Privacy Policy

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

1.3 The controller has appointed a data protection officer, who can be reached as follows:

2.1 During purely informative use of our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect such data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you call up our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website
• Date and time at the moment of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you reached the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if applicable, in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. No transfer or other use of the data takes place. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https://" and the lock icon in your browser line.

For hosting our website and displaying the page contents, we use a provider who performs their services themselves or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers within the European Union.

All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.

We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized transfer to third parties.

In order to make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e. small text files stored on your terminal device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), others remain longer on your terminal device and enable page settings to be saved (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the cookie settings overview of your web browser.

Insofar as personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent granted, or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.

Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is processed – solely for the purpose of handling and answering your request and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally resolved and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

In accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, personal data continues to be collected and processed to the extent necessary if you provide it to us when opening a customer account. The data required for opening an account can be found in the input mask of the corresponding form on our website.

Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be requested by sending a message to the controller's address mentioned above. After deleting your customer account, your data will be deleted, provided that all contracts concluded through it have been fully processed, no statutory retention periods stand in the way, and there is no legitimate interest on our part in continuing to store it.

Cookie Consent Tool

This website uses a so-called "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users when they call up the page in the form of an interactive user interface, on which consents for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be granted by ticking the box. By using the tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user grants corresponding consent by ticking the box. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user's terminal device if consent has been granted.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed in this process.

If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, allocating, or logging cookie settings, this is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.

Another legal basis for processing is also Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

Where necessary, we have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized transfer to third parties.

Further information about the operator and settings options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if relevant – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax retention periods).

When processing personal data on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the data concerned is stored until you withdraw your consent.

If there are statutory retention periods for data processed within the scope of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data is routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in continuing to store it.

When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration about specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.