Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

  • Brief overview of data protection

The following is a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data” is understood to be all data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please see our data protection declaration below.

The operator is responsible for the data collection on our website, whose contact details can be found in the imprint.

  • Data collection

The data that you provide us with are recorded. For example, by filling out a registration form or a contact request for one of our seminars. Furthermore, data are automatically collected when you visit this website. This is done automatically by means of our IT systems and relates in particular to technical data such as the Internet browser, the time at which our site is accessed or the operating system.

  • Data usage

The data collected are used in part to enable us to provide our website without errors. Another part is used to create statistics regarding the usage behaviour of our website visitors.

  • Your rights

It is your right at any time to ask for information about the origin, purpose and recipient of your stored personal data and to receive it free of charge. Furthermore, you can demand the deletion, blocking or correction of your data at any time. To do so, please contact us at the address given in the imprint. Of course, you also have the right to complain to the responsible supervisory authority.

  • Third party providers and analyses

Your surfing behaviour can be statistically evaluated when you visit our website. This is done using analysis programs and cookies. This is usually done anonymously, i.e. it cannot be traced back to you. You have the right to object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Please read the corresponding chapter of our data protection declaration, also with regard to your right to object.

  • General notes and mandatory information

Privacy policy

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. All personal data will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When using this website, various personal data may be collected. These are data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains which data is collected and what it is used for, or for what purpose. However, it is expressly pointed out that data transmission on the Internet (including communication via e-mail) can have security gaps, which means that complete protection of data against access by third parties cannot be guaranteed.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the persons concerned have a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which the company has its headquarters. A list of the data protection officers can be found here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data transferability

You have the right to request that data that is processed automatically in accordance with your consent or in fulfilment of a contract be sent to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you wish the data to be transferred directly to another responsible party, this can only be done subject to technical feasibility.

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you can at any time request information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correct, block or delete it. If you have any further questions, please contact our address given in the imprint.

Customer and contract data processing

The collection, processing and use of your personal data is only carried out to the extent that it is necessary for the establishment, content or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. Personal data on the use of our Internet pages (usage data) is only collected, processed and used to the extent necessary to enable users to make use of the service or for billing purposes. The collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

  • Data collection on our website

Cookies

The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your PC and do not contain viruses. They rather serve the user-friendliness and security. They are small text files that are stored on your PC and saved by your browser. The majority of the cookies we use are “session cookies”, which are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies, however, remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them yourself. Thanks to these cookies, your browser can be recognised on your next visit. If this is not desired, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally, or you can activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. We would like to point out that the functionality of the web pages may be restricted if cookies are deactivated.

Cookies required for electronic communication processes or for the provision of certain functions requested by you (e.g. shopping basket function, if available) are stored in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 letter f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of his services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These files are:

  • Browser type/browser version
  • Operating system
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR is the basis for data processing. It permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Registration or contact forms

The contact data and information you provide in inquiries or registrations for seminars and events received by us will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your inquiry or registration and in case of follow-up questions. They will not be passed on to third parties without your consent. The processing of the above-mentioned data is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke this consent at any time by informal notification via email. The legality of the data processing procedures carried out up to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you enter in registration or contact forms remains with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for which it was stored ceases to apply (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

  • Plugins and Tools

Google Web Fonts

This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache for the purpose of displaying texts or fonts correctly. For this purpose, it is necessary that the browser you are using connects to the servers of Google. In this way, Google is informed that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of the online offers provided by us in the sense of a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Your PC uses a standard font if your browser does not support Web Fonts.

For more information, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

Google Maps

This page the map service Google Maps via an API. Provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The use of these functions of Google Maps requires the storage of your IP address. As a rule, this information is transferred and stored on a Google server in the USA. This data transfer is beyond the control of the provider of this website.

If used, the use of Google Maps is in the interest of a user-friendly presentation of our online offers and an easy findability of the places indicated by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Further information can be found in the Google data protection declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

 

YouTube

For any plug-ins used by our website from the YouTube page operated by Google: The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a site equipped with YouTube plugin, a connection to the servers of YouTube is established. When this happens, the YouTube server is notified which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. If not desired, you can log out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used in the interest of a user-friendly and attractive presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Further information on the handling of user data can be found in the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.