Privacy policy

When you visit this website, the browser used on your terminal device sends information to our website server automatically. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called “log file”. Following information is collected without any action by you and is stored until its automatic deletion:

• the IP address of the inquiring PC
• the access date and time
• the name and the URL of the recalled file
• the address of the loading page (referrer URL)
• the browser in use and (if necessary) your PC operating system, as well as the name of your access provider.
• access status (e.g., file transmitted, file not found, etc.)
• transferred amount of data. 

We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes:

• ensuring an optimal connection to the website
• ensuring a comfortable usage of our website
• analysing the system’s safety and stability, and
• other administrative purposes.

Legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Par. 1-1-f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest arises from the aforementioned purposes of data collection. In no case we will use the collected data for tracing back to your person.

On our website we use cookies. Cookies are small files automatically generated by your browser upon request of our website and stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies cannot harm your terminal device and contain no virus, Trojan horse or other malware.

The information stored in cookies depends specifically on the device in use. However, this does not mean that we get to know your identity directly.

By using cookies, we can make our service more user friendly. Therefore, we use the so-called “session cookies”. This helps us recognizing that you have already visited individual pages of our website. Once you have closed our pages, these cookies are deleted automatically.

In order to optimize our website ergonomics, we also use temporary cookies that are stored on your terminal device for a specific period of time. When you return to our website to use our services, you will be automatically recognized as a former user together with your inputs and settings, so that you do not need to reconfigure them.

We use cookies for tracking our website usage for statistical purposes and for evaluating our service optimization, too. When you return to our website, these cookies help us recognizing automatically that you have already been our user and are automatically deleted after a specific period of time.

The data obtained through cookies are necessary for the afore mentioned purposes in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-f) of the GDPR.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. If you do not want cookies to be stored on your PC or you want a notice to be shown before a new cookie is created, you can disable this in the system settings of your browser. However, completely disabling cookies can restrict some functionalities of our website.

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Plausible Analytics is a web analytics tool that provides us with anonymized information about the usage of our website. We use the insights gained to optimize our content and services accordingly. Plausible Analytics does not collect personal data, use cookies, or store any information in users' browsers.

Plausible Analytics temporarily collects certain metadata of your request. However, this data is processed in anonymized form and is never stored. As a result, no inferences can be made about you as an individual.

Plausible Analytics is operated in self-hosting mode, meaning that all collected data is processed exclusively on our own servers. There is no sharing or transmission of data to third parties.

We do not transmit your personal data to any third party for purposes different from the ones listed below.

We transmit your personal data to third parties only if:

• you have granted your specific consent according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-a) of the GDPR
• the transmission is necessary for asserting, exercising or safeguarding rights according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-f) of the GDPR and there is no reason for an overriding interest warranting protection relating to your data disclosure
• the transmission is compulsory by law according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-c) of the GDPR
• this is permitted by law and necessary to contractual relationships with you according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-b) of the GDPR.

Please contact us at any time if you wish to know which kind of personal data of yours we store and/or if you want to have it amended or deleted. Moreover, you have the right of processing restriction (Art. 18 of the GDPR), opposition to processing (Art. 21 of the GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 of the GDPR).

Please contact us directly if you want to exercise your rights. 

If your personal data is processed for a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-f) of the GDPR, you have the right to oppose the processing of your personal data according to Art. 21 of the GDPR. This if there are valid reasons resulting from your specific situation or your opposition is made against direct advertising. In this last case you have a general right of opposition, which we will implement without specifying any particular situation.

Please send us an e-mail (see “Imprint”) in order to exercise your right of withdrawal or opposition.

We have implemented all the appropriate technical and administrative safety measures in order to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access. All of our employees and suppliers are bound to observe the data protection laws in force.

Whenever we collect and process any pieces of personal data, we encrypt all of them before transmitting them. Therefore, no third party can misuse your data. We improve our safety procedures and revise our privacy policies constantly. Please make sure their latest version is at your disposal.

Declaration, we will inform you on our website.

We reserve the right to modify our privacy policy declarations, if required by new technologies. Please make sure their latest version is at your disposal. In case of substantial changes to fundamental sections of this Privacy Policy Declaration, we will inform you on our website.