Data privacy

As a website operator, we take the protection of all personal data very seriously. All personal information is treated confidentially and in accordance with the legal requirements, as explained in this privacy policy. Our website can, of course, be used without you providing any personal data. However, if at any time personal data such as name, address or e-mail is requested, this will be done on a voluntary basis. Never will data collected by us be passed on to third parties without your specific permission. Data transmission on the Internet, such as via e-mail, can always have security gaps. The complete protection of data is not possible on the Internet.

Information, deletion, blocking

At any time, you can obtain information about the personal data, its origin and recipients and the benefits of data processing and request free of charge a correction, blocking or deletion of this data. Please use the contact channels indicated in the imprint for this purpose. We are also available at any time for further questions on this topic.

Server log files

The site provider automatically collects and stores data in server log files that are transmitted to us by your browser. This data includes browser type/browser version, operating system of the computer, referrer URL, host name of the accessing computer, time of the server request. These data are not personal. This data is not merged with other data sources. If we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use, we reserve the right to check this data retrospectively.

Cookies

Many Internet sites use cookies. Cookies are harmless to your computer and virus-free. They are used to make Internet services friendlier, more effective and safer for visitors to a website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and used by your browser. We usually use so-called session cookies. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site. Other cookies remain stored on your computer until you delete them. These cookies help to recognize your computer on your next visit. You can use your browser settings to specify that you are to be informed about new cookies and that you must accept cookies in each case. Likewise, you can exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally or activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Youtube

Our site uses the provider YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA for the integration of videos. Normally, when you visit a page with embedded videos, your IP address is sent to YouTube and cookies are installed on your computer. However, we have integrated our YouTube videos with the extended data protection mode (in this case, YouTube still contacts Google's DoubleClick service, but according to Google's data protection declaration, personal data is not evaluated). As a result, YouTube no longer stores any information about the visitors unless they watch the video. If you click on the video, your IP address will be transmitted to YouTube and YouTube will know that you have viewed the video. If you are logged into YouTube, this information will also be assigned to your user account (you can prevent this by logging out of YouTube before viewing the video).

We have no knowledge of the possible collection and use of your data by YouTube and have no influence over it. For more information, see YouTube's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Also read the Youtube Terms of Service at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms. In addition, we refer to our general presentation in this data protection declaration for the general handling and deactivation of cookies. We allow third-partys to serve content, including advertisements. These third-partys may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our services and on our services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other content. We do not control these third-partys' tracking technologies or how they may be used.

Google Fonts (local hosting)

This site uses so-called Google Fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. There is no connection to Google servers. You can find more information about Google Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Font Awesome (local hosting)

This page uses Font Awesome for the uniform display of fonts. Font Awesome is installed locally. There is no connection to Fonticons, Inc. servers. For more information about Font Awesome, see the Font Awesome Privacy Policy at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

Changes of the privacy policy

Our privacy policy may be amended at irregular intervals to comply with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services, e.g. when new offers are added. The new privacy policy will then automatically apply to your next visit.

Cloudflare

What is Cloudflare?

We use Cloudflare from Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) to make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare uses cookies and processes user data. Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides a content delivery network and various security services. These services are between the user and our hosting provider. What all this means exactly, we will try to explain in more detail below. A Content Delivery Network (CDN), as provided by Cloudflare, is nothing other than a network of connected servers. Cloudflare has all over the world such servers distributed to bring web pages faster to your screen. Quite simply put, Cloudflare makes copies of our website and places them on their own servers. Now when you visit our website, a system of load sharing ensures that most parts of our website are served by that server will be delivered, which can display our website to you the fastest. The distance of data transfers to your browser is significantly shortened by a CDN. Thus the content of our website through Cloudflare is not only delivered from our hosting Server but from servers from all over the world. It will be particularly helpful for users from abroad, since the site can be delivered from a server nearby. In addition to the fast delivery of websites Cloudflare also offers various security services, such as DDoS protection or the web application Firewall on.

Why do we use Cloudflare on our website?

