The adoption of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) created a uniform basis for data protection in Europe. Your data will therefore mainly be processed by companies for which the GDPR applies. Should the processing by third party services take place outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, they must meet the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. GDPR. This means that processing takes place on the basis of special guarantees, such as the establishment of a data protection level that is officially recognized by the EU Commission or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations, the so-called “standard contractual clauses”. Insofar as we are due to the ineffectiveness of the so-called "Privacy Shield", according to Art. 49 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a) DSGVO, if you have expressly consented to the transfer of data to the USA, we point out the risk of secret access by US authorities and the use of the data for monitoring purposes, possibly without legal remedies for EU citizens.

Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as you revoke your consent to processing or the purpose for storage no longer applies or the data is no longer required for the purpose, unless it is further Storage is required for evidence purposes or there are statutory retention requirements. This includes, for example, commercial law retention obligations for business letters in accordance with Section 257 (1) HGB (6 years) and tax retention obligations in accordance with Section 147 (1) AO of receipts (10 years). When the prescribed retention period expires, your data will be blocked or deleted, unless the storage is still necessary for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

We do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

1. If you only use our website for information purposes (i.e. no registration and no other transmission of information), we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data:

In principle, we will not pass on any data to third parties without your consent. If this is the case, the transfer takes place on the basis of the aforementioned legal bases, e.g. when transferring data to online payment providers for the fulfillment of a contract or due to a court order or due to a legal obligation to surrender the data for the purpose of criminal prosecution, to avert danger or to enforce intellectual property rights. We also use contract processors (external service providers, e.g. for web hosting our websites and databases) to process your data. If data is passed on to the processors as part of an agreement for order processing, this always takes place in accordance with Article 28 GDPR. We carefully select our processors, check them regularly and have been granted the right to issue instructions with regard to the data. In addition, the processors must have taken suitable technical and organizational measures and the data protection regulations in accordance with. Comply with BDSG nF and DS-GVO.

1. We use so-called cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores and stores on your computer. When you visit our website again, these cookies provide information in order to automatically recognize you. Cookies also include the so-called “user IDs”, where user information is saved using pseudonymised profiles. When you visit our website, we will inform you about the use of cookies for the aforementioned purposes by means of a reference to our data protection declaration and how you can object to them or prevent their storage (“opt-out”).

1. When you contact us via the contact form, fax, post or e-mail, your details will be processed for the purpose of handling the contact request.

1. When you contact us by phone, your telephone number will be processed to process and handle the contact request and will be temporarily stored or displayed in the RAM / cache of the telephone device / display. The storage takes place for reasons of liability and security in order to be able to provide evidence of the call and for economic reasons in order to enable a callback. In the case of unauthorized advertising calls, we block the phone numbers.

1. We have the anti-spam function "reCAPTCHA" from "Google" (provider:

1. We have integrated maps from “Google Maps” (provider: Google Ireland Limited, register number: 368047, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) on our website.

1. Applications that are sent electronically or by post to the person responsible are processed electronically or manually for the purpose of handling the application process.

1. Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

In order to protect all personal data transmitted to us and to ensure that we and our external service providers comply with data protection regulations, we have taken suitable technical and organizational security measures. Therefore, among other things, all data between your browser and our server is encrypted via a secure SSL connection.