DATA PROTECTION

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you do not want to have cookies in principle, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow the cookie or not. The procedure varies depending on the browser. It is best to search for the instructions in Google using the search term "delete cookies Chrome" or "disable cookies Chrome" in the case of a Chrome browser.

What about my privacy?

The so-called "Cookie Guidelines" have been in place since 2009. These state that the storage of cookies requires your consent. Within the EU countries, however, there are still very different reactions to these directives. In Austria, however, this directive was implemented in Section 96 (3) of the Telecommunications Act (TKG).

If you want to know more about cookies and are not afraid of technical documentation, we recommend https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments called "HTTP State Management Mechanism".

Storage of personal data

Personal data that you transmit to us electronically on this website, such as name, e-mail address, address or other personal information in the context of submitting a form or comments on the blog, will be used by us together with the time and IP address only for the purpose stated in each case, kept secure and not disclosed to third parties.

We thus use your personal data only for communication with those visitors who expressly request contact and for the processing of the services and products offered on this website. We do not disclose your personal data without consent, but we cannot exclude the possibility that this data may be viewed in the event of unlawful conduct.

If you send us personal data by e-mail - thus away from this website - we cannot guarantee secure transmission and protection of your data. We recommend that you never send confidential data by e-mail without encryption.

Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation

According to the provisions of the GDPR and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG), you are generally entitled to the following rights:

Right of rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") (Article 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 DSGVO)
Right to notification - obligation to notify in connection with the rectification or erasure of personal data or the restriction of processing (Article 19 GDPR)
Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling (Article 22 GDPR)

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in any way, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, which in Austria is the data protection authority, whose website can be found at https://www.dsb.gv.at/.

Evaluation of visitor behavior

In the following privacy policy, we inform you whether and how we evaluate data from your visit to this website. The evaluation of the collected data is usually anonymous and we can not conclude from your behavior on this website to your person.

You can find out more about how to object to this analysis of visit data in the following data protection declaration.

TLS encryption with https

We use https to transmit data tap-proof on the Internet (data protection by design of technology Article 25(1) DSGVO). By using TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the Internet, we can ensure the protection of confidential data. You can recognize the use of this protection of data transmission by the small lock symbol at the top left of the browser and the use of the scheme https (instead of http) as part of our Internet address.

Google Maps Privacy Policy

We use Google Maps of the company Google Inc. on our website. For the European area the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Maps allows us to better show you locations and thus adapt our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transmitted to Google and stored on Google servers. Here we will now go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Maps?

Google Maps is an Internet mapping service from the Google company. With Google Maps, you can search for exact locations of cities, landmarks, accommodations, or businesses online using a PC, tablet, or app. If companies are represented on Google My Business, other information about the company is displayed in addition to the location. To show how to get there, map sections of a location can be embedded in a website using HTML code. Google Maps shows the earth's surface as a street map or as an aerial or satellite image. Thanks to the Street View images and the high-quality satellite images, very accurate representations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

All our efforts on this site are aimed at providing you with a useful and meaningful time on our website. By integrating Google Maps, we can provide you with the most important information about various locations. You can see at a glance where we are located. The directions always show you the best or fastest way to us. You can get the directions for routes by car, by public transport, on foot or by bike. For us, providing Google Maps is part of our customer service.

What data is stored by Google Maps?

In order for Google Maps to fully offer its service, the company must record and store data from you. This includes the search terms entered, your IP address and also the latitude and longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the start address entered is also stored. However, this data storage happens on the websites of Google Maps. We can only inform you about this, but have no influence. Since we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google sets at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behavior. Google uses this data primarily to optimize its own services and to provide individual, personalized advertising for you.

The following cookie is set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps:

Name: NID
Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ111464339-5
Purpose: NID is used by Google to match ads to your Google searches. With the help of the cookie, Google "remembers" your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way, you will always get tailored ads. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal preferences for advertising purposes.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Note: We cannot guarantee the completeness of the stored data. Especially when using cookies, changes can never be ruled out. In order to identify the cookie NID, a separate test page was created, where only Google Maps was integrated.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google servers are located in data centers around the world. However, most servers are located in America. For this reason, your data is also increasingly stored in the USA. Here you can read exactly where the Google data centers are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Google distributes the data on different data carriers. This means that the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against any attempts at manipulation. Each data center also has special emergency programs. If, for example, there are problems with Google's hardware or a natural disaster paralyzes the servers, the data will pretty much remain protected anyway.

Google stores some data for a set period of time. For other data, Google only offers the option to delete it manually. Furthermore, the company also anonymizes information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 and 18 months, respectively.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

With the automatic deletion of location and activity data introduced in 2019, location and web/app activity information will be stored for either 3 or 18 months - depending on your decision - and then deleted. In addition, you can also manually delete this data from your history at any time via your Google account. If you want to completely prevent your location tracking, you need to pause the "Web and App Activity" section in Google Account. Click "Data and personalization" and then click the "Activity setting" option. Here you can turn the activities on or off.

In your browser, you can also disable, delete or manage individual cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this always works slightly differently. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you generally do not want cookies, you can set your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not.

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. If you would like to learn more about Google's data processing, we recommend that you read the company's in-house privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Fonts Privacy Policy

On our website we use Google Fonts. These are the "Google Fonts" of the company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services.

You do not need to log in or enter a password to use Google Fonts. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, the requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google account, you do not need to worry that your Google account information, while using Google Fonts, will be transmitted to Google. Google records the usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely. We'll look at exactly what the data storage looks like in more detail.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google makes available to your users for free.

Many of these fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, while others are released under the Apache License. Both are free software licenses.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

With Google Fonts, we can use fonts on our own website, and not have to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component to keep the quality of our website high. All Google Fonts are automatically optimized for the web and this saves data volume and is a big advantage especially for mobile use. When you visit our site, the low file size ensures a fast loading time. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different image synthesis systems (rendering) in different browsers, operating systems and mobile devices can lead to errors. Such errors can sometimes visually distort texts or entire web pages. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all major browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). So, we use the Google Fonts to make all our online service as beautiful and consistent as possible.

What data is stored by Google?

When you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded via a Google server. Through this external call, data is transmitted to the Google servers. In this way, Google also recognizes that you or your IP address is visiting our website. The Google Fonts API is designed to reduce the use, storage, and collection of end-user data to what is necessary for proper font delivery. By the way, API stands for "Application Programming Interface" and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software field.

Google Fonts stores CSS and font requests securely at Google and is therefore protected. Through the collected usage figures, Google can determine how well the individual fonts are received. Google publishes the results on internal analysis pages, such as Google Analytics. In addition, Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites are using Google fonts. This data is published to the Google Fonts BigQuery database. Entrepreneurs and developers use Google's BigQuery web service to examine and move large amounts of data.

It should be noted, however, that each Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution and browser name to the Google servers. Whether this data is also stored cannot be clearly determined or is not clearly communicated by Google.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google stores requests for CSS assets for one day on its servers, which are mainly located outside the EU. This allows us to use fonts with the help of a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a format template that can be used to easily and quickly change the design or font of a web page, for example.

The font files are stored by Google for one year. Google thus pursues the goal of fundamentally improving the loading time of web pages. When millions of web pages reference the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and immediately reappear on all other web pages visited later. Sometimes Google updates font files to reduce file size, increase language coverage, and improve design.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The data that Google stores for one day or one year cannot simply be deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is accessed. To delete this data prematurely, you need to contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=111464339. You can only prevent data storage in this case if you do not visit our site.

Unlike other web fonts, Google allows us unlimited access to all fonts. So we can access an unlimited sea of fonts and get the most out of them for our website. You can find out more about Google Fonts and other issues at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=111464339. While Google does address privacy-related issues there, it doesn't really include detailed information about data storage. It is relatively difficult to get really precise information from Google about stored data.

You can also find out what data is generally collected by Google and what this data is used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy

On our website we use Google Fonts of the company Google Inc. For the European area the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible. We have embedded the Google fonts locally, i.e. on our web server - not on Google's servers. This means that there is no connection to Google servers and thus no data transfer or storage.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts used to be called Google Web Fonts. This is an interactive directory of over 800 fonts that Google provides for free. With Google Fonts, you could use fonts without uploading them to your own server. However, in order to prevent any information transfer to Google servers in this regard, we have downloaded the fonts to our server. This way we act privacy compliant and do not send any data to Google Fonts.

OpenStreetMap Privacy Policy

We have integrated map sections of the online mapping tool "OpenStreetMap" on our website. This is a so-called open source mapping, which we can access via an API (interface). This function is offered by OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom. By using this map function, your IP address will be forwarded to OpenStreetMap. This privacy policy explains why we use functions of the OpenStreetMap tool, where which data is stored and how you can prevent this data storage.

What is OpenStreetMap?

The OpenStreetMap project was launched in 2004. The goal of the project is and was to create a free map of the world. Users collect data worldwide about buildings, forests, rivers and roads. Over the years, an extensive digital world map has been created by users themselves. Of course, the map is not complete, but in most regions it contains a lot of data.

Why do we use OpenStreetMap on our website?

First and foremost, our website should be helpful to you. And from our point of view, it is always helpful when you can find information quickly and easily. On the one hand, this is of course about our services and products, but on the other hand, we also want you to have access to other helpful information. That's why we also use the OpenStreetMap map service. Because this way we can show you, for example, exactly how to find our company. The map shows you the best way to us and your journey becomes a breeze.

What data is stored by OpenStreetMap?

When you visit one of our websites that offers OpenStreetMap, user data is transmitted to the service and stored there. OpenStreetMap collects information about your interactions with the digital map, your IP address, data about your browser, device type, operating system and on which day and at what time you used the service. Tracking software is also used to record user interactions for this purpose. The company specifies the "Piwik" analysis tool here in its own privacy policy.

The collected data is subsequently accessible to the relevant working groups of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. According to the company, personal data is not shared with other individuals or companies unless legally necessary. The third-party provider Piwik does store your IP address, but in shortened form.

The following cookie may be set in your browser when you interact with OpenStreetMap on our website:

Name: _osm_location
Value: 9.63312%7C52.41500%7C17%7CM
Purpose: The cookie is needed to unlock OpenStreetMap content.
Expiration date: after 10 years

If you want to view the full-screen map, you will be linked to the OpenStreetMap website. There, among other things, the following cookies can be stored in your browser:

Name: _osm_totp_token
Value: 148253111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie is used to ensure the operation of the map section.
Expiration date: after one hour

Name: _osm_session
Value: 1d9bfa122e0259d5f6db4cb8ef653a1c
Purpose: The cookie is used to store session information (i.e. user behavior).
Expiration date: after session end

Name: _pk_id.1.cf09
Value: 4a5.1593684142.2.1593688396.1593688396111464339-9
Purpose: This cookie is set by Piwik to store or measure user data such as click behavior.
Expiration date: after one year

How long and where is the data stored?

The API servers, databases and ancillary services servers are currently located in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and the Netherlands. Your IP address and user information stored in truncated form by the web analytics tool Piwik will be deleted after 180 days.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access your personal data and object to its use and processing at any time. You can manage, delete or deactivate cookies that may be set by OpenStreetMap in your browser at any time. However, this will prevent the service from working to its full extent. For each browser, managing, deleting or disabling cookies works slightly differently. Below you will find links to instructions for the most popular browsers:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you want to learn more about OpenStreetMap's data processing, we recommend that you read the company's privacy policy at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

We use on our website the analysis tracking tool Google Analytics (GA) of the American company Google Inc. For the European area the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Analytics collects data about your actions on our website. For example, when you click on a link, this action is stored in a cookie and sent to Google Analytics. Using the reports we receive from Google Analytics, we can better tailor our website and service to your preferences. In the following, we will go into more detail about the tracking tool and, in particular, inform you about what data is stored and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a tracking tool used for traffic analysis of our website. For Google Analytics to work, a tracking code is built into the code of our website. When you visit our website, this code records various actions you take on our website. Once you leave our website, this data is sent to the Google Analytics servers and stored there.

Google processes the data and we receive reports about your user behavior. These reports may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Target group reports: Through target group reports, we get to know our users better and know more precisely who is interested in our service.
Ad reports: Ad reports make it easier for us to analyze and improve our online advertising.
Acquisition reports: Acquisition reports give us helpful information on how to get more people interested in our service.
Behavior reports: This is where we learn how you interact with our website. We can track which path you take on our site and which links you click.
Conversion reports: Conversion is the name given to a process in which you take a desired action as a result of a marketing message. For example, when you go from being just a website visitor to a buyer or newsletter subscriber. These reports help us learn more about how our marketing efforts are working for you. This is how we aim to increase our conversion rate.
Real-time reports: Here we always know immediately what is happening on our website. For example, we can see how many users are reading this text.

Why do we use Google Analytics on our website?

Our goal with this website is clear: we want to provide you with the best possible service. The statistics and data from Google Analytics help us achieve this goal.

The statistically evaluated data shows us a clear picture of the strengths and weaknesses of our website. On the one hand, we can optimize our site so that it is found more easily by interested people on Google. On the other hand, the data helps us to better understand you as a visitor. Thus, we know very well what we need to improve on our website in order to provide you with the best possible service. The data also helps us to carry out our advertising and marketing measures in a more individual and cost-effective way. After all, it only makes sense to show our products and services to people who are interested in them.

What data is stored by Google Analytics?

Google Analytics uses a tracking code to create a random, unique ID associated with your browser cookie. This is how Google Analytics recognizes you as a new user. The next time you visit our site, you will be recognized as a "returning" user. All collected data is stored together with this user ID. This is how it is possible to evaluate pseudonymous user profiles in the first place.

Identifiers such as cookies and app instance IDs measure your interactions on our website. Interactions are all types of actions you take on our website. If you also use other Google systems (such as a Google account), data generated through Google Analytics may be linked to third-party cookies. Google does not share Google Analytics data unless we, as the website operator, authorize it. Exceptions may occur if required by law.

The following cookies are used by Google Analytics:

Name: _ga
Value: 2.1326744211.152111464339-5
Purpose: By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish website visitors.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _gid
Value: 2.1687193234.152111464339-1
Purpose: The cookie is also used to distinguish website visitors
Expiration date: after 24 hours

Name: _gat_gtag_UA_<property-id>
Wert: 1
Verwendungszweck: Wird zum Senken der Anforderungsrate verwendet. Wenn Google Analytics über den Google Tag Manager bereitgestellt wird, erhält dieser Cookie den Namen _dc_gtm_ <property-id>.
Ablaufdatum: nach 1 Minute

Name: AMP_TOKEN
Value: none
Purpose: The cookie has a token that can be used to retrieve a user ID from the AMP client ID service. Other possible values indicate logout, request or error.
Expiration date: after 30 seconds up to one year.

Name: __utma
Value: 1564498958.1564498958.1564498958.1
Purpose: This cookie is used to track your behavior on the website and measure performance. The cookie is updated every time information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: __utmt
Wert: 1
Verwendungszweck: Das Cookie wird wie _gat_gtag_UA_<property-id> zum Drosseln der Anforderungsrate verwendet.
Ablaufdatum: nach 10 Minuten

Name: __utmb
Value: 3.10.1564498958
Purpose: This cookie is used to determine new sessions. It is updated every time new data or info is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: __utmc
Value: 167421564
Purpose: This cookie is used to set new sessions for returning visitors. This is a session cookie and is only stored until you close the browser again.
Expiration date: After you close the browser.

Name: __utmz
Value: m|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/
Purpose: The cookie is used to identify the source of traffic to our website. That is, the cookie stores from where you came to our website. This may have been another page or an advertisement.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Name: __utmv
Value: not specified
Purpose: The cookie is used to store custom user data. It is updated whenever information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Note: This list cannot claim to be complete, as Google also changes the choice of its cookies again and again.

Here we show you an overview of the most important data collected with Google Analytics:

Heatmaps: Google creates so-called heatmaps. Heatmaps allow you to see exactly those areas that you click on. This gives us information about where you are "on the move" on our site.

Session duration: Google defines session duration as the time you spend on our site without leaving. If you have been inactive for 20 minutes, the session ends automatically.

Bounce rate: A bounce is when you view only one page on our website and then leave our website again.

Account creation: When you create an account or place an order on our website, Google Analytics collects this data.

IP address: The IP address is only shown in abbreviated form so that no clear assignment is possible.

Location: The IP address can be used to determine the country and your approximate location. This process is also called IP location determination.

Technical information: Technical information may include your browser type, Internet service provider, or screen resolution.

Source of origin: Google Analytics or, of course, we are also interested in which website or which advertisement you came to our site from.

Other data include contact details, any ratings, playing media (e.g., when you play a video via our site), sharing content via social media, or adding to your favorites. The enumeration does not claim to be complete and only serves as a general orientation of the data storage by Google Analytics.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google has your servers spread all over the world. Most servers are located in America and consequently your data is mostly stored on American servers. Here you can read exactly where Google data centers are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Your data is distributed on different physical data carriers. This has the advantage that the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against manipulation. In every Google data center, there are corresponding emergency programs for your data. If, for example, the hardware at Google fails or natural disasters paralyze servers, the risk of a service interruption at Google still remains low.

Google Analytics has a default retention period of 26 months for your user data. Then your user data is deleted. However, we have the option to choose the retention period of user data ourselves. There are five variants available to us for this purpose:

Deletion after 14 months
Deletion after 26 months
Deletion after 38 months
Deletion after 50 months
No automatic deletion

Once the specified period has expired, the data is deleted once a month. This retention period applies to your data associated with cookies, user recognition and advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick domain cookies). Reporting results are based on aggregated data and are stored separately from user data. Aggregated data is a merging of individual data into a larger unit.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Under European Union data protection law, you have the right to access, update, delete, or restrict your data. Using the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js), you can prevent Google Analytics from using your data. You can download and install the browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Please note that this add-on only disables data collection by Google Analytics.

If you generally want to disable, delete or manage cookies (independently of Google Analytics), there are separate instructions for each browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Google Analytics is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111464339. We hope we have been able to provide you with the most important information about Google Analytics data processing. If you want to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend these two links: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Google Analytics IP anonymization

We have implemented Google Analytics IP address anonymization on this website. This feature was developed by Google to enable this website to comply with applicable data protection regulations and recommendations of local data protection authorities when they prohibit storage of the full IP address. The anonymization or masking of the IP takes place as soon as the IP addresses arrive in the Google Analytics data collection network and before any storage or processing of the data takes place.

For more information on IP anonymization, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=de.

Google Analytics reports on demographic characteristics and interests

We have turned on the advertising reports features in Google Analytics. The demographic and interest reports contain information on age, gender and interests. This allows us - without being able to assign this data to individual persons - to get a better picture of our users. You can learn more about the advertising functions at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3450482?hl=de_AT&utm_id=ad.

You can stop the use of the activities and information of your Google account under "Advertising settings" on https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated via checkbox.

Google Analytics deactivation link

If you click on the following deactivation link, you can prevent Google from collecting further visits to this website. Attention: Deleting cookies, using the incognito/private mode of your browser, or using a different browser will result in data being collected again.

Deactivate Google Analytics

Google Analytics Data Processing Addendum

We have entered into a direct customer agreement with Google for the use of Google Analytics by accepting the "Data Processing Addendum" in Google Analytics.

You can find out more about the data processing addendum for Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3379636?hl=de&utm_id=ad

Google Analytics Google Signals Privacy Policy

We have enabled Google signals in Google Analytics. This updates existing Google Analytics features (advertising reports, remarketing, cross-device reports, and interest and demographic reports) to obtain aggregated and anonymized data from you, provided you have allowed personalized ads in your Google account.

The special thing about this is that it is cross-device tracking. That means your data can be analyzed across devices. By activating Google signals, data is collected and linked to the Google account. Google can thus recognize, for example, if you view a product on our website via a smartphone and only buy the product later via a laptop. Thanks to the activation of Google signals, we can launch cross-device remarketing campaigns that would otherwise not be possible in this form. Remarketing means that we can also show you our offer on other websites.

Google Analytics also collects other visitor data such as location, search history, YouTube history, and data about your actions on our website through Google signals. This gives us better advertising reports from Google and more useful information about your interests and demographics. This includes your age, what language you speak, where you live, or what gender you are. Furthermore, social criteria such as your profession, your marital status or your income are also added. All these characteristics help Google Analytics to define groups of people or target groups.

The reports also help us to better assess your behavior, wishes and interests. This allows us to optimize and adapt our services and products for you. By default, this data expires after 26 months. Please note that this data collection only occurs if you have allowed personalized advertising in your Google account. This is always aggregated and anonymous data and never individual person data. In your Google account, you can manage this data or delete it.

Facebook Pixel Privacy Policy

We use the Facebook pixel from Facebook on our website. For this purpose, we have implemented a code on our website. The Facebook pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that loads a collection of functions that allow Facebook to track your user actions if you came to our website via Facebook ads. For example, when you purchase a product on our website, the Facebook pixel is triggered and stores your actions on our website in one or more cookies. These cookies allow Facebook to match your user data (customer data such as IP address, user ID) with your Facebook account data. Then Facebook deletes this data again. The collected data is anonymous and not visible to us and can only be used in the context of ad placements. If you are a Facebook user yourself and are logged in, your visit to our website is automatically assigned to your Facebook user account.

We want to show our services or products only to those people who are really interested in them. With the help of Facebook pixels, our advertising measures can be better tailored to your wishes and interests. Thus, Facebook users (if they have allowed personalized advertising) get to see suitable advertising. Furthermore, Facebook uses the collected data for analysis purposes and its own advertisements.

Below we show you those cookies that were set by embedding Facebook Pixel on a test page. Please note that these are only sample cookies. Different cookies are set depending on the interaction on our website.

Name: _fbp
Value: fb.1.1568287647279.257405483-6111464339-7
Purpose: This cookie is used by Facebook to display advertising products.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: fr
Value: 0aPf312HOS5Pboo2r..Bdeiuf...1.0.Bdeiuf.
Purpose: This cookie is used to make Facebook pixel work properly.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: comment_author_50ae8267e2bdf1253ec1a5769f48e062111464339-3
Value: author's name
Purpose: This cookie stores the text and name of a user who leaves a comment, for example.
Expiration date: after 12 months

Name: comment_author_url_50ae8267e2bdf1253ec1a5769f48e062
Value: https%3A%2F%2Fwww.testseite...%2F (author's URL)
Purpose: This cookie stores the URL of the website that the user enters in a text field on our website.
Expiration date: after 12 months

Name: comment_author_email_50ae8267e2bdf1253ec1a5769f48e062
Value: author's email address
Purpose: This cookie stores the user's email address if he/she has provided it on the website.
Expiration date: after 12 months

Note: The above cookies refer to an individual user behavior. Especially when using cookies, Facebook changes can never be excluded.

If you are logged in to Facebook, you can change your settings for advertisements yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. If you are not a Facebook user, you can basically manage your usage-based online advertising on http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/. There you have the option to deactivate or activate providers.

If you want to learn more about Facebook's privacy policy, we recommend that you read the company's own data policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Facebook Automatic Advanced Match Privacy Policy

We have also enabled Automatic Advanced Matching as part of the Facebook Pixel feature. This feature of the pixel allows us to send hashed emails, name, gender, city, state, zip code and date of birth or phone number as additional information to Facebook if you have provided us with this data. This activation allows us to tailor advertising campaigns on Facebook even more precisely to people who are interested in our services or products.

Google Tag Manager Privacy Policy

For our website we use the Google Tag Manager of the company Google Inc. For the European area the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. This Tag Manager is one of many helpful marketing products from Google. Through the Google Tag Manager, we can centrally incorporate and manage code sections from various tracking tools that we use on our website.

In this privacy policy, we want to explain in more detail what Google Tag Manager does, why we use it, and in what form data is processed.

What is Google Tag Manager?

Google Tag Manager is an organizational tool that allows us to include and manage website tags centrally and through a user interface. Tags are small sections of code that, for example, record (track) your activities on our website. For this purpose, JavaScript code sections are inserted into the source code of our page. The tags often come from Google-internal products such as Google Ads or Google Analytics, but tags from other companies can also be included and managed via the manager. Such tags perform different tasks. They can collect browser data, feed marketing tools with data, embed buttons, set cookies and also track users across multiple websites.

Why do we use Google Tag Manager for our website?

As the saying goes: organization is half the battle! And that of course also applies to the maintenance of our website. In order to make our website as good as possible for you and all the people who are interested in our products and services, we need various tracking tools such as Google Analytics. The collected data from these tools show us what you are most interested in, where we can improve our services and which people we should still show our offers to. And for this tracking to work, we need to embed appropriate JavaScript codes into our website. In principle, we could include each code section of each tracking tool separately in our source code. However, this requires quite a lot of time and it's easy to lose track. That's why we use the Google Tag Manager. We can easily incorporate the necessary scripts and manage them from one place. Moreover, Google Tag Manager offers an easy-to-use interface and you don't need any programming skills. This is how we manage to keep order in our tag jungle.

What data is stored by Google Tag Manager?

The Tag Manager itself is a domain that does not set any cookies or store any data. It acts as a mere "manager" of the implemented tags. The data is collected by the individual tags of the various web analytics tools. The data is virtually passed through to the individual tracking tools in the Google Tag Manager and is not stored.

However, the situation is completely different with the embedded tags of the various web analysis tools, such as Google Analytics. Depending on the analysis tool, various data about your web behavior is usually collected, stored and processed with the help of cookies. For this, please read our privacy texts on the individual analysis and tracking tools that we use on our website.

In the Tag Manager account settings, we have allowed Google to receive anonymized data from us. However, this is only the use and usage of our Tag Manager and not your data stored via the code sections. We allow Google and others to receive selected data in anonymized form. We thus consent to the anonymous sharing of our website data. Which summarized and anonymous data is forwarded exactly, we could not find out - despite long research. In any case, Google deletes all information that could identify our website. Google combines the data with hundreds of other anonymous website data and creates user trends as part of benchmarking measures. Benchmarking compares our own results with those of our competitors. Processes can be optimized on the basis of the information collected.

How long and where is the data stored?

When Google stores data, this data is stored on Google's own servers. The servers are distributed all over the world. Most of them are located in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can read exactly where the Google servers are located.

How long the individual tracking tools store data from you can be found in our individual privacy texts for the individual tools.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The Google Tag Manager itself does not set cookies, but manages tags from various tracking websites. In our privacy texts for the individual tracking tools, you will find detailed information on how to delete or manage your data.

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111464339. If you want to learn more about Google Tag Manager, we recommend the FAQs at https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html.

Google Site Kit Privacy Policy

We have integrated the WordPress plugin Google Site Kit of the American company Google Inc. into our website. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With Google Site Kit, we can quickly and easily view statistics that come from various Google products such as Google Analytics directly in our WordPress dashboard. The tool or the tools included in Google Site Kit also collect, among other things, personal data from you. In this privacy policy, we explain why we use Google Site Kit, how long and where data is stored, and which other privacy texts are relevant for you in this context.

What is Google Site Kit?

Google Site Kit is a plugin for the WordPress content management system. With this plugin we can view important website analytics statistics directly in our dashboard. These are statistics that are collected by other Google products. First and foremost, from Google Analytics. Besides Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Page Speed Insight, Google AdSense, Google Optimize and Google Tag Manager services can also be linked to Google Site Kit.

Why do we use Google Site Kit on our website?

As a service provider, it is our job to offer you the best possible experience on our website. You should feel comfortable on our website and find exactly what you are looking for quickly and easily. Statistical evaluations help us to get to know you better and to adapt our offer to your wishes and interests. We use various Google tools for these evaluations. Site Kit makes our work much easier in this regard, because we can view and analyze the statistics of Google products right in the dashboard. So we don't have to log in separately for each tool. Site Kit thus always provides a good overview of the most important analysis data.

What data is stored by Google Site Kit?

If you have actively agreed to tracking tools in the cookie notice (also called script or banner), Google products such as Google Analytics will set cookies and send data about you, such as your user behavior, to Google, where it will be stored and processed. This also includes personal data such as your IP address.

For more detailed information on the individual services, we have separate text sections in this privacy statement. For example, take a look at our privacy policy on Google Analytics. Here we go into great detail about the data collected. You will learn how long Google Analytics stores, manages and processes data, which cookies may be used and how you can prevent data storage. Likewise, we also have our own privacy statements with comprehensive information for other Google services such as Google Tag Manager or Google AdSense.

In the following, we show you exemplary Google Analytics cookies that can be set in your browser, provided that you have agreed in principle to data processing by Google. Please note that these cookies are only a selection:

Name: _ga
Value:2.1326744211.152111464339-2
Purpose: By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish website visitors.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _gid
Value:2.1687193234.152111464339-7
Purpose: This cookie is also used to distinguish website visitors.
Expiration date: after 24 hours

Name: _gat_gtag_UA_<property-id>
Wert: 1
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie wird zum Senken der Anforderungsrate verwendet.
Ablaufdatum: nach 1 Minute

How long and where is the data stored?

Google stores collected data on its own Google servers, which are distributed worldwide. Most servers are located in the United States and therefore it is easily possible that your data is also stored there. At https://www.google.com/about /datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can see exactly where the company provides servers.

Data collected by Google Analytics is retained for a standard period of 26 months. After that, your user data is deleted. The retention period applies to all data linked to cookies, user recognition and advertising IDs.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You always have the right to obtain information about your data, to have your data deleted, corrected or restricted. In addition, you can also disable, delete or manage cookies in your browser at any time. Here we show you the corresponding instructions for the most popular browsers:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111464339. To learn more about Google's data processing, we recommend that you read Google's comprehensive privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Hotjar Privacy Policy

We use Hotjar from Hotjar Limited (Level 2, St Julian's Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta) on our website to statistically analyze visitor data. Hotjar is a service that analyzes the behavior and feedback of you, the user, on our website through a combination of analytics and feedback tools. We receive reports and visuals from Hotjar that show us where and how you "move" on our site. Personal data is automatically anonymized and never reaches Hotjar's servers. This means you are not personally identified as a site user and we still learn a lot about your user behavior.

What is Hotjar?

As mentioned in the section above, Hotjar helps us analyze the behavior of our site visitors. These tools that Hotjar offers include heatmaps, conversion funnels, visitor recording, incoming feedback, feedback polls, and surveys (for more information about these, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/). Thus, Hotjar helps us to provide you with a better user experience and service. So on the one hand it provides a good analysis about online behavior, on the other hand we also get a good feedback about the quality of our website. Because besides all the analysis aspects, of course we simply want to know your opinion about our website. And with the feedback tool, that's exactly what we can do.

Why do we use Hotjar on our website?

In recent years, the importance of user experience on websites has increased significantly. And for good reason, too. A website should be built in such a way that you, as a visitor, feel comfortable and find your way around easily. Thanks to Hotjar's analytics and feedback tools, we can make our website and our offer more attractive. Heatmaps from Hotjar prove to be particularly valuable for us. Heatmaps are a form of representation for the visualization of data. Through Hotjar's heatmaps, we see, for example, very precisely what you like to click on, tap on, and where you scroll.

What data is stored by Hotjar?

As you browse our website, Hotjar automatically collects information about your user behavior. In order to be able to collect this information, we have implemented our own tracking code on our website. The following data can be collected via your computer or browser:

IP address of your computer (collected and stored in an anonymous format)
Screen size
Browser info (which browser, which version, etc.)
Your location (but only the country)
Your preferred language setting
Visited web pages (subpages)
Date and time of access to one of our subpages (web pages)

In addition, cookies also store data that is placed on your computer (usually in your browser). No personal data is collected in them. In principle, Hotjar does not share any collected data with third parties. However, Hotjar explicitly points out that it is sometimes necessary to share data with Amazon Web Services. Then parts of your information are stored on their servers. However, Amazon is bound by a confidentiality obligation not to disclose this data.

Only a limited number of people (Hotjar employees) have access to the stored information. Hotjar servers are protected by firewalls and IP restrictions (access only to approved IP addresses). Firewalls are security systems that protect computers from unwanted network access. They are intended to serve as a barrier between Hotjar's secure internal network and the Internet. Furthermore, Hotjar also uses third-party companies, such as Google Analytics or Optimizely, for its services. These companies may also store information that your browser sends to our website.

The following cookies are used by Hotjar. Since we refer, among other things, to the cookie list from the privacy policy of Hotjar at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/cookie-information, not every cookie has an exemplary value. The list shows examples of Hotjar cookies used and does not claim to be complete.

Name: ajs_anonymous_id
Value: %2258832463-7cee-48ee-b346-a195f18b06c3%22111464339-5
Purpose: The cookie is usually used for analytics purposes and helps count visitors to our site by tracking whether you have been to this page before.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: ajs_group_id
Value : 0
Purpose: This cookie collects data about user behavior. This data can then be assigned to a specific visitor group based on commonalities among website visitors.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjid
Value: 699ffb1c-4bfb-483f-bde1-22cfa0b59c6c
Purpose: The cookie is used to maintain a Hotjar user ID that is unique to the website in the browser. This allows user behavior to be associated with the same user ID on subsequent visits.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjMinimizedPolls
Value: 462568111464339-8
Purpose: Whenever you minimize a Feedback Poll widget, Hotjar sets this cookie. The cookie ensures that the widget stays minimized when you browse our pages.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjIncludedInSample
Value : 1
Purpose: This session cookie is set to inform Hotjar if you are part of the selected people (sample) used to generate funnels.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjClosedSurveyInvites
Purpose: This cookie is set when you see an invitation to a feedback survey via a pop-up window. The cookie is used to ensure that this invitation appears only once for you.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjDonePolls
Purpose: As soon as you finish a feedback "question round" with the so-called Feedback Poll widget, this cookie is set in your browser. This prevents Hotjar from sending you the same surveys again in the future.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjDoneTestersWidgets
Purpose: This cookie will be used as soon as you enter your data in the "Recruit User Tester Widget". With this widget we want to recruit you as a tester. So that this form does not appear again and again, the cookie is used.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets
Purpose: To keep the "Recruit User Tester" minimized on all our pages once you have minimized it, this cookie is set.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _hjShownFeedbackMessage
Purpose: This cookie is set when you have minimized or completed the incoming feedback. This is done so that the incoming feedback is immediately loaded as minimized when you navigate to another page where it should be displayed.
Expiration date: after one year

How long and where is the data stored?

We have included a tracking code on our website that is transmitted to Hotjar servers in Ireland (EU). This tracking code contacts Hotjar's servers and sends a script to your computer or device that you use to access our site. The script collects certain data related to your interaction with our website. This data is then sent to Hotjar's servers for processing. Hotjar has imposed on itself a 365-day data retention period. This means that all data collected by Hotjar that is older than one year is automatically deleted.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Hotjar does not store any personal data about you for analysis. The company even advertises with the slogan "We track behavior, not individuals". You also always have the option to prevent the collection of your data. To do so, you just need to go to the "Opt-out page" and click on "Disable Hotjar". Please note that deleting cookies, using the private mode of your browser or using a different browser will cause data to be collected again. Furthermore, you can also activate the "Do Not Track" button in your browser. In the Chrome browser, for example, you have to click on the three bars in the top right corner and go to "Settings". There, in the "Privacy" section, you will find the option "Send a "Do Not Track" request with browser accesses". Now just activate this button and no data will be collected by Hotjar.

More details about the privacy policy and what data is collected by Hotjar and in what way can be found at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy?tid=111464339.

wao.io Privacy Policy

In order to optimize our website as well as possible from a technical point of view, we use the online service wao.io. of the technology company Avenga Germany GmbH, Bahnhofsvorplatz 1, 50667 Cologne, Germany. The service helps us to protect our website from cyber attacks, to increase the loading speed of our website, and to improve the performance of our website in general.

wao.io is a cloud solution. This means that we did not have to change anything in the code or install a plugin for this service to work. Nevertheless, we transmit content from our website to wao.io. Your IP address is also transmitted, processed by wao.io and stored anonymously for seven days in so-called log files. Furthermore, wao.io stores a cookie in your browser on your end device (PC, laptop, tablet, etc.). This cookie is a so-called session cookie and when you close your browser, the cookie is also deleted again. However, permanent cookies are also stored for analysis purposes. In this process, data about your user behavior on our website is determined and stored. For example, which sub-page you view, how long you stay on a page or which buttons you click. Based on this data, wao.io enables us to perform a pseudonymized analysis of user behavior on our website. This helps us, of course, to better respond to your wishes and thus to optimize our overall service. Some of these permanent cookies are deleted after just 30 minutes and others last for up to a year.

Here you can see an example list of cookies that can be set by wao.io:

Name: fdx2v
Value: 1cf811cb0cdf86c6e32b263c4c17554d
Purpose: The cookie is used to identify a page view.
Expiration date: after session end

Name: fdx2s
Value: d8deeaf0c692d4110da9ecd566eca782111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie is used to identify a session.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: fdx2u
Value: d4546d1f71b6f5f19bf347f644ace784111464339-0
Purpose: This cookie is used to recognize you when you return to our website.
Expiration date: after one year

Note: Please note that this is only an exemplary list and does not claim to be complete.

If you do not want these cookies to be set and data about you or your user behavior to be stored, you can also prevent the cookies from being set in your browser. Because in your browser you can manage, disable or delete cookies. Depending on your browser, this always works slightly differently. Here you can find the instructions for the most common browsers.

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

For more information about data processing by wao.io, please see wao.io's privacy policy at https://wao.io/de/privacy.

WP Statistics Privacy Policy

We use the analytics plugin WP Statistics on our website. This plugin was developed by Veronalabs (5460 W Main St, Verona, NY 13478, United States), an American software company. This plugin provides us with simple statistics on how you, as a user, use our website. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about the analysis tool and show you which data is stored where and for how long.

What is WP Statistics?

This plugin is an analytics software designed specifically for websites that use the WordPress content management system. WordPress helps us to easily edit our website even without programming skills. WP Statistics can collect data about how long you stay on our website, which subpages you visit, how many visitors are on the website or from which website you came to us. No cookies are set by WP Statistics and you cannot be identified as a person by the collected data.

Why do we use WP Statistics?

With the help of WP Statistics we get simple statistics that help us to make our website even more interesting and better for you. Our website and the content, products and/or services offered on it should meet your requirements and wishes as well as possible. In order to achieve this goal, we naturally need to find out where we should make improvements and changes. The statistics we receive, help us to get one step closer to this goal.

What data is stored by WP Statistics?

WP Statistics does not set cookies and through the data collected, statistics about the use of our website are generated only in anonymous form. WP Statistics also anonymizes your IP address. You as a person cannot be identified.

Through WP Statistics, visitor data (called Visitos'Data) is collected when your web browser connects to our web server. This data is stored in our database on our server. This includes for example:

the address (URL) of the accessed web page
Browser and browser version
the operating system used
the address (URL) of the previously visited page (referrer URL)
the hostname and IP address of the device from which access is made
Date and time
Country/City Information
Number of visitors coming from a search engine
Duration of the website stay
Clicks on the website

The data will not be shared or sold.

How long and where is the data stored?

All data is stored locally on our web server. The data is stored on our web server until it is no longer needed for the purposes listed above.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to information, correction or deletion and restriction of the processing of your personal data at any time. You can also revoke your consent to the processing of data at any time.

We have now provided you with the most important information about data processing by WP Analytics. Due to the fact that the plugin does not use cookies and the data is stored locally in the web server for statistical analysis, your data is handled very carefully here. If you want to learn more about WP Analytics, you should take a look at their privacy policy at https://wp-statistics.com/privacy-and-policy/.

etracker privacy policy

We use the analysis tracking tool etracker Analytics from the German company etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, D-20459 Hamburg on our website. etracker Analytics is a software that collects and evaluates data about your actions on our website. We receive analysis reports on how you use our website and can thus adapt our offer ever better to your wishes. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about the analysis tool and show you in particular which data is stored when, how and where.

What is etracker?

etracker Analytics is an analysis tool that can measure and analyze the performance of our website and online campaigns. For example, the software program collects data about how long you are on our website, how many users visit our website and from where you came to our website. We also receive precise evaluations of visitor behavior on our website. For example, we can find out which buttons you like to click or which subpages you like and which you tend to avoid. All this information is anonymous. This means that we do not identify you as a person through this data, but only receive general user information and statistics.

Why do we use etracker on our website?

We use the software tool to increase the quality of our website and our offer. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service. We want you to feel comfortable on our website and get exactly what you expect. For this, of course, we need to adapt our offer to your wishes and requirements as much as possible.

The data also helps us to carry out our online marketing and advertising measures more cost-effectively and individually. Of course, we only want to show our offer to people who are interested in it.

What data is stored by etracker?

In order for tracking to work, a JavaScript code must be included in the website. etracker works on a pixel technology.

By default, etracker does not use cookies or technologies for tracking on a website, as this has been implemented in the so-called cookie-less mode by privacy-by-design. In this case, only absolutely necessary cookies are set. However, if you have actively agreed to the use of cookies, etracker also uses cookies.

The following data is stored and processed when the page is called up:

Your pseudonymized IP address
Technical information about your browser, operating system and the terminal device you are using
Location information up to maximum city level
the called URL with associated page title and optional information about the page content
Referrer website: this is the website from which you came to our website
the following page: this is the website where you click afterwards
how long you stay on our website (dwell time)
Interactions on the website. These can be, for example, clicks on the website, entered search terms, downloaded files, videos or ordered items.

This means that web page data from the web server is used here and information that the web browser transmits to the web server to retrieve web pages. This information is transmitted with each individual page request.

Unlike other technologies, etracker does not read any information from the memory of your end device and does not store any data on your end device. The data is not used by etracker for any other purposes or passed on to third parties.

The cookies used do not receive any information that can identify you as a person. Data such as IP address, device and domain data are encrypted or shortened during storage. Thus, the identification of individual persons is neither possible for us nor for etracker.

