Data protection
The use of our website is possible without indication of personal data as a rule. If personal data are collected on our site (such as name, address or email address), this is done on a voluntary basis, if possible. These data are not passed on to any third party without your express approval.
We wish to point out that data transmission on the Internet (such as in case of communication by e-mail) may involve security gaps. A protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Privacy declaration for the use of Facebook plugins (like button):
The plugins of the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA) have been integrated in our web pages. You will recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like Button” on our site. An overview of the Facebook plugins is rendered here: developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our web pages, the plugin will produce a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. In this way Facebook receives the information that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you press the Facebook “Like Button” whilst you logged into to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Facebook profile. Thus Facebook can associate the visit of our pages to your user account. We wish to point out that we as provider of the pages have no knowledge of the content of the data transferred as well as of their use by Facebook. Further information on this matter is provided by the privacy declaration of Facebook under de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not want Facebook to associate the visit of our pages to your Facebook user account, please log off from your Facebook user account.

Privacy Declaration for the use of Google Analytics
 This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable the analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the US and stored there.
In the event of the use of IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address from Google will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or in other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the US and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services to the website operator related to the website and Internet service. The IP address provided by your browser for Google Analytics queries is not aggregated by Google with other data.
You can prevent the storage of the cookie by configuring an appropriate setting in your browser software. We would remind you, however, that if you do so, you may no longer be able to use the full range of functionality as offered by this website. You can also prevent the logging of the data generated by the cookie – as relating to your usage of this website (including your IP address) – by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Privacy declaration for use of Twitter:
On our pages, functions of the service Twitter have been included. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the function “Re-Tweet”, the websites you have visited are linked to your Twitter account and is published to other users. In the process data are transferred to Twitter. We wish to point out that we as provider of the pages have no knowledge of the content of the data transferred as well as of their use by Facebook. Further information on this matter is provided by the privacy declaration of Facebook under twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your data protection setting at Twitter in the account settings under twitter.com/account/settings.

Privacy delaration for use of Xing
Our websites uses functions of the network Xing. Provider ist XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. With every demand of one of our sites, that contains functions of Xing, there will be an internconection to the servers of Xing. A storage of personal data is thereby not included. Above all there is no storage of IP-addresses nor any evaluation of user behaviour.
Further information regarding data protection and the Xing Share button can be found in the declaration of data protection of Xing, available at https://xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

Right to information, deletion and blocking
 You have at all times the right to be informed for free about your stored personal data, its origin and destination and the purpose of data processing, as well as a right to correct, block or delete this data. You can contact us on this topic or any other issues concerning personal data at any time by using the website provider contact details provided in the Legal Notice.

Cookies
We use cookies on different pages in order to organize visits to our web pages in an attractive manner and to enable certain functions to be utilized. These are text files which are stored on your terminal device. Cookies help us to ascertain the number of users who have used our web pages and the usage frequency, and allow us to organize our products and services in the most convenient and effective way possible for you.
We mostly use "session cookies" which are stored temporarily solely for the period that you use one of our web pages. Other cookies are stored on your device until they are deleted. They help to record information concerning computers which access our website on a repeated basis.
You may disable cookies in your relevant browser under Options/Internet options, limit them to certain websites or set your browser in such a way that it provides a notification as soon as a cookie is sent. You also have the option of removing existing cookies with your browser. Please note that if you disable the use of cookies then you can expect the presentation of our web pages to be restricted and can also expect restricted user guidance.

Server-Log-Files

The provider of this site gathers and automatically stores on its server log file information transmitted by your browser to us. This includes:
- browser type/version
- operating system used
- referrer URL (the page visited previously)
- host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
- time of the server request
These data cannot be allocated to specific individuals. These data are not combined with other data sources.