Legal Notices
ABOUT DATA PROTECTION
We attach great importance to protecting the privacy of personal data. We would therefore like to inform you about how we protect your privacy when you make your personal information available to us. In addition to complying with legal data protection regulations as a matter of course, by making the statements here we obligate ourselves to treat your data responsibly so that your privacy is protected at all times. It is very important to us that you feel safe and secure while visiting our Web site pages.
WHY WE USE DATA
We constantly strive to improve what we offer and to design our online presentation attractively for you. Only if we know which sections of our Web site are most frequently visited for the longest period of time is it possible to enhance the contents of the Web site to meet your expectations. In each case, personal information is used only to the degree necessary. The better we understand what you want, the faster you will find the information you want on our Web site pages.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Whenever you log on to a Web site page information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information includes for instance the kind of web browser you have, the operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and similar things. These involve exclusively information that does not provide any personal details about you. In any case, these data are also generated during visits to every other Web site on the Internet. Thus, this is not a function specific to these Web site pages. Information of this kind is only collected anonymously and evaluated statistically by us.
PERSONAL DATA
Whenever you are requested on our pages to supply personal information such as name, address or telephone number, you are free to decide whether to enter this data. We store your data on highly secure servers in Germany. Access to them is possible for only a small number of authorized persons. These people are responsible for the technical, commercial or editorial maintenance of the servers. We use this data solely for the stated purposes. Your data is not forwarded to third parties. An exception is service providers who are acting on our behalf.
RIGHT TO INFORMATION
If requested to do so, we will inform you as quickly as possible in writing and in accordance with applicable law whether, and if so what, personal data is stored at our company. Should incorrect information be stored in spite of our efforts to maintain correct and up-to-date information, we will correct this upon request.
SECURITY
We use technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data you have made available to us against inadvertent or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized people. Our security measures are constantly being improved and adapted in accordance with the latest technology.
DISCLAIMER
According to a verdict handed down by the Regional Court of Hamburg May 12, 1998, owner(s) of a Web site shall be responsible for or share responsibility for the content of linked sites. According to the Regional Court, this responsibility can only be nullified by the owner’s or owners’ expressly denying liability for these contents. We have created links to other web pages from our homepage. The following applies to all these links: Despite careful checks of content, we do not assume liability for the content of external links. The operators of linked pages bear sole responsibility for the pages’ content.
LIABILITY
The author accepts no liability for the timeliness, accuracy, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against the author which are related to damages of a material or ideal nature which result from using or not using the information provided or the use of flawed or incomplete information are generally excluded to the extent that it cannot be proved that the author has acted with intentional or gross negligence. All offers are without engagement and not binding. The author expressly reserves the right to change, add to or delete parts of the pages or the entire Web site or temporarily or permanently take the published material off line without announcing this in advance.