If you have agreed to the use of cookies, the following cookies may be set:

Name: GS3_v
Value: 146480958111464339-9
Purpose: This cookie is set by the etracker Optimizer web service.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _et_coid
Value: e9cc2b3efbf7807c6157e8b151baa2f3111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie is used for cookie detection and is only set during cookie activation.
Expiration date: after 3 years

Name: pll_language
Value : en
Purpose: This cookie is used to save the default language.
Expiration date: after one year

Note: Please note that the list given here only represents a selection of cookies used and cannot claim to be complete. Which cookies are set in a specific case depends on the respective evaluation mechanisms used. Under the following link, you can view all cookies in a list: https://www.etracker.com/docs/integration-setup/einstellungen-accounts/etracker-cookies/verwendete-cookies-zaehlung/

How long and where is the data stored?

The data center (the servers) is in Hamburg and also the entire system administration takes place in Hamburg. Thus, all data is stored exclusively on German servers. The data is stored by etracker until the contract with us as a customer expires. After a short time after the termination of the contract, all data will be permanently deleted.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to information, correction or deletion and restriction of the processing of your personal data at any time. You can also revoke your consent to the processing of data at any time.

If you basically want to disable, delete or manage cookies, there are separate instructions for each browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

We hope we have been able to provide you with the most important information about etracker's data processing. If you want to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend that you read the company's privacy policy at https://www.etracker.com/datenschutz/.

Newsletter Privacy Policy

When you sign up for our newsletter, you submit the above personal data and give us the right to contact you by email. We use the data stored in the context of the registration for the newsletter exclusively for our newsletter and do not pass them on.

If you unsubscribe from the newsletter - you will find the link for this at the bottom of each newsletter - we will delete all data that was stored with the subscription to the newsletter.

MailChimp Privacy Policy

Like many other websites, we also use the services of the newsletter company MailChimp on our website. The operator of MailChimp is the company The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. Thanks to MailChimp, we can send you interesting news very easily via newsletter. With MailChimp, we don't have to install anything and can still draw from a pool of really useful features. In the following, we will go into more detail about this email marketing service and inform you about the most important privacy-relevant aspects.

What is MailChimp?

MailChimp is a cloud-based newsletter management service. "Cloud-based" means that we do not need to install MailChimp on our own computer or server. Instead, we use the service via an IT infrastructure - which is available over the Internet - on an external server. This way of using a software is also called SaaS (Software as a Service).

With MailChimp we can choose from a wide range of different email types. Depending on what we want to achieve with our newsletter, we can run single campaigns, regular campaigns, autoresponders (automatic emails), A/B tests, RSS campaigns (sending in predefined time and frequency) and follow-up campaigns.

Why do we use MailChimp on our website?

Basically, we use a newsletter service to keep in touch with you. We want to tell you what's new with us or what attractive offers we currently have in our program. For our marketing activities we always look for the simplest and best solutions. And that's why we chose Mailchimp's newsletter management service. Although the software is very easy to use, it offers a large number of helpful features. Thus, we can design interesting and beautiful newsletters in just a short time. Through the design templates offered, we make each newsletter completely individual and thanks to the "Responsive Design", our content is also displayed legibly and beautifully on your smartphone (or any other mobile device).

Through tools such as the A/B test or the extensive analysis options, we see very quickly how our newsletters are received by you. This allows us to react if necessary and improve our offer or our services.

Another advantage is the "cloud system" of Mailchimp. The data is not stored and processed directly on our server. We can retrieve the data from external servers and save our storage space in this way. In addition, the maintenance effort is significantly reduced.

What data is stored by MailChimp?

Rocket Science Group LLC (MailChimp) maintains online platforms that allow us to contact you (if you have subscribed to our newsletter). When you become a subscriber to our newsletter via our website, you confirm by email that you are a member of a MailChimp email list. So that MailChimp can also prove that you have subscribed to the "list provider", the date of subscription and your IP address are stored. Furthermore, MailChimp stores your email address, name, physical address and demographic information, such as language or location.

This information is used to send you emails and enable certain other MailChimp features (such as newsletter evaluation).

MailChimp also shares information with third parties to provide better services. MailChimp also shares some information with third-party advertising partners to better understand its customers' interests and concerns in order to provide more relevant content and targeted advertising.

Through so-called "web beacons" (these are small graphics in HTML emails) MailChimp can determine whether the email has arrived, whether it has been opened and whether links have been clicked. All this information is stored on the MailChimp servers. This gives us statistical evaluations and allows us to see exactly how well our newsletter was received by you. This way we can adapt our offer much better to your wishes and improve our service.

MailChimp may also use this data to improve its own service. This means, for example, that the dispatch can be technically optimized or the location (country) of the recipients can be determined.

The following cookies can be set by Mailchimp. This is not a complete cookie list, but rather an exemplary selection:

Name: AVESTA_ENVIRONMENT
Value : Prod
Purpose: This cookie is necessary to provide the Mailchimp services. It is always set when a user signs up for a newsletter mailing list.
Expiration date: after session end

Name: ak_bmsc
Value: F1766FA98C9BB9DE4A39F70A9E5EEAB55F6517348A7000001111464339-3
Purpose: The cookie is used to distinguish a human from a bot. This allows to create secure reports about the usage of a website.
Expiration date: after 2 hours

Name: bm_sv
Value: A5A322305B4401C2451FC22FFF547486~FEsKGvX8eovCwTeFTzb8//I3ak2Au...
Purpose: The cookie is from MasterPass Digital Wallet (a MasterCard service) and is used to offer a virtual payment transaction to a visitor securely and easily. For this purpose, the user is anonymously identified on the website.
Expiration date: after 2 hours

Name: _abck
Value: 8D545C8CCA4C3A50579014C449B045111464339-9
Purpose: We could not find out more information about the purpose of this cookie
Expiration date: after one year

Sometimes it may happen that you open our newsletter via a specified link for better display. This is the case, for example, if your email program does not work or the newsletter is not displayed properly. The newsletter is then displayed via a MailChimp website. MailChimp also uses cookies (small text files that store data on your browser) on its own websites. In the process, personal data may be processed by MailChimp and its partners (e.g. Google Analytics). This data collection is the responsibility of MailChimp and we have no influence on it. In MailChimp's "Cookie Statement" (at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/) you can find out exactly how and why the company uses cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

Since MailChimp is an American company, all collected data is also stored on American servers.

In principle, the data remains permanently stored on Mailchimp's servers and is only deleted when a request is made by you. You can have us delete your contact. This permanently removes all your personal data for us and anonymizes you in the Mailchimp reports. However, you can also request MailChimp to delete your data directly. Then all your data will be removed there and we will receive a notification from MailChimp. After we receive the email, we have 30 days to delete your contact from all connected integrations.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You can withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter at any time within the received email by clicking on the link at the bottom. Once you have unsubscribed by clicking on the unsubscribe link, your data will be deleted from MailChimp.

If you reach a MailChimp website via a link in our newsletter and cookies are set in your browser, you can delete or deactivate these cookies at any time.

Depending on your browser, disabling or deleting them works slightly differently. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

MailChimp is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&tid=111464339. To learn more about MailChimp's use of cookies, please visit https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/. For information about MailChimp's privacy policy, please visit https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

MailChimp order data processing contract

We have concluded an order data processing contract (Data Processing Addendum) with MailChimp. This contract serves to safeguard your personal data and ensures that MailChimp adheres to the applicable data protection regulations and does not disclose your personal data to third parties.

For more information on this contract, visit https://mailchimp.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/.

Sendinblue Privacy Policy

You can sign up for our newsletter for free on our website. To make this work, we use the email delivery service Sendinblue for our newsletter. This is a service of the German company Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin.

We are of course very pleased if you subscribe to our newsletter. This way, we can always keep you up to date and informed first-hand about what's going on in our company. However, you should know that during the registration process for the newsletter, all data that you enter (such as your e-mail address or your first and last name) is stored and managed on our server and at Sendinblue. This also involves personal data. For example, in addition to the time and date of registration, your IP address is also stored. In the course of registration, you also agree that we can send you the newsletter and it is further referred to this privacy policy.
The newsletter service also provides us with helpful analytics. This means that when we send a newsletter, we learn, for example, whether and when the newsletter was opened by you. Also whether and on which link you click in the newsletter is detected and recorded by the software. This information helps enormously to adapt and optimize our service to your wishes and concerns. After all, we naturally want to offer you the best possible service. So, in addition to the data already mentioned above, such data about your user behavior is also stored.

You can revoke your consent to this data processing at any time. For example, if you click on the unsubscribe link directly in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, the personal data will be deleted from our server and from the Sendinblue servers, which are located in Germany. You have a right to free information about your stored data and, if applicable, also a right to deletion, blocking or correction.

If you wish to obtain more detailed information on data processing, we recommend that you consult the company's privacy policy at https://de.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/ and also the following information page at https://de.sendinblue.com/informationen-newsletter-empfaenger/.

Google AdSense Privacy Policy

We use Google AdSense on this website. This is an advertising program of the company Google Inc. In Europe, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google AdSense allows us to display ads on this website that match our theme. In this way, we offer you ads that ideally represent a real added value for you. In the course of this privacy policy on Google AdSense, we explain why we use Google AdSense on our website, which of your data is processed and stored, and how you can prevent this data storage.

What is Google AdSense?

The Google AdSense advertising program has been around since 2003, but unlike Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords), you can't place ads yourself. Google AdSense displays advertisements on websites, such as ours. The biggest advantage of this advertising service compared to some others is that Google AdSense only shows you ads that match our content. Google has its own algorithm that calculates which ads you will see. Of course, we only want to show you ads that you are interested in and that offer you added value. Google checks which ads are suitable for our website and for our users based on your interests or your user behavior and based on our offer. At this point we would like to mention that we are not responsible for the selection of the advertisements. We only offer the advertising space with our website. The selection of the displayed advertising is made by Google. Since August 2013, the ads are also adapted to the respective user interface. That is, whether you visit our website from your smartphone, your PC or laptop, the ads adapt to your device.

Why do we use Google AdSense on our website?

Running a quality website requires a lot of dedication and great effort. Basically, we are never done with the work on our website. We always try to maintain our site and keep it as up to date as possible. Of course, we also want to achieve economic success with this work. That's why we decided to use advertisements as a source of income. However, the most important thing for us is not to disturb your visit on our website by these ads. With the help of Google AdSense you will only be offered ads that fit our topics and your interests.

Similar to Google indexing for a website, a bot examines the relevant content and offers on our website. Then, the ads are adjusted in terms of content and presented on the website. In addition to the content overlap between the ad and the website offer, AdSense also supports interest-based targeting. This means that Google also uses your data to offer advertising tailored to you. So you get advertising that ideally offers you real added value and we have a higher chance of earning a little something.

What data is stored by Google AdSense?

In order for Google AdSense to display customized advertising tailored to you, cookies are used, among other things. Cookies are small text files that store certain information on your computer.

In AdSense, cookies are intended to enable better advertising. The cookies do not contain any personally identifiable data. However, it should be noted that Google considers data such as "pseudonymous cookie IDs" (name or other identifier is replaced by a pseudonym) or IP addresses as non-personally identifiable information. However, under the GDPR, these data may be considered personal data. Google AdSense sends a cookie to the browser after every impression (this is always the case when you see an ad), every click and every other activity that leads to a call to the Google AdSense servers. If the browser accepts the cookie, it is stored there.

Third-party vendors may place and read cookies on your browser as part of AdSense, or use web beacons to store data they receive through ad delivery on the website. Web beacons are small graphics that do log file analysis and log file recording. This analysis enables statistical analysis for online marketing.

Google may collect certain information about your user behavior on our website through these cookies. This includes:

Information on how you interact with an ad (clicks, impression, mouse movements)
Information about whether an ad has already appeared in your browser at an earlier time. This data helps to avoid showing you an ad more than once.

In the process, Google analyzes and evaluates the data on the displayed advertising media and your IP address. Google uses the data primarily to measure the effectiveness of an ad and to improve the advertising offer. This data is not linked to personal data that Google may have about you via other Google services.

In the following, we present cookies that Google AdSense uses for tracking purposes. Here we refer to a test website that has Google AdSense installed exclusively:

Name: uid
Value: 891269189111464339-8
Purpose: The cookie is stored under the domain adform.net. It provides a uniquely assigned, machine-generated user ID and collects data about activity on our website.
Expiration date: after 2 months

Name: C
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie identifies whether your browser accepts cookies. The cookie is stored at the domain track.adform.net.
Expiration date: after 1 month

Name: cid
Value: 8912691894970695056,0,0,0
Purpose: This cookie is stored at the track.adform.net domain, stands for Client ID, and is used to improve advertising for you. It can deliver more relevant ads to the visitor and helps to improve campaign performance reports.
Expiration date: after 2 months

Name: IDE
Value: zOtj4TWxwbFDjaATZ2TzNaQmxrU111464339-1
Purpose: The cookie is stored at the doubleclick.net domain. It is used to register your actions after viewing or clicking the ad. This allows us to measure how well an ad is received by our visitors.
Expiration date: after 1 month

Name: test_cookie
Value: not specified
Purpose: The "test_cookie" can be used to check whether your browser supports cookies at all. The cookie is stored under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiration date: after 1 month

Name: CT592996
Value:733366
Purpose: Stored under the domain adform.net. The cookie is set as soon as you click on an advertisement. We could not find out more detailed information about the use of this cookie.
Expiration date: after one hour

Note: This list cannot claim to be exhaustive, as experience has shown that Google is always changing its choice of cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google collects your IP address and various activities you perform on the website. Cookies store this information about interactions on our website. According to Google, the company collects and stores the specified information in a secure manner on Google's in-house servers in the USA.

If you do not have a Google account or are not logged in, Google stores the collected data with a unique identifier (ID) mostly on your browser. The unique IDs stored in cookies are used, for example, to ensure personalized advertising. If you are logged into a Google account, Google may also collect personal data.

You can delete some of the data that Google stores at any time (see next section). Much of the information stored in cookies is automatically deleted after a certain period of time. However, there is also data that is stored by Google for a longer period of time. This is the case when Google, due to economic or legal necessities, has to store certain data over an indefinite, longer period of time.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You always have the option to delete or disable cookies that are on your computer. How exactly this works depends on your browser.

Here you can find the instructions on how to manage cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you do not want to have cookies in principle, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow the cookie or not. Downloading and installing this browser plug-in at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996 will also disable all "advertising cookies". Keep in mind that by disabling these cookies, you do not prevent the ads, only the personalized ads.

If you have a Google account, you can deactivate personalized advertising on the https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated website. You will continue to see ads here as well, but they will no longer be customized to your interests. Nevertheless, the ads are displayed based on a few factors, such as your location, browser type and the search terms used.

You can find out what data Google basically collects and what they use this data for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Amazon Affiliate Program Privacy Policy

We use on our website the Amazon affiliate program of the company Amazon.com, Inc. The data controllers in terms of the privacy policy are Amazon Europe Core S.à.r.l., Amazon EU S.à.r.l, Amazon Services Europe S.à.r.l. and Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., all four located 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg as well as Amazon Instant Video Germany GmbH, Domagkstr. 28, 80807 Munich. Amazon Deutschland Services GmbH, Marcel-Breuer-Str. 12, 80807 Munich, Germany, will act as data processor. By using this Amazon affiliate program, data from you may be transferred to Amazon, stored and processed.

In this privacy policy, we inform you about what data is involved, why we use the program and how you can manage or prevent the data transfer.

What is the Amazon Affiliate Program?

The Amazon affiliate program is an affiliate marketing program of the online shipping company Amazon.de. Like any affiliate program, the Amazon affiliate program is based on the principle of the brokerage commission. Amazon or we place advertising or affiliate links on our website and if you click on them and buy a product through Amazon, we receive an advertising fee (commission).

Why do we use the Amazon affiliate program on our website?

Our goal is to provide you a pleasant time with a lot of helpful content. For this we put a lot of work and energy into the development of our website. With the help of the Amazon affiliate program we have the possibility to be rewarded a little bit for our work. Every affiliate link to Amazon is of course always related to our topic and shows offers that might interest you.

What data is stored by the Amazon affiliate program?

As soon as you interact with Amazon's products and services, Amazon collects data from you. Amazon distinguishes between information that you actively provide to the company and information that is automatically collected and stored. Active information" includes, for example, name, email address, phone number, age, payment information or location information. So-called "automatic information" is primarily stored via cookies. This includes information on user behavior, IP address, device information (browser type, location, operating systems) or the URL. Amazon also stores the clickstream. This refers to the path (sequence of pages) that you as a user take to get to a product. Amazon also stores cookies in your browser in order to be able to trace the origin of an order. In this way, the company recognizes that you have clicked on an Amazon advertisement or a partner link via our website.

If you have an Amazon account and are logged in while browsing our website, the collected data may be assigned to your account. You can prevent this by logging out of Amazon before browsing our website.

Here we show you example cookies that are set in your browser when you click on an Amazon link on our website.

Name: uid
Value: 3230928052675285215111464339-9
Purpose: This cookie stores a unique user ID and collects information about your website activity.
Expiration date: after 2 months

Name: ad-id
Value: AyDaInRV1k-Lk59xSnp7h5o
Purpose: This cookie is provided by amazon-adsystem.com and is used by the company for various advertising purposes.
Expiration date: after 8 months

Name: uuid2
Value: 8965834524520213028111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie enables targeted and interest-based advertising via the AppNexus platform. For example, the cookie collects and stores anonymous data about which ads you have clicked on and which pages you have visited via the IP address.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: session-id
Value: 262-0272718-2582202111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie stores a unique user ID that the server assigns to you for the duration of a website visit (session). If you visit the same page again, the information stored in it will be retrieved.
Expiration date: after 15 years

Name: APID
Value: UP9801199c-4bee-11ea-931d-02e8e13f0574
Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use a website and what advertisements you viewed before visiting the website.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: session-id-time
Value: tb:s-STNY7ZS65H5335FZEVPE|1581329862486&t:1581329864300&adb:adblk_no
Purpose: This cookie records the time you spend on a web page with a unique cookie ID.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: csm-hit
Value: 2082754801l
Purpose: We could not find out exact information about this cookie.
Expiration date: after 15 years

Note: Please note that this list only shows cookie examples and cannot claim to be complete.

Amazon uses this received information to tailor advertisements more precisely to users' interests.

How long and where is the data stored?

Personal data is stored by Amazon for as long as it is required for Amazon's business services or is necessary for legal reasons. Since the Amazon company is headquartered in the USA, the collected data is also stored on American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. If you have an Amazon account, you can manage or delete much of the data collected in your account.

Another option to manage Amazon's data processing and storage according to your preferences is provided by your browser. There you can manage, disable or delete cookies. This works a bit differently for each browser. Here you can find the instructions for the most popular browsers:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Amazon is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the proper transfer of personal data between the U.S. and the EU. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TOWQAA4. We hope we have brought you closer to the most important information about data transfer through the use of the Amazon Affiliate Program. You can find more information at https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010.

Google Ads (Google AdWords) Conversion Tracking Privacy Policy

We use Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords) as an online marketing measure to promote our products and services. In this way, we want to draw more people's attention to the high quality of our offerings on the Internet. As part of our advertising measures through Google Ads, we use the conversion tracking of the company Google Inc. on our website. In Europe, however, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With the help of this free tracking tool, we can better adapt our advertising offer to your interests and needs. In the following article, we will go into more detail about why we use conversion tracking, what data is stored in the process, and how you can prevent this data storage.

What is Google Ads conversion tracking?

Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords) is the in-house online advertising system of Google Inc. We are convinced of the quality of our offer and want as many people as possible to get to know our website. In the online sector, Google Ads offers the best platform for this. Of course, we also want to get an accurate overview of the cost-benefit factor of our advertising campaigns. That's why we use the conversion tracking tool from Google Ads.

But what is a conversion actually? A conversion occurs when you go from being a purely interested website visitor to an active visitor. This happens whenever you click on our ad and then perform another action, such as visiting our website. With Google's conversion tracking tool, we record what happens after a user clicks on our Google Ads ad. For example, we can see whether products are purchased, services are used or whether users have signed up for our newsletter.

Why do we use Google Ads conversion tracking on our website?

We use Google Ads to draw attention to our offer on other websites as well. The goal is to ensure that our advertising campaigns really only reach those people who are interested in our offers. With the conversion tracking tool we see which keywords, ads, ad groups and campaigns lead to the desired customer actions. We see how many customers interact with our ads on a device and then make a conversion. Through this data, we can calculate our cost-benefit factor, measure the success of individual advertising measures and consequently optimize our online marketing measures. We can also use the data obtained to make our website more interesting for you and adapt our advertising offer even more individually to your needs.

What data is stored with Google Ads conversion tracking?

We have included a conversion tracking tag or code snippet on our website to better analyze certain user actions. If you now click on one of our Google Ads ads, the cookie "Conversion" is stored on your computer (mostly in the browser) or mobile device by a Google domain. Cookies are small text files that store information on your computer.

Here are the data of the most important cookies for conversion tracking by Google:

Name: Conversion
Value: EhMI_aySuoyv4gIVled3Ch0llweVGAEgt-mr6aXd7dYlSAGQ111464339-3
Purpose: This cookie stores every conversion you make on our site after coming to us through a Google Ad.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: _gac
Value: 1.1558695989.EAIaIQobChMIiOmEgYO04gIVj5AYCh2CBAPrEAAYASAAEgIYQfD_BwE
Purpose: This is a classic Google Analytics cookie and is used to record various actions on our website.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Note: The cookie _gac only appears in connection with Google Analytics. The above list does not claim to be complete, as Google also uses other cookies for analytical evaluation.

As soon as you complete an action on our website, Google recognizes the cookie and saves your action as a so-called conversion. As long as you surf our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google recognize that you have found us via our Google Ads ad. The cookie is read and sent back to Google Ads with the conversion data. It is also possible that other cookies are used to measure conversions. The conversion tracking of Google Ads can be further refined and improved with the help of Google Analytics. For ads that Google displays in various locations on the web, cookies named "__gads" or "_gac" may be set under our domain. Since September 2017, various campaign information from analytics.js is stored with the _gac cookie. The cookie stores this data as soon as you visit one of our pages for which the automatic tagging of Google Ads has been set up. Unlike cookies set for Google domains, Google can only read these conversion cookies when you are on our website. We do not collect or receive any personal data. We receive a report from Google with statistical evaluations. For example, we learn the total number of users who clicked on our ad and we see which advertising measures were well received.

How long and where is the data stored?

At this point, we would like to point out that we have no influence on how Google uses the collected data. According to Google, the data is encrypted and stored on secure servers. In most cases, conversion cookies expire after 30 days and do not transmit any personal data. The cookies named "Conversion" and "_gac" (which is used in conjunction with Google Analytics) have an expiration date of 3 months.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the option not to participate in Google Ads conversion tracking. If you deactivate the Google conversion tracking cookie via your browser, you block conversion tracking. In this case, you will not be included in the statistics of the tracking tool. You can change the cookie settings in your browser at any time. For each browser, this works slightly differently. Here you can find the instructions on how to manage cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you do not want to have cookies in principle, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow the cookie or not. Downloading and installing this browser plug-in at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996 will also disable all "advertising cookies". Keep in mind that by disabling these cookies, you do not prevent the ads, only the personalized ads.

Through the certification for the American-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", the American company Google LLC must comply with the data protection laws applicable in the EU. If you would like to learn more about data protection at Google, we recommend Google's general privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Microsoft Advertising Privacy Policy

For our online marketing measures we also use the advertising program Microsoft Advertising of the company Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. With the help of Microsoft Advertising, we want to draw the attention of many people to the high quality of our products and/or services. To do this, we use a technology (conversion tracking tool) from Microsoft on our website, which also stores data from you. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about this service, show you what data is stored, managed and processed and how you can prevent this data storage.

What is Microsoft Advertising?

You may be more familiar with Microsoft Advertising under its former name "Bing Ads". This is an advertising program from Microsoft that is based on a pay-per-click system. This means that advertisers can place ads via the Bing and Yahoo! search engines and only pay when a user clicks on the ad.

Why do we use Microsoft Advertising?

We are convinced of our offers and naturally want to present them to a broad public. With Microsoft Advertising we can bring our products or services closer to exactly those people who are really interested in them. We want to present our products not only on the famous search engine Google, but also on Bing and Yahoo! With Microsoft Advertising, we also have the opportunity to place ads in the so-called "Microsoft Audience Network". For example, we can also place ads in LinkedIn. Through conversion tracking, we learn, for example, through which ad you found us, which subpages you particularly like and what actions you perform on our website. This data enables us to adapt our website, our ads and our offers much better to your needs.

What data is stored by Microsoft Advertising?

We have integrated a conversion tracking tag (i.e. a small code snippet) from Microsoft Advertising into our website. This is the so-called Universal Event Tracking (UET) tag. If you come to our website via a Microsoft advertisement, we can use this tracking tool to learn more about your user behavior on our website. For example, we learn which keyword or ad you came to us from, what you click on on our website, how many people visit our website through Microsoft Ads, and how long you stay on our website. All of this data relates to user behavior and not personal data. We therefore only receive data or evaluations of your web behavior, but no personal information. Microsoft uses the data to optimize its own advertising and other services. If you have a Microsoft account yourself, the collected data can be linked to your account. Thus, it is also possible that Microsoft recognizes and stores your IP address. To store all this data about your user behavior, the following cookie is set in your browser after you have come to our website via a Microsoft ad:

Name: MUIDB
Value: 08A53CA3313F6255044C307E353F61CD
Purpose: This cookie is set by our embedded Microsoft tag (UET tag) and is used to synchronize across different Microsoft websites. This allows users to be recognized across different domains.
Expiration date: after one year

However, if you arrive at our website via a Bing ad, for example, other cookies may be set in your browser. Here we show you a selection of other cookies:

Name: ABDEF
Value: V=0&ABDV=0&MRNB=1594294373452&MRB=0111464339-7
Purpose: We could not find out more detailed information about this cookie.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: SRCHD
Value: AF=NOFORM
Purpose: This cookie is responsible for the functionality of the tracking or the website.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: SRCHHPGUSR
Value : WTS=63729889193&HV=1594294374&CW=1920&CH=937&DPR=1&UTC=120&DM=0
Purpose: This cookie tracks and stores your user behavior on our website and Bing Map interface interaction.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: SRCHUID
Value: V=2&GUID=157B20CCF36A43F3A4AE9790346EB7A7&dmnchg=1
Purpose: This cookie tracks and stores your user behavior on our website and Bing Map API interaction.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _EDGE_S
Value: mkt=en-at&SID=2EE7002D956A61511D280F2F9474607111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie collects and stores your user behavior across multiple websites. The aim of targeting is to better adapt advertising measures to the interests of our target group.
Expiration date: after the end of the browser session.

Name: _SS
Value: SID=2EE7002D956A61511D280F2F94746077111464339-9
Intended use: Among other things, this cookie is used to recognize how you as a user accessed our website. In other words, via which advertisement you were directed to our website.
Expiration date: after one year

How long and where is the data stored?

We have no influence on how Microsoft uses the collected user data. Microsoft has its own servers in operation worldwide. Most of them are located in the United States and therefore your data may be stored, managed and processed on American servers. Microsoft stores data (especially personal data) as long as it is necessary for the provision of its own services or products or for legal purposes. Microsoft also mentions that the actual retention period varies greatly and depends on the respective product.

For searches via Bing, Microsoft deletes your saved searches after 6 months by deleting your IP address. Cookie IDs, such as those generated via the cookie MUID, are made unrecognizable after 18 months.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You always have the option not to participate in the conversion tracking of Microsoft Ads. If you do not want to be shown interest-based advertisements from Microsoft Advertising, you can disable this feature at https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/signedout. In addition, you can also disable, manage or delete all cookies in your browser. This works a little differently for each browser. You can find the instructions for the most popular browsers here:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

We hope to have provided you with an overview of data processing through Microsoft Ads conversion tracking. Of course, it is always possible that Microsoft's privacy policies change. For more information and to stay up to date, we also recommend that you read Microsoft's privacy policy at https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

plista privacy policy

We use plista of the company plista GmbH (Torstraße 33-35, 10119 Berlin, Germany) on this website to display suitable online advertising and interesting content for you. In the process, data is collected from you, stored and processed. In this privacy policy, we inform you why we use plista, what data is stored where and how you can manage or prevent this data processing.

What is plista?

plista analyzes your visitor behavior on our website and, with the help of the collected data and a real-time recommendation technology, ensures that you see suitable advertisements and appropriate paid content (e.g. posts). plista recommends certain content or advertisements to visitors of websites in the plista network (such as this website) based on the analysis of collected data gathered or accessed on pages in the plista network. This includes content that may be of interest to you, content based on the interests of similar users, and content that users have previously viewed on websites outside of the plista network.

Why do we use plista on our website?

We want to offer you the best possible service and user experience (UX) on our website. For us, this also means that you only see content and ads that really interest you. Through plista, we can tailor ads and other content to your exact preferences and interests. This way, we provide you with good content and reach our business goals easier and faster.

What data is stored by plista?

The plista services collect information about visitor behavior when visitors access, view and interact with websites of the plista network and advertisements. plista collects data for this purpose, which can be used to identify browsers and devices that repeatedly visit pages of the plista network:

Cookie IDs to identify the browser
Advertising IDs for mobile devices to recognize the advertising environment
IP addresses and data derived from such IP addresses, such as imprecise geolocation data indicating a device's country, region, city, and/or zip code area
Type of Internet browser, browser language and operating system
Type of connection (wired or wireless); network to which the device is connected and mobile operator (if available).
Latitude/longitude of a mobile device.

The data collected by plista never includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses or similar data of the users and is also not linked to such. It is therefore not possible for plista to draw conclusions about natural persons.

In the following, we show you cookies that plista can set in your browser. The cookies found cannot claim to be complete and only serve as an example.

Name: Pookie
Value: HhjIN4SdViBlW1ZTPZuoWBdoQTF4L5DINUZEtNQVSzU=
Purpose: This cookie gives you a random cookie ID that serves as identification.
Expiration date: after 50 years

Name: Ploptout
Value : 1
Purpose: This cookie stores the information that you have used the opt-out function.
Expiration date: after 30 years

Name: rt11
Value: AlnCL9toeaa5lX0u2uS7D1B%2BinxhWAjqYkRre9sYf%2BI%3111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie stores retargeting campaign IDs from you.
Expiration date: after 60 days

Name: um
Value: c3de=1581682028%3B3420334527069442875&crc=8d5889e4c3c6bd6237e6fd9c2b94624111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie stores third-party IDs of you submitted by partners.
Expiration date: after 30 days

Name: arv
Value: q1YqSy0qzszPU7Iy0lFKSSxJVLKKrlYysrQ0sQSylEzNDSxMDI2NjJRia2111464339-8
Purpose: This cookie stores the posts you have previously viewed.
Expiration date: after 3 days

Name: rec
Value: a%3A0%3A%7B%7D
Purpose: This cookie stores the recommendations you have previously clicked on.
Expiration date: after 3 days

Name: red
Value: a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Ba%3A1%3A%7BA9%3A%22477939325%22%3111464339-9
Purpose: This cookie stores the recommendations previously displayed for you.
Expiration date: after 3 days

Name: frc
Value: q1YqSy0qzszPU7Iy0lFKSSxJVLKKjq0FAA
Purpose: The cookie ensures that visitors see ads only in limited numbers.
Expiration date: after 3 days

plista passes on visitor data (in particular the cookie ID assigned by us or the respective advertising ID) to selected third-party providers and service providers, for example in order to play out special types of advertising and to improve its own services.

How long and where is the data stored?

All visitor data from the EU is stored on the plista servers in Germany. The plista targeting cookie has a storage period of one year and is automatically deleted after this time. All your data will also be deleted or anonymized no later than one year after it has been collected and, in the latter case, can only be used for statistical purposes.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. With the opt-out button on https://www.plista.com/de/ueber/opt-out you can stop the collection of your data.

In addition, you also have the option in your browser to prevent data processing by plista. As mentioned above, plista stores most data via cookies that are set in your browser. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies. Depending on which browser you have, the management works slightly differently. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

You can also basically set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about data processing by plista. At https://www.plista.com/de/ueber/privacy you can learn even more about the company's privacy policy.

Embedded Social Media Elements Privacy Policy

We integrate elements of social media services on our website to display images, videos and texts.
When you visit pages that display these elements, data is transferred from your browser to the respective social media service and stored there. We do not have access to this data.
The following links will take you to the pages of the respective social media services where it is explained how they handle your data:

Instagram Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
For YouTube, the Google privacy policy applies: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Facebook Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Twitter Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy

Facebook privacy policy

We use selected tools from Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social media network of the company Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. With the help of these tools we can offer you and people who are interested in our products and services the best possible offer. In the following, we provide an overview of the various Facebook tools, what data is sent to Facebook and how you can delete this data.

What are Facebook tools?

Among many other products, Facebook also offers the so-called "Facebook Business Tools". This is the official name of Facebook. However, since the term is hardly known, we have decided to simply call them Facebook Tools. Among them are:

Facebook Pixel
social plug-ins (such as the "Like" or "Share" button)
Facebook Login
Account Kit
APIs (Application Programming Interface)
SDKs (collection of programming tools)
Platform integrations
Plugins
Codes
Specifications
Documentations
Technologies and services

Through these tools, Facebook extends services and has the ability to obtain information about user activity outside of Facebook.

Why do we use Facebook tools on our website?

We want to show our services and products only to people who are really interested in them. With the help of advertisements (Facebook ads), we can reach precisely these people. However, in order to show users suitable ads, Facebook needs information about people's wishes and needs. Thus, information about user behavior (and contact data) on our website is made available to the company. As a result, Facebook collects better user data and can show interested people the appropriate advertising about our products or services. The tools thus enable tailored advertising campaigns on Facebook.

Data about your behavior on our website is called "event data" by Facebook. This is also used for measurement and analysis services. Facebook can thus create "campaign reports" on our behalf about the impact of our advertising campaigns. Furthermore, analytics give us better insight into how you use our services, website or products. As a result, we use some of these tools to optimize your user experience on our website. For example, social plug-ins allow you to share content on our site directly on Facebook.

What data is stored by Facebook tools?

By using individual Facebook tools, personal data (customer data) can be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, phone number and IP address may be sent.

Facebook uses this information to match the data with the data it itself has from you (if you are a Facebook member). Before customer data is transmitted to Facebook, a so-called "hashing" takes place. This means that a data record of any size is transformed into a character string. This also serves to encrypt data.

In addition to contact data, "event data" is also transmitted. Event data" refers to the information that we receive about you on our website. For example, which subpages you visit or which products you buy from us. Facebook does not share the information it receives with third parties (such as advertisers) unless the company has explicit permission or is legally required to do so. "Event data" may also be associated with contact information. This allows Facebook to offer better personalized advertising. After the matching process already mentioned, Facebook deletes the contact data again.

In order to deliver ads in an optimized manner, Facebook uses Event Data only when it has been aggregated with other data (collected by Facebook in other ways). Facebook also uses this event data for security, protection, development, and research purposes. Much of this data is transferred to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are small text files used to store data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools you use and whether you are a Facebook member, different numbers of cookies are created in your browser. We go into more detail about individual Facebook cookies in the descriptions of each Facebook tool. General information about the use of Facebook cookies can also be found at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

Basically, Facebook stores data until it is no longer needed for its own services and Facebook products. Facebook has servers all over the world where its data is stored. However, customer data is deleted within 48 hours after it has been compared with its own user data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

In accordance with the Basic Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to information, correction, transferability and deletion of your data.

A complete deletion of the data will only occur if you delete your Facebook account completely. And this is how deleting your Facebook account works:

1) Click Settings on the right side of Facebook.

2) Then click "Your Facebook information" in the left column.

3) Now click "Deactivation and deletion".

4) Now select "Delete account" and then click "Next and delete account".

5) Now enter your password, click "Next" and then click "Delete account".

The storage of data that Facebook receives via our site takes place, among other things, via cookies (e.g. for social plugins). In your browser, you can deactivate, delete or manage individual or all cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC. We hope we have brought you closer to the most important information about the use and data processing by Facebook tools. If you want to learn more about how Facebook uses your data, we recommend that you read the Data Policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

Facebook Social Plug-ins Privacy Policy

So-called social plug-ins of the company Facebook Inc. are installed on our website. You can recognize these buttons by the classic Facebook logo, such as the "Like" button (the hand with raised thumb) or by a clear "Facebook Plug-in" label. A social plug-in is a small part of Facebook that is integrated into our site. Each plug-in has its own function. The most commonly used functions are the well-known "Like" and "Share" buttons.

The following social plug-ins are offered by Facebook:

"Save" button
"Like" button, share, send and quote
Page plug-in
Comments
Messenger plug-in
Embedded posts and video player
Group plug-in

At https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins you will find more detailed information on how the individual plug-ins are used. We use the social plug-ins on the one hand to offer you a better user experience on our site, and on the other hand because Facebook can optimize our advertisements.

If you have a Facebook account or have visited facebook.com before, Facebook has already set at least one cookie in your browser. In this case, your browser sends information to Facebook via this cookie as soon as you visit our site or interact with social plug-ins (e.g. the "Like" button).

The information obtained is deleted or anonymized again within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, which website you visited, the date, the time and other information concerning your browser.

To prevent Facebook from collecting a lot of data during your visit to our website and connecting it with Facebook data, you must log out of Facebook while visiting the website.

If you are not logged into Facebook or do not have a Facebook account, your browser sends less information to Facebook because you have fewer Facebook cookies. Nevertheless, data such as your IP address or which website you visit may be transmitted to Facebook. We would still like to explicitly point out that we do not know exactly about the exact content of the data. However, we try to inform you as best as possible about the data processing according to our current state of knowledge. You can also read how Facebook uses the data in the company's data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

The following cookies are set in your browser at least when you visit a website with social plug-ins from Facebook:

Name: dpr
Value: not specified
Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plug-ins on our website work.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4111464339c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j...1.0.Bde09j
Purpose: The cookie is also necessary for the plug-ins to work properly.
Expiration date:: after 3 months

Note: These cookies were set after a test, even if you are not a Facebook member.

Provided you are logged in to Facebook, you can change your ad settings yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. If you are not a Facebook user, you can manage your usage-based online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/grundsätzlich. There you have the option to deactivate or activate providers.

If you want to learn more about Facebook's privacy policy, we recommend that you read the company's own data policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Facebook Login Privacy Policy

We have integrated the practical Facebook login on our site. This allows you to easily log in to our site with your Facebook account without having to create another user account. If you decide to make your registration via the Facebook Login, you will be redirected to the social media network Facebook. There, the registration takes place via your Facebook user data. Through this login procedure, data about you or your user behavior is stored and transmitted to Facebook.

To store the data, Facebook uses various cookies. Below we show you the most important cookies that are set in your browser or already exist when you log in to our site via the Facebook login:

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j...1.0.Bde09j
Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plugin on our website work at its best.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: datr
Value: 4Jh7XUA2111464339SEmPsSfzCOO4JFFl
Purpose: Facebook sets the "datr" cookie when a web browser accesses facebook.com, and the cookie helps identify login activity and protect users.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _js_datr
Value: deleted
Purpose: This session cookie is set by Facebook for tracking purposes, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are logged out.
Expiration date: after end of session

Note: The cookies listed are only a small selection of the cookies available to Facebook. Other cookies are, for example, _ fbp, sb or wd. A complete list is not possible, since Facebook has a large number of cookies and uses them variably.

The Facebook login offers you a quick and easy registration process on the one hand, on the other hand it gives us the opportunity to share data with Facebook. This allows us to better tailor our offer and promotions to your interests and needs. Data that we receive from Facebook in this way is public data such as.

Your Facebook name
Your profile picture
a deposited e-mail address
Friends lists
Buttons indications (e.g. "Like" button)
Birthday date
Language
Residence

In return, we provide Facebook with information about your activities on our website. This includes information about the device you are using, which of our subpages you visit, or which products you have purchased from us.

By using Facebook Login, you consent to the data processing. You can revoke this agreement at any time. If you want to learn more information about data processing by Facebook, we recommend the Facebook privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

Provided you are logged in to Facebook, you can change your ad settings yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen.

Instagram privacy policy

We have integrated Instagram functions on our website. Instagram is a social media platform of the company Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA. Instagram has been a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. since 2012 and is one of the Facebook products. Embedding Instagram content on our website is called embedding. This allows us to show you content such as buttons, photos or videos from Instagram directly on our website. When you call up web pages on our website that have an Instagram function integrated, data is transmitted to Instagram, stored and processed. Instagram uses the same systems and technologies as Facebook. Your data is thus processed across all Facebook companies.

In the following, we want to give you a more detailed insight into why Instagram collects data, what kind of data it is and how you can largely control the data processing. Since Instagram belongs to Facebook Inc., we obtain our information from the Instagram policies on the one hand, but also from the Facebook data policies themselves on the other hand.

What is Instagram?

Instagram is one of the most popular social media networks in the world. Instagram combines the advantages of a blog with those of audiovisual platforms like YouTube or Vimeo. You can upload photos and short videos on "Insta" (as many of the users casually call the platform), edit them with various filters and also distribute them on other social networks. And if you don't want to be active yourself, you can just follow other interesting users.

Why do we use Instagram on our website?

Instagram is the social media platform that has really gone through the roof in recent years. And of course we have also responded to this boom. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible on our website. That's why a varied preparation of our content is a matter of course for us. Through the embedded Instagram features, we can enrich our content with helpful, funny or exciting content from the Instagram world. Since Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook, the data collected can also serve us for personalized advertising on Facebook. This way, only people who are really interested in our products or services receive our ads.

