displayed appropriately on each device. In this privacy statement, we go into more detail about the data storage and data processing by this service. Icons play an increasingly important role for websites. Font Awesome is a web font designed specifically for web designers and web developers. With Font Awesome, for example, icons can be scaled and colored as desired using the CSS stylesheet language. In this way, they replace old image icons. Font Awesome CDN is the easiest way to upload the icons or fonts to your website. For this, we just had to add a small line of code to our website.

Why do we use Font Awesome on our website?

Font Awesome allows content on our website to be presented in a better way. This makes it easier for you to navigate our website and grasp the content. Icons can even be used to replace whole words sometimes and save space. That’s especially handy when we optimize content specifically for smartphones. These icons are inserted as HMTL code instead of an image. This allows us to edit the icons with CSS exactly as we want. At the same time, we also improve our loading speed with Font Awesome because it’s only HTML elements and not icon images. All these advantages help us to make the website even clearer, fresher and faster for you.

What data is stored by Font Awesome?

Font Awesome Content Delivery Network (CDN) is used to load icons and symbols. CDNs are networks of servers that are distributed around the world, making it possible to quickly load files from nearby. Thus, as soon as you access one of our pages, the corresponding icons are also provided by Font Awesome. In order for the web fonts to load, your browser must connect to the servers of Fonticons, Inc. In the process, your IP address is recognized. Font Awesome also collects data about which icon files are downloaded and when. Furthermore, technical data such as your browser version, screen resolution or the time of the page accessed is also transmitted. For the following reasons, this data is collected and stored:

• • to optimize content delivery networks

• • to detect and fix technical errors

• • to protect CDNs from misuse and attacks
  • to be able to charge Font Awesome Pro customers

• • to know the popularity of icons

• • to know what computer and software you are using

If your browser does not allow web fonts, a default font from your PC will be used automatically. To the best of our current knowledge, no cookies are set. We are in contact with Font Awesome’s privacy department and will let you know as soon as we learn more.

How long is the data stored and where?

Font Awesome stores data about Content Delivery Network usage on servers also located in the United States of America. However, the CDN servers are located worldwide and store user data where you are. In identifiable form, the data is usually stored for only a few weeks. Aggregated statistics about usage from the CDNs may be stored longer. Personal data is not included here.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data from being stored?

Font Awesome does not, to the best of our current knowledge, store any personally identifiable information through the Content Delivery Networks. Unfortunately, if you do not want data to be stored about the icons you use, you will not be able to visit our website. If your browser does not allow web fonts, no data will be transmitted or stored. In this case, your computer’s default font will simply be used.

Legal basis

If you have consented to Font Awesome being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur during the collection by Font Awesome. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest to use Font Awesome to optimize our online service. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). If you want to learn more about Font Awesome and how they handle data, we encourage you to read the Privacy Policy at https://fontawesome.com/privacy and the Help page at https://fontawesome.com/help.

Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy

Google reCAPTCHA privacy policy summary 👥 Data subjects: website visitors. 🤝 Purpose: Optimization of our service performance and protection against cyber attacks. 📓 Data processed: Data such as IP address, browser information, your operating system, limited location and usage data. More details can be found below in this privacy policy. 📅 Storage period: depending on the stored data. ⚖️ Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests)

What is reCAPTCHA?

Our primary goal is to make our website as secure and safe as possible for you and for us. To ensure this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from the company Google Inc. For the European region, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With reCAPTCHA we can determine whether you are really a flesh and blood human being and not a robot or other spam software. By spam we mean any unsolicited information sent to us electronically. With the classic CAPTCHAS, you usually had to solve text or image puzzles to verify the information. With reCAPTCHA from Google, we usually don’t have to bother you with such puzzles. Here, in most cases, it is enough to simply check a box to confirm that you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version, you don’t even have to set a checkmark anymore. How this works exactly and especially which data is used for this, you will learn in the course of this privacy policy. reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that protects websites from spam software and abuse by non-human visitors. The most common use of this service is when you fill out forms on the Internet. A captcha service is a kind of automatic Turing test, designed to ensure that an action on the Internet is performed by a human and not by a bot. In the classic Turing test (named after computer scientist Alan Turing), a human determines the distinction between a bot and a human. In captchas, the computer or a software program also does this. Classic captchas work with small tasks that are easy for humans to solve, but present significant difficulties for machines. With reCAPTCHA, you no longer have to actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk techniques to distinguish humans from bots. Here, you only need to check the “I am not a robot” text box, or with Invisible reCAPTCHA, even that is no longer necessary. With reCAPTCHA, a JavaScript element is included in the source code and then the tool runs in the background and analyzes your user behavior. From these user actions, the software calculates a so-called captcha score. Google uses this score to calculate even before the captcha is entered how likely you are to be a human. reCAPTCHA or captchas in general are always used when bots could manipulate or abuse certain actions (such as registrations, surveys, etc.).

Why do we use reCAPTCHA on our website?

We only want to welcome flesh and blood humans to our site. Bots or spam software of any kind may confidently stay at home. That’s why we pull out all the stops to protect ourselves and provide the best possible user experience for you. For this reason we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google. This way we can be pretty sure that we remain a “bot-free” website. By using reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine whether you are actually human. reCAPTCHA is therefore used to ensure the security of our website and, by extension, your security. For example, without reCAPTCHA, it could happen that a bot registers as many e-mail addresses as possible during registration in order to “spam” forums or blogs with unwanted advertising content. With reCAPTCHA we can avoid such bot attacks.

