Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information
is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our
privacy policy found below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the website’s
required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?

Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such
as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as
you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection
at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using
the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also,
of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

Analytics and third-party tools

When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics.
The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object
to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential
and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be
personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for
what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches.
Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

Notice concerning the party responsible for this website

The party responsible for processing data on this website is given in the legal notice of this website.

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of
processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future
effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be
legally processed.

Information, blocking, deletion

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal
data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the
right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal
notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Opposition to promotional emails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard
to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take
specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our
website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved
by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies
remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit
the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to
accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions
or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality
of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the
shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the
storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to
analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in
“server log files”. These are:

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

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for
measures preliminary to a contract.

Registration on this website

You can register on our website in order to access additional functions offered here. The input data will only be used for the
purpose of using the respective site or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during
registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject your registration.

To inform you about important changes such as those within the scope of our site or technical changes, we will use the email
address specified during registration.

We will process the data provided during registration only based on your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your
consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive
your request may still be legally processed.

We will continue to store the data collected during registration for aslong as you remain registered on our website. Statutory
retention periods remain unaffected.

Leaving comments on this website

If you use the comment function on this site, the time at which you created the comment and your email address will be stored
along with your comment, as well as your username, unless you are posting anonymously.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of those users who post comments. Since we do not check comments on our site before
they go live, we need this information to be able to pursue action for illegal or slanderous content.

How long comments are stored

The comments and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the content commented upon
has been completely deleted or the comments are required to be removed for legal reasons (slander, etc.).

Legal basis

The comments are stored based on your consent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect.
An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

4. Analytics and advertising

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or
by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics.
This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates
various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user).
The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking
place.

Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from
abusive automated crawling and spam.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links:
https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

5. Plugins and tools

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the
required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page
was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation
of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
and in Google’s privacy policy at
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.