Disclaimer and Privacy Note

1. Limitation of Liability

The publisher is responsible for this information. The information on this website has been compiled with great care. For the correctness and completeness, no guarantee can be given. For this reason any liability for any damages in connection with the use of the offered information is excluded. By the mere use of this website no contractual relationship between user and provider / publisher is established.

2. Copyright Notice

The entire contents of this website are subject to copyright. Unauthorized use, reproduction or copying of the contents or parts of the content is prohibited. For permission to use the content, please contact the publisher.

3. Notes on Data Protection
4. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by 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 will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated 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 opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

1. Facebook-Plugins (Like-Button)

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background, the word “like” or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin” For a full list of all social Plugins please see http://developers.facebook.com/plugins. When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge: The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook. For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website and delete your cookies.

1. Facebook visitor action pixel (Conversation Tracking)

By using our website you consent to the use of Facebook’s new conversion tracking pixel “visitor action pixel”. Within our internet presence, we use the “visitor action pixel” of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). This is how the behaviour of users can be monitored after they have clicked on a Facebook advertisement and are redirected on the website of the host. This procedure serves to analyse the efficiency of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and can contribute to optimising future advertising efforts. The acquired data is anonymous for us and thus offers no conclusions regarding the identity of the user. However, the data is saved and processed by Facebook, which means that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own marketing purposes according to the Facebook data usage guidelines (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) You can allow Facebook as well as its partners to place advertisements on and outside of Facebook. Furthermore, a cookie can be saved on your computer for these purposes. Consent to the use of the “visitor action pixel” can only be given by users above the age of 13. If you are younger, you have to obtain permission from your legal guardian.

1. Others

As far as on this website personal data (name, address, email address, etc.) are collected, this is done in the voluntary consent of the user and in its sole discretion. It should be noted that in terms of data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) no secure transfer is guaranteed. Sensitive data should either not at all or only be transmitted via a secure connection (SSL).