Instagram also uses the collected data for measurement and analytics purposes. We get aggregate statistics and thus more insight about your likes and interests. It's important to note that these reports do not identify you personally.

What data is stored by Instagram?

When you come across one of our pages that have Instagram features (such as Instagram images or plug-ins) built in, your browser automatically connects to Instagram's servers. In the process, data is sent to Instagram, stored and processed. And this is regardless of whether you have an Instagram account or not. This includes information about our website, about your computer, about purchases made, about advertisements you see and how you use our offer. Furthermore, the date and time of your interaction with Instagram is also stored. If you have an Instagram account or are logged in, Instagram stores significantly more data about you.

Facebook distinguishes between customer data and event data. We assume that this is exactly the same for Instagram. Customer data are, for example, name, address, phone number and IP address. This customer data is only transmitted to Instagram after it has been hashed. Hashing means that a data record is transformed into a character string. This makes it possible to encrypt the contact data. In addition, the "event data" mentioned above is also transmitted. By "event data" Facebook - and consequently Instagram - understands data about your user behavior. It may also happen that contact data is combined with event data. The collected contact data is matched with the data that Instagram already has from you.

Via small text files (cookies), which are usually set in your browser, the collected data is transmitted to Facebook. Depending on the Instagram functions used and whether you have an Instagram account yourself, different amounts of data are stored.

We assume that Instagram's data processing works the same way as Facebook. This means that if you have an Instagram account or have visited www.instagram.com, Instagram has at least set a cookie. If this is the case, your browser sends information to Instagram via the cookie as soon as you come into contact with an Instagram function. At the latest after 90 days (after matching), this data is deleted again or anonymized. Although we have intensively studied Instagram's data processing, we cannot say exactly what data Instagram collects and stores.

Below we show you cookies that are set in your browser at least when you click on an Instagram feature (such as button or Insta image). In our test, we assume that you do not have an Instagram account. Of course, if you are logged in to Instagram, significantly more cookies are set in your browser.

These cookies were used in our test:

Name: csrftoken
Value : ""
Intended use: This cookie is most likely set for security reasons to prevent falsification of requests. However, we could not find out more precisely.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: mid
Value : ""
Purpose: Instagram sets this cookie to optimize its own services and offerings on and off Instagram. The cookie sets a unique user ID.
Expiration date: after the end of the session

Name: fbsr_111464339124024
Value : none
Purpose: This cookie stores the log-in request for users of the Instagram app.
Expiration date: after the end of the session

Name: rur
Value: ATN
Purpose: This is an Instagram cookie that ensures functionality on Instagram.
Expiration date: after the end of the session

Name: urlgen
Wert: “{”194.96.75.33”: 1901}:1iEtYv:Y833k2_UjKvXgYe111464339”
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie dient den Marketingzwecken von Instagram.
Ablaufdatum: nach Ende der Sitzung

Note: We cannot claim completeness here. Which cookies are set in individual cases depends on the embedded features and your use of Instagram.

How long and where is the data stored?

Instagram shares the information it receives between Facebook companies with external partners and with people you connect with around the world. The data processing is done in compliance with its own data policy. Your data is distributed, among other things for security reasons, on Facebook servers around the world. Most of these servers are located in the USA.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Thanks to the Basic Data Protection Regulation, you have the right of access, portability, rectification and deletion of your data. You can manage your data in the Instagram settings. If you want to completely delete your data on Instagram, you must permanently delete your Instagram account.

And this is how the deletion of the Instagram account works:

First, open the Instagram app. On your profile page, go down and click on "Help section". Now you will get to the company's website. On the webpage, click "Manage account" and then click "Delete your account".

When you delete your account entirely, Instagram deletes posts such as your photos and status updates. Information that other people have shared about you does not belong to your account and consequently will not be deleted.

As mentioned above, Instagram stores your data primarily via cookies. You can manage, disable or delete these cookies in your browser. Depending on your browser, the management always works a bit differently. Here we show you the instructions for the most important browsers.

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

You can also basically set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. and Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures proper data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC . We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about data processing by Instagram. You can learn even more about Instagram's data policies at https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
.

Twitter privacy policy

We have integrated Twitter functions on our website. These are, for example, embedded tweets, timelines, buttons or hashtags. Twitter is a short message service and a social media platform of the company Twitter Inc, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland.

To our knowledge, in the European Economic Area and in Switzerland, no personal data or data about your web activities are transmitted to Twitter by the mere inclusion of the Twitter function. Only when you interact with the Twitter functions, such as clicking on a button, can data be sent to Twitter, stored there and processed. We have no influence on this data processing and bear no responsibility for it. Within the framework of this privacy policy, we want to give you an overview of what data Twitter stores, what Twitter does with this data and how you can protect yourself from the data transfer to a large extent.

What is Twitter?

For some, Twitter is a news service, for others a social media platform, and still others speak of a microblogging service. All these terms have their justification and mean more or less the same thing.

Both private individuals and companies use Twitter to communicate with interested people via short messages. Twitter only allows 280 characters per message. These messages are called "tweets. Unlike Facebook, for example, the service does not focus on expanding a network for "friends", but wants to be understood as a worldwide and open news platform. Twitter also allows users to have an anonymous account, and tweets can be deleted by the company on the one hand and by the users themselves on the other.

Why do we use Twitter on our website?

Like many other websites and companies, we try to offer our services and communicate with our customers through various channels. Especially Twitter has grown close to our hearts as a useful "little" news service. Again and again we tweet or retweet exciting, funny or interesting content. We realize that you can't follow every channel separately. After all, you also have something else to do. That's why we have included Twitter functions on our website. You can follow our Twitter activity "on the spot" or follow a direct link to our Twitter page. Through the integration, we want to strengthen our service and user-friendliness on our website.

What data is stored by Twitter?

On some of our subpages you will find the built-in Twitter functions. When you interact with the Twitter content, such as clicking on a button, Twitter may collect and store data. This is the case even if you do not have a Twitter account yourself. Twitter calls this data "log data." It includes demographic data, browser cookie IDs, your smartphone's ID, hashed email addresses, and information about what pages you visited on Twitter and what actions you took. Twitter, of course, stores more data if you have a Twitter account and are logged in. Most of the time, this storage happens via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually set in your browser and transmit different information to Twitter.

We will now show you which cookies are set when you are not logged in to Twitter but visit a website with built-in Twitter functions. Please consider this list as an example. We can by no means guarantee a claim to completeness here, as the choice of cookies always changes and depends on your individual actions with the Twitter content.

These cookies were used in our test:

Name: personalization_id
Value: "v1_cSJIsogU51SeE111464339"
Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and which advertisements may have brought you to Twitter.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: lang
Value: en
Purpose: This cookie stores your preset or preferred language.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: guest_id
Value: 111464339v1%3A157132626
Purpose: This cookie is set to identify you as a guest.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: fm
Value : 0
Purpose: Unfortunately, we were not able to find out the purpose of this cookie.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: external_referer
Value: 1114643392beTA0sf5lkMrlGt
Purpose: This cookie collects anonymous data, such as how often you visit Twitter and how long you visit Twitter.
Expiration date: After 6 days

Name: eu_cn
Value : 1
Purpose: This cookie stores user activity and is used for various advertising purposes by Twitter.
Expiration date: After one year

Name: ct0
Value: c1179f07163a365d2ed7aad84c99d966
Purpose: Unfortunately, we have not found any information about this cookie.
Expiration date: after 6 hours

Name: _twitter_sess
Value: 53D%253D-dd0248111464339-
Purpose: This cookie allows you to use features within the Twitter website.
Expiration date: after end of session

Note: Twitter also works with third-party providers. That's why we also detected the three Google Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid during our test.

Twitter uses the collected data on the one hand to better understand user behavior and thus improve its own services and advertising offers, and on the other hand the data also serves internal security measures.

How long and where is the data stored?

When Twitter collects data from other websites, it is deleted, aggregated, or otherwise obscured after a maximum of 30 days. The Twitter servers are located on various server centers in the United States. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the collected data is collected and stored in America. After our research, we could not clearly determine whether Twitter also has its own servers in Europe. In principle, Twitter can store the collected data until it is no longer useful to the company, you delete the data or there is a legal deletion period.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Twitter repeatedly emphasizes in its privacy policy that it does not store any data from external website visits if you or your browser are located in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. However, if you interact with Twitter directly, Twitter will of course store data about you.

If you have a Twitter account, you can manage your data by clicking "More" under the "Profile" button. Then click on "Settings and privacy". Here you can manage the data processing individually.

If you do not have a Twitter account, you can go to twitter.com and then click on "Individualization". Under the item "Individualization and data" you can manage your collected data.

Most data is stored via cookies, as mentioned above, and you can manage, disable or delete them in your browser. Please note that you only "edit" the cookies in the browser you have chosen. That means: if you use another browser in the future, you will have to manage your cookies there again according to your wishes. Here are the instructions for cookie management of the most popular browsers.

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

You can also manage your browser in such a way that you are informed for each individual cookie. Then you can always decide individually whether to allow a cookie or not.

Twitter also uses the data for personalized advertising inside and outside Twitter. You can disable personalized advertising in the settings under "Personalization and data". If you use Twitter on a browser, you can disable personalized advertising at http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.

Twitter is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures proper data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. Visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO to learn more.

We hope we have given you a basic overview of Twitter's data processing. We do not receive any data from Twitter and are not responsible for what Twitter does with your data. If you have any further questions on this topic, we recommend that you read the Twitter privacy statement at https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

LinkedIn Privacy Policy

We use social plug-ins of the social media network LinkedIn, of the company LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA on our website. The social plug-ins may be feeds, content sharing or links to our LinkedIn page. The social plug-ins are clearly marked with the familiar LinkedIn logo and allow, for example, interesting content to be shared directly via our website. For the European Economic Area and Switzerland, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place in Dublin is responsible for data processing.

By embedding such plug-ins, data can be sent to LinkedIn, stored and processed there. In this privacy policy, we want to inform you about what data is involved, how the network uses this data and how you can manage or prevent the data storage.

What is LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is the largest social network for business contacts. Unlike Facebook, for example, the company focuses exclusively on building business contacts. Companies can present services and products on the platform and establish business relationships. Many people also use LinkedIn to look for jobs or to find suitable employees for their own company. In Germany alone, the network has over 11 million members. In Austria, there are around 1.3 million.

Why do we use LinkedIn on our website?

We know how busy you are. You can't follow all the social media channels individually. Even if it would be worth it, as in our case. Because time and again we post interesting news or reports that are worth spreading. That's why we've made it possible on our website to share interesting content directly on LinkedIn or to link directly to our LinkedIn page. We consider built-in social plug-ins as an extended service on our website. The data that LinkedIn collects also helps us to show possible advertising measures only to people who are interested in our offer.

What data is stored by LinkedIn?

Only through the mere integration of the social plug-ins LinkedIn does not store any personal data. LinkedIn calls this data generated by plug-ins passive impressions. But when you click on a social plug-in, for example to share our content, the platform stores personal data as so-called "active impressions". And this is regardless of whether you have a LinkedIn account or not. If you are logged in, the collected data is assigned to your account.

Your browser establishes a direct connection to LinkedIn's servers when you interact with our plug-ins. In this way, the company logs various usage data. In addition to your IP address, this may include login data, device information, or information about your Internet or mobile provider. If you access LinkedIn services via your smartphone, your location (after you have allowed this) can also be determined. LinkedIn may also share this data in "hashed" form with third-party advertisers. Hashing means turning a record into a string of characters. This makes it possible to encrypt the data in such a way that people can no longer be identified.

Most data about your user behavior is stored in cookies. These are small text files that are usually set in your browser. LinkedIn may also use web beacons, pixel tags, display tags, and other device identifiers.

Various tests also show which cookies are set when a user interacts with a social plug-in. The data found cannot claim to be complete and only serves as an example. The following cookies were set without being logged in to LinkedIn:

Name: bcookie
Value: =2&34aab2aa-2ae1-4d2a-8baf-c2e2d7235c16111464339-
Purpose: The cookie is a so-called "browser ID cookie" and consequently stores your identification number (ID).
Expiration date: After 2 years

Name: lang
Value: v=2&lang=en
Purpose: This cookie stores your default or preferred language.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: lidc
Value: 1818367:t=1571904767:s=AQF6KNnJ0G111464339...
Purpose: This cookie is used for routing. Routing records the ways you came to LinkedIn and how you navigate through the website there.
Expiration date: after 24 hours

Name: rtc
Value: kt0lrv3NF3x3t6xvDgGrZGDKkX
Purpose: No further information could be found about this cookie.
Expiration date: after 2 minutes

Name: JSESSIONID
Value: ajax:1114643392900777718326218137
Purpose: This is a session cookie that LinkedIn uses to maintain anonymous user sessions through the server.
Expiration date: after session end

Name: bscookie
Value: "v=1&201910230812...
Purpose: This cookie is a security cookie. LinkedIn describes it as a secure browser ID cookie.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: fid
Value: AQHj7Ii23ZBcqAAAA...
Purpose: No further information could be found for this cookie.
Expiration date: after 7 days

Note: LinkedIn also works with third-party providers. That is why we also detected the two Google Analytics cookies _ga and _gat during our test.

How long and where is the data stored?

In principle, LinkedIn retains your personal data for as long as the company deems it necessary to provide its own services. However, LinkedIn deletes your personal data when you delete your account. In some exceptional cases, LinkedIn retains some data in aggregate and anonymized form even after you delete your account. Once you delete your account, other people will not be able to see your data within one day. LinkedIn generally deletes data within 30 days. However, LinkedIn retains data if it is necessary due to legal obligation. Data that can no longer be assigned to individuals remain stored even after the account is closed. The data is stored on various servers in America and presumably also in Europe.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. In your LinkedIn account you can manage, change and delete your data. In addition, you can also request a copy of your personal data from LinkedIn.

Here's how to access the account information in your LinkedIn profile:

In LinkedIn, click on your profile icon and select the "Settings and Privacy" section. Now click "Privacy" and then click "Change" in the "How LinkedIn uses your data" section. In just a short time, you'll be able to download selected data about your web activity and account history.

You also have the option in your browser to prevent data processing by LinkedIn. As mentioned above, LinkedIn stores most data via cookies that are set in your browser. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies. Depending on which browser you have, the management works slightly differently. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

You can also basically set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

LinkedIn is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures proper data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0. We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about LinkedIn's data processing. At https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy you can learn even more about the data processing of the social media network LinkedIn.

Pinterest Privacy Policy

We use buttons and widgets of the social media network Pinterest, of the company Pinterest Inc.,808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA on our site.

By calling up pages that use such functions, data (IP address, browser data, date and time, cookies) are transmitted to Pinterest, stored and evaluated.

The privacy policy, what information Pinterest collects and how they use it can be found at https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

XING Privacy Policy

We use social plugins of the social media network Xing, of the company Xing SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany, on our website. Through these functions, you can, for example, share content on Xing directly via our website, log in via Xing or follow interesting content. You can recognize the plug-ins by the company name or the Xing logo. If you call up a website that uses a Xing plug-in, data may be transmitted to the "Xing servers", stored and analyzed. In this data privacy statement, we want to inform you about what data is involved and how you can manage or prevent this data storage.

What is Xing?

Xing is a social network with its headquarters in Hamburg. The company specializes in managing professional contacts. That is, unlike other networks, Xing is primarily about professional networking. The platform is often used for job searches or to find employees for one's own company. In addition, Xing offers interesting content on various professional topics. The global counterpart is the American company LinkedIn.

Why do we use Xing on our website?

There is now a flood of social media channels and we are well aware that your time is very precious. Not every company's social media channel can be scrutinized closely. That's why we want to make your life as easy as possible, so you can share or follow interesting content directly from our website on Xing. With such "social plug-ins" we expand our service on our website. In addition, the data collected by Xing helps us to carry out targeted advertising measures on the platform. This means that our service is only shown to people who are really interested in it.

What data is stored by Xing?

Xing offers the Share button, the Follow button, and the Log-in button as plug-ins for websites. As soon as you open a page where a social plug-in from Xing is installed, your browser connects to servers in a data center used by Xing. In the case of the share button, no data is to be stored - according to Xing - that could infer a direct reference to a person. In particular, Xing does not store your IP address. Furthermore, no cookies are set in connection with the share button. Thus, no evaluation of your user behavior takes place. For more information, please contact https://www.xing.com/app/share%3Fop%3Ddata_protection.

For the other Xing plug-ins, cookies are only set in your browser when you interact with the plug-in or click on it. Here, personal data such as your IP address, browser data, date and time of your page view on Xing may be stored. If you have a XING account and are logged in, collected data will be assigned to your personal account and the data stored therein.

The following cookies are set in your browser when you click on the follow or log-in button and are not yet logged in to Xing. Please keep in mind that this is an exemplary list and we cannot claim completeness:

Name: AMCVS_0894FF2554F733210A4C98C6%40AdobeOrg
Value : 1
Purpose: This cookie is used to create and store website visitor identifiers.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: c_
Value: 157c609dc9fe7d7ff56064c6de87b019111464339-8
Intended use: We could not find out any more information about this cookie.
Expiration date: after one day

Name: prevPage
Value: wbm%2FWelcome%2Flogin
Purpose: This cookie stores the URL of the previous web page you visited.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: s_cc
Value: true
Purpose: This Adobe Site Catalyst cookie determines whether cookies are generally enabled in the browser.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: s_fid
Value: 6897CDCD1013221C-39DDACC982217CD1111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor.
Expiration date: after 5 years

Name: visitor_id
Value: fe59fbe5-e9c6-4fca-8776-30d0c1a89c32
Purpose: The visitor cookie contains a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name:_session_id
Value: 533a0a6641df82b46383da06ea0e84e7111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie creates a temporary session ID that is used as an in-session user ID. The cookie is absolutely necessary to provide Xing's features.
Expiration date: after the end of the session

As soon as you are logged in to Xing or become a member, further personal data will definitely be collected, processed and stored. Xing also discloses personal data to third parties if this is necessary for the fulfillment of its own business purposes, if you have given your consent, or if there is a legal obligation.

How long and where is the data stored?

Xing stores the data on various servers in various data centers. The company stores this data until you delete the data or until a user account is deleted. Of course, this only affects users who are already Xing members.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. Even if you are not a Xing member, you can use your browser to prevent possible data processing or manage it according to your wishes. Most data is stored via cookies. Depending on which browser you have, the management works slightly differently. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

You can also basically set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about data processing by Xing. At https://privacy.xing.com/de/dat enschutzerklaerung you can learn even more about the data processing of the social media network Xing.

Gravatar Privacy Policy

We have integrated the Gravatar plug-in from Automattic Inc. (60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA) on our website. Gravatar is automatically activated on all WordPress websites, among others. The function allows user images (avatars) to be displayed in published posts or comments, provided that the corresponding email address is registered at www.gravatar.com.

Through this function, data is sent to the company Gravatar or Automattic Inc., stored and processed there. In this privacy policy, we want to inform you about what data is involved, how the network uses this data and how you can manage or prevent the data storage.

What is Gravatar?

Gravatar basically stands for "Globally Recognized Avatar" and this means a globally available avatar (a user image) associated with the email address. The Gravatar company is the world's leading service provider for this service. As soon as a user enters the e-mail address on a website that is also registered with the Gravatar company at www.gravatar.com, a previously deposited image is automatically displayed together with a published post or comment.

Why do we use Gravatar on our website?

There is often talk about anonymity on the Internet. Through an avatar, users get a face to the people commenting. In addition, it is basically easier to be recognized on the net and can thus build up a certain level of recognition. Many users enjoy the advantages of such a user image and also want to appear personally and authentically on the net. Of course, we want to offer you the possibility to display your Gravatar on our website as well. In addition, we also like to see faces to our commenting users. With the Gravatar feature enabled, we are also expanding our service on our website. After all, we want you to feel comfortable on our website and get a comprehensive and interesting offer.

What data is stored by Gravatar?

For example, when you post a comment on a blog post that requires an email address, WordPress checks to see if the email address is associated with an avatar on Gravatar. For this request, your email address is sent to Gravatar's or Automattic's servers in encrypted or hashed form, along with the IP address and our URL. This verifies that this email address is registered with Gravatar.

If this is the case, the image stored there (Gravatar) will be displayed together with the published comment. If you have registered an email address with Gravatar and comment on our website, further data will be transmitted to Gravatar, stored and processed. In addition to IP address and user behavior data, this includes, for example, browser type, unique device identifier, preferred language, dates and times of page entry, operating system and mobile network information. Gravatar uses this information to improve its own services and offers and to obtain better insights into the use of its own service.

The following cookies are set by Automattic when a user uses an email address registered with Gravatar for a comment:

Name: gravatar
Value: 16b3191024acc05a238209d51ffcb92bdd710bd19111464339-7
Purpose: We could not find out exact information about the cookie.
Expiration date: after 50 years

Name: is-logged-in
Value : 1111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie stores the information that the user is logged in via the registered e-mail address.
Expiration date: after 50 years

How long and where is the data stored?

Automattic deletes the collected data when it is no longer used for its own services and the company is not required by law to retain the data. Web server logs such as IP address, browser type and operating system are deleted after about 30 days. Until then, Automattic uses the data to analyze traffic on its own websites (for example, all WordPress sites) and to fix potential problems. The data is also stored on Automattic's American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. If you have registered with Gravatar with an email address, you can delete your account or the email address there at any time.

Since only using an email address registered with Gravatar will display an image and thus transmit data to Gravatar, you can also prevent your data from being transmitted to Gravatar by commenting or posting on our website using an email address not registered with Gravatar.

Possible cookies that are set during commenting can be managed, deactivated or deleted in your browser. Please only note that any comment functions will then no longer be available to the full extent. Depending on which browser you use, cookie management works a bit differently. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Automattic is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbqcAAC.
More details about the privacy policy and what data is collected by Gravatar and how can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/, general information about Gravatar can be found at http://de.gravatar.com/.

ShareThis Privacy Policy

We have integrated ShareThis functions from ShareThis Inc. (4005 Miranda Ave, Suite 100, Palo Alto, 94304 California, USA) on our website. These are, for example, "share" plug-ins of various social media channels. With the help of these functions, you can share content from our website on social media channels. If you call up a website with a ShareThis function, data from you may be transferred to the company, stored and processed. With this privacy statement, you will learn why we use ShareThis, what data is processed and how you can prevent this data transfer.

What is ShareThis?

ShareThis is a technology company that offers website owners tools to increase website quality. By using ShareThis' social plugins, you can share content from our website on various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and co. The company offers content sharing for over 40 different channels and is used by over 3 million website owners worldwide. The data collected by ShareThis is also used for customized ads.

Why do we use ShareThis on our website?

We want to convince with our content and of course we are happy if our content is recommended to others. Then we know we are on the right track. The easiest way to do this is via share buttons directly on our website. Thanks to the large number of different social media channels, our content can also be presented to a wide audience. This helps us to become better known and more successful on the Internet. In addition, the plug-ins also serve you, because you can share interesting content with your social media community with just one click.

What data is stored by ShareThis?

If you share content with ShareThis and you are logged in with the respective social media account, data such as the visit to our website and the sharing of content can be assigned to the user account of the respective social media channel. ShareThis uses cookies, pixels, HTTP headers and browser identifiers to collect data about your visitor behavior. In addition, some of this data is shared with third parties after pseudonymization.

Here is a list of the data that may be processed:

Unique ID of a cookie placed in the web browser.
General click behavior
Addresses of the visited websites
Search queries through which a visitor arrived at the page with ShareThis
Navigation from web page to web page if this is done via ShareThis services
Dwell time on a web page
Which elements were clicked or highlighted
The IP address of the computer or mobile device
Mobile Advertising IDs (Apple IDFA or Google AAID)
Information contained in HTTP headers or other transmission protocols used.
Which program was used on the computer (browser) or which operating system was used (iOS)

ShareThis uses cookies, which we list below as examples. You can find out more about ShareThis cookies at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/.

Name: __unam
Value: 8961a7f179d1d017ac27lw87qq69V69111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie counts the "clicks" and "shares" on a web page.
Expiration date: after 9 months

Name: __stid
Value: aGCDwF4hjVEI+oIsABW7111464339Ag==
Purpose: This cookie stores user behavior, such as web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, and time spent on the website.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: __sharethis_cookie_test__
Value : 0
Purpose: This cookie monitors "clickstream" activity. This means it watches where you clicked on the web page.
Expiration date: after session end

Note: We cannot make any claim to completeness here. Which cookies are set in individual cases depends on the embedded functions and your usage.

How long and where is the data stored?

ShareThis retains collected data for up to 14 months from the date of data collection. ShareThis cookies expire 13 months after the last update. Since ShareThis is an American company, data is transferred and stored on American ShareThis servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you no longer wish to see advertisements based on data collected by ShareThis, you can use the opt-out button at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/. This will set an opt-out cookie that you must not delete in order to keep this setting.

You can also set your preferences for usage-based online advertising via http://www.youronlinechoices.com/at/ in Preference Management.

Furthermore, you also have the option to manage, deactivate or delete data stored via cookies in your browser. How exactly the management works depends on your browser. Here you can find the instructions for the currently most popular browsers.

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

You can also set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set.

ShareThis is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L1HMAA0&status=Active. If you want to know more about how ShareThis processes your data, you can find all the information at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/.

AddThis Privacy Policy

We use AddThis plug-ins from Oracle America, Inc. (500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA) on our website. These plug-ins allow you to quickly and easily share content from our website with other people. When you visit a website with an AddThis function, data from you may be transferred to the AddThis company, stored and processed. With this privacy statement, you will learn why we use AddThis, what data is processed and how you can prevent this data transfer.

What is AddThis?

Among other things, AddThis develops software tools that are embedded on websites to enable users to distribute content on various social media channels or via e-mail. In addition, AddThis also offers functions that serve website analysis. The collected data is also used to offer interest-based advertising to Internet users. The service is used by more than 15 million website operators worldwide.

Why do we use AddThis on our website?

By using the AddThis buttons, you can share interesting content from our website on various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. If you like our content, we are of course happy if you also share it with your social community. And the easiest way to do that is via the AddThis buttons.

What data is stored by AddThis?

If you share content with AddThis and you are logged in with the respective social media account, data such as the visit to our website and the sharing of content can be assigned to the user account of the respective social media channel. AddThis uses cookies, pixels, HTTP headers and browser identifiers to collect data about your visitor behavior. In addition, some of this data is shared with third parties after pseudonymization.
Here is an exemplary list of the data that may be processed:

Unique ID of a cookie placed in the web browser.
Address of the visited website
Time of the website visit
Search queries through which a visitor arrived at the page with AddThis
Dwell time on a web page
The IP address of the computer or mobile device
Mobile Advertising IDs (Apple IDFA or Google AAID)
Information contained in HTTP headers or other transmission protocols used.
Which program was used on the computer (browser) or which operating system was used (iOS)

AddThis uses cookies, which we list below as examples and excerpts. You can find out more about AddThis cookies at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

Name: bt2
Value: 8961a7f179d87qq69V69111464339-3
Purpose: This cookie is used to record parts of the visited website in order to recommend other parts of the website.
Expiration date: after 255 days

Name: bku
Value: ra/99nTmYN+fZWX7111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie registers anonymized user data such as your IP address, geographical location, websites visited and which ads you clicked on.
Expiration date: after 179 days

Note: Please keep in mind that this is an exemplary list and we cannot claim completeness.

AddThis also shares collected information with other companies. You can find more details about this at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy#section5. AddThis also uses the data received to create target groups and interest profiles in order to offer interest-based advertising to users in the same advertising network.

How long and where is the data stored?

AddThis stores the collected data for 13 months from the date of data collection. 1% of the data is kept as a "sample record" for a maximum of 24 months to preserve the business relationship. However, in this "sample dataset", the direct and indirect identification (such as your IP address and cookie ID) is hashed. This means that the personal data can no longer be associated with you without additional information. Since the AddThis company has its headquarters in the USA, the collected data is also stored on American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. If you no longer wish to see advertisements based on data collected by AddThis, you can use the opt-out button on http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. This will set an opt-out cookie that you must not delete in order to continue to retain this setting.

You can also set your preferences for usage-based online advertising via http://www.youronlinechoices.com/at/ in Preference Management.

One way to prevent data processing or to manage it according to your wishes is provided by your browser. Depending on the browser, data processing works slightly differently. Here you can find the instructions for the currently most popular browsers:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

AddThis is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000000181AAA. If you would like to know more about how AddThis processes your data, you can find more information at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

YouTube privacy policy

We have incorporated YouTube videos on our website. This way we can present you interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you call up a page on our website that has a YouTube video embedded, your browser automatically connects to the YouTube or Google servers. In the process, various data are transferred (depending on the settings). Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all data processing in the European area.

In the following, we would like to explain in more detail what data is processed, why we have embedded YouTube videos and how you can manage or delete your data.

What is YouTube?

On YouTube, users can watch, rate, comment on and upload videos for free. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels in the world. In order for us to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code snippet that we have built into our site.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?

YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We are committed to providing you with the best possible user experience on our website. And of course, we can't do without interesting videos. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with other helpful content in addition to our text and images. In addition, the embedded videos make our website easier to find on the Google search engine. Also, when we run ads via Google Ads, Google - thanks to the collected data - can really only show these ads to people who are interested in our offers.

What data is stored by YouTube?

As soon as you visit one of our pages that has a YouTube video embedded, YouTube sets at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually assign your interactions on our website to your profile using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution or your internet provider. Other data may include contact details, any ratings, sharing of content via social media or adding to your favorites on YouTube.

If you are not signed in to a Google Account or YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier associated with your device, browser, or app. For example, your preferred language setting is retained. But a lot of interaction data can't be stored because fewer cookies are set.

In the following list, we show cookies that were set in a test in the browser. On the one hand, we show cookies that are set without a logged-in YouTube account. On the other hand, we show cookies that are set with a logged-in account. The list cannot claim to be complete, because the user data always depends on the interactions on YouTube.

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video watched.
Expiration date: after session end

Name: PREF
Value: f1=50000000
Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google gets statistics about how you use YouTube videos on our website through PREF.
Expiration date: after 8 months

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 95Chz8bagyU
Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user's bandwidth on our web pages (with embedded YouTube video).
Expiration date: after 8 months

Other cookies that are set when you are logged in with your YouTube account:

Name: APISID
Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7111464339-
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile about your interests. Used for personalized advertisements.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.en+20150628-20-0
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to use various services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks.
Expiration date: after 19 years

Name: HSID
Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile about your interests. This data helps to display personalized advertisements.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL...
Purpose: This cookie stores information about your login details.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: SAPISID
Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM
Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile about your interests.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: SID
Value: oQfNKjAsI111464339-
Purpose: This cookie stores your Google account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: SIDCC
Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL
Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and what advertisements you may have seen before visiting our site.
Expiration date: after 3 months

How long and where is the data stored?

The data that YouTube receives from you and processes is stored on Google servers. Most of these servers are located in America. You can see exactly where Google's data centers are located at https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de. Your data is distributed across the servers. Thus, the data can be accessed more quickly and is better protected against manipulation.

Google stores the collected data for different lengths of time. Some data you can delete at any time, others are automatically deleted after a limited time, and still others are stored by Google for a longer period of time. Some data (such as items from "My Activity", photos or documents, products) stored in your Google Account will remain stored until you delete them. Even if you are not signed into a Google account, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser, or app.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Basically, you can delete data in Google Account manually. With the automatic deletion function of location and activity data introduced in 2019, information is stored depending on your decision - either 3 or 18 months and then deleted.

Whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable cookies from Google. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you do not want to have cookies in principle, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a common privacy policy. If you want to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

YouTube Subscribe Button Privacy Policy

We have installed the YouTube Subscribe button on our website. You can usually recognize the button by the classic YouTube logo. The logo shows the words "Subscribe" or "YouTube" in white letters on a red background and the white "Play" icon to the left. However, the button can also be displayed in a different design.

Our YouTube channel always offers you funny, interesting or exciting videos. With the built-in "Subscribe" button, you can subscribe to our channel directly from our website and do not have to go to the YouTube website specifically. In this way, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to access our extensive content. Please note that YouTube may store and process data about you as a result.

When you see a built-in subscribe button on our site, YouTube - according to Google - sets at least one cookie. This cookie stores your IP address and our URL. YouTube can also learn information about your browser, your approximate location and your preset language this way. In our test, the following four cookies were set without being logged into YouTube:

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5111464339Y
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video watched.
Expiration date: after session end

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 11146433995Chz8bagyU
Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user's bandwidth on our web pages (with embedded YouTube video).
Expiration date: after 8 months

Note: These cookies were set after a test and cannot claim to be complete.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can save many of your actions/interactions on our website with the help of cookies and assign them to your YouTube account. YouTube thereby receives, for example, information on how long you surf our site, which browser type you use, which screen resolution you prefer or which actions you perform.

YouTube uses this data on the one hand to improve its own services and offers, and on the other hand to provide analyses and statistics for advertisers (who use Google Ads).

Vimeo Privacy Policy

We also use videos from the company Vimeo on our website. The video portal is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With the help of a plug-in, we can show you interesting video material directly on our website. In the process, certain data may be transferred from you to Vimeo. In this privacy policy, we show you what data is involved, why we use Vimeo and how you can manage or prevent your data or the data transfer.

What is Vimeo?

Vimeo is a video platform that was founded in 2004 and has enabled streaming of videos in HD quality since 2007. Since 2015, it has also been possible to stream in 4k Ultra HD. The portal is free to use, but paid content can also be published. Compared to the market leader YouTube, Vimeo prioritizes high-quality content. On the one hand, the portal offers a lot of artistic content, such as music videos and short films, and on the other, documentaries on a wide variety of topics that are worth knowing.

Why do we use Vimeo on our website?

The goal of our web presence is to provide you with the best possible content. And to do so as easily accessible as possible. Only when we have achieved this, we are satisfied with our service. The video service Vimeo helps us to achieve this goal. Vimeo gives us the opportunity to present you with high-quality content directly on our website. Instead of just giving you a link to an interesting video, you can watch the video right there on our site. This expands our service and makes it easier for you to access interesting content. Thus, in addition to our texts and images, we also offer video content.

What data is stored on Vimeo?

When you visit a page on our website that has a Vimeo video embedded, your browser connects to the servers of Vimeo. This results in a data transmission. This data is collected, stored and processed on the Vimeo servers. Regardless of whether you have a Vimeo account or not, Vimeo collects data about you. This includes your IP address, technical info about your browser type, operating system or very basic device information. Furthermore, Vimeo stores information about which website you use the Vimeo service and which actions (web activities) you perform on our website. These web activities include, for example, session duration, bounce rate or which button you clicked on our website with built-in Vimeo function. Vimeo may track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies.

If you are logged in to Vimeo as a registered member, more data can usually be collected, as more cookies may have already been set in your browser. In addition, your actions on our website are directly linked to your Vimeo account. To prevent this, you must log out of Vimeo while "surfing" our website.

Below we show you cookies that are set by Vimeo when you are on a website with integrated Vimeo function. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a Vimeo account.

Name: player
Value: ""
Purpose: This cookie saves your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This will give you your preferred settings again the next time you watch a Vimeo video.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: vuid
Value: pl1046149876.614422590111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie collects information about your actions on websites that have embedded a Vimeo video.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Note: These two cookies are always set when you are on a web page with an embedded Vimeo video. When you watch the video and click the button to "share" or "like" the video, for example, other cookies are set. These are also third-party cookies such as _ga or _gat_UA-76641-8 from Google Analytics or _fbp from Facebook. Exactly which cookies are set here depends on your interaction with the video.

The following list shows a sample of possible cookies that are set when you interact with the Vimeo video:

Name: _abexps
Value: %5B%5D
Purpose: This Vimeo cookie helps Vimeo remember the settings you have made. For example, it may be a preset language, region, or username. In general, the cookie stores data about how you use Vimeo.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: continuous_play_v3
Value : 1
Purpose: This cookie is a first-party cookie from Vimeo. The cookie collects information about how you use the Vimeo service. For example, the cookie stores when you pause or replay a video.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.1522249635.1578401280111464339-7
Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Google. By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish website visitors.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _gcl_au
Value: 1.1.770887836.1578401279111464339-3
Purpose: This third-party cookie from Google AdSense is used to improve the efficiency of ads on websites.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: _fbp
Value: fb.1.1578401280585.310434968
Purpose: This is a Facebook cookie. This cookie is used to display ads or advertising products from Facebook or other advertisers.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Vimeo uses this data, among other things, to improve its own service, to communicate with you and to set its own targeted advertising measures. Vimeo emphasizes on its website that only first-party cookies (i.e. cookies from Vimeo itself) are used for embedded videos, as long as you do not interact with the video.

How long and where is the data stored?

Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains, New York State, USA. However, the services are offered worldwide. In doing so, the company uses computer systems, databases and servers in the USA and also in other countries. Your data can therefore also be stored and processed on servers in America. The data remains stored by Vimeo until the company no longer has an economic reason for storing it. Then the data is deleted or anonymized. Vimeo complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and is therefore allowed to collect, use and transfer data of users from the EU to the USA.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You always have the option to manage cookies in your browser according to your preferences. For example, if you do not want Vimeo to set cookies and thus collect information about you, you can always delete or disable cookies in your browser settings. Depending on your browser, this works a bit differently. Please note that after disabling/deleting cookies, various features may no longer be available to the full extent. The following instructions show how to manage or delete cookies in your browser.

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage the cookies used in the settings at Vimeo.

Vimeo is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000008V77AAE&status=Active. You can learn more about Vimeo's use of cookies at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy, and you can read information about Vimeo's privacy policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

SoundCloud Privacy Policy

We use functions (widgets) of the social media network SoundCloud of the company SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany on our website. You can recognize the widgets by the familiar orange logo. By using functions such as playing music, data is transmitted to SoundCloud, stored and analyzed. In this privacy policy, we show you what data is involved, why we use SoundCloud and how you can manage or prevent your data or the data transfer.

What is SoundCloud?

The SoundCloud social media network is an online music platform for sharing and distributing audio files. On SoundCloud, musicians or podcasters offer their audio files for download. In addition, SoundCloud allows you to embed the audio files in other websites. And that's exactly what we did. Typical for SoundCloud are the graphical representations of the audio files in wave form and the comment bar. This way, registered users can listen to and comment on music tracks or podcasts at any time.

Why do we use SoundCloud on our website?

Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service on our website. By that, we don't just mean our products or services. A holistic customer service also includes how comfortable you feel on our website and how helpful our website is for you. Through the embedded SoundCloud playback feature, we can deliver acoustic content directly to you, free of charge. You don't have to follow any link first to listen to an audio file, but can start right from our website.

What data is stored on SoundCloud?

As soon as you visit one of our websites that has a widget (like or share button or play function) built in, your browser connects to a SoundCloud server. In the process, data from you may be transferred to SoundCloud, managed and stored there. For example, SoundCloud learns in this way your IP address and which page (in this case ours) you visited and when. If you have a SoundCloud account and are logged in while browsing our website, the collected data will be directly assigned to your account/account. You can only prevent this by logging out of SoundCloud while you are on our website. In addition to the information mentioned above, data about your user behavior is also stored in the cookies. For example, whenever you click a button, play or pause a piece of music, this information is stored in the cookies. The widget or SoundCloud is thus able to recognize you and sometimes the widget is also used to deliver personalized content to you. SoundCloud not only uses its own cookies, but also cookies from third-party providers such as Facebook or Google Analytics. These cookies serve the company to get more information about your behavior on external websites and its own platform. We as the website operator do not receive any information about your user behavior through the cookies used by SoundCloud. The data transfer and therefore the information about technical devices and your behavior on the website takes place between you and SoundCloud.

Below we show cookies set when you go to a website that has SoundCloud features embedded. This list is only an example of possible cookies and cannot claim to be complete. In this example, the user does not have a SoundCloud account:

Name: sc_anonymous_id
Value: 208165-986996-398971-423805111464339-0
Purpose: This cookie makes it possible to embed files or other content in websites and stores a user ID.
Expiration date: after 10 years

Note:
The sc_anonymous_id cookie is set immediately when you are on one of our websites that has a Soundcloud feature built in. You do not need to interact with the feature yet for this to happen.

Name: __qca
Value: P0-1223379886-1579605792812111464339-7
Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Quantcast and collects data such as how often you visit the page or how long you stay on the page. The information collected is then shared with SoundCloud.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: Sclocale
Value: en
Purpose: The cookie stores the language setting you have preset.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _soundcloud_session
Value: /
Intended use: We could not find out any specific information about this cookie.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name: _session_auth_key
Value : /
Purpose: The cookie is used to store session information (i.e. user behavior) and to authenticate a client request.
Expiration date: after 10 years

In addition, SoundCloud also uses other third-party cookies such as _fbp, _ga, gid from Facebook and Google Analytics. All the information stored in the cookies is used by SoundCloud to improve its own services and to play personalized advertising.

How long and where is the data stored?

In principle, the collected data remains stored at SoundCloud as long as a user account exists or it is necessary for SoundCloud to achieve the business objectives. How long exactly is stored changes depending on the context and legal obligations. Even if you do not have an account and personal data has been stored, you have the right to request data deletion.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you have a SoundCloud account, you can manage data processing or delete your entire account via "Settings". However, you can also manage, delete, or disable cookies in your browser exactly according to your needs. The approach always depends on the browser you use. If you decide to delete or disable cookies, please note that all features may then no longer be available. The following instructions tell you how to manage, delete or disable cookies in your browser.

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

We hope we have provided you with a good overview of the data traffic through SoundCloud. If you want to learn more about SoundCloud's privacy policy and general data handling, we recommend that you read the company's privacy policy at https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

AdSimple VideoMeeting Privacy Policy

For our website we use the video conferencing tool AdSimple VideoMeeting (short AVM) of the web development and online marketing company AdSimple GmbH, Fabriksgasse 20, 2230 Gänserndorf. Thanks to AdSimple VideoMeeting, we can hold a video conference with customers, business partners, clients and also employees very easily and without installing any software. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about the service and inform you about the most important privacy-relevant aspects.

What is AdSimple VideoMeeting?

VideoMeeting from AdSimple is a video conferencing solution from Austria and offers secure video conferencing with various features such as screen sharing, creating shared virtual notes and an integrated chat function. VideoMeeting works via a browser or via the AdSimple VideoMeet apps for iOS, Android, macOS and Windows.

Why do we use AdSimple VideoMeeting on our website?

It is important to us that video conferencing software is very easy to use on the one hand and on the other hand handles users' data very carefully. AdSimple VideoMeeting allows us to start video chats/video conferences directly in a browser without prior installation of a client. Thus, our video conferencing solution works without login and without software installation. However, VideoMeeting can also be used via the VideoMeet apps. Video conferencing via AdSimple VideoMeeting is fully encrypted and since you don't need an account to use it in the free version, no personal data is stored or collected long-term, both in the apps and via the browser. For the paid version, we link the data of the registered AdSimple user with the VideoMeeting data to implement the ordered packages.

What data is stored by AdSimple VideoMeeting?

When you use AdSimple VideoMeeting, the web server automatically stores data, just like any other website call. Your IP address is stored together with the technical data listed below in web server log files and deleted after two weeks.

In addition to your IP address, the following technical data is stored when you use the AVM:

Browser type
Operating system
Number of bytes sent to the client
Date and time of the page view
Length of the http request (request length)
Processing time of the http request
http status code as the server's response to an http request (response).

In order to provide the service, AdSimple stores data such as meeting room name, meeting room URL, meeting session duration and authentication ID on their servers during the meeting. This data is stored for one year.

If you or other participants provide personal data such as username, password, email address or phone number for authentication, these will be stored on a file system of the AdSimple server until revoked.

AdSimple does not sell or pass on any data to third parties and uses data such as room name or room URL exclusively to provide the video meeting function. No cookies are set and the data transfer to the server is encrypted.

How long and where is the data stored?

Technical data and IP address are stored for two weeks in web server log files. Data, such as room name or duration of the meeting, are stored for one year and data that you enter as a user (username, passwords, email address) are stored on the AdSimple servers, which are located in Germany, until revoked.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you do not want data to be stored during the video conference, you cannot participate in this video conference. To prevent personal data from being temporarily stored during the meeting, please make sure not to enter such data, for example in the chat box. You have the option of having personal data deleted at any time. To do so, simply send an e-mail to office@adsimple.at.

We have deliberately chosen this Austrian video conferencing solution because AdSimple VideoMeeting is designed to be very sparing with data. We hope to have informed you sufficiently about the data processing by AdSimple VideoMeeting with this privacy policy.

Zoom Privacy Policy

For our website we use the video conferencing tool Zoom from the American software company Zoom Video Communications. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, CA 95113. Thanks to "Zoom", we can hold a video conference with customers, business partners, clients and also employees very easily and without installing any software. In this privacy statement, we go into more detail about the service and inform you about the most important privacy-relevant aspects.

What is Zoom?

Zoom is one of the world's best-known video conferencing solutions. With the "Zoom Meetings" service, we can hold an online video conference with you, for example, but also with employees or other users via a digital conference room. This makes it very easy for us to get in touch digitally, exchange information on various topics, send text messages or even talk on the phone. Furthermore, you can also share the screen, exchange files and use a whiteboard via Zoom.

Why do we use Zoom on our website?

It is important to us that we can communicate with you quickly and easily. And that's exactly what Zoom offers us. The software program also works directly via a browser. That means we can simply send you a link and start the video conference. Of course, additional functions such as screen sharing or file exchange are also very practical.

What data is stored by Zoom?

When you use Zoom, data is also collected from you so that Zoom can provide its services. On the one hand, this is data that you consciously provide to the company. This includes, for example, name, telephone number or your e-mail address. However, data is also automatically transmitted to Zoom and stored. This includes, for example, technical data of your browser or your IP address. In the following, we will go into more detail about the data that Zoom may collect from you and store:

When you provide information such as your name, username, email address, or phone number, Zoom stores that information. Content that you upload while using Zoom is also stored. This includes, for example, files or chat logs.

The technical data that Zoom automatically stores includes the IP address already mentioned above, as well as the MAC address, other device IDs, device type, which operating system you use, which client you use, camera type, microphone type, and speaker type. Your approximate location is also determined and stored. Furthermore, Zoom also stores information about how you use the service. So, for example, whether you "zoom" via desktop or smartphone, whether you use a phone call or VoIP, whether you participate with or without video, or whether you request a password. Zoom also records so-called metadata such as duration of the meeting/call, start and end of meeting participation, meeting name and chat status.

Zoom mentions in its own privacy policy that the company does not use advertising cookies or tracking technologies for its services. Only on its own marketing websites, such as www.zoom.us, these tracking methods are used. Zoom does not resell personal data or use it for advertising purposes.

How long and where is the data stored?

Zoom does not disclose a specific time frame in this regard, but emphasizes that the collected data will be stored for as long as it is necessary to provide the services or for its own purposes. Data is only stored longer if this is required for legal reasons.

Basically, Zoom stores the data it collects on U.S. servers, but data can arrive at different data centers around the world.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you do not want data to be stored during the Zoom meeting, you must opt out of the meeting. However, you always have the right and option to have all your personal data deleted. If you have a Zoom account, please visit https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363243-How-Do-I-Delete-Terminate-My-Account for instructions on how to delete your account.

Zoom Video Communications is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNkCAAW&status=Active.
We hope we have provided you with an overview of Zoom's data processing practices. Of course, it is always possible that the company's privacy policy will change. Therefore, for more information, we also recommend that you read Zoom's privacy policy at https://zoom.us/de-de/privacy.html.

AdSimple Cookie Manager Privacy Policy

We use the AdSimple Cookie Manager of the software development and online marketing company AdSimple GmbH, Fabriksgasse 20, 2230 Gänserndorf on our website. The AdSimple Cookie Manager offers us, among other things, the possibility to provide you with a comprehensive and privacy-compliant cookie notice, so that you can decide for yourself which cookies you allow and which you do not. By using this software, data from you will be sent to AdSimple and stored. In this privacy policy we inform you why we use the AdSimple Cookie Manager, which data is transmitted and stored and how you can prevent this data transmission.

What is the AdSimple Cookie Manager?

The AdSimple Cookie Manager is a software that scans our website and identifies and categorizes all existing cookies. In addition, you as a website visitor will be informed about the use of cookies via a cookie hint script and decide for yourself which cookies you allow and which not.

Why do we use AdSimple Cookie Manager on our website?

We want to offer you maximum transparency in the area of data protection. To ensure this, we first need to know exactly which cookies have ended up on our website over time. By having AdSimple's Cookie Manager regularly scan our website and locate all cookies, we have full control over these cookies and can thus act in a DSGVO-compliant manner. We can thus inform you accurately about the use of cookies on our website. Furthermore, you will always receive an up-to-date and privacy-compliant cookie notice and decide for yourself via checkbox system which cookies you accept or block.

What data is stored by the AdSimple Cookie Manager?

If you agree to cookies on our website, the following cookie will be set by AdSimple Cookie Manager:

Name: acm_status
Value: ":true, "statistics":true, "marketing":true, "socialmedia":true, "settings":true}
Purpose: This cookie stores your consent status. This allows our website to read and follow your current status on future visits.
Expiration date: after one year

How long and where is the data stored?

All data collected by the AdSimple Cookie Manager is transmitted and stored exclusively within the European Union. The collected data is stored on AdSimple's servers at Hetzner GmbH in Germany. Only AdSimple GmbH and Hetzner GmbH have access to this data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. You can prevent data collection and storage, for example, by rejecting the use of cookies via the cookie hint script. Another possibility to prevent the data processing or to manage it according to your wishes is offered by your browser. Depending on the browser, cookie management works slightly differently. Here you can find the instructions for the currently most popular browsers:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

We hope we have provided you with a good overview of AdSimple Cookie Manager traffic and data processing. If you want to learn more about this tool, we recommend you to visit the description page on https://www.adsimple.at/adsimple-cookie-manager/.

Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy

Our primary goal is to secure and protect our website for you and for us in the best possible way. To ensure this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from the company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With reCAPTCHA we can determine whether you are really a flesh and blood human being and not a robot or other spam software. By spam we mean any unsolicited information sent to us electronically. With the classic CAPTCHAS, you usually had to solve text or image puzzles to verify the information. With reCAPTCHA from Google, we usually don't have to bother you with such puzzles. Here, in most cases, it is enough to simply check a box to confirm that you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version, you don't even have to set a checkmark anymore. How this works exactly and especially which data is used for this, you will learn in the course of this privacy policy.

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that protects websites from spam software and abuse by non-human visitors. The most common use of this service is when you fill out forms on the Internet. A captcha service is a kind of automatic Turing test, designed to ensure that an action on the Internet is performed by a human and not by a bot. In the classic Turing test (named after computer scientist Alan Turing), a human determines the distinction between a bot and a human. In captchas, the computer or a software program also does this. Classic captchas work with small tasks that are easy for humans to solve, but present significant difficulties for machines. With reCAPTCHA, you no longer have to actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk techniques to distinguish humans from bots. Here, you only need to check the "I am not a robot" text box, or with Invisible reCAPTCHA, even that is no longer necessary. With reCAPTCHA, a JavaScript element is included in the source code and then the tool runs in the background and analyzes your user behavior. From these user actions, the software calculates a so-called captcha score. Google uses this score to calculate even before the captcha is entered how likely you are to be a human. reCAPTCHA or captchas in general are always used when bots could manipulate or abuse certain actions (such as registrations, surveys, etc.).

Why do we use reCAPTCHA on our website?

We only want to welcome flesh and blood people on our site. Bots or spam software of any kind can safely stay at home. That's why we pull out all the stops to protect ourselves and offer the best possible user experience for you. For this reason we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google. This way we can be pretty sure that we remain a "bot-free" website. By using reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine if you are actually human. reCAPTCHA therefore serves the security of our website and, by extension, your security. For example, without reCAPTCHA, it could happen that a bot registers as many e-mail addresses as possible during registration in order to "spam" forums or blogs with unwanted advertising content. With reCAPTCHA we can avoid such bot attacks.

What data is stored by reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA collects personal data from users to determine whether the actions on our website really come from people. Thus, the IP address and other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service may be sent to Google. IP addresses are almost always shortened beforehand within the member states of the EU or other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before the data ends up on a server in the USA. The IP address is not combined with other data from Google unless you are logged in with your Google account while using reCAPTCHA. First, the reCAPTCHA algorithm checks whether Google cookies from other Google services (YouTube. Gmail, etc.) are already placed on your browser. Then, reCAPTCHA places an additional cookie on your browser and captures a snapshot of your browser window.

The following list of collected browser and user data does not claim to be complete. Rather, they are examples of data that, to our knowledge, are processed by Google.

Referrer URL (the address of the page from which the visitor comes)
IP address (e.g. 256.123.123.1)
Info about the operating system (the software that allows your computer to run. Known operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X or Linux).
Cookies (small text files that store data in your browser)
Mouse and keyboard behavior (every action you perform with the mouse or keyboard is saved)
Date and language settings (which language or date you have preset on your PC will be saved)
All JavaScript objects (JavaScript is a programming language that allows websites to adapt to the user. JavaScript objects can collect all kinds of data under one name).
Screen resolution (shows how many pixels the image display consists of)

It is undisputed that Google uses and analyzes this data even before you click the "I am not a robot" checkbox. With the Invisible reCAPTCHA version, even the ticking is omitted and the entire recognition process runs in the background. How much and which data Google stores exactly, Google does not tell you in detail.

The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: Here we refer to the reCAPTCHA demo version from Google at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo. All of these cookies require a unique identifier for tracking purposes. Here is a list of cookies that Google reCAPTCHA has set on the demo version:

Name: IDE
Value: WqTUmlnmv_qXyi_DGNPLESKnRNrpgXoy1K-pAZtAkMbHI-111464339-8
Purpose: This cookie is set by the DoubleClick company (also owned by Google) to register and report a user's actions on the website when dealing with advertisements. In this way, advertising effectiveness can be measured and appropriate optimization measures can be taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: 1P_JAR
Value : 2019-5-14-12
Purpose: This cookie collects statistics about website usage and measures conversions. For example, a conversion occurs when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant advertisements to users. Furthermore, the cookie can be used to prevent a user from seeing the same ad more than once.
Expiration date: after one month

Name: ANID
Value: U7j1v3dZa1114643390xgZFmiqWppRWKOr
Purpose: We could not find out much info about this cookie. Google's privacy policy mentions the cookie in the context of "advertising cookies" such as "DSID", "FLC", "AID", "TAID". ANID is stored under domain google.com.
Expiration date: after 9 months

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.en+20150628-20-0
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to use various services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users, prevent credential fraud, and protect user data from unauthorized attacks.
Expiration date: after 19 years

Name: NID
Value: 0WmuWqy111464339zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q
Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize ads to your Google searches. With the help of the cookie, Google "remembers" your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way, you always get tailored ads. The cookie contains a unique ID to collect personal settings of the user for advertising purposes.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Name: DV
Value: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc111464339-4
Purpose: Once you have checked the "I am not a robot" box, this cookie is set. The cookie is used by Google Analytics for personalized advertising. DV collects information in anonymous form and is further used to make user distinctions.
Expiration date: after 10 minutes

Note: This list cannot claim to be exhaustive, as Google's experience shows that it changes its choice of cookies time and again.

How long and where is the data stored?

By inserting reCAPTCHA, data is transferred from you to the Google server. Where exactly this data is stored, Google does not make clear, even after repeated inquiries. Without having received confirmation from Google, it can be assumed that data such as mouse interaction, time spent on the website or language settings are stored on Google's European or American servers. The IP address that your browser transmits to Google is generally not merged with other Google data from other Google services. However, if you are logged into your Google account while using the reCAPTCHA plug-in, the data will be merged. The deviating data protection provisions of the Google company apply to this.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you do not want any data about you and your behavior to be transmitted to Google, you must log out of Google completely and delete all Google cookies before you visit our website or use the reCAPTCHA software. Basically, as soon as you visit our site, the data is automatically transmitted to Google. To delete this data again, you must contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=111464339.

Thus, by using our website, you consent to the automatic collection, processing and use of data by Google LLC and its agents.

You can learn a bit more about reCAPTCHA on Google's web developer page at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/. Google does go into more detail here about the technical development of reCAPTCHA, but you will search in vain for precise information about data storage and privacy-related topics there as well. A good overview of the basic use of data at Google can be found in the in-house privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Custom Google Search Privacy Policy

We have integrated the Google custom search plug-in on our website. Google is the largest and best-known search engine in the world and is operated by the US company Google Inc. The company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for the European area. Through the custom Google search, data from you may be transferred to Google. In this privacy policy, we inform you why we use this plug-in, what data is processed and how you can manage or prevent this data transfer.

What is Google Custom Search?

Custom Google Search plugin is a Google search bar directly on our website. The search takes place like on www.google.com, only the search results focus on our content and products or on a limited search circle.

Why do we use Google custom search on our website?

A website with a lot of interesting content often grows so large that it is possible to lose track of it all. Over time, we have also accumulated a lot of valuable material and as part of our service, we want you to find our content as quickly and easily as possible. Custom Google search makes finding interesting content a breeze. The built-in Google plug-in improves the overall quality of our website and makes searching easier for you.

What data is stored by Google Custom Search?

Through the custom Google search, data from you will only be transferred to Google if you actively use the Google search built into our website. This means that only when you enter a search term in the search bar and then confirm this term (e.g. click "Enter"), in addition to the search term, your IP address is also sent to Google, stored and processed there. Based on the cookies set (such as 1P_JAR), it can be assumed that Google also receives data on website usage. If, during your visit to our website, you search for content using the built-in Google search function and are logged in with your Google account at the same time, Google can also assign the collected data to your Google account. As the website operator, we have no influence on what Google does with the collected data or how Google processes the data.

The following cookies are set in your browser when you use Google Custom Search and are not signed in with a Google Account:

Name: 1P_JAR
Value: 2020-01-27-13111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie collects statistics about website usage and measures conversions. For example, a conversion occurs when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant advertisements to users.
Expiration date: after one month

Name: CONSENT
Value: WP.282f52111464339-9
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to use various Google services. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks.
Expiration date: after 18 years

Name: NID
Value: 196=pwIo3B5fHr-8
Purpose: NID is used by Google to match ads to your Google searches. With the help of the cookie, Google "remembers" your entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. So you will always get tailored ads.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Note: This list cannot claim to be complete, as Google also changes the choice of its cookies again and again.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google servers are distributed all over the world. Since Google is an American company, most data is stored on American servers. You can see exactly where Google servers are located at https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de.
Your data is distributed on different physical disks. This means that the data can be accessed more quickly and is better protected against possible manipulation. Google also has appropriate emergency programs for your data. For example, if there are internal technical problems at Google and servers stop working as a result, the risk of service interruption and data loss still remains low.
Depending on the data in question, Google stores it for different lengths of time. Some data you can delete yourself, others are automatically deleted or anonymized by Google. However, there is also data that Google stores longer if this is necessary for legal or business reasons.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

According to the European Union data protection law, you have the right to access, update, delete or restrict your data. There is some data that you can delete at any time. If you have a Google account, you can delete data about your web activity there or specify that it should be deleted after a certain time.
In your browser, you also have the option to disable cookies, delete them, or manage them according to your preferences. Here you can find instructions for the most important browsers:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. We hope we have been able to provide you with the most important information regarding data processing by Google. If you want to learn more about this, we recommend Google's comprehensive privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Cookiebot Privacy Policy

We use functions of the provider Cookiebot on our website. The company behind Cookiebot is Cybot A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, DK. Cookiebot offers us, among other things, the possibility to provide you with a comprehensive cookie notice (also called cookie banner or cookie notice). By using this feature, data from you may be sent to Cookiebot or Cybot, stored and processed. In this privacy policy, we inform you why we use Cookiebot, what data is transferred and how you can prevent this data transfer.

What is Cookiebot?

Cookiebot is a software product from Cybot company. The software automatically creates a DSGVO-compliant cookie notice for our website visitors. In addition, the technology behind Cookiebot scans, controls and evaluates all cookies and tracking measures on our website.

Why do we use Cookiebot on our website?

We take data protection very seriously. We want to show you exactly what is going on on our website and which of your data is stored. Cookiebot helps us get a good overview of all our cookies (first-party and third-party cookies). This allows us to inform you about the use of cookies on our website accurately and transparently. You always get an up-to-date and privacy-compliant cookie notice and decide for yourself which cookies you allow and which not.

What data is stored by Cookiebot?

If you allow cookies, the following data will be transmitted to Cybot, stored and processed.

IP address (in anonymized form, the last 3 digits are set to 0).
Date and time of your consent
our website URL
technical browser data
encrypted, anonymous key
the cookies you have allowed (as proof of consent)

The following cookies are set by Cookiebot if you have agreed to the use of cookies:

Name: CookieConsent
Wert: {stamp:’P7to4eNgIHvJvDerjKneBsmJQd9111464339-2
Verwendungszweck: In diesem Cookie wird Ihr Zustimmungsstatus, gespeichert. Dadurch kann unsere Website auch bei zukünftigen Besuchen den aktuellen Status lesen und befolgen.
Ablaufdatum: nach einem Jahr

Name: CookieConsentBulkTicket
Wert: kDSPWpA%2fjhljZKClPqsncfR8SveTnNWhys5NojaxdFYBPjZ2PaDnUw%3d%3111464339-6
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie wird gesetzt, wenn Sie alle Cookies erlauben und somit eine “Sammelzustimmung” aktiviert haben. Das Cookie speichert dann eine eigene, zufällige und eindeutige ID.
Ablaufdatum: nach einem Jahr

Anmerkung: Bitte bedenken Sie, dass es sich hier um eine beispielhafte Liste handelt und wir keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit erheben können. In der Cookie-Erklärung unter https://www.cookiebot.com/de/cookie-declaration/ sehen Sie, welche weiteren Cookies eingesetzt werden können.

Laut der Datenschutzerklärung von Cybot verkauft das Unternehmen personenbezogene Daten nicht weiter. Cybot gibt allerdings Daten an vertrauensvolle Dritt- oder Subunternehmen weiter, die dem Unternehmen helfen, die eigenen betriebswirtschaftlichen Ziele zu erreichen. Daten werden auch dann weitergegeben, wenn dies rechtlich erforderlich ist.

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Alle erhobenen Daten werden ausschließlich innerhalb der Europäischen Union übertragen, gespeichert und weitergeleitet. Die Daten werden in einem Azure-Rechenzentrum (Cloud-Anbieter ist Microsoft) gespeichert. Auf https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/global-infrastructure/regions/ erfahren Sie mehr über alle „Azure-Regionen“. Alle User Daten werden von Cookiebot nach 12 Monaten ab der Registrierung (Cookie-Zustimmung) bzw. unmittelbar nach Kündigung des Cookiebot-Services gelöscht.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Sie haben jederzeit das Recht auf Ihre personenbezogenen Daten zuzugreifen und sie auch zu löschen. Die Datenerfassung und Speicherung können Sie beispielsweise verhindern, indem Sie über den Cookie-Hinweis die Verwendung von Cookies ablehnen. Eine weitere Möglichkeit die Datenverarbeitung zu unterbinden bzw. nach Ihren Wünschen zu verwalten, bietet Ihr Browser. Je nach Browser funktioniert die Cookie-Verwaltung etwas anders. Hier finden Sie die Anleitungen zu den momentan bekanntesten Browsern:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Wenn Sie mehr über die Datenschutzrichtlinien von „Cookiebot“ bzw. dem dahinterstehenden Unternehmen Cybot erfahren wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen die Datenschutzrichtlinien unter https://www.cookiebot.com/de/privacy-policy/ durchzulesen.

WooCommerce Datenschutzerklärung

Wir haben auf unserer Website das Open-Source Shopsystem WooCommerce als Plugin eingebunden. Dieses WooCommerce-Plugin basiert auf dem Content-Management-System WordPress, das ein Tochterunternehmen der Firma Automattic Inc. (60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA) ist. Durch die implementierten Funktionen werden Daten an Automattic Inc. versandt, gespeichert und verarbeitet. In dieser Datenschutzerklärung informieren wir Sie, um welche Daten es sich handelt, wie das Netzwerk diese Daten verwendet und wie Sie die Datenspeicherung verwalten bzw. unterbinden können.

Was ist WooCommerce?

WooCommerce ist ein Onlineshop-System, das seit 2011 Teil des Verzeichnisses von WordPress ist und speziell für WordPress-Websites entwickelt wurde. Es ist eine anpassbare, quelloffene eCommerce-Plattform, die auf WordPress basiert und auch als WordPress-Plugin in unsere Website eingebunden wurde.

Warum verwenden wir WooCommerce auf unserer Webseite?

Wir nutzen diese praktische Onlineshop-Lösung, um Ihnen unserer physischen oder digitalen Produkte oder Dienstleistungen bestmöglich auf unserer Website anbieten zu können. Ziel ist es, Ihnen einen einfachen und leichten Zugang zu unserem Angebot zu ermöglichen, damit Sie unkompliziert und schnell zu Ihren gewünschten Produkten kommen. Mit WooCommerce haben wir hier ein gutes Plugin gefunden, das unseren Ansprüchen an einen Onlineshop erfüllt.

Welche Daten werden von WooCommerce gespeichert?

Informationen, die Sie aktiv in ein Textfeld in unserem Onlineshop eingeben, können von WooCommerce bzw. von Automattic gesammelt und gespeichert werden. Also wenn Sie sich bei uns anmelden bzw. ein Produkt bestellen, kann Automattic diese Daten sammeln, verarbeiten und speichern. Dabei kann es sich neben E-Mail-Adresse, Namen oder Adresse auch um Kreditkarten- oder Rechnungsinformationen handeln. Automattic kann diese Informationen in weiterer Folge auch für eigene Marketing-Kampagnen nützen.

Zudem gibt es auch noch Informationen, die Automattic automatisch in sogenannten Serverlogfiles von Ihnen sammelt:

IP-Adresse
Browserinformationen
Voreingestellte Spracheinstellung
Datum und Uhrzeit des Webzugriffs

WooCommerce setzt in Ihrem Browser auch Cookies und verwendet Technologien wie Pixel-Tags (Web Beacons), um beispielsweise Sie als User klar zu identifizieren und möglicherweise interessensbezogene Werbung anbieten zu können. WooCommerce verwendet eine Reihe verschiedener Cookies, die je nach Useraktion gesetzt werden. Das heißt, wenn Sie zum Beispiel ein Produkt in den Warenkorb legen wird ein Cookie gesetzt, damit das Produkt auch im Warenkorb bleibt, wenn Sie unsere Website verlassen und zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wiederkommen.

Hier zeigen wir Ihnen eine beispielhafte Liste möglicher Cookies, die von WooCommerce gesetzt werden können:

Name: woocommerce_items_in_cart
Wert: 1
Verwendungszweck: Das Cookie hilft WooCommerce festzustellen, wann sich der Inhalt im Warenkorb verändert.
Ablaufdatum: nach Sitzungsende

Name: woocommerce_cart_hash
Wert: 447c84f810834056ab37cfe5ed27f204111464339-7
Verwendungszweck: Auch dieses Cookie wird dafür eingesetzt, um die Veränderungen in Ihrem Warenkorb zu erkennen und zu speichern.
Ablaufdatum: nach Sitzungsende

Name: wp_woocommerce_session_d9e29d251cf8a108a6482d9fe2ef34b6
Wert: 1146%7C%7C1589034207%7C%7C95f8053ce0cea135bbce671043e740111464339-4aa
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie enthält eine eindeutige Kennung für Sie, damit die Warenkorbdaten in der Datenbank auch gefunden werden können.
Ablaufdatum: nach 2 Tagen

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Sofern es keine gesetzliche Verpflichtung gibt, Daten für einen längeren Zeitraum aufzubewahren, löscht WooCommerce die Daten dann, wenn Sie für die eigenen Zwecke, für die Sie gespeichert wurden, nicht mehr benötigt werden. So werden zum Beispiel Serverlogfiles, die technische Daten zu Ihrem Browser und Ihrer IP-Adresse erhalten etwa nach 30 Tagen wieder gelöscht. Solange verwendet Automattic die Daten, um den Verkehr auf den eigenen Websites (zum Beispiel alle WordPress-Seiten) zu analysieren und mögliche Probleme zu beheben. Die Daten werden auf amerikanischen Servern von Automattic gespeichert.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Sie haben jederzeit das Recht auf Ihre personenbezogenen Daten zuzugreifen und Einspruch gegen die Nutzung und Verarbeitung dieser zu erheben. Sie können auch jederzeit bei einer staatlichen Aufsichtsbehörde eine Beschwerde einreichen.

In Ihrem Browser haben Sie auch die Möglichkeit, Cookies individuell zu verwalten, zu löschen oder zu deaktivieren. Nehmen Sie aber bitte zur Kenntnis, dass deaktivierte oder gelöschte Cookies mögliche negative Auswirkungen auf die Funktionen unseres WooCommerce-Onlineshops haben. Je nachdem, welchen Browser Sie verwenden, funktioniert das Verwalten der Cookies etwas anders. Im Folgenden sehen Sie Links zu den Anleitungen der gängigsten Browser:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Automattic ist aktiver Teilnehmer beim EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, wodurch der korrekte und sichere Datentransfer persönlicher Daten geregelt wird. Mehr Informationen dazu finden Sie auf https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbqcAAC.
Mehr Details zur Datenschutzrichtlinie und welche Daten auf welche Art durch WooCommerce erfasst werden, finden Sie auf https://automattic.com/privacy/ und allgemeine Informationen zu WooCommerce auf https://woocommerce.com/.

Klarna Checkout Datenschutzerklärung

Wir verwenden auf unserer Website das Online-Zahlungssystem Klarna Checkout des schwedischen Unternehmens Klarna Bank AB. Die Klarna-Bank hat ihren Hauptfirmensitz in Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Schweden. Wenn Sie sich für diesen Dienst entscheiden, werden unter anderem personenbezogene Daten an Klarna gesendet, gespeichert und verarbeitet. In dieser Datenschutzerklärung möchten wir Ihnen einen Überblick über die Datenverarbeitung durch Klarna geben.

Was ist Klarna Checkout?

Klarna Checkout ist ein Zahlungssystem für Bestellungen in einem Onlineshop. Dabei wählt der Nutzer die Zahlungsart und Klarna Checkout übernimmt den gesamten Zahlungsprozess. Nachdem ein Nutzer einmal eine Zahlung über das Checkout-System durchgeführt hat und die entsprechenden Daten angegeben hat, können zukünftige Online-Einkäufe noch schneller und einfacher durchgeführt werden. Das Klarna-System erkennt dann bereits nach Eingabe der E-Mail-Adresse und Postleitzahl den bestehenden Kunden.

Warum verwenden wir Klarna Checkout für unsere Webseite?

Unser Ziel mit unserer Website und unserem eingebundenen Onlineshop ist es, Ihnen das bestmögliche Service zu bieten. Dazu zählt neben dem Gesamterlebnis auf der Website und neben unseren Angeboten auch eine reibungslose, schnelle und sichere Zahlungsabwicklung Ihrer Bestellungen. Um das zu gewährleisten, nutzen wir das Zahlungssystem Klarna Checkout.

Welche Daten werden von Klarna Checkout gespeichert?

Sobald Sie sich für den Zahlungsdienst Klarna entscheiden und über die Zahlungsmethode Klarna Checkout bezahlen, übermitteln Sie auch personenbezogene Daten an das Unternehmen. Auf der Klarna Checkout-Seite werden technische Daten wie Browsertyp, Betriebssystem, unsere Internetadresse, Datum und Uhrzeit, Spracheinstellungen, Zeitzoneneinstellungen und IP-Adresse von Ihnen erhoben und an die Server von Klarna übermittelt und dort gespeichert. Diese Daten werden auch dann gespeichert, wenn Sie noch keine Bestellung abgeschlossen haben.

Wenn Sie ein Produkt oder eine Dienstleistung über unseren Shop bestellen, müssen Sie in die vorgegebenen Felder Daten zu Ihrer Person eingeben. Diese Daten werden durch Klarna für die Zahlungsabwicklung verarbeitet. Dabei können zur Bonitäts- und Identitätsprüfung speziell folgende personenbezogenen Daten (sowie allgemeine Produktinformationen) durch Klarna gespeichert und verarbeitet werden:

Kontaktinformationen: Namen, Geburtsdatum, nationale Ausweisnummer, Titel, Rechnungs- und Lieferadresse, E-Mail-Adresse, Telefonnummer, Nationalität oder Gehalt.
Zahlungsinformationen wie Kreditkartendaten oder Ihre Kontonummer
Produktinformationen wie Sendungsnummer, Art des Artikels und Preis des Produkts

Zudem gibt es auch noch Daten, die optional erhoben werden können, sofern Sie sich dazu bewusst entscheiden. Das sind etwa politische, religiöse oder weltanschauliche Überzeugungen oder diverse Gesundheitsdaten.

Klarna kann auch selbst oder über Dritte (wie beispielsweise über uns oder über öffentliche Datenbanken) neben den oben genannten Daten auch Daten zu den Waren oder Dienstleistungen, die Sie kaufen oder bestellen erheben. Das kann zum Beispiel die Sendungsnummer oder die Art des bestellten Artikels sein, aber auch Auskünfte über Ihre Bonität, über Ihr Einkommen oder Kreditgewährungen. Klarna kann Ihre personenbezogenen Daten auch Dienstleister wie etwa Softwareanbieter, Datenspeicheranbieter oder uns als Händler weitergeben.

Wenn Daten automatisch in ein Formular eingetragen werden, dann sind immer Cookies im Spiel. Wenn Sie diese Funktion nicht nutzen wollen, können Sie jederzeit diese Cookies deaktivieren. Weiter unten im Text finden Sie eine Anleitung, wie Sie Cookies in Ihrem Browser grundsätzlich löschen, deaktivieren oder verwalten. Unsere Tests haben ergeben, dass von Klarna direkt keine Cookies gesetzt werden. Wenn Sie die Zahlungsmethode “Klarna Sofort” wählen und auf “Bestellen” klicken, werden Sie auf die Sofort-Website weitergeleitet. Nach der erfolgreichen Zahlung kommen Sie auf unsere Dankesseite. Dort wird von sofort.com folgendes Cookie gesetzt:

Name: SOFUEB
Wert: e8cipp378mdscn9e17kajlfhv7111464339-4
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie speichert Ihre Session-ID.
Ablaufdatum: nach Beenden der Browsersitzung

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Klarna ist bemüht Ihre Daten nur innerhalb der EU bzw. des Europäischen Wirtschaftsraums (EWR) zu speichern. Es kann aber auch vorkommen, dass Daten außerhalb des EU/EWR übertragen werden. Wenn das passiert, stellt Klarna sicher, dass der Datenschutz im Einklang mit der DSGVO steht, das Drittland in einer Angemessenheitsentscheidung der Europäischen Union steht oder das Land das Zertifikat des US-Privacy Shield besitzt. Die Daten werden immer solange gespeichert, wie Klarna sie für den Verarbeitungszweck benötigt.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Sie können Ihre Einwilligung, dass Klarna personenbezogene Daten verarbeitet jederzeit widerrufen. Sie haben auch immer das Recht auf Auskunft, Berichtigung und Löschung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten. Dafür müssen Sie lediglich das Unternehmen bzw. das Datenschutzteam des Unternehmens per E-Mail an datenschutz@klarna.de kontaktieren. Über die Klarna-Webseite „Meine Datenschutzanfrage“ können Sie ebenfalls mit Klarna direkt in Kontakt treten.

Cookies, die Klarna für ihre Funktionen möglicherweise verwendet, können Sie in Ihrem Browser löschen, deaktivieren oder verwalten. Je nachdem welchen Browser Sie verwenden, funktioniert dies auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Die folgenden Anleitungen zeigen, wie Sie Cookies in Ihrem Browser verwalten:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Wir hoffen Ihnen einen guten Überblick über die Datenverarbeitung durch Klarna geboten zu haben. Wenn Sie mehr über den Umgang mit Ihren Daten erfahren wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen die Klarna-Datenschutzerklärung unter https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/legal/terms/0/de_at/privacy.

Sofortüberweisung Datenschutzerklärung

Wir bieten auf unserer Website die Zahlungsmethode „Sofortüberweisung“ des Unternehmens Sofort GmbH zur bargeldlosen Bezahlung an. Die Sofort GmbH gehört seit 2014 zum schwedischen Unternehmen Klarna, hat aber ihren Firmensitz in Deutschland, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 München.

Entscheiden Sie sich für diese Zahlungsmethode werden unter anderem auch personenbezogene Daten an die Sofort GmbH bzw. an Klarna übermittelt, gespeichert und dort verarbeitet. Mit diesem Datenschutztext geben wir Ihnen einen Überblick über die Datenverarbeitung durch die Sofort GmbH.

Was ist eine „Sofortüberweisung“?

Bei der Sofortüberweisung handelt es sich um ein Online-Zahlungssystem, das es Ihnen ermöglicht eine Bestellung über Online-Banking durchzuführen. Dabei wird die Zahlungsabwicklung durch die Sofort GmbH durchgeführt und wir erhalten sofort eine Information über die getätigte Zahlung. Diese Methode kann jeder User nutzen, der ein aktives Online-Banking-Konto mit PIN und TAN hat. Nur noch wenige Banken unterstützen diese Zahlungsmethode noch nicht.

Warum verwenden wir „Sofortüberweisung“ auf unserer Website?

Welche Daten werden von „Sofortüberweisung“ gespeichert?

Wenn Sie über den Sofort/Klarna-Dienst eine Sofortüberweisung durchführen, werden Daten wie Name, Kontonummer, Bankleitzahl, Betreff, Betrag und Datum auf den Servern des Unternehmens gespeichert. Diese Informationen erhalten auch wir über die Zahlungsbestätigung.

Im Rahmen der Kontodeckungsprüfung überprüft die Sofort GmbH, ob Ihr Kontostand und Überziehungskreditrahmen den Zahlungsbetrag abdeckt. In manchen Fällen wird auch überprüft, ob in den letzten 30 Tagen Sofortüberweisungen erfolgreich durchgeführt wurden. Weiters wird Ihre User-Identifikation (wie etwa Verfügernummer oder Vertragsnummer) in gekürzter („gehashter“) Form und Ihre IP-Adresse erhoben und gespeichert. Bei SEPA-Überweisungen wird auch BIC und IBAN gespeichert.

Laut dem Unternehmen werden sonst keine weiteren personenbezogenen Daten (wie Kontostände, Umsatzdaten, Verfügungsrahmen, Kontolisten, Mobiltelefonnummer, Authentifizierungszertifikate, Sicherheitscodses oder PIN/TAN) erhoben, gespeichert oder an Dritte weitergegeben.

Sofortüberweisung nutzt auch Cookies, um den eigenen Dienst benutzerfreundlicher zu gestalten. Wenn Sie ein Produkt bestellen, werden Sie auf die Sofort bzw. Klarna-Website umgeleitet. Nach der erfolgreichen Zahlung werden Sie auf unsere Dankesseite weitergeleitet. Hier werden folgende drei Cookies gesetzt:

Name: SOFUEB
Wert: e8cipp378mdscn9e17kajlfhv7111464339-5
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie speichert Ihre Session-ID.
Ablaufdatum: nach Beenden der Browsersitzung

Name: User[user_cookie_rules] Wert: 1
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie speichert Ihre Zustimmung zur Verwendung von Cookies.
Ablaufdatum: nach 10 Jahren

Name: _ga
Wert: GA1.2.69759879.1589470706
Verwendungszweck: Standardmäßig verwendet analytics.js das Cookie _ga, um die User-ID zu speichern. Grundsätzlich dient es zur Unterscheidung der Webseitenbesucher. Hier handelt es sich um ein Cookie von Google Analytics.
Ablaufdatum: nach 2 Jahren

Anmerkung: Die hier angeführten Cookies erheben keinen Anspruch auch Vollständigkeit. Es kann immer sein, dass Sofortüberweisung auch andere Cookies verwendet.

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Alle erhobenen Daten werden innerhalb der rechtlichen Aufbewahrungspflicht gespeichert. Diese Pflicht kann zwischen drei und zehn Jahren dauern.

Klarna/Sofort GmbH versucht Daten nur innerhalb der EU bzw. des Europäischen Wirtschaftsraums (EWR) zu speichern. Wenn Daten außerhalb des EU/EWR übertragen werden, muss der Datenschutz mit der DSGVO übereinstimmen, das Land in einer Angemessenheitsentscheidung der EU stehen oder das US-Privacy-Shield-Zertifikat besitzen.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen oder die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Mögliche Cookies, die Sofortüberweisung verwendet, können Sie in Ihrem Browser verwalten, löschen oder deaktivieren. Abhängig von Ihrem bevorzugten Browser funktioniert das auf unterschiedliche Weise. Die folgenden Anleitungen zeigen wie Sie Cookies in den gängigsten Browsern verwalten:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Wenn Sie mehr über die Datenverarbeitung durch die „Sofortüberweisung“ des Unternehmens Sofort GmbH erfahren wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen die Datenschutzerklärung unter https://www.sofort.de/datenschutz.html.

Stripe Datenschutzerklärung

Wir verwenden auf unserer Website ein Zahlungstool des amerikanischen Technologieunternehmens und Online-Bezahldienstes Stripe. Für Kunden innerhalb von der EU ist Stripe Payments Europe (Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Irland) verantwortlich. Das heißt, wenn Sie sich für Stripe als Zahlungsart entscheiden, wird Ihre Zahlung über Stripe Payments abgewickelt. Dabei werden Daten, die für den Zahlungsvorgang nötig sind, an Stripe weitergeleitet und gespeichert. In dieser Datenschutzerklärung geben wir Ihnen einen Überblick über diese Datenverarbeitung und Speicherung durch Stripe und erklären, warum wir Stripe auf unserer Website verwenden.

Was ist Stripe?

Das Technologieunternehmen Stripe bietet Zahlungslösungen für Online-Bezahlungen an. Mit Stripe ist es möglich Kredit- und Debitkartenzahlungen in unserem Webshop zu akzeptieren. Stripe übernimmt den gesamten Zahlungsvorgang. Ein großer Vorteil von Stripe ist etwa, dass Sie während des Zahlungsvorgangs nie unsere Website bzw. den Shop verlassen müssen und die Zahlungsabwicklung sehr schnell erfolgt.

Warum verwenden wir Stripe für unsere Website?

Wir wollen natürlich mit unserer Website und unserem eingebundenen Onlineshop das bestmögliche Service bietet, damit Sie sich auf unserer Seite wohl fühlen und unsere Angebote nutzen. Wir wissen, dass Ihre Zeit kostbar ist und daher speziell Zahlungsabwicklungen schnell und reibungslos funktionieren müssen. Neben unseren anderen Zahlungsanbietern haben wir mit Stripe einen Partner gefunden, der eine sichere und schnelle Zahlungsabwicklung gewährleistet.

Welche Daten werden von Stripe gespeichert?

Wenn Sie sich für Stripe als Zahlungsart entscheiden, werden auch personenbezogene Daten von Ihnen an Stripe übermittelt und dort gespeichert. Dabei handelt es sich um Transaktionsdaten. Zu diesen Daten zählen etwa die Zahlungsmethode (also Kreditkarten- Debitkarten oder Kontonummer), Bankleitzahl, Währung, der Betrag und das Datum der Zahlung. Bei einer Transaktion kann weiters Ihr Name, Ihre E-Mail-Adresse, Ihre Rechnungs- oder Versandadresse und manchmal auch Ihr Transaktionsverlauf übermittelt werden. Diese Daten sind zur Authentifizierung nötig. Weiters kann Stripe zur Betrugsabwehr, der Finanzberichterstattung und um die eigenen Dienste vollständig anbieten zu können, auch neben technischen Daten zu Ihrem Gerät (wie IP-Adresse) Name, Adresse, Telefonnummer und Ihr Land erfassen.

Stripe verkauft keine Ihrer Daten an unabhängige Dritte, wie etwa Marketingagenturen oder andere Unternehmen, die mit dem Stripe-Unternehmen nichts zu tun haben. Die Daten können aber etwa an interne Abteilungen, einer beschränkten Anzahl externer Stripe-Partner oder zur Einhaltung gesetzlicher Vorschriften weitergeleitet werden. Stripe verwendet zur Erfassung von Daten auch Cookies. Hier finden Sie eine Auswahl an Cookies, die Stripe während des Zahlungsprozesses setzen kann:

Name: m
Wert: edd716e9-d28b-46f7-8a55-e05f1779e84e040456111464339-5
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie erscheint, wenn Sie die Zahlungsmethode auswählen. Es speichert und erkennt, ob Sie über einen PC, ein Tablet oder ein Smartphone auf unsere Website zugreifen.
Ablaufdatum: nach 2 Jahren

Name: __stripe_mid
Wert: fc30f52c-b006-4722-af61-a7419a5b8819875de9111464339-1
Verwendungszweck: Um eine Kreditkartentransaktion durchführen zu können, wird dieses Cookie benötigt. Dazu speichert das Cookie Ihre Sitzungs-ID.
Ablaufdatum: nach einem Jahr

Name: __stripe_sid
Wert: 6fee719a-c67c-4ed2-b583-6a9a50895b122753fe
Verwendungszweck: Auch dieses Cookie speichert Ihre ID und wird für den Zahlungsprozess auf unserer Website durch Stripe verwendet.
Ablaufdatum: nach Ablauf der Sitzung

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Personenbezogene Daten werden grundsätzlich für die Dauer der Diensterbringung gespeichert. Das heißt, die Daten werden so lange gespeichert, bis wir die Zusammenarbeit mit Stripe auflösen. Um allerdings die gesetzlichen und behördlichen Pflichten zu erfüllen kann Stripe auch über die Dauer der Diensterbringung personenbezogene Daten speichern. Da Stripe ein weltweit tätiges Unternehmen ist, können die Daten auch in jedem Land, wo Stripe Dienstleistungen anbietet, gespeichert werden. So können auch Daten außerhalb Ihres Landes, zum Beispiel in den USA gespeichert werden.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Stripe ist nach wie vor Teilnehmer des EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, wodurch bis 16. Juli 2020 der korrekte und sichere Datentransfer persönlicher Daten geregelt wurde. Nachdem der Europäische Gerichtshof das Abkommen für ungültig erklärt hat, stützt sich das Unternehmen nun nicht mehr auf dieses Abkommen, handelt aber noch nach den Prinzipien des Privacy Shields.

Sie haben immer das Recht auf Auskunft, Berichtigung und Löschung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten. Bei Fragen können Sie auch jederzeit das Stripe-Team über https://support.stripe.com/contact/email kontaktieren.

Cookies, die Stripe für ihre Funktionen verwenden, können Sie in Ihrem Browser löschen, deaktivieren oder verwalten. Je nachdem welchen Browser Sie verwenden, funktioniert dies auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Bitte beachten Sie aber, dass dann eventuell der Zahlungsvorgang nicht mehr funktioniert. Die folgenden Anleitungen zeigen, wie Sie Cookies in Ihrem Browser verwalten:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Wir haben Ihnen nun einen allgemeinen Überblick über die Verarbeitung und Speicherung der Daten durch Stripe gegeben. Wenn Sie noch mehr und noch genauere Informationen einholen wollen, dient Ihnen die ausführliche Stripe-Datenschutzerklärung unter https://stripe.com/at/privacy als gute Quelle.

Cloudflare Datenschutzerklärung

Wir verwenden auf dieser Webseite Cloudflare der Firma Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA), um unsere Webseite schneller und sicherer zu machen. Dabei verwendet Cloudflare Cookies und verarbeitet User-Daten. Cloudflare, Inc. ist eine amerikanische Firma, die ein Content Delivery Network und diverse Sicherheitsdienste anbietet. Diese Dienste befinden sich zwischen dem User und unserem Hosting-Anbieter. Was das alles genau bedeutet, versuchen wir im Folgenden genauer zu erläutern.

Was ist Cloudflare?

Ein Content Delivery Network (CDN), wie es die Firma Cloudflare bereitstellt, ist nichts anderes als ein Netzwerk aus verbundenen Servern. Cloudflare hat auf der ganzen Welt solche Server verteilt, um Webseiten schneller auf Ihren Bildschirm zu bringen. Ganz einfach gesagt, legt Cloudflare Kopien unserer Webseite an und platziert sie auf ihren eigenen Servern. Wenn Sie jetzt unsere Webseite besuchen, stellt ein System der Lastenverteilung sicher, dass die größten Teile unserer Webseite von jenem Server ausgeliefert werden, der Ihnen unsere Webseite am schnellsten anzeigen kann. Die Strecke der Datenübertragung zu Ihrem Browser wird durch ein CDN deutlich verkürzt. Somit wird Ihnen der Content unserer Webseite durch Cloudflare nicht nur von unserem Hosting-Server geliefert, sondern von Servern aus der ganzen Welt. Besonders hilfreich wird der Einsatz von Cloudflare für User aus dem Ausland, da hier die Seite von einem Server in der Nähe ausgeliefert werden kann. Neben dem schnellen Ausliefern von Webseiten bietet Cloudflare auch diverse Sicherheitsdienste, wie den DDoS-Schutz oder die Web Application Firewall an.

Warum wir Cloudflare auf unserer Webseite verwenden?

Natürlich wollen wir Ihnen mit unserer Webseite das bestmögliche Service bieten. Cloudflare hilft uns dabei, unsere Webseite schneller und sicherer zu machen. Cloudflare bietet uns sowohl Web-Optimierungen als auch Sicherheitsdienste, wie DDoS-Schutz und Web-Firewall, an. Dazu gehören auch ein Reverse-Proxy und das Content-Verteilungsnetzwerk (CDN). Cloudflare blockiert Bedrohungen und begrenzt missbräuchliche Bots und Crawler, die unsere Bandbreite und Serverressourcen verschwenden. Durch das Speichern unserer Webseite auf lokalen Datenzentren und das Blockieren von Spam-Software ermöglicht Cloudflare, unsere Bandbreitnutzung etwa um 60% zu reduzieren. Das Bereitstellen von Inhalten über ein Datenzentrum in Ihrer Nähe und einiger dort durchgeführten Web-Optimierungen reduziert die durchschnittliche Ladezeit einer Webseite etwa um die Hälfte. Durch die Einstellung „I´m Under Attack Mode“ („Ich werde angegriffen“-Modus) können laut Cloudflare weitere Angriffe abgeschwächt werden, indem eine JavaScript-Rechenaufgabe angezeigt wird, die man lösen muss, bevor ein User auf eine Webseite zugreifen kann. Insgesamt wird dadurch unsere Webseite deutlich leistungsstärker und weniger anfällig auf Spam oder andere Angriffe.

Welche Daten werden von Cloudflare gespeichert?

Cloudflare leitet im Allgemeinen nur jene Daten weiter, die von Webseitenbetreibern gesteuert werden. Die Inhalte werden also nicht von Cloudflare bestimmt, sondern immer vom Webseitenbetreiber selbst. Zudem erfasst Cloudflare unter Umständen bestimmte Informationen zur Nutzung unserer Webseite und verarbeitet Daten, die von uns versendet werden oder für die Cloudflare entsprechende Anweisungen erhalten hat. In den meisten Fällen erhält Cloudflare Daten wie IP-Adresse, Kontakt- und Protokollinfos, Sicherheitsfingerabdrücke und Leistungsdaten für Webseiten. Protokolldaten helfen Cloudflare beispielsweise dabei, neue Bedrohungen zu erkennen. So kann Cloudflare einen hohen Sicherheitsschutz für unsere Webseite gewährleisten. Cloudflare verarbeitet diese Daten im Rahmen der Services unter Einhaltung der geltenden Gesetze. Dazu zählt natürlich auch die Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO).

Aus Sicherheitsgründen verwendet Cloudflare auch ein Cookie. Das Cookie (__cfduid) wird eingesetzt, um einzelne User hinter einer gemeinsam genutzten IP-Adresse zu identifizieren und Sicherheitseinstellungen für jeden einzelnen User anzuwenden. Sehr nützlich wird dieses Cookie beispielsweise, wenn Sie unsere Webseite aus einem Lokal benutzen, in dem sich eine Reihe infizierter Computer befinden. Wenn aber Ihr Computer vertrauenswürdig ist, können wir dies anhand des Cookies erkennen. So können Sie, trotz infizierter PCs in Ihrem Umfeld, ungehindert und sorgenfrei durch unsere Webseite surfen. Wichtig zu wissen ist auch noch, dass dieses Cookie keine personenbezogenen Daten speichert. Dieses Cookie ist für die Cloudflare-Sicherheitsfunktionen unbedingt erforderlich und kann nicht deaktiviert werden.

Cookies von Cloudflare

Name: __cfduid
Wert: d798bf7df9c1ad5b7583eda5cc5e78111464339-3
Verwendungszweck: Sicherheitseinstellungen für jeden einzelnen Besucher
Ablaufdatum: nach einem Jahr

Cloudflare arbeitet auch mit Drittanbietern zusammen. Diese dürfen personenbezogene Daten nur unter Anweisung der Firma Cloudflare und in Übereinstimmung mit den Datenschutzrichtlinien und anderer Vertraulichkeits- und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen verarbeiten. Ohne explizite Einwilligung von uns gibt Cloudflare keine personenbezogenen Daten weiter.

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Cloudflare speichert Ihre Informationen hauptsächlich in den USA und im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum. Cloudflare kann die oben beschriebenen Informationen aus der ganzen Welt übertragen und darauf zugreifen. Im Allgemeinen speichert Cloudflare Daten auf User-Ebene für Domains in den Versionen Free, Pro und Business für weniger als 24 Stunden. Für Enterprise Domains, die Cloudflare Logs (früher Enterprise LogShare oder ELS) aktiviert haben, können die Daten bis zu 7 Tage gespeichert werden. Wenn allerdings IP-Adressen bei Cloudflare Sicherheitswarnungen auslösen, kann es zu Ausnahmen der oben angeführten Speicherungsdauer kommen.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Cloudflare bewahrt Daten-Protokolle nur solange wie nötig auf und diese Daten werden auch in den meisten Fällen innerhalb von 24 Stunden wieder gelöscht. Cloudflare speichert auch keine personenbezogenen Daten, wie beispielsweise Ihre IP-Adresse. Es gibt allerdings Informationen, die Cloudflare als Teil seiner permanenten Protokolle auf unbestimmte Zeit speichert, um so die Gesamtleistung von Cloudflare Resolver zu verbessern und etwaige Sicherheitsrisiken zu erkennen. Welche permanenten Protokolle genau gespeichert werden, können Sie auf https://www.cloudflare.com/application/privacypolicy/ nachlesen. Alle Daten, die Cloudflare sammelt (temporär oder permanent), werden von allen personenbezogenen Daten bereinigt. Alle permanenten Protokolle werden zudem von Cloudflare anonymisiert.

Cloudflare geht in ihrer Datenschutzerklärung darauf ein, dass sie für die Inhalte, die sie erhalten nicht verantwortlich sind. Wenn Sie beispielsweise bei Cloudflare anfragen, ob sie Ihre Inhalte aktualisieren oder löschen können, verweist Cloudflare grundsätzlich auf uns als Webseitenbetreiber. Sie können auch die gesamte Erfassung und Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten durch Cloudflare komplett unterbinden, indem Sie die Ausführung von Script-Code in Ihrem Browser deaktivieren oder einen Script-Blocker in Ihren Browser einbinden.

Cloudflare ist aktiver Teilnehmer beim EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, wodurch der korrekte und sichere Datentransfer persönlicher Daten geregelt wird. Mehr Informationen dazu finden Sie auf https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnZKAA0.
Mehr Informationen zum Datenschutz bei Cloudflare finden Sie auf https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/

eKomi Datenschutzerklärung

Wir verwenden auf unserer Website Technologien der deutschen Softwarefirma eKomi Ltd., Zimmerstraße 11, 10969 Berlin, Deutschland. Das Unternehmen bietet ein Online-Bewertungstool, das uns dabei hilft, unsere Services stets zu verbessern. Damit dieses Bewertungssystem funktioniert, haben wir die eKomi-Software (JavaScript-Code) in unsere Website eingebunden. Durch die Verwendung dieses Tools werden Daten an eKomi übertragen, verarbeitet und gespeichert. In dieser Datenschutzerklärung zeigen wir Ihnen um welche Daten es sich handelt, wie sie gespeichert werden und wie Sie die Datenverarbeitung und Datenspeicherung unterbinden können.

Was ist eKomi?

eKomi ist ein Software-Anbieter für ein Online-Bewertungssystem. Nachdem Sie bei uns ein Produkt bestellt haben oder eine Dienstleistung in Anspruch genommen haben, erhalten Sie eine E-Mail, mit der Bitte eine anonyme Bewertung abzugeben. Sie werden dafür über einen Link auf eine Bewertungsseite weitergeleitet und können dort einfach und schnell eine Bewertung mit dem 5-Sternesystem abgeben und einen kleinen Text dazuschreiben. eKomi bietet zudem auch eine Schnittstelle zu Social-Media-Kanälen. So kann das Feedback von Kunden noch mehr Menschen zur Verfügung gestellt werden.

Warum verwenden wir eKomi auf unserer Website?

eKomi sammelt also Bewertungen für uns und unsere Produkte und wir können diese dann auf unserer Website präsentieren. Dafür koppelt eKomi eine Technologie an unsere Website bzw. unseren Onlineshop. Durch Ihre Bewertungen bekommen wir schnell entsprechendes Feedback und können unsere Produkte und/oder Dienstleistungen viel effizienter verbessern. Die Bewertungen dienen uns folglich einerseits zur Optimierung unserer Angebote und andererseits geben sie Ihnen und all unseren zukünftigen Kunden einen guten Überblick über die Qualität unserer Produkte und Leistungen.

Welche Daten werden von eKomi gespeichert?

Um diesen Bewertungsdienst anzubieten, werden eKomi auch personenbezogene Daten wie E-Mail-Adresse, IP-Adresse oder Ihr Name zur Verfügung gestellt. Es werden auch nach Abgabe Ihre Bewertung Bestellinformationen wie etwa die Bestellnummer eines erworbenen Artikels an eKomi weitergeleitet. Das ist notwendig, damit sichergestellt werden kann, dass Bewertungen auch nur von Menschen gemacht werden, die unsere Produkte auch wirklich gekauft haben. Nur so können Kunden authentisch Ihre Erfahrungen über unsere Produkte teilen. Jede Kundenbewertung erscheint auch anonymisiert auf eKomi.

Ihre E-Mail-Adresse übermitteln wir an eKomi, damit das Unternehmen Ihnen eine Mail nach dem Erwerb eines unserer Produkte senden kann. Um diese Bewertung auch auf unserer Website einzubinden, erhält eKomi zudem die Information, dass Sie unsere Website aufgerufen haben. Wenn Sie sich für eine Bewertung entscheiden, erhält eKomi die darin angegebenen Informationen. Für alle personenbezogenen Daten, die Sie eKomi zur Verfügung stellen, ist eKomi verantwortlich.

Unser Test hat ergeben, dass eKomi teilweise folgende Drittanbieter-Cookies (Google Analytics) verwendet:

Name: _ga
Wert: GA1.2.489076422.1596109839111464339-3
Verwendungszweck: Standardmäßig verwendet analytics.js das Cookie _ga, um die User-ID zu speichern. Grundsätzlich dient es zur Unterscheidung der Websitebesucher.
Ablaufdatum: nach zwei Jahren

Name: _gat
Wert: 1
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie wird zur Drosselung der Anforderungsrate verwendet, wodurch die Datenerfassung auf Websites mit hohem Datenaufkommen eingeschränkt wird.
Ablaufdatum: nach Sitzungsende

Name: _gid
Wert: GA1.2.499030530.1596109839111464339-8
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie speichert das Userverhalten auf einer Website.
Ablaufdatum: nach zwei Tagen

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Personenbezogene Daten, die in einer Bewertung genannt werden, werden von Mitarbeitern des eKomi-Teams unkenntlich gemacht und sind folglich nur noch für Systemadministratoren und Teamleiter des Kunden-Feedback-Management-Teams sichtbar. Alle erhobenen Daten werden auf den Servern von eKomi gespeichert. Die Daten werden nach Auftragsende vollständig gelöscht. Personenbezogene Daten werden auch dann gelöscht, wenn sie für den Zweck nicht mehr nötig sind oder Sie die Einwilligung zur Datenverarbeitung widerrufen bzw. verlangen, Ihre Daten zu löschen.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Nach dem Datenschutzrecht der Europäischen Union haben Sie das Recht, Auskunft über Ihre Daten zu erhalten, sie zu aktualisieren, zu löschen oder einzuschränken. Wenn Sie nicht wollen, dass eKomi Cookies in Ihrem Browser setzt, können Sie dies auch in Ihren Browser-Einstellungen unterbinden. Dort kann man Cookies verwalten, deaktivieren oder löschen. Im Folgenden finden Sie für die gängigsten Browser die entsprechenden Anleitungen:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Wir hoffen wir konnten Ihnen die wichtigsten Informationen rund um die Datenverarbeitung von eKomi näherbringen. Wenn Sie mehr über das Unternehmen und dessen Umgang mit Daten erfahren wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen die Datenschutzerklärung unter https://www.ekomi.de/de/datenschutz/.

jQuery CDN Datenschutzerklärung

Um Ihnen unsere Website bzw. all unsere einzelnen Unterseiten (Webseiten) auf unterschiedlichen Geräten schnell und problemlos auszuliefern, nutzen wir Dienste von jQuery CDN des Unternehmens jQuery Foundation. jQuery wird über das Content Delivery Network (CDN) des amerikanischen Software-Unternehmens StackPath (LCC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA) verteilt. Durch diesen Dienst werden personenbezogene Daten von Ihnen gespeichert, verwaltet und verarbeitet.

Ein Content Delivery Network (CDN) ist ein Netzwerk regional verteilter Server, die über das Internet miteinander verbunden sind. Durch dieses Netzwerk können Inhalte, speziell sehr große Dateien, auch bei großen Lastspitzen schnell ausgeliefert werden.

jQuery nutzt JavaScript-Bibliotheken, um unsere Website-Inhalte zügig ausliefern zu können. Dafür lädt ein CDN-Server die nötigen Dateien. Sobald eine Verbindung zum CDN-Server aufgebaut ist, wird Ihre IP-Adresse erfasst und gespeichert. Das geschieht nur, wenn diese Daten nicht schon durch einen vergangenen Websitebesuch in Ihrem Browser gespeichert sind.

In den Datenschutz-Richtlinien von StackPath wird ausdrücklich erwähnt, dass StackPath aggregierte und anonymisierte Daten von diversen Diensten (wie eben auch jQuery) für die Erweiterung der Sicherheit und für eigene Dienste benutzen. Diese Daten können Sie als Person allerdings nicht identifizieren.

Wenn Sie nicht wollen, dass es zu dieser Datenübertragung kommt, haben Sie immer auch die Möglichkeit Java-Scriptblocker wie beispielsweise ghostery.com oder noscript.net zu installieren. Sie können aber auch einfach in Ihrem Browser die Ausführung von JavaScript-Codes deaktivieren. Wenn Sie sich für die Deaktivierung von JavaScript-Codes entscheiden, verändern sich auch die gewohnten Funktionen. So wird beispielsweise eine Website nicht mehr so schnell geladen.

StackPath ist aktiver Teilnehmer beim EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, wodurch der korrekte und sichere Datentransfer persönlicher Daten geregelt wird. Mehr Informationen dazu finden Sie auf https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active.
Mehr Informationen zum Datenschutz bei StackPath finden Sie unter https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/ und zu jQuery unter https://openjsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/84/2019/11/OpenJS-Foundation-Privacy-Policy-2019-11-15.pdf.

jsdelivr.com-CDN Datenschutzerklärung

Damit wir Ihnen unsere einzelnen Webseiten schnell und auf allen unterschiedlichen Geräten einwandfrei ausliefern können, verwenden wir die Open-Source-Dienste von jsdelivr.com des polnischen Software-Unternehmens ProspectOne, Królewska 65A/1, 30-081, Kraków, Polen.

Dabei handelt es sich um ein Content Delivery Network (CDN). Das ist ein Netzwerk regional verteilter Server, die über das Internet verbunden sind. Dadurch können Inhalte, speziell große Dateien, auch bei großen Lastspitzen schnell und optimal ausgeliefert werden.

jsDelivr ist so aufgebaut, dass JavaScript-Bibliotheken heruntergeladen werden können, die auf npm- und Github-Servern gehostet werden. Es können aber auch WordPress-Plugins geladen werden, sofern diese auf WordPress.org gehostet werden. Um diesen Dienst bereitstellen zu können, kann Ihr Browser personenbezogene Daten an jsdelivr.com senden. jsDelivr kann somit Userdaten wie IP-Adresse, Browsertyp, Browserversion, welche Webseite geladen wird oder Uhrzeit und Datum des Seitenbesuchs sammeln und speichern. In der Datenschutzerklärung von jsdelivr.com wird ausdrücklich darauf hingewiesen, dass das Unternehmen keine Cookies oder andere Tracking-Services verwendet.

Wenn Sie diese Datenübertragung unterbinden wollen, können Sie einen JavaScript-Blocker (siehe beispielsweise https://noscript.net/) installieren. Bitte beachten Sie aber, dass dadurch die Website nicht mehr das gewohnte Service (wie etwa schnelle Ladegeschwindigkeit) bieten kann.

Nähere Informationen zur Datenverarbeitung durch den Softwaredienst jsDelivr finden Sie in der Datenschutzerklärung des Unternehmens unter https://www.jsdelivr.com/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net.

BootstrapCDN Datenschutzerklärung

Um Ihnen all unsere einzelnen Webseiten (Unterseiten unserer Website) auf allen Geräten schnell und sicher ausliefern zu können, nutzen wir das Content Delivery Network (CDN) BootstrapCDN des amerikanischen Software-Unternehmens StackPath, LLC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA.

BootstrapCDN funktioniert so, dass sogenannte JavaScript-Bibliotheken an Ihren Browser ausgeliefert werden. Lädt nun Ihr Browser eine Datei vom BootstrapCDN herunter, wird Ihre IP-Adresse während der Verbindung zum Bootstrap-CDN-Server an das Unternehmen StockPath übermittelt.

StackPath erwähnt auch in der hauseigenen Datenschutzerklärung, dass das Unternehmen aggregierte und anonymisierte Daten von diversen Diensten (wie BootstrapCDN) für die Erweiterung der Sicherung und für andere StackPath-Dienste und Clients verwenden. All diese Daten können aber keine Person identifizieren.

Wenn Sie diese Datenübertragung unterbinden wollen, können Sie einen JavaScript-Blocker (siehe beispielsweise https://noscript.net/) installieren oder in Ihrem Browser die Ausführung von JavaScript-Codes deaktivieren. Bitte beachten Sie aber, dass dadurch die Website nicht mehr das gewohnte Service (wie etwa schnelle Ladegeschwindigkeit) bieten kann.

StackPath ist aktiver Teilnehmer beim EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, wodurch der korrekte und sichere Datentransfer persönlicher Daten geregelt wird. Mehr Informationen dazu finden Sie auf https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active.
Mehr Informationen zum Datenschutz bei StackPath bzw. BootstrapCDN finden Sie auf https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/.

Riddle Datenschutzerklärung

Wie Sie vielleicht schon bemerkt haben, können Sie auf unserer Website auch an einem Online-Quiz teilnehmen. Damit das funktioniert nutzen wir ein Software-Tool des deutschen Unternehmens Riddle Technologies AG (Lenaustraße 1, 66125 Saarbrücken, Deutschland). Eingebunden wird das Quiz über ein iFrame. Damit können externe Dokumente oder Applikationen (wie in diesem Fall ein Quiz) visuell in eine Website eingebunden werden. Bei der Verwendung des Quiz erhebt Riddle sogenannte “aggregierte Daten”, allerdings keine personenbezogenen Daten, die Sie als Person identifizieren können. In dieser Datenschutzerklärung gehen wir darauf noch näher ein und zeigen Ihnen welche Daten wie, wo und warum gespeichert werden.

Was ist Riddle?

Riddle wurde aus einer Gruppe von Quiz-Fans im Jahr 2014 gegründet und ist ein Softwareunternehmen, das sich unter anderem auf die Quiz-Herstellung spezialisiert hat. Das Unternehmen bietet Websitebetreibern Content-Typen wie Quiz oder Persönlichkeitstests, die in eine Website eingebunden werden. Wir können unser Quiz exakt nach unseren Vorstellungen gestalten. So können User wie Sie an individuell erstellten Rätseln, die zum Thema der Website passen, teilnehmen.

Warum verwenden wir Riddle auf unserer Website?

Unser oberstes Ziel mit dieser Website ist es, Ihnen neben hochwertigen Inhalten und Angeboten, eine angenehme und unterhaltsame Zeit zu bieten. Und wie geht das besser als mit einem kleinen Online-Quiz? Diesen Spaß wollen wir Ihnen natürlich nicht vorenthalten. Und aus diesem Grund gibt es auf unserer Website das Online-Quiz von Riddle.

Welche Daten werden von Riddle gespeichert?

Riddle speichert selbst keine Daten, wenn Sie die auf unserer Website eingebettete Riddle-Funktion verwenden. Die Daten werden auf unserem Webspace abgelegt und Riddle kann nur im Rahmen von Wartungsarbeiten und/oder Supportdienstleistungen zugreifen. Der Zugang ist begrenzt und steht nur den verantwortlichen Wartungsmitarbeitern zur Verfügung. Riddle erhebt keine personenbezogenen Daten. Es werden nur zusammengefasste Daten, die keine Rückschlüsse auf Personen erfasst. So wird ausgewertet, wie viele (anonyme) Personen eine bestimmte Antwortmöglichkeit ausgewählt haben. Nicht ausgewertet wird aber, welche Person welche Antwort gegeben hat. Riddle verwendet also nur anonymisierte Daten für statistische Auswertungen. Falls wir via Formular Daten von Ihnen abfragen, werden diese Daten erfasst und in unserem Webspace abgelegt.

Die eingebettete Riddle-Funktion setzt in der Standardvariante (per Default) folgendes Session-Cookie:

Name: sid
Wert: 3c531f634a459f0933e1689ffb1945111464339-6be
Verwendungszweck: Dieses Cookie speichert Ihre Session-ID und Ihren letzten Anmeldezeitpunkt in digital signierter und verschlüsselter Form.
Ablaufdatum: nach Schließung Ihres Browsers

Wie lange und wo werden die Daten gespeichert?

Alle Daten werden lokal auf unserem Webserver gespeichert. Die Daten werden so lange auf unserem Webserver gespeichert, bis sie für die oben angeführten Zwecke nicht mehr benötigt werden.

Wie kann ich meine Daten löschen bzw. die Datenspeicherung verhindern?

Sie haben jederzeit das Recht auf Auskunft, Berichtigung bzw. Löschung und Einschränkung der Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten. Sie können zudem auch jederzeit die Einwilligung zur Verarbeitung der Daten widerrufen.

Falls Sie grundsätzlich Cookies deaktivieren, löschen oder verwalten wollen, gibt es für jeden Browser eine eigene Anleitung:

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Wir hoffen wir konnten Ihnen die wichtigsten Informationen rund um die Datenverarbeitung von Riddle näherbringen. Wenn Sie mehr über den Datenschutz des Online-Quiz-Dienstes erfahren wollen, empfehlen wir Ihnen die Datenschutzerklärung des Unternehmens unter https://www.riddle.com/legal/privacy und die Seite https://www.riddle.com/docs/creators/create-gdpr-compliant-quiz/.

Quelle: Erstellt mit dem Datenschutz Generator von AdSimple® SEO in Kooperation mit schoenheitsmagazin.at

Privacy Policy

We created this Privacy Policy (version 05.11.2020-111464339), to declare which information we collect, how we use data and which options the users of our website have, according to the guidelines of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

Unfortunately, these subjects sound rather technical due to their nature, but we have put much effort into describing the most important things as simply and clearly as possible.

Automatic Data Retention

Every time you visit a website nowadays, certain information is automatically created and saved, just as it happens on this website.

Whenever you visit our website such as you are doing right now, our webserver (computer on which this website is saved/stored) automatically saves data such as

the address (URL) of the accessed website
browser and browser version
the used operating system
the address (URL) of the previously visited site (referrer URL)
the host name and the IP-address of the device the website is accessed from
date and time

in files (webserver-logfiles).

Generally, webserver-logfiles stay saved for two weeks and then get deleted automatically. We do not pass this information to others, but we cannot exclude the possibility that this data will be looked at in case of illegal conduct.

Cookies

Our website uses HTTP-cookies to store user-specific data.
For your better understanding of the following Privacy Policy statement, we will explain to you below what cookies are and why they are in use.

What exactly are cookies?

Every time you surf the internet, you use a browser. Common browsers are for example Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Most websites store small text-files in your browser. These files are called cookies.

What should not be dismissed, is that cookies are very useful little helpers. Nearly all websites use cookies. More accurately speaking these are HTTP-cookies, since there are also different cookies for other uses. http-cookies are small files which our website stores on your computer. These cookie files are automatically put into the cookie-folder, which is like the “brain” of your browser. A cookie consists of a name and a value. Moreover, to define a cookie, one or multiple attributes must be specified.

Cookies save certain parts of your user data, such as e.g. language or personal page settings. When you re-open our website, your browser submits these “user specific” information back to our site. Thanks to cookies, our website knows who you are and offers you the settings you are familiar to. In some browsers every cookie has its own file, in others such as Firefox, all cookies are stored in one single file.

There are both first-party cookies and third-party coookies. First-party cookies are created directly by our site, while third-party cookies are created by partner-websites (e.g. Google Analytics). Every cookie is individual, since every cookie stores different data. The expiration time of a cookie also varies – it can be a few minutes, or up to a few years. Cookies are no software-programs and contain no computer viruses, trojans or any other malware. Cookies also cannot access your PC’s information.

This is an example of how cookie-files can look:

name: _ga
value: GA1.2.1326744211.152111464339-9
purpose: differentiation between website visitors
expiration date: after 2 years

A browser should support these minimum sizes:

at least 4096 bytes per cookie
at least 50 cookies per domain
at least 3000 cookies in total

Which types of cookies are there?

What exact cookies we use, depends on the used services. We will explain this in the following sections of the Privacy Policy statement. Firstly, we will briefly focus on the different types of HTTP-cookies.

There are 4 different types of cookies:

Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary to ensure the basic function of a website. They are needed when a user for example puts a product into their shopping cart, then continues surfing on different websites and comes back later in order to proceed to the checkout. Even when the user closed their window priorly, these cookies ensure that the shopping cart does not get deleted.

Purposive Cookies
These cookies collect info about the user behaviour and record if the user potentially receives any error messages. Furthermore, these cookies record the website’s loading time as well as its behaviour within different browsers.

Target-orientated Cookies
These cookies care for an improved user-friendliness. Thus, information such as previously entered locations, fonts or data in forms stay saved.

Advertising Cookies
These cookies are also known as targeting-Cookies. They serve the purpose of delivering individually adapted advertisements to the user. This can be very practical, but also rather annoying.

Upon your first visit to a website you are usually asked which of these cookie-types you want to accept. Furthermore, this decision will of course also be saved in a cookie.

How can I delete cookies?

You yourself take the decision if and how you want to use cookies. Thus, no matter what service or website cookies are from, you always have the option to delete, deactivate or only partially allow them. Therefore, you can for example block cookies of third parties but allow any other cookies.

If you want change or delete cookie-settings and would like to determine which cookies have been saved to your browser, you can find this info in your browser-settings:

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies at all, you can set up your browser in a way, to notify you whenever a potential cookie is about to be set. This gives you the opportunity to manually decide to either permit or deny the placement of every single cookie. The settings for this differ from browser to browser. Therefore, it might be best for you to search for the instructions in Google. If you are using Chrome, you could for example put the search phrase “delete cookies Chrome” or “deactivate cookies Chrome” into Google.

How is my data protected?

There is a “cookie policy” that has been in place since 2009. It states that the storage of cookies requires the user’s consent. However, among the countries of the EU, these guidelines are often met with mixed reactions. In Austria the guidelines have been implemented in § 96 section 3 of the Telecommunications Act (TKG).

If you want to learn more about cookies and do not mind technical documentation, we recommend https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265, the Request for Comments of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) called “HTTP State Management Mechanism”.

Storage of Personal Data

Any personal data you electronically submit to us on this website, such as your name, email address, home address or other personal information you provide via the transmission of a form or via any comments to the blog, are solely used for the specified purpose and get stored securely along with the respective submission times and IP-address. These data do not get passed on to third parties.

Therefore, we use personal data for the communication with only those users, who have explicitly requested being contacted, as well as for the execution of the services and products offered on this website. We do not pass your personal data to others without your approval, but we cannot exclude the possibility this data will be looked at in case of illegal conduct.

If you send us personal data via email – and thus not via this website – we cannot guarantee any safe transmission or protection of your data. We recommend you, to never send confidential data via email.

Rights in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation

You are granted the following rights in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG):

right to rectification (article 16 GDPR)
right to erasure (“right to be forgotten“) (article 17 GDPR)
right to restrict processing (article 18 GDPR)
righ to notification – notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing (article 19 GDPR)
right to data portability (article 20 GDPR)
Right to object (article 21 GDPR)
right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – (article 22 GDPR)

If you think that the processing of your data violates the data protection law, or that your data protection rights have been infringed in any other way, you can lodge a complaint with your respective regulatory authority. For Austria this is the data protection authority, whose website you can access at https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/.

Evaluation of Visitor Behaviour

In the following Privacy Policy, we will inform you on if and how we evaluate the data of your visit to this website. The evaluation is generally made anonymously, and we cannot link to you personally based on your behaviour on this website.

You can find out more about how to disagree with the evaluation of visitor data, in the Privacy Policy below.

TLS encryption with https

We use https to transfer information on the internet in a tap-proof manner (data protection through technology design Article 25 Section 1 GDPR). With the use of TLS (Transport Layer Security), which is an encryption protocol for safe data transfer on the internet, we can ensure the protection of confidential information. You can recognise the use of this safeguarding tool by the little lock-symbol, which is situated in your browser’s top left corner, as well as by the use of the letters https (instead of http) as a part of our web address.

Google Maps Privacy Policy

On our website we use Google Maps of the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). With the use of Google Maps, we can show you locations in a better way and can therefore adjust our service to your needs. Due to the utilisation of Google Maps, data gets transferred to Google and is saved on Google’s servers. In the following, we want to explain in detail what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Maps?

Google Maps is an internet maps service of the company Google Inc. With Google Maps you can search for exact locations of cities, sights, accommodations or businesses online via a PC, a tablet or an app. If businesses are represented on Google My Business, the respective location as well as other information about the company are shown there. In order to show route directions, a location’s map sections can be integrated in a website through a HTML-code. Google Maps depicts the earth’s surface as either a road map or as air and satellite images. Due to the street view and high-quality satellite images, it is possible for exact representations to be made.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

The efforts we make on this page have the goal of giving you a useful and meaningful experience on our website. Through the integration of Google Maps, we can offer you essential information on various locations. Therefore, you can spot our office address with one glance. Furthermore, the route directions always show you the best and fastest way to us. You can retrieve the route directions for traveling either by car, by public transport, on foot or by bike. The integration of Google Maps is a part of our customer service.

What data is stored by Google Maps?

For Google Maps to offer its full services, the company must collect and store your data. This includes your entered search terms, your IP-address as well as your longitude and latitude coordinates. When you use the route-planner function, the entered start address is stored also. However, this data retention happens on Google Maps‘ websites. We can only inform you about it but cannot influence it in any way. Since we have included Google Maps on our website, Google will set at least one cookie (Name: NID) into your browser. This cookie saves data on your user behaviour. Google primarily uses this data to optimise ist own services and to provide you with individual, personalised advertisements.

The following cookies are set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps:

Name: NID
Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ111464339-5
Purpose: Google uses NID in order to adjust advertisments to your Google searches. With the cookie’s help Google “remembers“ your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. That way you always receive customised adertisments. The cookie contains a unique ID, wich Google uses to collect your personal settings for advertising porposes.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Note: We cannot guarantee completeness of the information on saved data. This is, because especially concerning the use of cookies, changes can happen anytime. To identify the cookie NID, a test page was created, to which Google Maps was included.

How long and where is the data saved?

There are Google servers in data centres across the entire planet. However, most servers are in America. For this reason, your data is widely stored in the USA. Here you can read in detail about where the Google servers are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=en

Google distributes data to various data carriers. This makes it possible to retrieve the data faster and to better protect it from possible attempted manipulations. Every server has emergency programs. Thus, should for example a problem with Google’s hardware occur or should a natural disaster impact the servers, any data will quite certainly stay protected.

Moreover, Google saves some data for a specified period. With some other data on the other hand, Google only offers the opportunity for deleting it manually. Furthermore, the company anonymises information (e.g. advertising data) in server logs, by deleting a part of the IP-address and cookie information after 9 to 18 months.

How can I delete my data, or prevent data retention?

Due to the automatic delete function for location and activity data, which was introduced in 2019, information that is used for determining your location and web or app activity is saved for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your preferred decision, and is deleted thereafter.
Furthermore, it is possible to delete this data manually from your browser history via your Google account anytime. If you want to prevent the determination of your location altogether, you must pause the category “Web and app activity” in your Google account. Click on “Data and personalisation” and then choose the option “Activity controls”. Here you can switch the activities on or off.

Moreover, in your browser you can deactivate, delete or manage individual cookies. This function can differ a little, depending on what browser you are using. The following instructions will show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

If you generally do not want to permit any cookies, you can set up your browser in a way that ensures you get informed whenever a cookie is about to be placed. That way you can decide to either permit or refuse every single cookie.

Google is an active participant of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and safe transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI.
If you want to find out more about Google’s data processing, we recommend the company’s internal privacy statement on https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

Google Fonts Privacy Policy

On our website we use Google Fonts, from the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).

To use Google Fonts, you must log in and set up a password. Furthermore, no cookies will be saved in your browser. The data (CSS, Fonts) will be requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, all requests for CSS and fonts are fully separated from any other Google services. If you have a Google account, you do not need to worry that your Google account details are transmitted to Google while you use Google Fonts. Google records the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) as well as the utilised fonts and stores these data securely. We will have a detailed look at how exactly the data storage works.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts (previously Google Web Fonts) is a list of over 800 fonts which href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google?tid=111464339”>Google LLC provides its users for free.

Many of these fonts have been published under the SIL Open Font License license, while others have been published under the Apache license. Both are free software licenses.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

With Google Fonts we can use different fonts on our website and do not have to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important element which helps to keep the quality of our website high. All Google fonts are automatically optimised for the web, which saves data volume and is an advantage especially for the use of mobile terminal devices. When you use our website, the low data size provides fast loading times. Moreover, Google Fonts are secure Web Fonts. Various image synthesis systems (rendering) can lead to errors in different browsers, operating systems and mobile terminal devices. These errors could optically distort parts of texts or entire websites. Due to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN) there are no cross-platform issues with Google Fonts. All common browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) are supported by Google Fonts, and it reliably operates on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). We also use Google Fonts for presenting our entire online service as pleasantly and as uniformly as possible.

Which data is saved by Google?

Whenever you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded by a Google server. Through this external cue, data gets transferred to Google’s servers. Therefore, this makes Google recognise that you (or your IP-address) is visiting our website. The Google Fonts API was developed to reduce the usage, storage and gathering of end user data to the minimum needed for the proper depiction of fonts. What is more, API stands for „Application Programming Interface“ and works as a software data intermediary.

Google Fonts stores CSS and font requests safely with Google, and therefore it is protected. Using its collected usage figures, Google can determine how popular the individual fonts are. Google publishes the results on internal analysis pages, such as Google Analytics. Moreover, Google also utilises data of ist own web crawler, in order to determine which websites are using Google fonts. This data is published in Google Fonts’ BigQuery database. Enterpreneurs and developers use Google’s webservice BigQuery to be able to inspect and move big volumes of data.

One more thing that should be considered, is that every request for Google Fonts automatically transmits information such as language preferences, IP address, browser version, as well as the browser’s screen resolution and name to Google’s servers. It cannot be clearly identified if this data is saved, as Google has not directly declared it.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google saves requests for CSS assets for one day in a tag on their servers, which are primarily located outside of the EU. This makes it possible for us to use the fonts by means of a Google stylesheet. With the help of a stylesheet, e.g. designs or fonts of a website can get changed swiftly and easily.

Any font related data is stored with Google for one year. This is because Google’s aim is to fundamentally boost websites’ loading times. With millions of websites referring to the same fonts, they are buffered after the first visit and instantly reappear on any other websites that are visited thereafter. Sometimes Google updates font files to either reduce the data sizes, increase the language coverage or to improve the design.

How can I delete my data or prevent it being stored?

The data Google stores for either a day or a year cannot be deleted easily. Upon opening the page this data is automatically transmitted to Google. In order to clear the data ahead of time, you have to contact Google’s support at https://support.google.com/?hl=en-GB&tid=111464339. The only way for you to prevent the retention of your data is by not visiting our website.

Unlike other web fonts, Google offers us unrestricted access to all its fonts. Thus, we have a vast sea of font types at our disposal, which helps us to get the most out of our website. You can find out more answers and information on Google Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=111464339. While Google does address relevant elements on data protection at this link, it does not contain any detailed information on data retention.
It proofs rather difficult to receive any precise information on stored data by Google.

On https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB you can read more about what data is generally collected by Google and what this data is used for.

Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy

On our website we use Google Fonts, from the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).
We integrated Google Fonts locally, so on our own webserver and not on Google’s servers. Hence, there is no connection to Google’s servers and consequently no data transfer or retention.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts was previously called Google Web Fonts. It is an interactive list with over 800 fonts which Google LLC offer for free use. With the use of Google Fonts, it is possible to utilise fonts without uploading them to your own server. For that matter, in order to prevent any transfer of information to Google’s servers, we downloaded the fonts to our own server. This way we comply with the data privacy and do not transmit any data to Google Fonts.

OpenStreetMap Privacy Policy

We have included map sections of the online map tool “OpenStreetMap” to our website. It is a so-called open source mapping, which we can access via an API (interface). This feature is offered by OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John’s Innovation Center, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom. By using this map function, your IP address will be forwarded to OpenStreetMap. In this privacy policy we will explain why we use the functions of the OpenStreetMap tool, where which data is stored and how you can prevent data storage.

What is OpenStreetMap?

The OpenStreetMap project was launched in 2004. Its aim is to create a free world map. Users all around the world have been collecting data about buildings, forests, rivers and roads. Therefore, an extensive digital world map has been created by users over the years. Of course, the map is not complete, but it contains a lot of data for most regions.

Why do we use OpenStreetMap on our website?

The primary intention of your website is to be helpful to you. We think this can only be the case when information can be found quickly and easily. On the one hand, of course, this concerns our services and products. On the other hand, there should also be other helpful information available to you. That is why we also use OpenStreetMap’s map service. Thanks to this, we can for example show you exactly how to find our company. The map shows you the best way to get to us and makes your journey very smooth and easy.

What data is stored by OpenStreetMap?

When you visit one of our websites that include OpenStreetMap, your user data is transmitted to the service where it is stored. OpenStreetMap collects information about your interactions with the digital map, your IP address, your browser, device type, operating system and on which day and at what time you used the service. Tracking software is also used to record user interactions. For this regard, the company specifiies the “Piwik” analysis tool in its own privacy policy.

The collected data are then accessible to the relevant employee groups of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. According to the company, personal data will not be passed on to other people or companies, unless it is legally required. The third-party provider Piwik stores your IP address, but in a shortened form.

The following cookies may be set in your browser if you inerace with OpenStreetMap on our website:

Name: _osm_location
Value: 9.63312%7C52.41500%7C17%7CM
Purpose: This cookie is required to unlock OpenStreetMap’s contents.
Ablaufdatum: after 10 years

If you want to view the map in full screen, you will be linked to OpenStreetMap’s website. There, the following cookies may be stored in your browser:

Name: _osm_totp_token
Value: 148253111464339-2
Purpose:This cookie is used to ensure the operation of the map section.
Expiry date:after one hour

Name: _osm_session
Value: 1d9bfa122e0259d5f6db4cb8ef653a1c
Purpose: With the help of this cookie, session information (i.e. user behavior) can be stored.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: _pk_id.1.cf09
Value: 4a5.1593684142.2.1593688396.1593688396111464339-9
Purpose:This cookie is set by Piwik to save or measure user data such as click behavior.
Expiry date: after one year

How long and where are the data stored?

The API servers, databases, and servers of auxiliary services are currently located in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and the Netherlands. Your IP address and user information, which are saved in an abbreviated version by the web analysis tool Piwik, will be deleted after 180 days.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to both access your personal data and to object to its use and processing at any time. You can also always manage, delete, or deactivate cookies that may be set by OpenStreetMap in your browser. As a result, however, the service may no longer work to their full extent. The management, deletion or deactivation of cookies works differently in every browser. Below you will find links to the instructions of the most popular browsers:

For more information on OpenStreetMap’s data processing, we recommend the company’s privacy policy at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

We use the tracking and analysis tool Google Analytics (GA) of the US-American company Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Analytics collects data on your actions on our website. Whenever you click a link for example, this action is saved in a cookie and transferred to Google Analytics. With the help of reports which we receive from Google Analytics, we can adapt our website and our services better to your wishes. In the following, we will explain the tracking tool in more detail, and most of all, we will inform you what data is saved and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a tracking tool with the purpose of conducting data traffic analysis of our website. For Google Analytics to work, there is a tracking code integrated to our website. Upon your visit to our website, this code records various actions you perform on your website. As soon as you leave our website, this data is sent to the Google Analytics server, where it is stored.

Google processes this data and we then receive reports on your user behaviour. These reports can be one of the following:

Target audience reports: With the help of target audience reports we can get to know our users better and can therefore better understand who is interested in our service.
Advertising reports: Through advertising reports we can analyse our online advertising better and hence improve it.
Acquisition reports: Acquisition reports provide us helpful information on how we can get more people enthusiastic about our service.
Behaviour reports: With these reports, we can find out how you interact with our website. By the means of behaviour reports, we can understand what path you go on our website and what links you click.
Conversion reports: A conversion is the process of leading you to carry out a desired action due to a marketing message. An example of this would be transforming you from a mere website visitor into a buyer or a newsletter subscriber. Hence, with the help of these reports we can see in more detail, if our marketing measures are successful with you. Our aim is to increase our conversion rate.
Real time reports: With the help of these reports we can see in real time, what happens on our website. It makes us for example see, we can see how many users are reading this text right now.

Why do we use Google Analytics on our website?

The objective of our website is clear: We want to offer you the best possible service. Google Analytics’ statistics and data help us with reaching this goal.

Statistically evaluated data give us a clear picture of the strengths and weaknesses of our website. On the one hand, we can optimise our page in a way, that makes it easier to be found by interested people on Google. On the other hand, the data helps us to get a better understanding of you as our visitor. Therefore, we can very accurately find out what we must improve on our website, in order to offer you the best possible service. The analysis of that data also enables us to carry out our advertising and marketing measures in a more individual and more cost-effective way. After all, it only makes sense to show our products and services exclusively to people who are interested in them.

What data gets stored by Google Analytics?

With the aid of a tracking code, Google Analytics creates a random, unique ID which is connected to your browser cookie. That way, Google Analytics recognises you as a new user. The next time you visit our site, you will be recognised as a “recurring” user. All data that is collected gets saved together with this very user ID. Only this is how it is made possible for us to evaluate and analyse pseudonymous user profiles.

Your interactions on our website are measures by tags such as cookies and app instance IDs. Interactions are all kinds of actions that you perform on our website. If you are also using other Google systems (such as a Google Account), data generated by Google Analytics can be linked with third-party cookies. Google does not pass on any Google Analytics data, unless we as the website owners authorise it. In case it is required by law, exceptions can occur.

The following cookies are used by Google Analytics:

Name: _ga
Value:2.1326744211.152111464339-5
Purpose: By deafault, analytics.js uses the cookie _ga, to save the user ID. It generally serves the purpose of differenciating between website visitors.
Expiration date: After 2 years

Name: _gid
Value:2.1687193234.152111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie also serves the purpose of differentiating between website users
Expiration date: After 24 hours

Name: _gat_gtag_UA_<property-id>
Value: 1
Verwendungszweck: It is used for decreasing the demand rate. If Google Analytics is provided via Google Tag Manager, this cookie gets the name _dc_gtm_ <property-id>.
Expiration date: After 1 minute

Name: AMP_TOKEN
Value: No information
Purpose: This cookie has a token which is used to retrieve the user ID by the AMP Client ID Service. Other possible values suggest a logoff, a request or an error.
Expiration date: After 30 seconds up to one year

Name: __utma
Value:1564498958.1564498958.1564498958.1
Purpose: With this cookie your behaviour on the website can be tracked and the site performance can be measured. The cookie is updated every time the information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: After 2 years

Name: __utmt
Value: 1
Purpose: Just like _gat_gtag_UA_<property-id> this cookie is used for keeping the requirement rate in check.
Expiration date: Afer 10 minutes

Name: __utmb
Value:3.10.1564498958
Purpose: This cookie is used to determine new sessions. It is updated every time new data or information gets sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: After 30 minutes

Name: __utmc
Value: 167421564
Purpose: This cookie is used to determine new sessions for recurring visitors. It is therefore a session cookie, and only stays saved until you close the browser again.
Expiration date: After closing the browser

Name: __utmz
Value: m|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/
Purpose: This cookie is used to identify the source of our website’s visitor number. This means, that the cookie saves information on where you came to our website from. This could be another site or an advertisement.
Expiration date: After 6 months

Name: __utmv
Value: No information
Purpose: The cookie is used to store custom user data. It gets updated whenever information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: After 2 years

Note: This list is by no means exhaustive, since Google are repeatedly changing the use of their cookies.

Below we will give you an overview of the most important data that can be evaluated by Google Analytics:

Heatmaps: Google creates so-called Heatmaps an. These Heatmaps make it possible to see the exact areas you click on, so we can get information on what routes you make on our website.

Session duration: Google calls the time you spend on our website without leaving it session duration. Whenever you are inactive for 20 minutes, the session ends automatically.

Bounce rate If you only look at one page of our website and then leave our website again, it is called a bounce.

Account creation: If you create an account or make an order on our website, Google Analytics collects this data.

IP-Address: The IP address is only shown in a shortened form, to make it impossible to clearly allocate it.

Location: Your approximate location and the country you are in can be defined by the IP address. This process is called IP location determination.

Technical information: Information about your browser type, your internet provider and your screen resolution are called technical information.

Source: Both, Google Analytics as well as ourselves, are interested what website or what advertisement led you to our site.

Further possibly stored data includes contact data, potential reviews, playing media (e.g. when you play a video on our site), sharing of contents via social media or adding our site to your favourites. This list is not exhaustive and only serves as general guidance on Google Analytics’ data retention.

How long and where is the data saved?

Google has servers across the globe. Most of them are in America and therefore your data is mainly saved on American servers. Here you can read detailed information on where Google’s data centres are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=en

Your data is allocated to various physical data mediums. This has the advantage of allowing to retrieve the data faster, and of protecting it better from manipulation. Every Google data centre has respective emergency programs for your data. Hence, in case of a hardware failure at Google or a server error due to natural disasters, the risk for a service interruption stays relatively low.

Google Analytics has a 26 months standardised period of retaining your user data. After this time, your user data is deleted. However, we have the possibility to choose the retention period of user data ourselves. There are the following five options:

Deletion after 14 months
Deletion after 26 months
Deletion after 38 months
Deletion after 50 months
No automatical deletion

As soon as the chosen period is expired, the data is deleted once a month. This retention period applies to any of your data which is linked to cookies, user identification and advertisement IDs (e.g. cookies of the DoubleClick domain). Any report results are based on aggregated information and are stored independently of any user data. Aggregated information is a merge of individual data into a single and bigger unit.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

Under the provisions of the European Union’s data protection law, you have the right to obtain information on your data and to update, delete or restrict it. With the help of a browser add on that can deactivate Google Analytics’ JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js), you can prevent Google Analytics from using your data. You can download this add on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. Please consider that this add on can only deactivate any data collection by Google Analytics.

Should you generally want to deactivate, delete or manage all cookies (independently of Google Analytics), you can use one of the guides that are available for any browser:

Google Analytics is an active participant of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and save transfer of personal data.
You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111464339. We hope we were able to make you more familiar with the most important information on Google Analytics’ data processing. If you want to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend both of the following links: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/gb/ and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Google Analytics IP Anonymisation

We implemented Google Analytics’ IP address anonymisation to this website. Google developed this function, so this website can comply with the applicable privacy laws and the local data protection authorities’ recommendations, should they prohibit the retention of any full IP addresses.
The anonymisation or masking of IP addresses takes place, as soon as they reach Google Analytics’ data collection network, but before the data would be saved or processed.

You can find more information on IP anonymisation at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en.

Google Analytics Reports on demographic characteristics and interests

We have turned on Google Analytics’ functions for advertising reports. These reports on demographic characteristics and interests contain details about age, gender and interests. Through them we can get a better picture of our users – without being able to allocate any data to individual persons. You can learn more about advertising functions at auf https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3450482?hl=en&amp%3Butm_id=ad.

You can terminate the use of your Google Account’s activities and information in “Ads Settings” at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated via a checkbox.

Google Analytics Deactivation Link

By clicking on the following deactivation link you can prevent Google from tracking your further visits. Caution: The deletion of cookies, the use of your browser’s incognito/private mode or the use of a different browser may lead to your data being collected again.

Deactivate Google Analytics

Google Analytics‘ Data Processing Amendment

By accepting the amendment on data processing in Google Analytics, we entered a contract with Google concerning the use of Google Analytics.

You can find out more about the amendment on data processing for Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3379636?hl=en&utm_id=ad

Google Analytics Google Signals Privacy Policy

We have activated Google signals in Google Analytics. Through this, any existing Google Analytics functions (advertising reports, remarketing, cross-device reports and reports on interests and demographic characteristics) are updated, to result in the summary and anonymisation of your data, should you have permitted personalised ads in your Google Account.

The special aspect of this is that it involves cross-device tracking. That means your data can be analysed across multiple devices. Through the activation of Google signals, data is collected and linked to the Google account. For example, it enables Google to recognise when you look at a product on a smartphone and later buy the product on a laptop. Due to activating Google signals, we can start cross-device remarketing campaigns, which would otherwise not be possible to this extent. Remarketing means, that we can show you our products and services across other websites as well.

Moreover, further visitor data such as location, search history, YouTube history and data about your actions on our website are collected in Google Analytics. As a result, we receive improved advertising reports and more useful information on your interests and demographic characteristics. These include your age, the language you speak, where you live or what your gender is. Certain social criteria such as your job, your marital status or your income are also included. All these characteristics help Google Analytics to define groups of persons or target audiences.

Those reports also help us to better assess your behaviour, as well as your wishes and interests. As a result, we can optimise and customise our products and services for you. By default, this data expires after 26 months. Please consider, that this data is only collected if you have agreed to personalised advertisement in your Google Account. The retained information is always exclusively summarised and anonymous data, and never any data on individual persons. You can manage or delete this data in your Google Account.

Facebook Pixel Privacy Policy

We use Facebook’s Facebook pixel on our website. For that, we have implemented a code on our website. The Facebook pixel is a segment of a JavaScript code, which, in case you arrived on our website via Facebook ads, loads an array or functions that enable Facebook to track your user actions. For example, if you buy a product on our website, the Facebook pixel is triggered and then saves your actions on our website in one or more cookies. These cookies enable Facebook to match your user data (customer data such as IP address, user ID) with the data of your Facebook account. After that, Facebook deletes your data again. The collected data is anonymous as well as inaccessible and can only be used for ad placement purposes. If you are a Facebook user and you are logged in, your visit to our website is automatically assigned to your Facebook user account.

We exclusively want to show our products or services to persons, who are interested in them. With the aid of the Facebook pixel, our advertising measures can get better adjusted to your wishes and interests. Therefore, Facebook users get to see suitable advertisement (if they allowed personalised advertisement). Moreover, Facebook uses the collected data for analytical purposes and for its own advertisements.

In the following we will show you the cookies, which were set on a test page through the integration of the Facebook pixel. Please consider that these cookies are only examples. Depending on the interaction that is made on our website, different cookies are set.

Name: _fbp
Value: fb.1.1568287647279.257405483-6111464339-7
Purpose: Dieses Cookie verwendet Facebook, um Werbeprodukte anzuzeigen.
Expiration date: nach 3 Monaten

Name: fr
Value: 0aPf312HOS5Pboo2r..Bdeiuf…1.0.Bdeiuf.
Purpose: Dieses Cookie wird verwendet, damit Facebook-Pixel auch ordentlich funktioniert.
Expiration date: nach 3 Monaten

Name: comment_author_50ae8267e2bdf1253ec1a5769f48e062111464339-3
Value: Name of the author
Purpose: This cookie saves the text and name of a user who e.g. leaves a comment.
Expiration date: after 12 months

Name: comment_author_url_50ae8267e2bdf1253ec1a5769f48e062
Value: https%3A%2F%2Fwww.testseite…%2F (URL of the author)
Purpose: This cookie saved the URL of the website that the user types into a text box on our website.
Expiration date: after 12 months

Name: comment_author_email_50ae8267e2bdf1253ec1a5769f48e062
Value: email address of the author
Purpose: This cookie saves the email address of the user, if they provided it on the website.
Expiration date: after 12 months

Note: The above-mentioned cookies relate to an individual user behaviour. Moreover, especially concerning the usage of cookies, changes at Facebook can never be ruled out.

If you are registered at Facebook, you can change the settings for advertisements yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. If you are not a Facebook user, you can manage your user based online advertising at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. You have the option to activate or deactivate any providers there.

If you want to learn more about Facebook’s data protection, we recommend you the view the company’s in-house data policies at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Privacy Policy for Facebook‘s Automatic Advanced Matching

Along with Facebook’s pixel function, we have also activated the automatic advanced matching. This function allows us to send hashed emails, names, genders, cities, states, postcodes and dates of birth or telephone numbers as additional information to Facebook, provided you have made them available to us. This activation gives us the opportunity, to customise advertising campaigns even better to persons who are interested in our services or products.

Google Tag Manager Privacy Policy

We use Google Tag Manager by the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) for our website.
This Tag Manager is one of Google’s many helpful marketing products. With it, we can centrally integrate and manage code sections of various tracking tools, that we use on our website.

In this privacy statement we will explain in more detail, what Google Tag Manager does, why we use it and to what extent your data is processed.

What is Google Tag Manager?

Google Tag Manager is an organising tool with which we can integrate and manage website tags centrally and via a user interface. Tags are little code sections which e.g. track your activities on our website. For this, segments of JavaScript code are integrated to our site’s source text. The tags often come from Google’s intern products, such as Google Ads or Google Analytics, but tags from other companies can also be integrated and managed via the manager. Since the tags have different tasks, they can collect browser data, feed marketing tools with data, embed buttons, set cookies and track users across several websites.

Why do we use Google Tag Manager for our website?

Everybody knows: Being organised is important! Of course, this also applies to maintenance of our website. In order to organise and design our website as well as possible for you and anyone who is interested in our products and services, we rely on various tracking tools, such as Google Analytics.
The collected data shows us what interests you most, which of our services we should improve, and which other persons we should also display our services to. Furthermore, for this tracking to work, we must implement relevant JavaScript Codes to our website. While we could theoretically integrate every code section of every tracking tool separately into our source text, this would take too much time and we would lose overview. This is the reason why we use Google Tag Manager. We can easily integrate the necessary scripts and manage them from one place. Additionally, Google Tag Manager’s user interface is easy to operate, and requires no programming skills. Therefore, we can easily keep order in our jungle of tags.

What data is saved by Google Tag Manager?

Tag Manager itself is a domain that neither uses cookies nor stores data. It merely functions as an “administrator“ of implemented tags. Data is collected by the individual tags of the different web analysis tools. Therefore, in Google Tag Manager the data is sent to the individual tracking tools and does not get saved.

However, with the integrated tags of different web analysis tools such as Google Analytics, this is quite different. Depending on the analysis tool used, various data on your internet behaviour is collected, stored and processed with the help of cookies. Please read our texts on data protection for more information on the articular analysis and tracking tools we use on our website.

We allowed Google via the account settings for the Tag Manager to receive anonymised data from us. However, this exclusively refers to the use of our Tag Manager and not to your data, which are saved via code sections. We allow Google and others, to receive selected data in anonymous form. Therefore, we agree to the anonymised transfer of our website data. However, even after extensive research we could not find out what summarised and anonymous data it is exactly that gets transmitted. What we do know is that Google deleted any info that could identify our website. Google combines the data with hundreds of other anonymous website data and creates user trends as part of benchmarking measures. Benchmarking is a process of comparing a company’s results with the ones of competitors. As a result, processes can be optimised based on the collected information.

How long and where is the data saved?

When Google stores data, this is done on Google’s own servers. These servers are located all over the world, with most of them being in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=en you can read in detail where Google’s servers are.

In our individual data protection texts on the different tools you can find out how long the respective tracking tools save your data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

Google Tag Manager itself does not set any cookies but manages different tracking websites’ tags. In our data protection texts on the different tracking tools you can find detailed information on how you can delete or manage your data.

Google actively participates in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates safe transfer of personal data. You can find more information at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111464339. If you want to learn more about Google Tag Manager, we recommend you to read https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/en_uk/about/tag-manager/.

Google Site Kit Privacy Policy

We have integrated the WordPress plugin Google Site Kit of the American company Google Inc. to our website. For Europe, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With Google Site Kit, we can quickly and easily view statistics of various Google products such as Google Analytics directly on our WordPress dashboard. The in Google Site Kit integrated tools also collect your personal data. In this privacy policy we will explain why we use Google Site Kit, how long and where your data is stored, and which other privacy policies may be relevant to you in this context.

What is Google Site Kit?

Google Site Kit is a plugin for the WordPress content management system. With this plugin we can view important website analysis statistics directly in our dashboard. These are statistics that are collected by other Google products – primarily by Google Analytics. In addition to Google Analytics, the services Google Search Console, Page Speed Insight, Google AdSense, Google Optimize and Google Tag Manager can also be linked to Google Site Kit.

Why do we use Google Site Kit on our website?

As a service provider, it is our job to offer you the best possible experience on our website. You should feel comfortable on our website. Moreover, you should be able to quickly and easily find exactly what you are looking for. Statistical evaluations help us to get to know you better and to adapt our offer to your wishes and interests. We use various Google tools for these evaluations. Site Kit makes our work a lot easier because we can view and analyse the statistics of Google products on its dashboard. Therefore, we must no longer register for using the respective tools. Site Kit always provides a good overview of the most important analysis data.

What data are stored by Google Site Kit?

If you have consented to the use of tracking tools in the cookie notice (also called script or banner), cookies will be set by Google products such as Google Analytics. Also, on about you, such as your user behavior, will be sent to Google, where it is stored and processed. This also includes personal data such as your IP address.

You can find more detailed information on the individual services in the respective separate sections of this privacy policy. In our privacy policy on Google Analytics for example, you will be able to view information on the exact types of data that are collected. You will also learn how long Google Analytics stores, manages and processes data, what cookies can be used and how you can prevent data retention. We also have respective comprehensive privacy policies for other Google services such as Google Tag Manager or Google AdSense.

In the following, we will show you exemplary Google Analytics cookies that may be set in your browser if you have consented to Google’s data processing. Please note that this list contains only a selection of potential cookies:

Name: _ga
Value:2.1326744211.152111464339-2
Purpose:Usually analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Therefore, it serves to differentiate between website visitors.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: _gid
Value:2.1687193234.152111464339-7
Purpose: This cookie also serves to differentiate between website visitors.
Expiry date: after 24 hours

Name: _gat_gtag_UA_<property-id>
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie is used to lower the request rate.
Expiry date: after 1 minute

How long and where are the data stored?

Google stores the collected data on its own servers, which are distributed all around the world. Most servers are in the United States, so your data may likely be stored there. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=uk you can see exactly where the company provides servers.

Data that is collected by Google Analytics is stored for a standard period of 26 months. After this time, your user data will be deleted. This retention period applies to any data linked to cookies, user identification and advertising IDs.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You always reserve the right to either receive information about your data, or to have your data deleted, rectified, or reduced. You can also deactivate, delete, or manage cookies in your browser at any time. In the following we will show you the respective instructions to do this in the most common browsers:

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111464339. For more information on Google’s data processing, we recommend Google’s comprehensive privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

Hotjar Privacy Policy

We use Hotjar of the company Hotjar Limited (Level 2, St Julian’s Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian’s STJ 1000, Malta) on our website, to statistically evaluate visitor data. Hotjar is a service which analyses the behaviour and feedback of you as a user of our website by combining analysis and feedback tools. We receive reports as well as visual displays from Hotjar, which show us how you move on our site. Personal data is anonymised automatically and never reaches Hotjar’s servers. This means you as the website user are not personally identified, while we can still learn much about your user behaviour.

What is Hotjar?

As mentioned in the above paragraph, Hotjar helps us analyse the behaviour of our site visitors. Some of the tools Hotjar offers are e.g. heatmaps, conversion funnels, visitor recording, incoming feedback, feedback polls and surveys (you can find more information about it at https://www.hotjar.com/). Therewith, Hotjar helps us to provide you a better user experience as well as an improved service. On the one hand it offers good analysis of online behaviour and on the other hand it gives us good feedback on our website’s quality. Besides the analytical aspects we of course also want to know your opinion about our website. This is possible thanks to the feedback tool.

Why do we use Hotjar on our website?

Within the last years the importance of websites’ user experience has gained in importance. And justifiably so – a website should be structured in a way that makes the user feel comfortable and is easy to navigate. Thanks to Hotjar’s analysis and the feedback tools, we can make our website and our offer more attractive. To us, Hotjar’s Heatmaps has proven particularly valuable, as it helps with presenting and visualising data. In that sense, Hotjar’s Heatmaps e.g. helps us see what you like to click on and where you scroll to.

What data is saved by Hotjar?

Hotjar automatically collects information on your user behaviour while you surf our website. In order to be able to collect this information, we implemented a tracking code. We integrated a tracking code, to be able to collect this information. The following data can be gathered via your computer or your browser:

Your computer’s IP address (is collected and saved in an anonymous format)
Screen size
Browser information (which browser and version etc.)
Your location (but only the country)
Your language preference
Visited websites (subpages)
Date and time of access to one of our subpages (websites)

Moreover, cookies also save data that have been placed on your computer (mostly your browser), although no personal data is collected. Generally, Hotjar does not pass collected data to third parties. However, Hotjar explicitly emphasises that it is sometimes necessary to share data with Amazon Web Services. _ parts of your information is saved on its servers. Nonetheless, Amazon is bound to a confidentiality obligation and cannot disclose these data.

Only a limited number of people (employees of Hotjar) have access to the stored information. Furthermore, Hotjar’s servers are protected by firewalls and IP restrictions (only authorised IP addresses have access). Firewalls are security systems which protect computers from unwanted network accesses. They serve as barriers between Hotjar’s secure internal network and the internet. Moreover, Hotjar also uses third-party companies for their services, such as Google Analytics or Optimizely. These firms can also save information that your browser sends to our website.

The following cookies are used by Hotjar. Since we refer to the cookie list in Hotjar’s privacy statement at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/cookie-information, not every cookie has a sample value. The list shows examples of utilised Hotjar cookies and does not claim to be exhaustive.

Name: ajs_anonymous_id
Value: %2258832463-7cee-48ee-b346-a195f18b06c3%22111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie is generally used for analysis purposes and helps with counting our website’s visitors by tracking whether they have been to the website before.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: ajs_group_id
Value: 0
Purpose: This cookie collects data on user behaviour. Based on the similarities between website visitors, the data can then be assigned to a specific visitor group.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjid
Value: 699ffb1c-4bfb-483f-bde1-22cfa0b59c6c
Purpose: This cookie is used to maintain a Hotjar user ID, which is unique for the website in the browser. That way, upon the next website visits, the user behaviour can be assigned to the same user ID.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjMinimizedPolls
Value: 462568111464339-8
Verwendungszweck: Every time you minimise a feedback poll widget, Hotjar sets this cookie. It ensures that the widget stays minimised when you surf our sites.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjIncludedInSample
Value: 1
Purpose: This session cookie is used to inform Hotjar if you are part of the selected individuals (sample), who are used for the creation of funnels.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjClosedSurveyInvites
Purpose: This cookie is set when you see an invitation to a feedback poll in a popup window. It is used to ensure that this invitation appears to you only once.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjDonePolls
Purpose: This cookie is set in your browser whenever you finish a round of questions for feedback in a poll widget. Therewith, Hotjar prevents you from receiving the same polls in the future.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjDoneTestersWidgets
Purpose: This cookie is used when you enter your data in the “recruit user tester” widget. With this widget we want to engage you as a tester. The cookie is used to prevent the form from reappearing repeatedly.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets
Purpose: This cookie is set to keep the “recruit user tester“ widget minimised accross all our pages. The cookie is set upon you minimising this widget once.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _hjShownFeedbackMessage
Purpose: This cookie is set if you minimise or amend the given feedback. This is done so the feedback is instantly loaded as minimised when you navigate to another page, on which it is displayed.
Expiry date: after one year

How long and where is the data saved?

We integrated a tracking code to our website, which is transmitted to Hotjar’s servers in Ireland (EU). This tracking code contacts Hotjar’s servers and sends a script to your computer or any terminal device with which you are accessing our website. The script collects certain data concerning your interaction with our website. Then, the data is sent to Hotjar’s servers for processing. Moreover, Hotjar imposed a limit of retaining data for up to 365 days on itself. This means that all data collected by Hotjar which is over one year old are deleted automatically.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Hotjar saves none of your personal data for its analysis. The company even advertises with the slogan “We track behaviour, not individuals“. In addition, it is always possible for you to prevent the collection of your data. For this you simply need to visit Hotjar’s “Opt-out page“ and click on “deactivate Hotjar”. Please note that deleting cookies, using your browser’s private mode or utilising a different browser will result in the collection of data again. Furthermore, you can activate the “Do Not Track” button in your browser. To do this in Chrome for example, you must click on the three bars and select “Settings”. In the section “Data Protection“ you will find the option “Send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic”. Finally, you must click on this button and no data will be collected by Hotjar.

You can find more details on the privacy policy and on what data Hotjar uses and how it is utilised at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy?tid=111464339.

wao.io Privacy Policy

In order to technically optimise our website as well as possible, we use the online service wao.io. of the technology company Avenga Germany GmbH, Bahnhofsvorplatz 1, 50667 Cologne, Germany. The service helps us protect our website from cyber-attacks, to increase the loading speed of our website and to improve the general performance of our website.

Wao.io is a cloud solution. That means that for this service to work, we did not have to change any code or install a plugin. However, we still transmit our website’s content to wao.io. Your IP address is also transmitted to and processed by wao.io and it is stored anonymously for seven days in so-called log files. Wao.io also stores a cookie in your browser on your end device (PC, laptop, tablet, etc.). This cookie is a so-called session cookie. Hence, when you close your browser, the cookie is also deleted. However, permanent cookies are also saved for analysis purposes. Data about your user behaviour on our website is determined and saved. These are for example information about which subpage you are viewing, the time you spend on a page or which buttons you click. Based on the data, wao.io enables us to carry out a pseudonymized analysis of user behaviour on our website. Of course, this helps us to better respond to your wishes and thus to optimise our entire service. Some of these permanent cookies are deleted after 30 minutes and others persist for up to a year.

Here is an exemplary list of cookies that may be set by wao.io:

Name: fdx2v
Value: 1cf811cb0cdf86c6e32b263c4c17554d
Purpose: The cookie is used to identify a page view.
Expiration date: after end of session

Name : fdx2s
Value: d8deeaf0c692d4110da9ecd566eca782 111464339 -5
Purpose: This cookie is used to identify a session.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name : fdx2u
Value: d4546d1f71b6f5f19bf347f644ace784 111464339 -0
Purpose: This cookie is used to recognise you when you return to our website.
Expiration date: after one year

Note: Please note that this is only an exemplary list and that we do not claim for it to be exhaustive.

If do not want these cookies to be set, and hence your data to be stored, you can prevent the placement of cookies via your browser. You can manage, deactivate, or delete cookies in your browser. These settings vary depending on the browser you use. The following instructions will show how to manage cookies in your browser:

For more information about wao.io’s data processing, please view wao.io’s Privacy Policy at https://wao.io/en/privacy.

WP Statistics Privacy Policy

On our website we use the analysis plugin WP Statistics. This plugin has been developed by the American software company Veronalabs (5460 W Main St, Verona, NY 13478, United States). The plugin allows us to receive simple statistics on how you as a user interact with our website. In this privacy policy we will go into more detail about the analysis tool and show you where and for how long your data is stored.

What is WP Statistics?

This plugin is an analysis software which was specially developed for websites that use the WordPress content management system. WordPress helps us to easily edit our website even without any programming knowledge. WP Statistics may for example collect data about how long you stay on our website, what subpages you visit, how many visitors are on our website or which website led you to us. Furthermore, WP Statistics does not set any cookies and you cannot be personally identified by the collected data.

Why do we use WP Statistics?

With the help of WP Statistics, we obtain simple statistics that help us to continuously improve and make our website even more interesting for you. Our website and the content, products and/or services offered on it should meet your needs and demands as closely as possible. In order to achieve this goal, we of course have to find out where there is room for improvements and changes. The statistics obtained help us to get one step closer to this goal.

Which data is stored by WP Statistics?

WP Statistics does not set any cookies and the collected data are only used to generate anonymised statistics on the use of our website. WP Statistics also anonymises your IP address. You cannot be identified as a person.

WP Statistics collects visitor data when your web browser connects to our web server. These data are then stored in our server’s database. The retained data may for example be:

the address (URL) of the accessed website
browser and browser version
the operating system used
the address (URL) of the previously visited page (referrer URL)
the hostname and IP address of the device from which our website was accessed
date and time
information on the country/city
number of visitors that come from a search engine
duration of the website stay
clicks on the website

Your data will not be passed on or sold.

How long and where are the data stored?

All data is retained locally on our web server. Your data will be stored on our web server until it is no longer needed for the purposes listed above.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to information, rectification, deletion or restriction of the processing of your personal data at any time. Moreover, you can revoke your consent to the data processing anytime.

We have now given you the most important information about data processing by WP Analytics. Your data is handled very carefully, as the plugin does not use cookies and the data for statistical analyses are stored locally on our web server. If you want to learn more about WP Analytics, you can view the company’s privacy policy at https://wp-statistics.com/privacy-and-policy/.

etracker Privacy Statement

On our website we use the analysis tracking tool etracker Analytics from the German company etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstrasse 1, D-20459 Hamburg. etracker Analytics is a software that collects and evaluates data about your actions on our website. We receive analysis reports on how you use our website and can therefore consistently better adapt our offer to your needs. In this privacy statement, we will go into more detail about the analysis tool. Above all, we will show you which data is stored when, how and where.

What is etracker?

Etracker Analytics is an analysis tool that can measure and analyse the performance of our website and online campaigns accordingly. The software program for example collects data on how long you have been on our website, how many users visit our website, as well as where you came to our website from. It also allows us to receive precise evaluations of visitor behaviour on our website. For example, we can find out which buttons you prefer to click or which subpages you like or tend to avoid. All this information is anonymous. This means that we only receive general user information and statistics, and this data does not identify you as a person.

Why do we use etracker on our website?

We use the software tool to increase the quality of our website and our offer. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service. We want you to feel comfortable on our website and to receive exactly what you expect. To do this, we of course must adapt our offer as closely as possible to your wishes and requirements.

The data also help us to carry out our online marketing and advertising measures more cheaply and individually. Because, of course, we only want to show our offer to people who are genuinely interested in it.

Which data are stored by etracker?

For the tracking to work, a JavaScript code must be added to the website. Etracker uses a pixel technology.

By default, etracker does not use cookies or technologies for tracking on a website, as this was implemented in the so-called cookie-less mode by privacy-by-design. Therefore, only absolutely necessary cookies are set. However, if you have actively consented to the use of cookies, etracker also uses cookies.

The following data is stored and processed when the page is accessed:

Your pseudonymised IP-address
Technical information about your browser, operating system and the device you are using
Location information up to city level
The requested URL with the associated page title and optional information on the page content
Referrer website: is the website you came to our website from
Subsequent page: is the newt website you click on
How long you stay on our website (length of stay)
Interactions on the website. These are for example clicks on the website, search terms you entered, files you downloaded, videos or articles you ordered.

Thus, the web server uses website data and information that the web browser transmits to the web server to access websites. This information is transmitted with every single page request.

In contrast to other technologies, etracker does not read any information from the memory of your device and does not save any data on your device. Etracker will neither use the data for any other purposes nor pass it on to third parties.

The cookies used do not contain any information that can identify you as a person. Data such as your IP address, device and domain data are encrypted or shortened when they are saved. It is not possible for us or for etracker to identify individual persons.

If you have consented to the use of cookies, the following cookies may be set:

Name: GS3_v
Value: 146480958
Purpose: This cookie is set by the etracker Optimizer web service.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _et_coid
Value: e9cc2b3efbf7807c6157e8b151baa2f3
Purpose:This cookie is used for cookie recognition and is only set when the cookie is activated.
Expiry date: after 3 years

Name: pll_language
Value: en
Purpose:This cookie is used to save the default language.
Expiry date: after one year

Note: Please note that this list is only a selection of the utilised cookies we do not claim for it to be exhaustive. Which cookies are set in each case depends on the respective evaluation mechanisms used. You can view all cookies in a list at the following link: https://www.etracker.com/en/docs/using-etracker/etracker-optimiser/testing-targeting/a-b-testing-smart-messages/

How long and where are the data stored?

The data center (server) is in Hamburg, while the entire system administration also takes place in Hamburg. Thus, all data is stored exclusively on German servers. etracker stores the data until their contract with us as a customer expires. Shortly after the end of the contract, all data will be permanently deleted.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to information, rectification or deletion and restriction of your personal data’s processing at any time. You can also revoke your consent to the processing of the data at any time.

If you generally want to deactivate, delete or manage cookies, there are separate instructions for each browser:

We hope we were able to provide you with the most important information about data processing by etracker. If you want to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend the company’s privacy policy at https://www.etracker.com/en/data-privacy/.

Newsletter Privacy Policy

When you subscribe to our Newsletter you submit your personal data and give us the right to contact you via email. We use the data that is stored for the registration for the Newsletter exclusively for our Newsletter and do not pass them on.

If you unsubscribe from the newsletter – for which you can find a link in the bottom of every newsletter – we will delete all data that was saved when you registered for the newsletter.

MailChimp Privacy Policy

Like many other websites, we use the services of the newsletter company MailChimp on our website. The operator of MailChimp is the company The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. With the aid of MailChimp we can easily send you interesting news via newsletter. For the use of the service we do not have to install anything but can still access a pool of very efficient features. In the following we will give more details on this email marketing service and will inform you about the most important data protection aspects.

What is MailChimp?

MailChimp is a cloud-based newsletter management service. “Cloud-based“ means that we do not need to install MailChimp on our own computer or server. Instead, we use the service on an external server, or more specifically via an IT infrastructure, which is available via the internet. Using a software this way is also called SaaS (software as a service).

MailChimp allows us to chose from a wide range of different email types. Depending on what goal we want to reach with our newsletter, we can run individual campaigns, regular campaigns, auto responders (automated emails), A/B tests, RSS campaigns (mailings at pre-set times and frequencies) and follow-up campaigns.

Why do we use MailChimp on our website?

The reason we would use any newsletter service is so we can stay in contact with you. We want to keep you on the loop what news or attractive offers we have for you at the time. As we constantly seek out the easiest and best solutions for our marketing measures, we have decided on MailChimp as our newsletter management service. While the software is very easy to use, it offers many helpful features. For example, it allows us to create interesting and attractive newsletters in only a short time. With integrated design templates we can create every newsletter in an individual way. Due to the “responsive design” feature, our contents are also presented in a readable and pleasant way on your smartphone (or any other mobile device).

With tools such as A/B testing or the extensive analysis options, we can swiftly tell how you like our newsletters. This means that we can react if necessary and improve our offer or our services.

Another advantage is MailChimp’s “cloud system”. The data is not stored and processed directly on our server. We can retrieve the datafrom external servers and therefore save our memory space and also decrease maintenance effort.

What data is saved by MailChimp?

Rocket Science Group LLC (MailChimp) operate online platforms which enable us to get in contact with you, provided you subscribed to our newsletter. If you become a subscriber of our newsletter via our website, by email you agree to become a member of a MailChimp email list. Then, MailChimp saves your subscription data and your IP address, so it can verify your entry into the list provider. Moreover, MailChimp stores your email address, your name, your physical address and demographic information, such as language or location.

This information is used to send emails to you and to allow certain other MailChimp functions (e.g. the evaluation of newsletters).

MailChimp also shares information with third parties to improve its services. Moreover, MailChimp shares certain data with advertising partners of third parties to get a better understanding of its clients’ interests, in order to provide relevant contents and target-oriented advertising.

With so-called “web beacons” (small graphics in HTML emails), MailChimp can determine if an email has arrived, has been opened or if links have been clicked. This information is then stored on MailChimp’s servers. That way we receive statistical evaluations and can see how you liked our newsletter. Therefore, we can tailor our offer better to your wishes and improve our service.

Moreover, MailChimp are allowed to use this data for improving their own service. Thus, they can for example technically optimise the distribution or determine the location (or the country) of the recipient.

The following cookies can be set by MailChimp. The list is not exhaustive and is merely an exemplary selection:

Name: AVESTA_ENVIRONMENT
Value: Prod
Purpose: This cookie is necessary to provide the services of Mailchimp. It is always set when a user registers for a newsletter mailing list.
Expiry date: at the end of the session

Name: ak_bmsc
Value: F1766FA98C9BB9DE4A39F70A9E5EEAB55F6517348A7000001111464339-3
Purpose: The cookie is used to differentiate a human from a bot. That way secure reports on the use of a website can be created.
Expiry date: after 2 hours

Name: bm_sv
Value: A5A322305B4401C2451FC22FFF547486~FEsKGvX8eovCwTeFTzb8//I3ak2Au…
Purpose: This cookie comes from MasterPass Digital Wallet (a MasterCard service) and is used to offer a secure and easy virtual payment process to visitors. For this purpose, the user is anonymously identified on the website.
Expiry date: after 2 hours

Name: _abck
Value: 8D545C8CCA4C3A50579014C449B045111464339-9
Purpose: We could not find any further information about the purpose of this cookie.
Expiry date: after one year

For better display it could be that you would sometimes open our newsletter via a specified link. This can be the case if your email program does not work or if the newsletter is not displayed properly. The newsletter will then be shown via a MailChimp website. MailChimp also uses cookies on its websites (small text files which save data on your browser).
Personal data can be processed by MailChimp and their partners (e.g. Google Analytics). MailChimp is responsible for the collection of this data and we have no influence on it. MailChimp’s “Cookie Statement” (at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/) tells you exactly how and why the company uses cookies.

How long and where is the data saved?

Since MailChimp is an American company, all retained data is stored on American servers.

Generally, the data stays permanently saved on MailChimp’s servers and is deleted only when you request it. You can have your contact information with us deleted. This permanently removes all your personal data for us and anonymises you in MailChimp’s reports. However, you can also request the deletion of your data permanently at MailChimp. Then all your data are removed from there and we receive a notification from MailChimp. After we receive the email we have 30 days to delete your contact from all integrations.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You can withdraw your approval for the receipt of our newsletters anytime, by clicking the link in the lower area of the received newsletter email. When you click on the unsubscribe link, your data with MailChimp gets deleted.

When you land on a MailChimp website via a link in our newsletter and cookies are consequently set in your browser, you can delete or deactivate these cookies anytime.

Depending on the browser, the deactivation or deletion differs slightly. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies, you can set up your browser in a way so it would notify you whenever a potential cookie is about to be set. This lets you decide upon the placement of every single cookie.

MailChimp is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&tid=111464339. You can find more information on MailChimp’s use of cookies at https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/, and you can learn more about data protection at MailChimp (Privacy) at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

MailChimp Data Processing Addendum

We entered a contract with MailChimp on the Data Processing Addendum. This contract serves as a protection of your personal data and ensures that MailChimp follows the applicable data protection regulations and disclose your personal data to third parties.

You can find more information on this contract at https://mailchimp.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/.

Sendinblue Privacy Policy

On our website you can subscribe to our newsletter for free. For this to work, we use the Sendinblue email service for our newsletter. This is a service of the German company Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker street 126, 10179 Berlin.

We are of course very pleased if you register for our newsletter. That way we can always tell you what is going on in our company first-handedly, so you can stay up to date. However, you should know that when you sign up for the newsletter, all data you enter (such as your email address or your first and last name) will be saved and managed on our server as well as at Sendinblue. This also applies to personal data. For example, in addition to the time and date of registration, your IP address is also saved. During registration, you also consent to us sending you our newsletter. Moreover, you will also find a reference to the privacy policy there.
The newsletter service also offers us helpful options for analysis. This means that if we send a newsletter, we can for example find out whether and when you opened the newsletter. The software also detects and records which link you click in the newsletter. This information helps us enormously to adapt and optimise our service to your wishes and concerns. After all, we naturally want to offer you the best possible service. In addition to the data already mentioned above, data about your user behaviour is also stored.

You can revoke your consent to this data processing at any time. You can do so by for example clicking the unsubscribe link directly in the newsletter. After you have unsubscribed, your personal data will be deleted from our server and from Sendinblue’s servers located in Germany. You reserve the right to free information about your stored data and, if necessary, a right to deletion, blocking or rectification.

If you would like more information about data processing, we recommend the company’s privacy policy at https://www.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/.

Google AdSense Privacy Policy

We use Google AdSense on this website. It is an advertising program of the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). With Google AdSense we can show advertisements that fit our theme. Thus, we can offer you adverts that ideally give you added value. In this privacy statement on Google AdSense we will explain to you, why we use Google AdSense on our website and which of your data is processed and saved, as well as how you can prevent this data retention.

What is Google AdSense?

The advertising program Google AdSense has been around since 2003. As opposed to Google Ads (previously: Google AdWords) it is not possible to advertise on Google AdSense oneself. Google AdSense displays advertisements on websites, such as ours. The biggest advantage of this web service compared to some others, is that Google AdSense only shows ads to you which match our website’s contents. Google has its own algorithm which calculates what ads are shown to you. Of course, we only want to show you ads that interest you and provide you added value. Google checks which advertisements are suitable for our users, considering your interests, your user behaviour and our offer. At this point we want to mention that we are not responsible for the choice of the ads. We merely offer advertising space on our website, while Google selects the displayed ads. Moreover, since August 2013 the ads are customised to the respective user interface. This means, that no matter if you visit our website with your smartphone, your PC or your laptop, the ads adjust to your terminal device.

Why do we use Google AdSense on our website?

The operation of a high-quality website requires tremendous dedication and commitment. We are essentially never finished with working on our website. This is, because we continuously maintain and keep our website up to date. Of course, we want to achieve economic success with this work. Therefore, we decided for to use advertisements as a source of revenue. It is most important to us however, that we do not disrupt your visit to our website with these advertisements. Thence, with the aid of Google AdSense, only adverts that are tailored to you and our themes are shown.

Like with Google’s indexation for a website, a bot examines both, the matching content and the offers on our website. Then, the ads are adapted to and presented on the website. Alongside the contextual overlaps between the ads and website offer, AdSense also supports interest-based targeting. This means, that Google also uses your data to offer advertising that is tailored to you. That way you receive ads that ideally offer you added value, and it gives us a higher chance of earning a bit.

What data is stored by Google AdSense?

Google AdSense uses cookies to display ads that are customised to you. Cookies are little text files, that store certain information on your computer.

Cookies are supposed to enable improved advertisements in AdSense. They do not contain any personally identifiable data. However, it should be considered that Google does not view data such as “Pseudonymous Cookie-IDs” (name or other identification feature is replaced with a pseudonym) or IP addresses as personally identifiable information. Although, within the framework of the GDPR, this data can be classified as personal data. Following every impression (every time you see an ad), every click and any other activity that leads to a call on its servers, Google AdSense sends a cookie to the browser. The cookie is then saved in the browser, provided the browser accepts it.

Under certain circumstances, third parties can place cookies in your browser, and read them or use web beacons, to store data they receive through the display of ads on the website. Web beacons are little graphics that analyse and a record the log file. This analysis allows a statistical evaluation for the online marketing.

Through this cookie, Google can collect certain information on your user behaviour on our website. These include:

Information on how you interact with an ad (clicks, impressions, mouse movements)
Information if an ad has already been displayed in your browser. This data helps to prevent an ad from showing multiple times.

Thereby, Google evaluates and analyses data on the displayed advertising material along with your IP address. Primarily, Google uses the data to measure the effectiveness of an ad and improve the advertising offer. Moreover, the data does not get linked to your personal data which Google might have received via other Google services.

In the following we will introduce you to the cookies that Google AdSense uses for tracking purposes. Please note, that we will refer to a test website, which only has Google AdSense installed to it:

Name: uid
Value: 891269189111464339-8
Purpose: The cookie is stored under the domain adform.net. It provides a uniquely assigned user ID that is generated automatically and collects data on the activity on our website.
Expiry date: after 2 months

Name: C
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie identifies if your browser accepts cookies. The cookie is stored under the domain track.adform.net.
Expiry date: after 1 month

Name: cid
Value: 8912691894970695056,0,0,0,0
Purpose: This cookie is saved under the domain track.adform.net. It stands for the client ID and is used to offer you improved advertisements. It can forward more relevant adverts to the user and helps to improve reports on campaign performance.
Expiry date: after 2 months

Name: IDE
Value: zOtj4TWxwbFDjaATZ2TzNaQmxrU111464339-1
Purpose: The cookie is stored under the domain doubleclick.net. It serves the purpose of registering your actions following an impression or a click on the ad. Thus, it can be measured how our visitors like an ad.
Expiry data: after 1 month

Name: test_cookie
Value: not specified
Purpose: With the „test_cookies“ it can be verified, if your browser even supports cookies. The cookie is saved under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiry date: after 1 month

Name: CT592996
Value:733366
Purpose: It is saved under the domain adform.net. The cookie is placed upon your click on an ad. We could not find any further information on the use of this cookie.
Expiry date: after one hour

Note: This list does not claim to be exhaustive, as Google frequently change the choice of their cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google retains your IP address, as well as various activities you perform on the website. Cookies store this information with the interactions on our website. According to Google, the company collects and saves the given information securely on its internal servers in the USA.

If you do not have a Google account or are not logged in, Google usually stores the collected data on your browser with a unique identification (ID). The IDs saved in cookies serve e.g. for providing personalised advertisements. If you are logged into a Google account, Google can gather personal information.

You can delete certain data that is saved by Google anytime (see next section). Much of the information saved in cookies get automatically deleted after a specific time. However, there are also data which are retained by Google for a longer period. This is the case, when Google must store certain data for an undefined, longer period due to economical or legal necessities.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You can always clear or deactivate cookies that are on your computer. How exactly this can be done depends on the browser.

Here you can find an instruction on how you can manage cookies in your browser:

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a potential cookie is about to be set. This lets you decide to either permit or deny the placement of every single cookie. By downloading and installing the browser plugin at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996, any advertising cookies get deactivated as well. Please note, that deactivating these cookies does not stop advertisements, it only inhibits personalised adverts.

If you have a Google account, you can deactivate personalised adverts on the website https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. You will continue to see ads, but they will stop being customised to your interests. Nevertheless, the ads are displayed based on a few factors, such as your location, the browser type and the used search terms.

You can learn more about what data Google generally collects and what they are used for at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

Amazon Associates Program Privacy Policy

We use the Amazon Associates Program of the company Amazon.com Inc on our website. The responsible bodies for the privacy statement are Amazon Europe Core S.à.r.l., Amazon EU S.à.r.l, Amazon Services Europe S.à.r.l. as well as Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., which are based at 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxemburg, along with Amazon Instant Video Germany Ltd., which is located at Domagkstraße 28, 80807 Munich. Thereby, Amazon Germany Services Ltd. at Marcel-Breuer-Straße 12, 80807 Munich is responsible for data processing. Due to the use of the Amazon Associates Program, Amazon can receive, store and process your data.

In this privacy statement we will inform you on what data this can be, why we use the program and how you can manage or prevent the data transmission.

What is the Amazon Associates Program?

The Amazon Associates Program is an affiliate marketing program of the online shipping company Amazon.co.uk. Like any affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program is also based on the principle of intermediation commissions. Amazon (or we) place advertisements or partner links on our website, which let us receive a reimbursement of advertising costs (commission) if you click on them and buy a product on Amazon.

Why do we use the Amazon Associates Program on our website?

Our aim is to provide you a pleasant time with extensive, helpful content. Therefore, we put a lot of work and energy into the development of our website. With the aid of the Amazon Associates Program, we can receive a little remuneration for our work. Of course, every affiliate link to Amazon is related with our theme and shows offers that may interest you.

What data is stored by the Amazon Associates Program?

As soon as you interact with the products and services of Amazon, the company collects your data. Amazon differentiates between information you actively gave to the business and information that is collected and retained automatically. “Active information” include name, email address, telephone number, age, payment details or location information. So-called “automatic information” are primarily saved by cookies. This includes information, user behaviour, IP address, device information (browser type, operating systems) or the URL. Moreover, Amazon also saves the clickstream, which is the path (order of pages) you make as a user in order to get to a product. Amazon also stores cookies in your browser to retrace the origin of an order. This enables the company to identify if you clicked an Amazon ad or an affiliate link on our website.

If you have an Amazon account and are logged in to it while you surf our website, the collected data can be allocated to your account. You can prevent this by logging out of Amazon before surfing our website.

In the following we will show you exemplary cookies that are placed in your browser when you click an Amazon link on our website.

Name: uid
Value: 3230928052675285215111464339-9
Purpose: This cookie stores a unique user ID and collects information on your website activity.
Expiry date: after 2 months

Name: ad-id
Value: AyDaInRV1k-Lk59xSnp7h5o
Purpose: This cookie is provided by amazon-adsystem.com and serves the company regarding various advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 8 months

Name: uuid2
Value: 8965834524520213028111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie allows targeted and interest-based advertising via the AppNexus platform. By the IP address it collects and retains anonymous data on what ads you clicked and which sites you opened.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Name: session-id
Value: 262-0272718-2582202111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie stores a unique user ID that the server assigns to you for the duration of a website visit (session). If you visit the site again, the information saved in there gets retrieved again.
Expiry date: after 15 years

Name: APID
Value: UP9801199c-4bee-11ea-931d-02e8e13f0574
Purpose: This cookie stores information on how you use a website, and on what ads you looked at before your visit to the website.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: session-id-time
Value: tb:s-STNY7ZS65H5335FZEVPE|1581329862486&t:1581329864300&adb:adblk_no
Purpose: This cookie records the time you spend on a website with a unique cookie ID.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: csm-hit
Value: 2082754801l
Purpose: We could not find any detailed information on this cookie.
Expiry date: after 15 years

Note: Please note, that this list merely shows examples of cookies and does not claim to be exhaustive.

Amazon use the obtained information to better tailor their advertisements to their users’ interests.

How long and where is my data saved?

Amazon saves personal data for as long as it is required for both Amazon’s business services, and for legal reasons. As the company’s headquarters are in the USA, any collected data is stored on American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You always have the right to access your personal data and clear it. If you have an Amazon account, you can manage or delete many of the collected data.

Furthermore, your browser offers another option for managing Amazon’s processing and retention of data according to your preferences. There you can manage, clear or delete cookies.
This works a little different on every browser. Here you can find instuctions for the most common browsers:

Amazon is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct transfer of personal data between the USA and EU. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TOWQAA4. We hope we could make you more familiar with the most important information on data transfer concerning the Amazon Associates Program. You can find more information at https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010.

Google Ads (Google AdWords) Conversion Tracking Privacy Policy

We use Google Ads (previously Google AdWords) as an online marketing measure, to advertise our products and services. Thus, we want to draw more people’s attention on the internet to the high quality of our offers. As part of our advertising measures with Google Ads, we use the conversion tracking of Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) on our website. With the aid of this free tracking tool we can tailor our advertising offer better to your interests and needs. In the following article we will explain, why we use conversion tracking, what data gets saved and how you can prevent this data retention.

What is Google Ads conversion tracking?

Google Ads (previously Google AdWords) is the internal online advertising sxstem of the company Google LLC. We are convinced of our offer‘s quality and would like as many people as possible to discover our website. For this, Google Ads offers the best platform within the online environment. Of course, we also want to get an overview of the cost-benefit factor of our advertising campaigns. Thence, we use Google Ads’ conversion tracking tool.

But what is a conversion actually? A conversion occurs, when you turn from an interested visitor into an acting website visitor. This happens every time you click on our ad and then make another action, such as paying a visit to our website. With Google’s conversion tracking tool, we can understand what happens after a user clicks our Google ad. It shows us for instance if products get bought, services are used or whether users have subscribed to our newsletter.

Why do we use Google Ads conversion tracking on our website?

We use Google Ads to show our offer also across other websites. Our aim is for our advertising campaigns to reach only those people, who are interested in our offers. With the conversion tracking tool, we see what keywords, ads, ad groups and campaigns lead to the desired customer actions. We see how many customers interact with our ads on a device, to then convert. With this data we can calculate our cost-benefit-factor, measure the success of individual ad campaigns and therefore optimise our online marketing measures. With the help of the obtained data we can give our website a more interesting design and customise our advertising offer better to your needs.

What data is stored with Google Ads conversion tracking?

For a better analysis of certain user actions, we have integrated a conversion tracking tag, or code snippet to our website. Therefore, if you click one of our Google ads, a Google domain stores the cookie “conversion” on your computer (usually in the browser) or on your mobile device. Cookies are little text files that save information on your computer.

Here are data of the most significant cookies for Google’s conversion tracking:

Name: Conversion
Value: EhMI_aySuoyv4gIVled3Ch0llweVGAEgt-mr6aXd7dYlSAGQ111464339-3
Purpose: This cookie saves every conversion you make on our website after you came to us via a Google ad.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Name: _gac
Value: 1.1558695989.EAIaIQobChMIiOmEgYO04gIVj5AYCh2CBAPrEAAYASAAEgIYQfD_BwE
Purpose: This is a classic Google Analytics Cookie that records various actions on our website.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Note: The cookie _gac only appears in connection with Google Analytics. The above list does not claim to be exhaustive, as Google repeatedly change the cookies they use for analytical evaluation.

As soon as you complete an action on our website, Google identifies the cookie and saves your action as a so-called conversion. For as long as you surf our website, provided the cookie has not expired, both Google and us can determine that you found your way to us via a Google ad. Then, the cookie is read and sent back to Google Ads, together with the conversion data. Moreover, other cookies may also be used for measuring conversions. Google Ads‘ conversion tracking can be fine-tuned and improved with the aid of Google Analytics. Furthermore, ads which Google displays in various places across the web, might be placed under our domain with the name “__gads” or “_gac”.
Since September 2017, analytics.js retains various campaign information with the _gac cookie. This cookie stores data, as soon as you open one of our sites that has been set up for Google Ads’ auto-tagging. In contrast to cookies that are placed for Google domains, Google can only read these conversion cookies when you are on our website. We do neither collect nor receive any personal data. We do obtain a report with statistical evaluations by Google. With the help thereof, we can not only see the total number of users who clicked our ad, but also what advertising measures were well received.

How long and where is the data stored?

At this point we want to reiterate, that we have no influence on how Google use the collected data. According to Google, the data are encrypted and saved on a secure server. In most cases, conversion cookies expire after 30 days, and do not transmit any personalised data. The cookies named “conversion“ and “_gac“ (which is used with Google Analytics) have an expiry date of 3 months.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the possibility to opt out of Google Ads’ conversion tracking. The conversion tracking can be blocked by deactivating the conversion tracking cookie via your browser. If you do this, you will not be considered for the statistic of the tracking tool. You can change the cookie settings in your browser anytime. Doing so, works a little different in every browser. Hence, in the following you will find an instruction on how to manage cookies in your browser:

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies at all, you can set up your browser to notify you whenever a potential cookie is about to be set. This lets you decide upon permitting or denying the cookie’s placement. By downloading and installing the browser plugin at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996 you can also deactivate all “advertising cookies”. Please consider that by deactivating these cookies, you cannot prevent all advertisements, only personalised ads.

Due to the certification for the American-European data protection convention “Privacy Shield”, the American corporation Google LLC must comply to the EU’s applicable data protection laws. If you want to find out more on data protection at Google, we recommend Google’s general Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

Microsoft Advertising Privacy Policy

We also use the Microsoft Advertising program by Microsoft Corporation, located in One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA, for our online marketing measures. With the help of Microsoft Advertising, we want to draw many people’s attention to the high quality of our products and/or services. For this, we use a technology (conversion tracking tool) by Microsoft on our website, which also stores your data. In this privacy policy, we will go into more detail about this service, show you which of your data is stored, managed, and processed and how you can prevent this data retention.

What is Microsoft Advertising?

Perhaps you know Microsoft Advertising by its former name “Bing Ads”. It is an advertising program by Microsoft which is based on a Pay-Per-Click system. This means that advertisers can advertise through the search engines Bing and Yahoo! and only pay when a user clicks the ad.

Why do we use Microsoft Advertising?

We are convinced of our offers, and therefore, we of course want to show them to a wider public. With Microsoft Advertising, we can bring our products or services closer to precisely those people who are specifically interested in them. Moreover, we want to present our products not only on the famous search engine Google, but also on Bing and Yahoo! Microsoft Advertising also gives us the option of placing ads in the so-called “Microsoft Audience Network”. This allows us to also place advertisements on LinkedIn for example. Furthermore, conversion tracking for example tells us, which advertisement you used to find us, which one of our subpages you particularly like and which actions you are taking on our website. This data enables us to tailor our website, our advertisements, and our offers much better to your needs.

What data is stored by Microsoft Advertising?

We have integrated a conversion tracking tag (i.e. a small code snippet) from Microsoft Advertising to our website. This snippet is known as the Universal Event Tracking (UET) tag. If you come to our website via a Microsoft advertisement, we can use this tracking tool to find out more about your user behaviour on our website. For example, we can find out which keyword or ad led you to us, what you clicked on our website, how long you stayed on our website, as well as how many people visit our website via Microsoft Ads. All these data relate to user behaviour but not to any personal information. In this sense, we only receive data or analyses of your web behaviour, but none of your personal information. Microsoft uses the data to optimise its own promotional offer as well as other services. If you have a Microsoft account yourself, the data collected may be linked to your account. Moreover, Microsoft might also recognise and store your IP address. To save all data on your user behaviour, the following cookie is set in your browser after you have visited our website via a Microsoft ad:

Name: MUIDB
Value: 08A53CA3313F6255044C307E353F61CD
Purpose:This cookie is set by our embedded Microsoft tag (UET tag) and is used for synchronisation purposes across various Microsoft websites. This allows users to be recognised across different domains.
Expiry date: after one year

However, if you access our website via a Bing ad, other cookies may also be placed in your browser. In the following we will show you a selection of possible cookies:

Name: ABDEF
Value: V=0&ABDV=0&MRNB=1594294373452&MRB=0111464339-7
Purpose: We could not find any detailed information on this cookie.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: SRCHD
Value: AF=NOFORM
Purpose: This cookie is responsible for the functionality of the tracking and the website itself.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: SRCHHPGUSR
Value: WTS=63729889193&HV=1594294374&CW=1920&CH=937&DPR=1&UTC=120&DM=0
Purpose: This cookie tracks and saves your user behaviour on our website, as well as the interaction with the Bing map interface.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: SRCHUID
Value: V=2&GUID=157B20CCF36A43F3A4AE9790346EB7A7&dmnchg=1
Purpose: This cookie tracks and stores your user behaviour on our website and the interaction with the Bing map API.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _EDGE_S
Value: mkt=de-at&SID=2EE7002D956A61511D280F2F9474607111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie collects and stores your user behaviour across multiple websites. The aim of targeting is to better adjust our advertising measures to our target group.
Expiry date: after end of the browser session

Name: _SS
Value: SID=2EE7002D956A61511D280F2F94746077111464339-9
Purpose : Among other things, this cookie serves the purpose of recognising when you as a user have accessed our website (i.e. which advert led you to our website).
Expiry date: after one year

How long and where are the data stored?

We have no influence on how Microsoft continues to use your collected user data. The company are using various servers accross the world. Most of them are in the United States. Therefore, your data may also be stored, managed, and processed on American servers. Microsoft stores data (especially personal data) for as long as it is necessary for both, delivering their services or products and for legal purposes. Furthermore, Microsoft states that the actual time data are retained, depends on the respective product and may vary strongly.

Microsoft deletes your stored Bing search requests after 6 months by deleting your IP address. Cookie-IDs which are be generated via the Cookie MUID for example, are encrypted after 18 months.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You always have the possibility to opt out of Microsoft Ads’ conversion tracking. If you do not want interest-based adverts by Microsoft Advertising to be shown to you, you can deactivate the function at https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/signedout. Moreover, you can deactivate, manage, or delete any cookies in your browser. Since this works a little different for every browser, you can find instructions for the most common browsers here:

We hope we could give you an overview on data processing by Microsoft Ad’s conversion tracking. Of course, it is always possible for Microsoft’s privacy guidelines to change. For finding more information and always staying up-to-date, we recommend you to read Microsoft’s privacy policy at https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement.

plista Privacy Policy

We use plista by plista GmbH on this website (Torstraße 33-35, 10119 Berlin, Germany) in order to display suitable online advertising and interesting content for you. Due to the use of plista, your data is collected, stored and processed. In this privacy statement we will inform you why we use plista, which data is stored, where it is saved and how you can manage or prevent data processing.

What is plista?

plista analyses your visitor behaviour on our website and uses the collected data, together with a real-time recommendation technology, to ensure only suitable advertisements and paid content (e.g. articles) are displayed to you.

plista recommends visitors of websites that are part of the plista network (such as this website) certain content or ads based on the analysis of collected data, which are gathered plista’s network. The recommended content could be of interest to you, or it can be content based on the interests of similar users and content that users previously viewed on websites outside plista’s network.

Why do we use plista on our website?

We want to offer you the best possible service and user experience (UX) on our website. For us, this also means that you only get to see content and ads that really interest you. With plista we can adapt adverts and other content exactly to your interests and wishes. Hence, we can provide you with good content and can achieve our business goals in a quicker and easier manner.

What data is retained by plista?

Whenever visitors access, view and interact with websites and advertisements of the plista network, plista’s services collect information on visitor behaviour. For this, plista collects data that can be used to identify browsers and devices which visit plista’s network repeatedly:

Cookie IDs to identify the browser
Advertising IDs for mobile devices to identify the advertising environment
IP addresses and data derived from them, such as inaccurate geolocation data indicating country, region, city and / or zip code area of a device
Internet browser type, browser language and operating system
Type of connection (wired or wireless); network which the device is connected to and mobile network operator (if available)
Latitude/longitude of a mobile device.

The data collected by plista never contain names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses or similar user data, and is not linked to any user data. Therefore, plista cannot deduce natural persons from it.

In the following we will show you cookies that plista can set in your browser. We do not claim for the list of the cookies we found to be exhaustive, as it only serves as an example.

Name: Pookie
Value: HhjIN4SdViBlW1ZTPZuoWBdoQTF4L5DINUZEtNQVSzU=
Purpose: This cookie gives you a random cookie ID that serves as identification.
Expiry date: after 50 years

Name: Ploptout
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie stores the information that you have used the opt-out function.
Expiry date: after 30 years

Name: rt11
Value:AlnCL9toeaa5lX0u2uS7D1B%2BinxhWAjqYkRre9sYf%2BI%3111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie stores your retargeting campaign IDs.
Expiry date: after 60 days

Name: um
Value: c3de=1581682028%3B3420334527069442875&crc=8d5889e4c3c6bd6237e6fd9c2b94624111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie stores third-party IDs that partners have provided on you.
Expiry date: after 30 days

Name: arv
Value: q1YqSy0qzszPU7Iy0lFKSSxJVLKKrlYysrQ0sQSylEzNDSxMDI2NjJRia2111464339-8
Purpose: This cookie stores posts you have previously seen.
Expiry date: after 3 days

Name: rec
Value: a%3A0%3A%7B%7D
Purpose: This cookie stores suggestions you previously clicked.
Expiry date: after 3 days

Name: red
Value: a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Ba%3A1%3A%7BA9%3A%22477939325%22%3111464339-9
Purpose: This cookie stores the suggestions that were previously displayed to you.
Expiry date: after 3 days

Name: frc
Value: q1YqSy0qzszPU7Iy0lFKSSxJVLKKjq0FAA
Purpose: This cookie ensures that visitors only see advertisements for a limited number of times.
Expiry date: after 3 days

plista transmit visitor data (particularly the cookie ID or the respective advertising ID we assigned) to selected third-party providers and service providers, e.g. in order to conduct special types of advertising and to improve their services.

How long and where is the data stored?

All visitor data from within the EU are stored on plista’s servers in Germany. The plista targeting cookie has a storage period of one year and is automatically deleted after this time. One year after their collection the latest, all your data will also be deleted or anonymised and in the latter case can then only be used for statistical purposes.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. With the opt-out button at https://www.plista.com/about/opt-out you can prevent the collection of your data.

Moreover, in your browser you also have the option to prevent data processing by plista. As mentioned above, plista stores most data via cookies that are set in your browser. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies. Depending on which browser you use, the cookie settings work a little different. You can find instructions for the most common browsers here:

You can also set up your browser to notify you every time a cookie is about to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow or the cookie.

We gave our best to provide you the most important information about data processing by plista. At https://www.plista.com/about/privacy you can find out more on the company’s privacy guidelines.

Embedded Social Media elements Privacy Policy

We have embedded elements from social media services on our website, to display pictures, videos and texts. By visiting pages that present such elements, data is transferred from your browser to the respective social media service, where it is stored. We do not have access to this data.
The following links lead to the respective social media services’ sites, where you can find a declaration on how they handle your data:

Instagram Data Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
For YouTube, the Google Privacy Policy applies: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB
Facebook Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Twitter Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Facebook Data Policy

We use selected Facebook tools on our website. Facebook is a social media network of the company Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. With the aid of this tool we can provide the best possible offers to you and anyone interested in our products and services. In the following we will give you an overview on the different Facebook tools, as well as on what data is sent to Facebook and how you can delete these data.

What are Facebook tools?

Along with many other products, Facebook also offers so called “Facebook Business Tools”. This is Facebook’s official name for the tools, but it is not very common. Therefore, we decided to merely call them “Facebook tools”. They include the following:

Facebook-Pixel
social plugins (e.g. the “Like” or “Share“ button)
Facebook Login
Account Kit
APIs (application programming interface)
SDKs (Softwart developmept kits)
Plattform-integrations
Plugins
Codes
Specifications
Documentations
Technologies and Services

With these tools Facebook can extend its services and is able to receive information on user activities outside of Facebook.

Why do we use Facebook tools on our website?

We only want to show our services and products to people who are genuinely interested in them. With the help of advertisements (Facebook Ads) we can reach exactly these people. However, to be able to show suitable adverts to users, Facebook requires additional information on people’s needs and wishes. Therefore, information on the user behaviour (and contact details) on our website, are provided to Facebook. Consequently, Facebook can collect better user data and is able to display suitable adverts for our products or services. Thanks to the tools it is possible to create targeted, customised ad campaigns of Facebook.

Facebook calls data about your behaviour on our website “event data” and uses them for analytics services. That way, Facebook can create “campaign reports” about our ad campaigns’ effectiveness on our behalf. Moreover, by analyses we can get a better insight in how you use our services, our website or our products. Therefore, some of these tools help us optimise your user experience on our website. With the social plugins for instance, you can share our site’s contents directly on Facebook.

What data is saved by the Facebook tools?

With the use of the Facebook tools, personal data (customer data) may be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, telephone number and IP address may be transmitted.

Facebook uses this information to match the data with the data it has on you (if you are a Facebook member). However, before the customer data is transferred to Facebook, a so called “Hashing” takes place. This means, that a data record of any size is transformed into a string of characters, which also has the purpose of encrypting data.

Moreover, not only contact data, but also “event data“ is transferred. These data are the information we receive about you on our website. To give an example, it allows us to see what subpages you visit or what products you buy from us. Facebook does not disclose the obtained information to third parties (such as advertisers), unless the company has an explicit permission or is legally obliged to do so. Also, “event data“ can be linked to contact information, which helps Facebook to offer improved, customised adverts. Finally, after the previously mentioned matching process, Facebook deletes the contact data.

To deliver optimised advertisements, Facebook only uses event data, if they have been combined with other data (that have been collected by Facebook in other ways). Facebook also uses event data for the purposes of security, protection, development and research. Many of these data are transmitted to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are little text files, that are used for storing data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools used, and on whether you are a Facebook member, a different number of cookies are placed in your browser. In the descriptions of the individual Facebook tools we will go into more detail on Facebook cookies. You can also find general information about the use of Facebook cookies at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.

How long and where are the data saved?

Facebook fundamentally stores data, until they are no longer of use for their own services and products. Facebook has servers for storing their data all around the world. However, customer data is cleared within 48 hours after they have been matched with their own user data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right of information, rectification, transfer and deletion of your data.

The collected data is only fully deleted, when you delete your entire Facebook account. Deleting your Facebook account works as follows:

1) Click on settings in the top right side in Facebook.

2) Then, click “Your Facebook information“ in the left column.

3) Now click on “Deactivation and deletion”.

4) Choose “Permanently delete account“ and then click on “Continue to account deletion“.

5) Enter your password, click on “continue“ and then on “Delete account“.

The retention of data Facebook receives via our site is done via cookies (e.g. with social plugins), among others. You can deactivate, clear or manage both all and individual cookies in your browser. How this can be done differs depending on the browser you use. The following instructions show, how to manage cookies in your browser:

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies at all, you can set up your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This gives you the opportunity to decide upon the permission or deletion of every single cookie.

Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC. We hope we could give you an understanding of the most important information about the use of Facebook tools and data processing. If you want to find out more on how Facebook use your data, we recommend reading the data policies at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

Facebook Social Plugins Privacy Policy

We installed so-called social plugins from Facebook Inc. to our website. You can recognise these buttons by the classic Facebook logo, the “Like” button (hand with raised thumb) or by a “Facebook plugin” label. A social plugin is a small part of Facebook that is integrated into our page. Each plugin has its own function. The most used functions are the well-known “Like” and “Share” buttons.

Facebook offers the following social plugins:

“Save” button
“Like” button, Share, Send and Quote
Page plugin
Comments
Messenger plugin
Embedded posts and video player
Group Plugin

At https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins you will find more information on how the individual plugins are used. On the one hand, we use the social plug-ins to offer you a better user experience on our site, and on the other hand because Facebook can optimise our advertisements with it.

If you have a Facebook account or have already visited facebook.com, Facebook has already placed at least one cookie in your browser. In this case, your browser sends information to Facebook via this cookie as soon as you visit our website or interact with social plugins (e.g. the “Like” button).

The received information will be deleted or anonymised within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, the websites you have visited, the date, time and other information relating to your browser.

In order to prevent Facebook from collecting much data and matching it with your Facebook data during your visit to our website, you must log out of Facebook while you visit our website.

If you are not logged in to Facebook or do not have a Facebook account, your browser sends less information to Facebook because you have fewer Facebook cookies. Nevertheless, data such as your IP address or which website you are visiting can be transmitted to Facebook. We would like to explicitly point out that we do not know what exact data is collected. However, based on our current knowledge, we want to try informing you as best we can about data processing. You can also read about how Facebook uses the data in the company’s data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

At least the following cookies are set in your browser when you visit a website with social plugins from Facebook:

Name: dpr
Value: no information
Purpose:This cookie is used to make the social plugins work on our website.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4111464339c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j
Purpose:The cookie is also necessary for the plugins to function properly
Expiry date: after 3 months

Note: These cookies were set after our test and may be placed even if you are not a Facebook member.

If you are registered with Facebook, you can change your settings for advertisements yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. If you are not a Facebook user, you can go to https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ and manage your usage-based online advertising. There you have the option to deactivate or activate providers.

If you want to learn more about Facebook’s data protection, we recommend the company’s own data policies at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Facebook Login Privacy Policy

We integrated the convenient Facebook Login to our website. With it, you can easily log into our site with your Facebook account, without having to create a new user account. If you decide to register via the Facebook Login, you will be redirected to the social media network Facebook. There, you can log in with your Facebook user data. By using this method to log in, data on you and your user behaviour is stored and transmitted to Facebook.

To save the data, Facebook uses various cookies. In the following we will show you the most significant cookies that are placed in your browser or that already exist when you log into our site via the Facebook Login:

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j
Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plugin function optimally on our website.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Name: datr
Value: 4Jh7XUA2111464339SEmPsSfzCOO4JFFl
Purpose: Facebook sets the “datr” cookie, when a web browser accesses facebook.com. The cookie helps to identify login activities and protect users.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: _js_datr
Value: deleted
Purpose: Facebook sets this session cookie for tracking purposes, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are logged out.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Note: The cookies we stated are only a small range of the cookies which are available to Facebook. Other cookies include for example _ fbp, sb or wd. It is not possible to disclose an exhaustive list, since Facebook have a multitude of cookies at their disposal which they use in variation.

On the one hand, Facebook Login enables a fast and easy registration process. On the other hand, it gives us the opportunity to share data with Facebook. In turn, we can customise our offer and advertising campaigns better to your needs and interests. The data we receive from Facebook by this means, is public data such as

your Facebook name
your profile picture
your stored email address
friends lists
button clicks (e.g. “Like“ button)
date of birth
language
place of residence

In return, we provide Facebook with information about your activities on our website. These include information on the terminal device you used, which of our subpages you visit, or what products you have bought from us.

By using Facebook Login, you agree to the data processing. You can terminate this agreement anytime. If you want to learn more about Facebook’s data processing, we recommend you to read Facebook’s Data Policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you are registered with Facebook, you can change your advertisement settings anytime at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen.

Instagram Privacy Policy

We have integrated functions of Instagram to our website. Instagram is a social media platform of the company Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA. Since 2012, Instagram is a subsidiary company of Facebook Inc. and is a part of Facebook’s products. The inclusion of Instagram’s contents on our website is called embedding. With this, we can show you Instagram contents such as buttons, photos or videos directly on our website. If you open websites of our online presence, that have an integrated Instagram function, data gets transmitted to, as well as stored and processed by Instagram. Instagram uses the same systems and technologies as Facebook. Therefore, your data will be processed across all Facebook firms.

In the following, we want to give you a more detailed insight on why Instagram collects data, what data these are and how you can control data processing. As Instagram belongs to Facebook Inc., we have, on the one hand received this information from the Instagram guidelines, and on the other hand from Facebook’s Data Policy.

What is Instagram?

Instagram is one of the most famous social media networks worldwide. Instagram combines the benefits of a blog with the benefits of audio-visual platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo. To “Insta“ (how the platform is casually called by many users) you can upload photos and short videos, edit them with different filters and also share them to other social networks. Also, if you do not want to be active on Instagram yourself, you can just follow other interesting users.

Why do we use Instagram on our website?

Instagram is a social media platform whose success has skyrocketed within recent years. Naturally, we have also reacted to this boom. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible on our website. Therefore, we attach great importance to diversified contents. With the embedded Instagram features we can enrich our content with helpful, funny or exciting Instagram contents. Since Instagram is a subsidiary company of Facebook, the collected data can also serve us for customised advertising on Facebook. Hence, only persons who are genuinely interested in our products or services can see our ads.

Instagram also uses the collected data for tracking and analysis purposes. We receive summarised statistics and therefore more insight to your wishes and interests. It is important to mention that these reports do not identify you personally.

What data is saved by Instagram?

Whenever you land on one of our sites, which have Instagram functions (i.e. Instagram photos or plugins) integrated to them, your browser automatically connects with Instagram’s servers. Thereby, data is sent to, as well as saved and processed by Instagram. This always happens, whether you have an Instagram account or not. Moreover, it includes information on our website, your computer, your purchases, the advertisements you see and on how you use our offer. The date and time of your interaction is also stored. If you have an Instagram account or are logged in, Instagram saves significantly more data on you.

Facebook distinguishes between customer data and event data. We assume this is also the case for Instagram. Customer data are for example names, addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. These data are only transmitted to Instagram, if they have been “hashed” first. Thereby, a set of data is transformed into a string of characters, which encrypts any contact data. Moreover, the aforementioned “event data“ (data on your user behaviour) is transmitted as well. It is also possible, that contact data may get combined with event data. The collected data data is matched with any data Instagram already has on you.

Furthermore, the gathered data are transferred to Facebook via little text files (cookies) which usually get set in your browser. Depending on the Instagram function used, and whether you have an Instagram account yourself, the amount of data that gets stored varies.

We assume data processing on Instagram works the same way as on Facebook. Therefore, if you have an account on Instagram or have visited www.instagram.com, Instagram has set at least one cookie. If this is the case, your browser uses the cookie to send information to Instagram, as soon as you come across an Instagram function. No later than 90 days (after matching) the data is deleted or anonymised. Even though we have studied Instagram’s data processing in-depth, we cannot tell for sure what exact data Instagram collects and retains.

In the following we will show you a list of the least cookies placed in your browser when click on an Instagram function (e.g. button or an Insta picture). In our test we assume you do not have an Instagram account, since if you would be logged in to your Instagram account, your browser would place significantly more cookies.
The following cookies were used in our test:

Name: csrftoken
Value: “”
Purpose: This cookie is most likely set for security reasons to prevent falsifications of requests. We could not find out more information on it.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: mid
Value: “”
Purpose: Instagram places this cookie to optimise its own offers and services in- and outside of Instagram. The cookie allocates a unique user ID.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: fbsr_111464339124024
Value: no information
Purpose: This cookie stores the login request of Instagram app users.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: rur
Value: ATN
Purpose: This is an Instagram cookie which guarantees functionality on Instagram.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: urlgen
Value: “{”194.96.75.33”: 1901}:1iEtYv:Y833k2_UjKvXgYe111464339”
Purpose: This cookie serves Instagram’s marketing purposes.
Expiry date: after end of session

Note: We do not claim this list to be exhaustive. The cookies that are placed in each individual case, depend on the functions embedded as well as on your use of Instagram.

How long and where are these data stored?

Instagram shares the information obtained within the Facebook businesses with external partners and persons you are globally connected with. Data processing is done according to Facebook's internal data policy. Your data is distributed to Facebook's servers across the world, partially for security reasons. Most of these servers are in the USA.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

Thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right of information, rectification, transfer and deletion of your data. Furthermore, you can manage your data in Instagram's settings. If you want to delete your data on Instagram completely, you will have to delete your Instagram account permanently.

And this is how an Instagram account can be deleted:

First, open the Instagram app. Then, navigate to your profile page, select the three bars in the top right, choose "Settings" and then click "Help". Now, you will be redirected to the company's website, where you must click on "Managing Your Account" and then "Delete Your Account".

