Data security

In general, our website can be used without providing any personal data. If personal data (such as name, postal or email addresses) are collected, this will occur on a voluntary basis, in so far as possible. These data shall not be provided to a third party without your explicit permission.

Please take note that data transmission across the Internet (e.g. by using email communications) may not be secure as it is impossible to safeguard completely against unauthorized access by third parties.

Newsletter

Our website offers you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. The newsletter provides you periodically with information about our services. To receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address. We will review the email address you provide for the purpose of determining whether you are in fact the owner of the email address provided or whether the actual owner of said address is authorized to receive the newsletter. We will not collect any other data. The data thereby collected is used solely for the purpose of receiving our newsletter. No data is transferred to third parties. You may cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time. You will find additional details in the email confirming your subscription as well as in each newsletter.

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

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA). The plugins are identifiable by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our site. For a full list of all Facebook plugins go to: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit one of our pages the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Thus, Facebook receives the information that you (your IP address) visited our website. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while logged in to your facebook account you can link content from our pages to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. Please note that we as provider of the pages have no knowledge as to the contents of the submitted data or its use by Facebook. For further information please see Facebook’s privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to associate the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data, please log off Facebook before entering our website.

Privacy policy for the use of Twitter

“Twitter” features are embedded in our web pages. These features are provided through Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” feature the pages you visited will be linked to your Twitter-account and published to other users. This also involves transferring data to Twitter. Please note that we as providers of the pages have no knowledge as to the contents of the submitted data or its use by Twitter. For further information please see Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your data privacy-settings in your account settings on Twitter via http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Privacy policy for the use of LinkedIn

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn networking site. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you access one of our web pages containing LinkedIn functions, a connection to LinkedIn’s servers will be established. LinkedIn will be informed that you have visited our website from your IP address. If you click LinkedIn’s “Recommend Button” while you are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn will be able to link your visit to our website with your user account. Please note that as the provider of the web pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to LinkedIn or of its use by LinkedIn. For further information, please refer to LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Privacy policy for the use of XING

Our website uses functions of the XING networking site. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time you access one of our web pages containing XING functions, a connection to XING’s servers will be established. As far as we know, no personal data is stored. In particular, IP addresses are not stored and user behaviour is not evaluated. For further information about data protection and XING’s share button, please refer to XING’s privacy policy at https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

Access, Cancellation, Opposition

To exercise your right to access, rectify, cancel and oppose your personal data, please contact the address you find in the imprint.