Privacy policy

We collect, use and store your personal data exclusively in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act of the Federal Republic of Germany. Below we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of data collection and use.

Collection and processing of data

Every access to our website and every retrieval of a file stored on this website is logged. The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following are logged Name of the retrieved file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser and requesting domain. The IP addresses of the requesting computers are also logged. Further personal data is only collected if the user of the website and/or customer provides information voluntarily, for example as part of an inquiry or registration or to conclude a contract or via the settings of their browser. Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a text file that is sent when you visit a website and is temporarily stored on the hard disk of the website user and/or customer. If the corresponding server of our website is called up again by the user of the website and/or customer, the browser of the user of the website and/or customer sends the previously received cookie back to the server. The server can then evaluate the information received through this procedure in various ways. Cookies can be used, for example, to control the display of advertisements or to facilitate navigation on a website. If the user of the website and/or customer wishes to prevent the use of cookies, they can do so by making local changes to their settings in the Internet browser used on their computer, i.e. the program for opening and displaying Internet pages (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari).

Use and disclosure of personal data

If the user of our website has provided personal data, we will only use this data to respond to inquiries from the user of the website and/or customers, to process contracts concluded with the user of the website and/or customers and for technical administration. Personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transmitted by us to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of contract processing or for billing purposes or if the user of the website and/or customer has given their prior consent. The user of the website and/or customer has the right to revoke any consent given at any time with effect for the future. The stored personal data will be deleted if the user of the website and/or customer revokes their consent to storage, if knowledge of the data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which it was stored or if storage of the data is not permitted for other legal reasons. Data for billing and accounting purposes are not affected by a request for deletion.

Right to information

Upon written request, we will inform the user of the website and/or the customer about the personal data stored about them. The request should be sent to the address given in the website's legal notice.

Use of the Facebook “like button”

Our website uses the Facebook “Like” button of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Hereinafter referred to as “Facebook” for short. The Facebook “like button” is marked with the Facebook logo with an “f”.

When you visit a page on our website that contains the Facebook “Like” button, your browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website.

By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. If you click the “Like” button or leave a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from your browser to Facebook and stored there.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Facebook's data protection information. If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

Google-Analytics

Our website uses the analytics service Google Analytics. This web analysis service is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as Google).

This analysis tool works on the basis of cookies. A cookie is a text file that is sent when you visit a website and is temporarily stored on the hard disk of the user of the website to enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information stored by the cookie is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and then stored there.

As part of IP anonymization, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within a member state of the EU or another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Google will use the transmitted information on our behalf to compile a report on the use of the website. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. If you wish to prevent the use of cookies, you can do so by making local changes to your settings in the Internet browser used on your computer (e.g. Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, etc.), i.e. the program used to open and display Internet pages. You can also prevent the collection and processing of your data by the Google cookie by downloading and installing a browser plug-in offered by Google under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Source: IT Recht Hannover | Rechtsanwalt E. Strohmeyer