What data is stored by reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA collects personal data from users to determine whether the actions on our website are really from humans. Thus, the IP address and other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service may be sent to Google. IP addresses are almost always shortened beforehand within the member states of the EU or other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before the data ends up on a server in the USA. The IP address is not combined with other data from Google unless you are logged in with your Google account while using reCAPTCHA. First, the reCAPTCHA algorithm checks whether Google cookies from other Google services (YouTube. Gmail, etc.) are already placed on your browser. Then, reCAPTCHA places an additional cookie on your browser and captures a snapshot of your browser window. The following list of collected browser and user data does not claim to be complete. Rather, they are examples of data that, to our knowledge, are processed by Google.

• • Referrer URL (the address of the page from which the visitor comes)

• • IP address (e.g. 256.123.123.1)
  • Info about the operating system (the software that allows your computer to run. Known operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X or Linux)
  • Cookies (small text files that store data in your browser)

• • Mouse and keyboard behavior (every action you perform with the mouse or keyboard is stored)
  • Date and language settings (which language or date you have preset on your PC will be stored)
  • All JavaScript objects (JavaScript is a programming language that allows websites to adapt to the user. JavaScript objects can collect all kinds of data under one name)
  • Screen resolution (indicates how many pixels the image display consists of)

Indisputably, Google uses and analyzes this data even before you click the “I am not a robot” checkbox. With the Invisible reCAPTCHA version, even the ticking is omitted and the whole recognition process runs in the background. How much and which data Google stores exactly, Google does not tell you in detail. The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: Here we refer to the reCAPTCHA demo version from Google at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo. All of these cookies require a unique identifier for tracking purposes. Here is a list of cookies that Google reCAPTCHA has set on the demo version: Name: IDE Value: WqTUmlnmv_qXyi_DGNPLESKnRNrpgXoy1K-pAZtAkMbHI-311285072-8 Purpose: This cookie is set by the DoubleClick company (also owned by Google) to register and report a user’s actions on the website in dealing with advertisements. Thus, the advertising effectiveness can be measured and appropriate optimization measures can be taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. Expiration date: after one year. Name: 1P_JAR Wert: 2019-5-14-12 Purpose: This cookie collects statistics about website usage and measures conversions. A conversion occurs, for example, when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant ads to users. Furthermore, the cookie can be used to prevent a user from seeing the same ad more than once. Expiration date: after one month. Name: ANID Wert: U7j1v3dZa3112850720xgZFmiqWppRWKOr Purpose: We could not find out much info about this cookie. In Google’s privacy policy, the cookie is mentioned in the context of “advertising cookies” such as “DSID”, “FLC”, “AID”, “TAID”. ANID is stored under domain google.com. Expiration date: after 9 months. Name: CONSENT Wert: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0 Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use different services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users, prevent credential fraud, and protect user data from unauthorized attacks. Expiration date: after 19 years. Name: NID Wert: 0WmuWqy311285072zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize ads to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google “remembers” your most entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way you will always get tailored ads. The cookie contains a unique ID to collect personal settings of the user for advertising purposes. Expiration date: after 6 months. Name: DV Wert: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc311285072-4 Purpose: Once you tick the “I am not a robot” box, this cookie is set. The cookie is used by Google Analytics for personalized advertising. DV collects information in anonymous form and is further used to make user distinctions. Expiration date: after 10 minutes. Note: This enumeration can not claim to be complete, since Google experience shows that the choice of their cookies always also changed.

How long and where will the data be stored?

By inserting reCAPTCHA, data is transferred from you to the Google server. Where exactly this data is stored, Google does not make clear, even after repeated requests. Without having received confirmation from Google, it can be assumed that data such as mouse interaction, time spent on the website or language settings are stored on Google’s European or American servers. The IP address that your browser transmits to Google is generally not merged with other Google data from other Google services. However, if you are logged in to your Google account while using the reCAPTCHA plug-in, the data will be merged. The deviating data protection provisions of Google apply to this.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you do not want any data about you and your behavior to be transmitted to Google, you must, before you visit our website or use the reCAPTCHA software, log out of Google completely and delete all Google cookies. Basically, as soon as you visit our site, the data is automatically transmitted to Google. To delete this data again, you need to contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=311285072. Therefore, by using our website, you consent to the automatic collection, processing and use of data by Google LLC and its agents. Please note that when using this tool, data from you may also be stored and processed outside the EU. Most third countries (including the USA) are not considered secure under current European data protection law. So data to insecure third countries may not simply be transferred, stored and processed there unless there are suitable safeguards (such as EU standard contractual clauses) between us and the non-European service provider.

Legal basis

If you have consented to Google reCAPTCHA being used, the legal basis of the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent), this consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of personal data as it may occur during the collection by Google reCAPTCHA. From our side, there is also a legitimate interest to use Google reCAPTCHA to optimize our online service and make it more secure. The corresponding legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (Legitimate Interests). You can learn a bit more about reCAPTCHA on Google’s web developer page at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/. Google does go into more detail here about the technical development of reCAPTCHA, but you will search in vain for precise information about data storage and privacy-related topics there as well. A good overview of Google’s basic use of data can be found in its in-house privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/. All text is copyrighted. Source: Created with the Privacy Generator by AdSimple.