data protection
Data Protection & Data Security
Data protection
In the following we give you precise information about which data is stored on our website and how this data is treated. The following principles are continually adapted to new circumstances, for example in the event of legal changes.
We would also like to give you some tips on how you can help protect your data.
Please note, however, that our Internet offering contains links to other websites. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the offerings of other operators.
Nor do we have any influence on whether other operators adhere to data protection regulations.
1. Commitment to data protection
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all people who entrust us with their data.
2. Storage of personal data
We do not spy on or collect personal data unnoticed. Techniques to prevent users from obtaining personal data unnoticed (e.g. blocking cookies, suppressing the HTTP referrer, concealing the requesting IP - more on this below) do not lead to a loss of functionality.
Only personal data that you voluntarily transmit to us as part of a transaction is stored electronically by us. The data stored on this website is specially protected by organizational and technical measures.
3. Use of personal data
The personal data stored is only used for the purposes for which it was sent to us or which we have previously communicated to you. In particular, you can be assured that under no circumstances will data be passed on to third parties for commercial purposes without your express consent.
4. Deletion of personal data
Personal data is deleted in accordance with legal standards; this is generally the case when knowledge of the data is no longer required by the storing body to fulfill its tasks. Storage of usage data
When you access our pages, information of a general nature is automatically recorded. This logging of usage data takes place everywhere, i.e. on every website on the Internet; it is not a specific function of our website. What data is stored?
The following information is saved each time a file is accessed:
1. Name of the file accessed
2. Date and time of access
3. Amount of data transferred
4. Message as to whether the access was successful or not
5. Operating system used
6. IP address of the computer from which the request was sent
7. Web browser used
8. If the access is made by clicking on a link, the address of the page where the link is located (so-called HTTP referrer) Personal user profiles cannot be created in this way.
We anonymize the IP number within 24 hours, i.e. the last octet is set to 0. We delete all saved usage data after 60 days at the latest. The purpose of storing usage data Usage data is stored to ensure operational reliability.
This enables us to determine where errors occur in our offering and react accordingly.
Web analytics
We also want to constantly improve our offering and make it more attractive. We can only optimise the content to meet your requirements if we know which parts of our website are visited most frequently.
Web analytics is configured so that IP numbers are only stored anonymously (last octet set to 0).
Web analytics is carried out on 1&1 servers; the data is neither passed on nor linked to other databases.
When used in this way, web analytics is considered to be data protection compliant.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your PC's hard drive with your permission. Cookies allow a web application to address you individually. However, this also means there is a risk that cookies will be used to create individual profiles.
Cookies are not programs, so they cannot cause any damage to your PC.
Cookies on our website
Cookie to store the user's preferred language when they access pages that are available in multiple languages. If this cookie is missing, the German version is selected by default.
Cookie for web analytics purposes.
Other cookies are used on websites that are only available to a registered group of users. All cookies on our website also come from the same domain.
Every current browser can be set up to not accept cookies. If absolute anonymity is important to you, then prohibit cookies. This website can also be used without cookies.
How do we protect your data?
We use a secure transmission method, known as SSL transmission, to process your data. This means that any information you send is encrypted using this secure method before it is sent to us.
Why encrypt?
The Internet is an open network. When you send data from one point to another, it is routed through many stations, each of which can be read (and without great effort). Data transmission on the Internet is therefore as open as, for example, sending a postcard.
In open networks, the protection of transmission paths can only be achieved through encryption. This means that the data is made unrecognizable (encrypted) using a previously agreed procedure so that only the correct recipient can read it. The more complicated the encryption procedure, the stronger the protection of confidentiality.
Good to know: Encryption always involves two partners who agree on the type of secret communication. Therefore, the responsibility for secure encryption does not lie solely with the message recipient or solely with the sender, but always with both parties. If you want to tell us something that should remain confidential, we can do that. But it also depends on the security of your software, namely your browser. Data protection is always also self-protection.