Privacy Statement
Based on Article 13 of the Federal Constitution and the provisions of federal data protection legislation (Data Protection Act, DPA), everyone has the right to the protection of their privacy, as well as to protection from misuse of their personal details. The Federal Authorities comply with these provisions. Personal data is treated as strictly confidential and is neither passed on nor sold to third parties.
In close cooperation with our hosting provider, we make every effort to protect the databases as well as possible from outside access, data loss, misuse or falsification.
Cookies
When you access our websites, the following data is stored in log files: IP address, date, time, browser request and general information on the operating system and browser. This usage data forms the basis for statistical, impersonal evaluations for the purpose of tracking trends so that we can improve the information on our offer.
To optimize our web presence, we use cookies. These are small text files stored in your computer’s main memory. These cookies are deleted after you close the browser. Other cookies remain on your computer (long-term cookies) and permit its recognition on your next visit. This allows us to improve your access to our site.
You can prevent storage of cookies by choosing a “disable cookies” option in your browser settings. But this can limit the functionality of our Internet offers as a result.
Privacy Statement for the use of Facebook plugins (Like-Button)
We use social plug-ins from facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. The plug-ins can be recognized by way of the Facebook logo or the supplement “Facebook Social Plug-in”. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
If you are logged into Facebook, it can assign the invocation of our page directly to your Facebook account. Even if you are not logged in or don’t have a Facebook account, your browser sends information (e.g. which web pages you have called up, your IP address) which is then stored by Facebook. For details about handling of your personal data by Facebook and your related rights, please refer to the data privacy policy of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not want Facebook to map data collected about you via our Web sites to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our web pages.
Privacy Statement for the use of Twitter
With Twitter and its Retweet functions, we use social plug-ins from Twitter.com, operated by Twitter Inc. 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107. If you use Retweet, the websites visited by you are announced to third parties and associated with your Twitter account.
Details about handling of your data by Twitter as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your personal information can be found in Twitter’s data privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy
Privacy Statement for the use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. text files stored on your computer to enable analysis of website usage by you. Information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. In case of activated IP anonymization on this website, however, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf this website’s owner, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports about website activities, and provide the website’s operator with further services related to website and Internet usage. The IP address sent from your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data by Google.
You can prevent storage of cookies by appropriately setting your browser software; in this case, however, please note that you might not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. By using this website you expressly agree to allow the processing and analysis of the data pertaining to your use of the website by Google as described above for the purposes mentioned above.
Privacy Statement for the use of Google +1
The Google +1 button is a way for you to share information publicly with the world. The Google +1 button helps you and other users to receive personalised content from Google and our partners. The fact that you have clicked +1 for certain content will be recorded by Google, along with information about the page you were viewing when you clicked +1. Your +1s may appear to others as an annotation with your profile name and photo in Google services (such as in search results or on your Google profile) or elsewhere on websites and ads on the Internet.
Google records information about your +1 activity in order to provide you and other users with a better experience on Google services.
In order to use the Google +1 button, you need to have a public Google profile visible to the world, which at a minimum includes the name you chose for the profile. This name will be used across all Google services. and in some cases it may replace another name you have used when sharing content via your Google Account. Google may display your Google profile identity to people who have your e-mail address or other identifying information.
In addition to the uses described above, the information you provide is used subject to Google’s Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/). Google may share aggregate statistics related to users’ +1 activity with the public, its users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or connected sites.