Of course we want to offer you the best possible service with our website. Cloudflare helps us make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare offers us both web optimization and security services, such as DDoS protection and web firewall. This also includes a reverse proxy and the content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare blocks threats and limits abusive bots and crawlers that waste our bandwidth and server resources. By storing our website on local data centers and blocking spam software, Cloudflare allows us to reduce our bandwidth usage by approximately 60%. Delivering content from a local data center and doing some web optimization there reduces the average web page load time by about half. According to Cloudflare, the "I'm Under Attack Mode" setting can mitigate further attacks by displaying a JavaScript arithmetic problem that must be solved before a user can access a website. Overall, this makes our website significantly more powerful and less vulnerable for spam or other attacks.

What data does Cloudflare process?

Cloudflare generally only forwards data that is controlled by website operators. The content is therefore not determined by Cloudflare, but always by the website operator himself. In addition, Cloudflare may collect certain information about the use of our website and process data that is sent by us or for which Cloudflare has received corresponding instructions. In most cases, Cloudflare receives data such as IP address, contact and log info, security fingerprints, and website performance data. For example, log data helps Cloudflare identify new threats. In this way, Cloudflare can guarantee a high level of security protection for our website. Cloudflare processes this data as part of the Services in compliance with applicable laws. Of course, this also includes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Cloudflare also works with third parties. These may only process personal data under the direction of Cloudflare and in accordance with the data protection guidelines and other confidentiality and security measures. Cloudflare does not pass on any personal data without our explicit consent.

How long and where is the data stored?

Cloudflare primarily stores your information in the United States and the European Economic Area. Cloudflare may transmit and access the information described above from around the world. In general, Cloudflare retains user-level data for domains in Free, Pro, and Business versions for less than 24 hours. For Enterprise Domains that have Cloudflare Logs (formerly Enterprise LogShare or ELS) enabled, data can be stored for up to 7 days. However, if IP addresses trigger security warnings at Cloudflare, there may be exceptions to the storage periods listed above.

How can I delete my data or data storage impede?

Cloudflare only keeps data logs for as long as necessary and this data is deleted again within 24 hours in most cases. Cloudflare also does not store any personal data, such as your IP address. However, there is information that Cloudflare stores indefinitely as part of its permanent logs in order to improve the overall performance of Cloudflare Resolver and to detect any security risks. You can read exactly which permanent logs are stored at https://www.cloudflare.com/application/privacypolicy/. All data that Cloudflare collects (temporarily or permanently) is cleaned of all personally identifiable information. All persistent logs are also anonymized by Cloudflare.Cloudflare states in their privacy policy that they are not responsible for the content they receive. For example, if you ask Cloudflare whether they can update or delete your content, Cloudflare always refers to us as the website operator. You can also completely prevent Cloudflare from collecting and processing your data by disabling the execution of script code in your browser or by integrating a script blocker in your browser.

Legal basis

If you have agreed that Cloudflare may be used, the legal basis for the corresponding data processing is this consent. According to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent), this consent represents the legal basis for the processing of personal data, as it may occur when Cloudflare collects it. We also have a legitimate interest in using Cloudflare to optimize our online service and make it more secure. The corresponding legal basis for this is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interests). However, we only use Cloudflare if you have given your consent. Cloudflare also processes data in the USA, among other places. We would like to point out that, according to the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for data transfer to the USA. This can be associated with various risks to the legality and security of data processing. Cloudflare uses standard contractual clauses approved by the EU Commission (= Art. 46. Para. 2 and 3 GDPR). These clauses oblige Cloudflare to comply with the EU data protection level when processing relevant data outside of the EU. These clauses are based on an implementation decision of the EU Commission. You can find the decision and the clauses here: https://germany.representation.ec.europa.eu/index_de. More information on data protection at Cloudflare can be found at https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/.

Afiliate

Some of our websites contain links to products and services offered by third party websites. If you click on those links we will use data collected about your activity on our site to direct you to the third party site. We and the third party may collect data to show us that you have clicked on the link and whether you purchased any products and services. We may receive a commission from the third party if you purchase goods and services from them through our referral link.

Youtube

We have no knowledge of the possible collection and use of your data by YouTube and have no influence over it. By visiting our site, you are aggreeing to the Youtube TOS. For more information, read the Youtube Terms of Service at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms