Legal disclaimer

Compliance with the applicable legal provisions on the protection of personal data is a fundamental principle for us. According to the Data Protection Act (DSG 2000), personal data is information that can be used to determine the identity of web users. This includes information such as name, address, postal address, telephone number, etc. All information that cannot be directly linked to the actual identity of the user is therefore not included.

If required and if you use a personalized, interactive or mail service on our website, we collect personal information from you. We only use this personal data within our association. This data is not passed on to third parties unless this is necessary to fulfill the contract or we are legally obliged to do so.

Terms of use, warranty, liability

The use of this website is at your own risk. We assume no liability for the published contributions, offers, goods and services with regard to accuracy, completeness and functionality. The warranty is based on the legally applicable provisions. Any liability for damages arising directly or indirectly from the use of this website is hereby excluded. This website and the associated services are operated with the utmost care. For technical reasons, however, it is not possible for these services to be accessible without interruption, for the desired connections to always be established or for stored data to be retained under all circumstances. Constant availability can therefore not be guaranteed. Connectivity to other network operators is subject to availability. Any liability for problems caused by third-party networks is excluded. The use of other networks is subject to the terms of use of the respective operators. We accept no liability for force majeure, labor strikes, restrictions on the services of other network operators or repair and maintenance work and the associated restrictions or interruptions to this service.

Link Policy

We accept no liability for the content, functionality and availability of linked websites. This also applies to all other direct or indirect references or links to external websites. Links to this website are welcome if they are designed as external links in a separate browser window. A transfer of the main window into a frame of the link setter is not permitted. If a website to which we have linked contains illegal content, please inform us and the link will be removed immediately.

Data protection

The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

We hereby explicitly object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation by third parties for sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plugins (Like button)

Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our pages. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our site.You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Privacy policy for the use of 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 this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. 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 and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You may reject 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.