We are pleased that you have visited our website and are interested in our services. We therefore take the protection of your privacy and the personal data you provide to us very seriously. Compliance with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act is a matter of course for us. Below we will inform you about which data we may collect and how we handle it.

Which personal data is collected and processed?

You can visit our websites without us requiring any personal data from you. We only learn the name of your Internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, and the individual pages you visit on our website. Personal data is only collected and processed if you use certain services.

For what purposes do we collect and process personal data?

Since we are constantly striving to improve our service offerings in a continuous process, not only for our customers but also for ourselves, the above-mentioned general data is statistically evaluated. If you use our services, we generally only collect data that we need to provide the services. If we ask you for further data, this is voluntary information. Personal data is processed exclusively to fulfill the requested service and to protect our own legitimate business interests. Will personal data be passed on to third parties? We will not disclose your personal data to other companies or institutions. disclose, transfer, sell or otherwise market, unless you have given your express consent. This does not apply if we are required by law or by court order to disclose and transmit the data.

In order to make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information to an individual extent, such as browser and location data as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which can vary depending on the cookie. Some cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by saving settings (e.g. remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website).. If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b GDPR either to execute the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit. We may work with advertising partners who help us to make our internet offering more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies will also be stored on your hard drive when you visit our website (third-party cookies). If we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in each case within the paragraphs below. Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links: Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647 Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

We have taken technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data you provide against loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access.

This website loads maps from Google Maps. Google Maps is a service provided by Google, Inc. (USA). The maps are integrated by calling a server at Google in the USA, whereby it can be assumed that requests are stored by Google. For more information, see the Google privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

Our website uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") from the social network Google , which is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). The plugins can be recognized, for example, by buttons with the " 1" symbol on a white or colored background. An overview of Google plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.google.com/ /plugins When you access a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Google's servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Google to your browser and integrated into the website. Through the integration, Google receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page on our website, even if you do not have a Google profile or are not currently logged into Google . This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Google , Google can directly assign the visit to our website to your Google profile. If you interact with the plug-ins, for example by pressing the " 1" button, the corresponding information is also sent directly to a Google server and stored there. The information is also published on Google and displayed to your contacts there. The data processing operations described are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of GDPR on the basis of Google's legitimate interests in displaying personalized advertising in order to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website and to design the service to meet your needs. If you do not want Google to assign the data collected via our website directly to your profile on Google , you must log out of Google before visiting our website. You can also object to the loading of the Google plug-ins and thus the data processing operations described above in the future with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/). Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

This website integrates Twitter Embedded Timelines. Twitter Embedded Timelines is a service provided by Twitter Inc. (USA). The integration is carried out by calling a server at Twitter in the USA, whereby it can be assumed that requests are stored by Twitter. You can find more information in the Twitter privacy policy at https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=de.

Our web pages contain plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like button" on our Page. You can find an overview of 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 therefore receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. Page If you click the Facebook "Like button" while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents 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 data transmitted or how Facebook uses it. You can find more information on this 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.

Our web pages contain plug-ins from the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“LinkedIn”). We use the “in” button to share content and to link to our LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn records information that our corresponding pages have been loaded in your web browser with the LinkedIn plug-ins. LinkedIn also automatically receives the URL of the website you came from or the page you are redirected to. LinkedIn also receives the IP address of your computer or the proxy server you use to access the Internet, as well as information about your computer’s operating system and the web browser you use, your mobile device (including the mobile device identifier available through your mobile device’s operating system), your mobile device’s operating system (if you access LinkedIn via a mobile device), and the name of your Internet service provider or mobile network provider. LinkedIn may also receive location data transmitted by GPS-enabled devices that you have activated if you have not prevented location data from being transmitted to LinkedIn in real time in the settings on your mobile device. We would like to point out that SlideShare.net, Pulse.me and the Pulse app are part of the LinkedIn services and are not separate components of our websites. Information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data transmitted when using LinkedIn plug-ins can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy This also contains information and links to your rights and the settings options for protecting your privacy.

Our web pages include functions from the Twitter service. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the web pages you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transferred to Twitter in the process. We would like to point out that as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Twitter. You can find more information on this in Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings. We reserve the right to change this declaration at any time without prior notice.