If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

On our site we offer you the possibility to contact us by e-mail and/or via a contact form. In this case, the information provided by the user will be stored for the purpose of processing his contact. The data will not be passed on to third parties. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of this site is also not carried out.

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

- you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO

- the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f DSGVO is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,

- in the event that there is a legal obligation to pass on the data pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c DSGVO, and

- this is legally permissible and, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO, required for the processing of contractual relationships with you.

Use of google-analytics with anonymization function

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, in the following "Google" on our site. Google-Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and thus enable an analysis of your use of the website.

The information generated by these cookies, e.g. time, place and frequency of your website visit including your IP address, is sent to
Google in the USA and stored there. We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization function on our website. In this case, your IP address is already shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thus made anonymous.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

Google will, according to its own information, under no circumstances connect your IP address with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.

Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation option for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over which data is collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information about your website visit will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services that we may use. For more information about the deactivation option provided by Google and how to activate this option, please click on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

We use on our site the "+1" button of the provider Google+ of the company Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google".

Each time you access our website that is equipped with such a "+1" component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding display of the component from Google. This process informs Google about which specific page of our website is currently being visited.

According to the information provided by Google, a further evaluation of your visit will not be carried out if you are not logged in to your Google account.

If you visit our site and are logged in to Google while doing so, Google may collect information about your Google account, the website you refer to, your IP address and other browser-related information when you click the "+1″ button.

This way your "+1" recommendation can be saved and made publicly available. Your Google "+1" recommendation can then be displayed in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google Account, or in other places, such as on websites and advertisements on the Internet, together with your account name and, if applicable, your Google photo. Furthermore, Google may link your visit to our site to your data stored at Google. Google also records this information to help us improve the Google services.

Therefore, if you wish to prevent the above-mentioned collection by Google as far as possible, you must log out of your Google Account before visiting our website.

Google's data protection information about the "+1" button with all further information about the collection, disclosure and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard and your profile setting options can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy

We use the Instagram service on our website. Instagram is a service provided by Instagram Inc. Through the embedded "Insta" button on our site, Instagram receives the information that you have accessed the appropriate page of our website. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can associate this visit to our site with your Instagram account and thus link the data. The data transmitted by clicking the "Insta" button is stored by Instagram. The purpose and scope of data collection, processing and use, and your rights and privacy preferences are explained in the Instagram Privacy Policy, which is available at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388.

To prevent Instagram from associating your visit to our site with your Instagram account, you must log out of your Instagram account before visiting our site.

We use social plug-ins from the social networks Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Vimeo on our website on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO in order to make ourselves better known. The underlying advertising purpose is to be considered a legitimate interest within the meaning of the DSGVO. The responsibility for data protection-compliant operation must be guaranteed by their respective providers.

We use so-called cookies on our site to recognize multiple use of our services by the same user/internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser places and saves on your computer. They serve to optimize our internet presence and our offers. These are mostly so-called "session cookies", which are deleted after the end of your visit.

However, some of these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you again. This recognition is based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offers and make it easier for you to access our site.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.

Up-to-dateness and amendment of this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is based on the requirements of the basic data protection regulation applicable from May 2018, as well as the German Information and Data Protection Act (IDG). It is updated on an ongoing basis.