Data protection

SSL encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL encryption is activated, the data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information about cookies

There are three categories of cookies:

# strictly necessary cookies to ensure basic functions of the website

# functional cookies to ensure the performance of the website

# Targeted cookies to improve the user experience.

Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective 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 at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

Functional restrictions without cookies

If you generally do not allow us to use cookies, certain functions and pages will not work as expected.

Links

We check links that leave our website very carefully. Nevertheless, we accept no responsibility or liability for the content of pages linked to from this website or from another website.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Use of the e-mail address for sending newsletters

If you register for our newsletter, we will use your e-mail address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter, provided that you have expressly consented to this by providing your e-mail address and confirming the opt-in e-mail (double opt-in procedure). You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by sending us a message; you can find the contact details for this in our legal notice. Your e-mail address will then be deleted.

Social plugins from Youtube

We use social plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of this site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit our site equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed that you have visited our site.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your visit to our site with your user account. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link(http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp();” in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps to display a map. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc (“Google”). By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the data collected automatically and the data you enter by Google, one of its representatives or third-party providers. The terms of use for Google Maps can be found at Terms of Use for Google Maps.

Google Privacy Center and privacy check

Details of Google’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.at/intl/de/policies/privacy/

You can use the Google Privacy Check at https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup to check and change your privacy settings for Google products.

Facebook Remarketing

The provider uses the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”) on the website. Using this function, the provider can target visitors to the website with advertising by displaying personalized, interest-based Facebook ads to visitors to the website when they visit the Facebook social network. The Facebook remarketing tag is implemented on the provider’s website to carry out this function.

This tag is used to establish a direct connection to the Facebook servers when you visit the website. This tells the Facebook server which of our web pages you have visited. Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. You can find more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy in Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ . If you do not want Facebook to assign the information collected directly to your Facebook user account, you can deactivate the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” here. To do this, you must be logged in to Facebook.

Remarketing or “similar target groups” function of Google Inc.

The provider uses the remarketing or “similar target groups” function of Google Inc. (“Google”) on the website. Using this function, the provider can target visitors to the website with advertising by displaying personalized, interest-based ads to visitors to the provider’s website when they visit other websites in the Google Display Network. Google uses cookies to analyze website usage, which forms the basis for the creation of interest-based advertisements. For this purpose, Google stores a small file with a sequence of numbers in the browsers of website visitors. This number is used to record visits to the website and anonymized data on the use of the website. No personal data of visitors to the website is stored. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display Network, you will be shown advertisements that are highly likely to take into account previously accessed product and information areas. You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers by visiting the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the further information on opt-out mentioned there. Further information on Google Remarketing and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

Google Adwords conversion tracking

We use the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking as part of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). When you click on an advertisement placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is stored on your computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days, do not contain any personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification.
If you visit certain Internet pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that you have clicked on the ad and have been redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. It is therefore not possible for cookies to be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers.
The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. This tells customers the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by preventing the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly (deactivation option). You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/, http://www.google.at/policies/privacy/

Server logs

The IP address of the requesting computer, together with the date, time, the request, which file is requested (name and URL), the amount of data transferred to you, a message as to whether the request was successful, identification data of the browser and operating system used, as well as the website from which the access was made (if the access was made via a link), are stored. The server logs are stored in order to be able to check the system security, to administer the website technically and to optimize the offer. If there has been an attack, this data may be passed on to the law enforcement authorities. No other data will be passed on to third parties.

Information, correction and deletion of data

You have the right to free information about your stored data as well as the right to correction, deletion or blocking at any time. If you have any concerns or further questions about data protection, please write to: