Privacy and cookies policy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Visiting our website

If you visit our website on a purely informative basis and do not provide us with any other information, we only collect the personal data submitted by your browser:

• IP address of your system
• Date and time (including time zone) of your request
• Type, content and protocol version of your request (concrete page request)
• Access status (HTTP status code) of our server
• Size of our server response in bytes
• Website from which the request comes (so-called “Referrer”)
• User-agent (type, version, operating system used)
• The domains that you accessed
• We also save this data in log files.

The legal basis is Article. 6 (1) f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest is in accordance with the above mentioned purposes. We store your IP addresses in a shortened form in compliance with data protection.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your system and provide us with certain information.

On our website we use transient and persistent cookies. Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser. You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of the website. We also use cookies to identify you for follow-up visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you would have to log in again for each visit.

The use of cookies serves to make the use of our website a more pleasant experience for you and to optimise user-friendliness. We also use cookies to compile statistics on the use of our website, to help us evaluate it and improve it to serve your needs. These cookies enable us to realize automatically that this is not your first visit when you return to our site. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. When you visit our website, we draw your attention to the use of cookies by means of a cookie notice which refers to this privacy policy. There you can also agree to the use of cookies. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) f) GDPR and our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. If you have consented to the use of cookies, the legal basis is Article 6 (1) a) GDPR.

Email contact

If you contact us via the email addresses provided by us, we store the personal data you provide to answer your queries. Your information may be stored in a Customer Relationship Management System (“CRM System”) or similar software.

In the course of sending or delivering your email, log data is also generated on a regular basis, which may also contain the IP address of the email server you are using. This log data is necessary for ensuring the proper operation of our email server and also serves as proof of server problems or security incidents.

The legal basis is Article 6 (1) f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest follows from the purposes listed above. If email contact is aimed at concluding a contract or if contact takes place within the framework of an existing contractual relationship, the legal basis is Article 6 (1) b) GDPR.

The data will be deleted when the transaction has been finalized, when we are not legally required to retain it or no longer need the data to fulfil the contract or a legal obligation. In addition, you can object to data being processed at any time if it is not carried out on the basis of a legitimate interest. The log data on our email server will be deleted at the latest after the legally prescribed deadlines.