When you delete your account completely, Instagram deletes posts such as your photos and status updates. Any information other people shared about you are not a part of your account and do therefore not get deleted.

As mentioned before, Instagram primarily stores your data via cookies. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies in your browser. Depending on your browser, managing them varies a bit. We will show you the instructions of the most relevant browsers here.

Generally, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. Then you can individually decide upon the permission of every cookie.

Instagram is a subsidiary company of Facebook Inc. and Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework regulates correct transfer between the USA and the European Union. At https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC you can find out more about this. We gave our best to make you familiar with the most important information on data processing by Instagram. At https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 you can find out more on Instagram's data policies.

Twitter Privacy Policy

We have incorporated Twitter functions on our website. These are, for example, embedded tweets, timelines, buttons or hashtags. Twitter is a short message service and social media platform from the firm Twitter Inc, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland.

To our knowledge, in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, a mere integration of the Twitter function does not transfer any personal data or data about your web activities to Twitter. Only when you interact with the Twitter functions, such as by clicking a button, data could be sent to Twitter and get saved as well as processed there. We have no influence on this processing of data and do not bare any responsibility for it. Within this privacy statement, we want to give you an overview of what data Twitter stores, what Twitter does with this data and how you can largely protect yourself from data transmission.

What is Twitter?

For some, Twitter is a news service, for others, a social media platform, and for others still it is a microblogging service. All these terms are justified and mean pretty much the same.

Both individuals as well as companies use Twitter for communicating with interested people via short messages. Twitter only allows 280 characters per message. These messages are called "tweets. In contrast to Facebook, for example, the service does not focus on the expansion of a network of "friends", but strives to be regarded as an open, worldwide news platform. On Twitter you can also have an anonymous account and tweets can be deleted by both, either the company or the users themselves.

Why do we use Twitter on our website?

Like many other websites and companies, we try to use different channels for offering our services and communicating with our customers. Twitter is a truly useful "small" news service, which is why it has grown dear to us. We regularly tweet or retweet exciting, funny or interesting content. We understand that you do not have the time to follow every channel after channel, as you surely have enough other things to do. That is why we also have integrated Twitter functions to our website. That way, you can experience our Twitter activities "on site" or come to our Twitter page via a direct link. With the integration, we want to strengthen the service and user-friendliness on our website.

What data is stored by Twitter?

You will find integrated Twitter functions on some of our subpages. If you interact with Twitter content, such as by clicking a button, Twitter may collect and save data. This can happen even if you don't have a Twitter account yourself. Twitter calls this data "log data". It includes demographic data, browser cookie IDs, your smartphone's ID, hashed email addresses, and information on which pages you have visited on Twitter and what actions you have taken there. Of course, Twitter stores more data if you have a Twitter account and are logged in. This retention is usually done via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually set in your browser and transmit various information to Twitter.

We will now show you which cookies are placed if you are not logged in to Twitter but visit a website with built-in Twitter functions. Please consider this list as an example. We do not claim for this list to be extensive, since the array of cookies always changes and depends on your individual actions with Twitter content.
The following cookies have been used in our test:

Name: personalization_id
Value: "v1_cSJIsogU51SeE111464339"
Purpose: This cookie stores information on how you use the website and what ad may have led you to Twitter.

Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: lang
Value: en
Purpose: This cookie stores your deafault or preferred language.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: guest_id
Value: 111464339v1%3A157132626
Purpose: This cookie is set to identify you as a guest.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: fm
Value : 0
Purpose: Unfortunately, we could not find out the purpose of this cookie.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: eu_cn
Value : 1
Purpose: This cookie stores user activity and is used for Twitter's various advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: ct0
Value: c1179f07163a365d2ed7aad84c99d966
Purpose: Unfortunately we could not find any information on this cookie.
Expiry date: after 6 hours

Name: _twitter_sess
Value: 53D%253D-dd0248111464339-
Purpose: With this cookie you can use functions within Twitter's website.
Expiry date: after end of session

Note: Twitter also works with third parties. Therefore, we have recognized the three Google Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid in our test.

On the one hand, Twitter uses the collected data for gaining better understand on user behavior, and thus to improve their own services and advertising offers. On the other hand, the data are also used for internal security measures.

How long and where are the data stored?

When Twitter collects data from other websites, after a maximum of 30 days, they will be deleted, summarized or otherwise concealed. Twitter's servers are in various server centers in the United States. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the gathered data will be collected and stored in America. In our research we could not clearly determine whether Twitter also owns servers in Europe. Generally, Twitter may keep collected data stored until either the data are no longer useful to the company, until you delete the data or until a potential legal deletion period has been reached.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

In their Privacy Policy, Twitter repeatedly emphasize that they do not save data from external website visits, provided you or your browser are in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. However, if you interact directly with Twitter, the company will of course store your data.

If you have a Twitter account, you can manage your data by clicking on "More" under the "Profile" button. Then click on "Settings and privacy". Here you can manage data processing individually.

If you do not have a Twitter account, you can go to twitter.com and click "Settings". At "Personalization and data" you can manage data that is collected on you.

As mentioned above, most data are stored via cookies, which you can manage, deactivate or delete in your browser. Please note that when changing cookie settings in your browser, the edits will only affect that very browser. This means that if you use another browser in the future, you will have to manage your cookie settings there again. In the following you will find instructions for managing cookies in the most popular browsers.

You can also set your browser to notify you about each individual cookie. This lets you decide individually whether you want to allow or deny a cookie.

Twitter also uses the data for personalised advertising in-and outside of Twitter. You can switch off personalized advertising in the settings under "Personalization and data". If you use Twitter on a browser, you can deactivate personalized advertising at http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.

Twitter is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures correct data transmission between the USA and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO.

We hope we could give you a basic overview of Twitter's data processing. We do not receive any data from Twitter and are not responsible for what Twitter does with your data. If you have any further questions on this topic, we recommend reading Twitter's privacy statement at https://twitter.com/en/privacy.

LinkedIn Privacy Policy

On our website we use social plugins from the social media network LinkedIn, of the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Social plugins can be feeds, content sharing or a link to our LinkedIn page. Social plugins are clearly marked with the well-known LinkedIn logo and for example allow sharing interesting content directly via our website. Furthermore, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place in Dublin is responsible for data processing in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

By embedding these plugins, data can be sent to, as well as stored and processed by LinkedIn. In this privacy policy we want to inform you what data this is, how the network uses this data and how you can manage or prevent data retention.

What is LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is the largest social network for business contacts. In contrast to e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn focuses exclusively on establishing business connections. Therefore, companies can present services and products on the platform and establish business relationships. Many people also use LinkedIn to find a job or to find suitable employees for their own company. In Germany alone, the network has over 11 million members. In Austria there are about 1.3 million.

Why do we use LinkedIn on our website?

We know how busy you are. You just cannot keep up with following every single social media channel. Even if it would really be worth it, as it is with our channels, since we keep posting interesting news and articles worth spreading. Therefore, on our website we have created the opportunity to share interesting content directly on LinkedIn, or to refer directly to our LinkedIn page. We consider built-in social plugins as an extended service on our website. The data LinkedIn collects also help us to display potential advertising measures only to people who are interested in our offer.

What data are stored by LinkedIn?

LinkedIn stores no personal data due to the mere integration of social plugins. LinkedIn calls the data generated by plugins passive impressions. However, if you click on a social plugin to e.g. share our content, the platform stores personal data as so-called "active impressions". This happens regardless of whether you have a LinkedIn account or not. If you are logged in, the collected data will be assigned to your account.

When you interact with our plugins, your browser establishes a direct connection to LinkedIn's servers. Through that, the company logs various usage data. These may include your IP address, login data, device information or information about your internet or cellular provider. If you use LinkedIn services via your smartphone, your location may also be identified (after you have given permission). Furthermore, LinkedIn can share this data with third-party advertisers in "hashed" form. Hashing means that a data set is transformed into a character string. This allows data to be encrypted, which prevents persons from getting identified.

Most data on your user behavior is stored in cookies. These are small text files that usually get placed in your browser. Furthermore, LinkedIn can also use web beacons, pixel tags, display tags and other device recognitions.

Various tests also show which cookies are set when a user interacts with a social plug-in. We do not claim for the information we found to be exhaustive, as it only serves as an example. The following cookies were set without being logged in to LinkedIn:

Name: bcookie
Value: =2&34aab2aa-2ae1-4d2a-8baf-c2e2d7235c16111464339-
Purpose: This cookie is a so-called "browser ID cookie" and stores your identification number (ID).
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: lang
Value: v=2&lang=en-gb
Purpose:This cookie saves your default or preferred language.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: lidc
Value: 1818367:t=1571904767:s=AQF6KNnJ0G111464339...
Purpose:This cookie is used for routing. Routing records how you found your way to LinkedIn and how you navigate through the website.
Expiry date: after 24 hours

Name: rtc
Value: kt0lrv3NF3x3t6xvDgGrZGDKkX
Purpose:No further information could be found about this cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 minutes

Name: JSESSIONID
Value: ajax:1114643392900777718326218137
Purpose: This is a session cookie that LinkedIn uses to maintain anonymous user sessions through the server.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: bscookie
Value: "v=1&201910230812...
Purpose: This cookie is a security cookie. LinkedIn describes it as a secure browser ID cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: fid
Value: AQHj7Ii23ZBcqAAAA...
Purpose: We could not find any further information about this cookie.
Expiry date: after 7 days

Note: LinkedIn also works with third parties. That is why we identified the Google Analytics cookies _ga and _gat in our test.

How long and where are the data stored?

In general, LinkedIn retains your personal data for as long as the company considers it necessary for providing its services. However, LinkedIn deletes your personal data when you delete your account. In some exceptional cases, LinkedIn keeps some summarised and anonymised data, even account deletions. As soon as you delete your account, it may take up to a day until other people can no longer see your data. LinkedIn generally deletes the data within 30 days. However, LinkedIn retains data if it is necessary for legal reasons. Also, data that can no longer be assigned to any person remains stored even after the account is closed. The data are stored on various servers in America and presumably also in Europe.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. In your LinkedIn account you can manage, change and delete your data. Moreover, you can request a copy of your personal data from LinkedIn.

How to access account data in your LinkedIn profile:

In LinkedIn, click on your profile icon and select the "Settings & Privacy" section. Now click on "Privacy" and then on the section "How LinkedIn uses your data". Then, click "Change" in the row with "Manage your data and activity". There you can instantly view selected data on your web activity and your account history.

In your browser you also have the option of preventing data processing by LinkedIn. As mentioned above, LinkedIn stores most data via cookies that are placed in your browser. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies. Depending on which browser you have, these settings work a little differently. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

You can generally set your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

LinkedIn is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks. This framework ensures correct data transmission between the USA and the European Union. You can find out more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0. We gave our best to provide you the most essential information about LinkedIn's data processing. At https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy you can find out more about data processing of the social media network LinkedIn.

Pinterest Privacy Policy

On our website we use buttons and widgets of the social media network Pinterest, by the company Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.

By opening pages that use these functions, data (IP address, browser data, date and time, cookies) are transmitted to, and stored and evaluated by Pinterest.

The privacy guidelines on what information Pinterest collects and how they use it, can be found at https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy.

XING Privacy Policy

On our website we use social plugins from the social media network Xing, by the company Xing SE, Dammtorstrasse 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Their functions allow you to for example share content and follow interesting content on Xing directly via our website, or to log in to Xing via our site. You can recognize the plugins by the company name or the Xing logo. If you open a website that uses a Xing plugin, data can be transmitted to, and saved as well as evaluated by the "Xing server". In this privacy policy we will inform you on what data this is and how you can manage or prevent data retention.

What is Xing?

Xing is a social network with its headquarters in Hamburg. The company specializes in managing professional contacts. That means, that as opposed to other networks, Xing is primarily about professional networking. The platform is often used for job hunting or for companies to find employees. Moreover, Xing offers interesting content on various professional topics. The global counterpart of Xing is the American company LinkedIn.

Why do we use Xing on our website?

Nowadays, there is a flood of social media channels, and we understand that your time is very precious. It is simply not possible for you to closely follow every social media channel of a company. Therefore, we want to make your life as easy as possible and enable you to share or follow interesting content on Xing directly via our website. With these so-called "social plugins" we are expanding the service on our website. Additionally, the data collected by Xing help us to create targeted advertising on the platform. This means that our services are only displayed to people who are genuinely interested in them.

What data is saved by Xing?

As plugins for websites, Xing offers the share, follow and login buttons. As soon as you open a page with an integrated Xing social plugin, your browser will connect to servers in a Xing data centre. Xing claim that upon using the share button, no data that could directly relate to a person is stored. Furthermore, Xing do not save your IP address, neither do any cookies get set upon using the share button. This means that your user behaviour is not analysed. You can find more information at https://www.xing.com/app/share%3Fop%3Ddata_protection.

With Xing's other plugins, cookies only get set in your browser if you interact with the plugin or click on it. Personal data such as your IP address, browser data, as well as the date and time of your visit to Xing may be stored. If you have a XING account and are logged in, the collected data will be assigned to your personal account and matched with the data stored in it.

If you click on the follow or log-in button and are not yet logged in to Xing, the following cookies are set in your browser. Please keep in mind that this is an indicative list and we do not claim for it to be exhaustive:

Name: AMCVS_0894FF2554F733210A4C98C6%40AdobeOrg
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie is used to create and store identification details for website visitors.
Expiry date: after session end

Name: c_
Value: 157c609dc9fe7d7ff56064c6de87b019111464339-8
Purpose: We were unable to find out more information on this cookie.
Expiry date: after one day

Name: prevPage
Value: wbm%2FWelcome%2Flogin
Purpose: This cookie stores the URL of the previous website you visited.
Expiry date: after 30 minutes

Name: s_cc
Value: true
Purpose: This Adobe Site Catalyst cookie determines whether cookies are generally activated in the browser.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: s_fid
Value: 6897CDCD1013221C-39DDACC982217CD1111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor.
Expiry date: after 5 years

Name: visitor_id
Value: fe59fbe5-e9c6-4fca-8776-30d0c1a89c32
Purpose: The visitor cookie contains a unique visitor ID and a unique identifier for your account.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name:_session_id
Value: 533a0a6641df82b46383da06ea0e84e7111464339-2
Purpose: This cookie creates a temporary session ID that is used as the in-session user ID. The cookie is vital to provide the functions of Xing.
Expiry date: after end of session

When you are logged in to Xing or are a member of the platform, further personal data will be collected, processed and saved. Xing also passes personal data to third parties if it is either necessary for its own business purposes, if you have given your consent or if there is a legal obligation.

How long and where is the data stored?

Xing stores data on different servers in various data centers. The company stores this data until you delete it or until you delete your user account. Of course, this only applies to users who are already Xing members.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. Even if you are not a Xing member, you can prevent potential data processing via your browser or manage it as you wish. Most data are stored via cookies. Depending on which browser you are using, the settings work a little different. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

You can also set up your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be placed. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow or deny a cookie.

We tried to make you familiar with the most important information on data processing by Xing. At https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy you can find out more about data processing by the social media network Xing.

Gravatar Privacy Policy

We have integrated the Gravatar plugin from Automattic Inc. (60 29th Street # 343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA) into our website. Gravatar is automatically activated on all WordPress websites. The function enables user images (avatars) to be displayed in published articles or comments, provided the respective email address is registered at www.gravatar.com.

This function sends data to Gravatar or Automattic Inc. where it gets stored and processed. In this privacy statement we would like to inform you what data this is, how the network uses it and how you can manage or prevent data retention.

What is Gravatar?

Gravatar stands for "Globally Recognized Avatar" which is a globally available avatar (a user picture) that is linked to an email address. The company Gravatar is the world's leading provider for this service. As soon as a user enters their email address which is also registered with www.gravatar.com to a website, the user's previously stored image is automatically displayed with their post or comment.

Why do we use Gravatar on our website?

Anonymity on the internet is a popular topic. An avatar gives people that make posts or comments a face. Moreover, it makes it easier to be recognised on the web and to make oneself known. Many users enjoy the advantages of user pictures as they want to appear on the web in a personal and authentic manner. Of course, we want to offer you the possibility to display your Gravatar also on our website. Furthermore, we also like to see faces of our commenting users. With the activated Gravatar function, we are expanding the service on our website. After all, we want you to feel comfortable on our website and enable you to receive an extensive and interesting offer.

What data is retained by Gravatar?

When you publish a comment to a blogpost which requires an email address, WordPress checks whether your email address is linked to an avatar on Gravatar. For this, your email address gets encrypted and hashed and sent to Gravatar's or Automattic's servers, together with your IP address and our URL. Then Gravatar will check whether the email address is registered with the platform.

If the email address is registered with Gravatar, the image (gravatar) stored there will be displayed in the published comment. If you have registered your email address with Gravatar and comment on our website, further data will be transmitted to Gravatar, where it will be saved and processed. In addition to IP address and user behavior data, this includes e.g. your browser type, the unique device identification, your preferred language, the data and time of the page visit, your operating system and information on the mobile network. Gravatar use this information to improve their services and offers and to gain better insight into the use of their service.

The following cookies are set by Automattic when a user enters an email address that is registered with Gravatar, for submitting a comment:

Name: gravatar
Value: 16b3191024acc05a238209d51ffcb92bdd710bd19111464339-7
Purpose: We could not find any exact information about the cookie.
Expiry date: after 50 years

Name: is-logged-in
Value : 1111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie stores the information that the user is logged in via the registered email address.
Expiry date: after 50 years

How long and where is the data retained?

Automattic deletes the collected data either if they are no longer used for their services, or if the company is not legally obliged to keep the data. Web server logs such as IP addresses, browser types and operating systems will be deleted after about 30 days. Until deletion, Automattic use the data to analyze traffic on their own websites (for example all WordPress sites) and to fix potential problems. The data is also stored on Automattic's American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. If you have registered with Gravatar with an email address, you can delete your account or email address there at any time.

Since images are only displayed when using an email address registered with Gravatar, and data is therefore transferred to Gravatar, you can prevent transmission of your data to Gravatar by submitting comments or articles on our website with an email address that is not registered with Gravatar.

You can manage, deactivate or delete cookies that may be set in your browser when commenting. Please note that in this case comment functions may no longer be available in their intended scope. Depending on the browser you use, the management of cookies works a little different. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers here:

Automattic is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbqcAAC.
You can find more details on the privacy policy and what data is collected by Gravatar at https://automattic.com/privacy/ . Moreover, at https://en.gravatar.com/ you can find general information on Gravatar.

ShareThis Privacy Policy

On our website we have implemented functions of ShareThis from ShareThis Inc. (4005 Miranda Ave, Suite 100, Palo Alto, 94304 California, USA). These are, for example, "share" plugins of various social media channels. With the help of these functions, you can share our website's content on social media channels. If you open a website with a ShareThis function, your data may be transferred to the company, where it may be stored and processed. In this privacy policy you can read why we use ShareThis, what data is processed and how you can prevent this data transmission.

What is ShareThis?

ShareThis is a technology company that offers website operators tools to improve website quality. With ShareThis social plugins, you can share our website's content on various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.. The company offers content sharing for over 40 different channels and is used by over 3 million website operators worldwide. The data collected by ShareThis are also used for tailored advertisements.

Why do we use ShareThis on our website?

We strive to provide quality content and we are of course happy, if our content is also recommended to and shared with others. This helps us to know that we are on the right path.
The easiest way to do this is via any "Share" directly on our website. Thanks to the different variety social media channels, we can present our content to a wide audience. This helps us to increase awareness for us and to become more successful on the Internet. However, the plugins also help you since you can share interesting content with your social media community with just one click.

What data is stored by ShareThis?

If you share content with ShareThis and are logged into a social media account, data e.g. on your visit to our website, as well as your sharing of content may be assigned to your user account on the respective social media channel. ShareThis uses cookies, pixels, HTTP headers and browser identifiers to collect data about your visitor behavior. In addition, some of this data is shared with third parties, but only after it has been pseudonymised.

Here is a list of the data that may be processed:

Unique ID of a cookie placed in the web browser
General click behavior
Addresses of visited websites
Search queries which led a visitor to the ShareThis page
Navigation from website to website provided it happened via ShareThis services
Time spent on a website
Which elements have been clicked or highlighted
The IP address of the computer or mobile device
Mobile advertising IDs (Apple IDFA or Google AAID)
Information contained in HTTP headers or other utilised transmission protocols
Which program on the computer (browser) or which operating system was used (iOS)

ShareThis uses cookies, which we will list examples of below. You can find out more about ShareThis cookies at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/.

Name: __unam
Value: 8961a7f179d1d017ac27lw87qq69V69111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie counts the "clicks" and "shares" on a website.
Expiry date: after 9 months

Name: __stid
Value: aGCDwF4hjVEI+oIsABW7111464339Ag==
Purpose: This cookie stores user behavior, such as the websites accessed, page-to-page navigations and the length of time spent on the website.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: __sharethis_cookie_test__
Value : 0
Purpose: This cookie monitors the "clickstream" activity. That means is records where you clicked on the website.
Expiry date: after end of session

Note:We do not claim for this list to be exhaustive. The cookies that are set in individual cases depend on the embedded functions and the use thereof.

How long and where is the data retained?

ShareThis stores collected data for a period of up to 14 months from the date of data collection. ShareThis cookies expire 13 months after the last update. Since ShareThis is an American company, data is transferred to and stored on American ShareThis servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

If you no longer want to see advertisements based on data collected by ShareThis, you can use the opt-out button at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/. Then, an opt-out cookie is set, which you must not delete in order to keep this setting.

You can also set your preferences for usage-based online advertising at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/ in "Your Ad Choices".

You also have the option of managing, deactivating or deleting data that is stored in your browser via cookies. How exactly the administration works depends on your browser. Here you will find the instructions for the most popular browsers.

You can also set your browser to always inform you when a cookie is about to be set.

ShareThis is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L1HMAA0&status=Active. If you would like to know more about the processing of your data by ShareThis, you will find all information at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/.

AddThis Privacy Policy

On our website we use plug-ins from AddThis by Oracle America, Inc. (500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA). With these plug-ins, you can quickly and easily share contents of our website with other people. If you visit a website with an AddThis function, your data may be transferred to the company AddThis, where it may be stored and processed. This privacy statement will tell you why we use AddThis, which data is processed and how you can prevent data transmission.

What is AddThis?

AddThis develops software tools for integration to websites, where they serve the purpose of enabling users to distribute content either on various social media channels or by email. AddThis also offers functions for website analysis. Moreover, the collected data is used to offer interest-based advertising to internet users. More than 15 million website operators worldwide have used the service.

Why do we use AddThis on our website?

Via AddThis buttons, you can share interesting content from our website to various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. If you like our content, we would of course be happy if you would also share it with your social community. The easiest way this can be done is via AddThis buttons.

What data is stored by AddThis?

If you share content with AddThis while you are logged into a social media account, data such as your visit to our website and the content you shared may be assigned to your user account on the respective social media channel. AddThis uses cookies, pixels, HTTP headers and browser identifiers to collect data about your visitor behavior. Moreover, some of this data is pseudonymised and then shared with third parties.

Here is an example list of data that may be processed:

Unique ID of a cookie placed in the web browser
Address of the visited website
Time of the website visit
Search queries which led a visitor to website via AddThis
Time spent on a website
The IP address of a computer or mobile device
Mobile ad IDs (Apple IDFA or Google AAID)
Information contained in HTTP headers or other utilised transmission protocols
What program on the computer (browser) or which operating system was used (iOS)

AddThis uses cookies, which we will list examples of below. You can read more on AddThis cookies at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

Name: bt2
Value: 8961a7f179d87qq69V69111464339-3
Purpose:: This cookie is used to record parts of the visited website, in order to recommend other parts of the website.
Expiry date: after 255 days

Name: bku
Value: ra/99nTmYN+fZWX7111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie registers anonymised user data such as your IP address, geographic location, your visited websites and the ads you clicked on.
Expiry date: after 179 days

Note: Please keep in mind that this is an exemplary list and we do not claim for it to be exhaustive.

AddThis also shares collected information with other companies. You can find further details at http://www.addthis.com/ privacy/privacy-policy # section5 . AddThis also uses received data to create target groups and interest profiles in order to offer interest-based advertising to users in the same advertising network.

How long and where are the data stored?

After collection, AddThis stores the data for 13 months. 1% of the data is saved as a "sample data record" for a maximum of 24 months, which ensures to maintain the business relationship. However, in this "sample data record", any direct and indirect identifications (such as your IP address and cookie ID) are hashed. That means that, without additional information, personal data can no longer be associated with you. Since the company AddThis is headquartered in the USA, the collected data is stored on American servers.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. If you no longer want to see ads based on data collected by AddThis, you can click the opt-out button at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. By clicking the button, an opt-out cookie is set, which you must not delete in order to keep this setting.

You can also set your preferences for usage-based online advertisements in "Your Ad Choices" at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.

Your browser provides an option for preventing data processing or managing it to your wishes. The settings for data processing vary, depending on the browser. Here you will find instructions for the most popular browsers:

AddThis is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000000181AAA. If you would like to know more about the processing of your data by AddThis, you can find further information at http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

YouTube Privacy Policy

We have integrated YouTube videos to our website. Therefore, we can show you interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal, which has been a subsidiary company of Google LLC since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page on our website that contains an embedded YouTube video, your browser automatically connects to the servers of YouTube or Google. Thereby, certain data are transferred (depending on the settings). Google is responsible for YouTube's data processing and therefore Google's data protection applies.

In the following we will explain in more detail which data is processed, why we have integrated YouTube videos and how you can manage or clear your data.

What is YouTube?

On YouTube, users can watch, rate, comment or upload videos for free. Over the past few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels worldwide. For us to be able to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code snippet that we have integrated to our website.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?

YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and best content. We strive to offer you the best possible user experience on our website, which of course includes interesting videos. With the help of our embedded videos, we can provide you other helpful content in addition to our texts and images. Additionally, embedded videos make it easier for our website to be found on the Google search engine. Moreover, if we place ads via Google Ads, Google only shows these ads to people who are interested in our offers, thanks to the collected data.

What data is stored by YouTube?

As soon as you visit one of our pages with an integrated YouTube, YouTube places at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, by using cookies YouTube can usually associate your interactions on our website with your profile. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution or your Internet provider. Additional data can include contact details, potential ratings, shared content via social media or YouTube videos you added to your favorites.

If you are not logged in to a Google or YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier linked to your device, browser or app. Thereby, e.g. your preferred language setting is maintained. However, many interaction data cannot be saved since fewer cookies are set.

In the following list we show you cookies that were placed in the browser during a test. On the one hand, we show cookies that were set without being logged into a YouTube account. On the other hand, we show you what cookies were placed while being logged in. We do not claim for this list to be exhaustive, as user data always depend on how you interact with YouTube.

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video that was viewed.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: PREF
Value: f1=50000000
Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google receives statistics via PREF on how you use YouTube videos on our website.
Expiry date: after 8 months

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS locations.
Expiry date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 95Chz8bagyU
Purpose: This cookie tries to estimate the user's internet bandwidth on our sites (that have built-in YouTube videos).
Expiry date: after 8 months

Further cookies that are placed when you are logged into your YouTube account:

Name: APISID
Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7111464339-
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile on your interests. This data is then used for personalised advertisements.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.en+20150628-20-0
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT also provides safety measures to protect users from unauthorised attacks.
Expiry date: after 19 years

Name: HSID
Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile on your interests. This data helps to display customized ads.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL...
Purpose: This cookie stores information on your login data.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SAPISID
Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM
Purpose: This cookie identifies your browser and device. It is used to create a profile on your interests.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SID
Value: oQfNKjAsI111464339-
Purpose: This cookie stores your Google Account ID and your last login time, in a digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SIDCC
Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL
Purpose: This cookie stores information on how you use the website and on what advertisements you may have seen before visiting our website.
Expiry date: after 3 months

How long and where is the data stored?

The data YouTube receive and process on you are stored on Google's servers. Most of these servers are in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=en you can see where Google's data centers are located. Your data is distributed across the servers. Therefore, the data can be retrieved faster and is better protected against manipulation.

Google stores collected data for different periods of time. You can delete some data anytime, while other data are automatically deleted after a certain time, and still other data are stored by Google for a long time. Some data (such as elements on "My activity", photos, documents or products) that are saved in your Google account are stored until you delete them. Moreover, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser, or app, even if you are not signed into a Google Account.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

Generally, you can delete data manually in your Google account. Furthermore, in 2019 an automatic deletion of location and activity data was introduced. Depending on what you decide on, it deletes stored information either after 3 or 18 months.

Regardless of whether you have a Google account or not, you can set your browser to delete or deactivate cookies placed by Google. These settings vary depending on the browser you use. The following instructions will show how to manage cookies in your browser:

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies, you can set your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This will enable you to decide to either allow or permit each individual cookie. Since YouTube is a subsidiary company of Google, Google's privacy statement applies to both. If you want to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

YouTube Subscribe Button Privacy Policy

We have integrated the YouTube subscribe button to our website, which you can recognise by the classic YouTube logo. The logo shows the words "Subscribe" or "YouTube" in white letters against a red background, with a white "Play" symbol on the left. The button may also be displayed in a different design.

Our YouTube channel consistently offers you funny, interesting or exciting videos. With the built-in "Subscribe" button you can subscribe to our channel directly via our website and do not need to go to YouTube's website for it. With this feature, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to access our comprehensive content. Please note that YouTube may save and process your data.

If you see a built-in subscription button on our page, YouTube sets at least one cookie, according to Google. This cookie stores your IP address and our URL. It also allows YouTube to receive information about your browser, your approximate location and your default language. In our test the following four cookies were placed, without us being logged into YouTube:

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5111464339Y
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID, which stores statistics of the viewed video.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: PREF
Value: f1=50000000
Purpose:This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google uses PREF to get statistics on how you interact with YouTube videos on our website.
Expiry date: after 8 months

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Purpose:This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track your GPS location.
Expiry date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 11146433995Chz8bagyU
Purpose: This cookie tries to estimate the user's internet bandwidth on our website (that contain built-in YouTube video).
Expiry date: after 8 months

Note:These cookies were set after a test, thus we do not claim for the list to be exhaustive.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube may store many of the actions and interactions you make on our website via cookies, to then assign them to your YouTube account.
This gives YouTube information on e.g. how long you have been browsing our website, which browser type you use, which screen resolution you prefer or what actions you take.

On the one hand, YouTube uses this data to improve its own services and offers, and on the other hand to provide analyses and statistics for advertisers (who use Google Ads).

Vimeo Privacy Policy

On our website, we use videos of the company Vimeo. This video portal is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With the help of a plug-in, we can display interesting video material directly on our website. Consequently, some of your data may be transmitted to Vimeo. In this privacy policy we want to explain to you what data this is, why we use Vimeo and how you can manage your data or prevent data transmission.

What is Vimeo?

Vimeo is a video platform that was founded in 2004 and introduced video streaming in HD quality in 2007. Since 2015 it has been possible to stream in 4k Ultra HD. The use of the portal is free of charge, but it also contains certain paid content. Compared to the market leader YouTube, Vimeo attaches great importance to valuable content in good quality. On the one hand, the portal offers a lot of artistic content such as music videos and short films. On the other hand, it also offers useful documentaries on a broad spectrum of topics.

Why do we use Vimeo on our website?

The aim of our website is to provide you the best possible content, in the easiest and most accessible way we can. We will only be satisfied with our service, once we have reached that goal. The video service Vimeo supports us in achieving this goal. Vimeo gives us the opportunity to present high quality content to you directly on our website. Instead of us merely giving you a link to an interesting video, you can watch the video here with us. This extends our service and makes it easier for you to access interesting content. Therefore, in addition to our texts and images, we can also offer video content.

What data is stored on Vimeo?

When you open a site on our website that has a Vimeo video embedded to it, your browser will connect to Vimeo's servers, and a data transmission will take place. The data are then collected, stored and processed on Vimeo's servers. Regardless of whether you have a Vimeo account or not, Vimeo collects data about you. This includes your IP address, technical information about your browser type, your operating system or very basic device information. Furthermore, Vimeo store information on what website you use their service on and which actions (web activities) you carry out on our website. These web activities include e.g. session duration, bounce rate or which button you clicked on our site that contains a Vimeo function. Vimeo can track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies.

If you are logged in as a registered member of Vimeo, more data may be collected, since a bigger number of cookies may already have been set in your browser. Furthermore, your actions on our website are directly linked to your Vimeo account. To prevent this, you must log out of Vimeo while "surfing" our website.

Below we will show you an array of cookies Vimeo sets when you are on a website containing an integrated Vimeo function. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a Vimeo account.

Name: player
Value: ""
Purpose: This cookie saves your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This will ensure you to receive your preferred settings again next time you watch a Vimeo video.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: vuid
Value: pl1046149876.614422590111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie collects information about your actions on websites that have a Vimeo video embedded to them.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Note: These two cookies are set every time as soon as you are on a website that has a Vimeo video embedded to it. If you watch the video and click a button such as "share" or "like", additional cookies will be set. These can also be third-party cookies such as _ga or _gat_UA-76641-8 from Google Analytics or _fbp from Facebook. The exact cookies that are set depends on your interaction with the video.

The following list will show a selection of cookies that could be placed when you interact with a Vimeo video:

Name: _abexps
Value: %5B%5D
Purpose: This Vimeo cookie helps Vimeo to remember your settings. For example, this can be a pre-set language, a region or a username. The cookie generally stores data on how you use Vimeo.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: continuous_play_v3
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie is a first-party cookie from Vimeo. The cookie collects information on how you use Vimeo's service. For example, the cookie stores details on when you pause a video and resume it.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.1522249635.1578401280111464339-7
Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Google. By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Thus, it serves to differentiate between website visitors.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: _gcl_au
Value: 1.1.770887836.1578401279111464339-3
Purpose: This third-party cookie from Google AdSense is used to improve the efficiency of ads on websites.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Name: _fbp
Value: fb.1.1578401280585.310434968
Purpose:This is a Facebook cookie. It is used to display ads or advertising products from Facebook or other advertisers.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Vimeo use this data to improve their own service, to communicate with you and to implement their own targeted advertising measures. On their website they emphasise that only first-party cookies (i.e. cookies from Vimeo itself) are used for embedded videos, provided you do not interact with the video.

How long and where is the data stored?

Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains, New York (USA). However, their services are offered worldwide. For this, the company uses computer systems, databases and servers in the United States and other countries. Thus, your data may also be stored and processed on servers in America. Vimeo stores the data until the company no longer has an economical reason for keeping it. Then the data will be deleted or anonymised. Vimeo correspond to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and are therefore allowed to collect and use information from users within the EU, and to transfer this data to the USA.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You always have the option to manage cookies in your browser. If you do not want Vimeo to set cookies and collect information about you for example, you can delete or deactivate cookies in your browser settings at any time. These settings vary a little depending on the browser. Please note that after deactivating/deleting cookies, various functions may no longer be fully available. The following instructions show how you can manage or delete cookies in your browser.

If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage cookies in Vimeo's settings.

Vimeo is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000008V77AAE&status=Active. You can find out more on Vimeo's use of cookies at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy, and you can find information about data protection at Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

SoundCloud Privacy Policy

On our website we use functions (widgets) of the social media network SoundCloud, by the company SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Strasse 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany. You can recognise the widgets by the familiar orange logo. By using functions such as playing music, data is transmitted to SoundCloud, where it is stored and evaluated.
In this data protection declaration, we will show you what data this is, why we use SoundCloud and how you can manage your data or prevent data transmission.

What is SoundCloud?

The social media network SoundCloud is an online music platform that is a space for exchanging and distributing of audio files. Musicians or podcasters offer their audio files for download on SoundCloud. Moreover, you can also integrate audio files into other websites with SoundCloud - which is exactly what we did. A typical feature of SoundCloud are the graphical displays of the audio files as waves, as well as the comment bar. Registered users can listen to and comment music or podcasts anytime.

Why do we use SoundCloud on our website?

It is our goal is to provide you the best possible service on our website. By this we do not just mean our products or services. A holistic customer service also includes the level of comfort you feel when surfing our website, as well as how helpful you find our online offer. Thanks to the embedding of SoundCloud's playback function, we can deliver acoustic content directly to you - free of charge. You do not have to click any link to listen to an audio file, as you can start listening to it via our website right away.

What data is stored on SoundCloud?

As soon as you visit one of our websites that has an integrated widget (a like button, a share button or a playback function), your browser connects to one of SoundCloud's servers. That way, data can be transferred from you to SoundCloud, where it may be managed and stored. For example, SoundCloud can identify your IP address and find out what page (in this case ours) you visited and when. If you have a SoundCloud account and are logged in while surfing our website, the collected data will be assigned directly to your account. The only way to prevent this is to log out of SoundCloud while you are on our website. In addition to the information mentioned above, cookies also store data on your user behavior. Whenever you e.g. click a button, play or pause music, this information is stored by cookies. The widget (SoundCloud) is therefore able to recognise you and sometimes it is also used to provide you with customised content. SoundCloud does not only use its own cookies, but also third-party cookies such as by Facebook or Google Analytics. The company utilises these cookies to get more information about your behaviour on external websites as well as on its own platform. As the website operators, we do not receive any information about your user behaviour from SoundCloud's cookies. The data transfer and therefore the information about your technical devices and your website behaviour, takes place only between you and SoundCloud.

Below we show you a list of cookies that are set when visiting a website that has SoundCloud functions implemented to it. This list is only an example of potential cookies and we do not claim for it to be exhaustive. The listing shows cookies that may be set if a user does not have a SoundCloud account:

Name: sc_anonymous_id
Value: 208165-986996-398971-423805111464339-0
Purpose: This cookie is the reason it is possible to integrate files or other content into websites. Moreover, it stores a user ID.
Expiry date: after 10 years

Note: The sc_anonymous_id cookie is set immediately if you visit one of our websites with a Soundcloud function. This also happens before you interact with the function.

Name: __qca
Value: P0-1223379886-1579605792812111464339-7
Purpose:This cookie is a third-party cookie from Quantcast. It collects data such as how often you visit the site or how long you stay on the site. The collected information is then transmitted to SoundCloud.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: Sclocale
Value: en
Purpose:The cookie stores your pre-set language settings.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: _soundcloud_session
Value: /
Purpose:We were unable to find any specific information about this cookie.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: _session_auth_key
Value: /
Purpose:With the help of this cookie, session information (i.e. user behavior) can be saved and client requests can be authenticated.
Expiry date: after 10 years

Furthermore, SoundCloud use further third-party cookies such as _fbp, _ga, gid from Facebook and Google Analytics. SoundCloud use the information stored in the cookies to improve their own services and to display customised advertising.

How long and where is the data stored?

The collected data generally remains stored with SoundCloud for as long as the respective user account exists, or for as long as SoundCloud need it to achieve their business goals. How long exactly it is saved depends on the context and legal obligations. Even if you do not have an account and your personal data have been stored, you have the right to request the deletion of your data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

If you have a SoundCloud account, you can go to "Settings" to manage data processing or to delete your account entirely. However, you can also manage, delete or deactivate cookies in your browser. The approach to this depends on the browser you are using. If you decide to delete or deactivate cookies, please consider that afterwards not all functions may be fully available anymore. The following instructions will show you how you can manage, delete or deactivate cookies in your browser.

We hope we were able to give you a good overview of SoundCloud's data traffic. If you would like to learn more on data protection guidelines and on how SoundCloud generally handle data, we recommend the company's privacy policy at https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

AdSimple VideoMeeting Privacy Policy

For our website we use the video conference tool AdSimple VideoMeeting (AVM for short) from the Web Development and Online Marketing company AdSimple GmbH, Fabriksgasse 20, 2230 Gänserndorf, Austria. Thanks to AdSimple VideoMeeting, we can easily hold video conferences with customers, business partners, clients and employees, without having to install any software. In this privacy policy, we will take a closer look at the service and inform you about the most important aspects on data protection.

What is AdSimple VideoMeeting?

VideoMeeting by AdSimple is a video conference solution from Austria, which offers secure video conferences with various functions such as screen sharing, making shared virtual notes and an integrated chat function. VideoMeeting either runs via your browser or via the AdSimple VideoMeet apps on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows.

Why do we use AdSimple VideoMeeting on our website?

When it comes to a video conference software, it is important to us that it is both very easy to use and that it handles user data extremely carefully. AdSimple VideoMeeting allows us to start video chats/video conferences directly in a browser without installing a client program. This means that our video conference solution works without the need to register or to install any software. VideoMeeting can also be used via the VideoMeet apps. Video conferences via AdSimple VideoMeeting are fully encrypted. Moreover, since you do not need an account to use the free version, no personal data is collected or stored in the long-term, neither in connection with the apps nor with the browser. For the paid version, we link the data of the registered AdSimple user with the data of VideoMeeting to be able to implement the ordered packages.

Which data are stored by AdSimple VideoMeeting?

If you use AdSimple VideoMeeting, the web server automatically stores data, just as it does with any other website view. Your IP address and the technical data listed below will be stored in web server log files, until the data will be deleted after two weeks.

In addition to your IP address, the following technical data will be stored when you use AVM:

Browser type
Operating system
The number of bytes sent to the client program
Date and time of the page view
Length of the http-request (request length)
Processing time of the http-request
Http-status code as the server's response to an http-request

To be able to provide this service, AdSimple store data on their servers, such as the name and URL of the meeting room, as well as the duration of the meeting session and the authentication ID. This data is retained for one year.

If you or other participants provide personal data such as username, password, email address or phone number for authentication, these data will be saved in one of the AdSimple servers' file systems until further notice.

Moreover, AdSimple do not sell or pass on data to third parties. They use data such as the name or URL of the meeting room exclusively for providing their video meeting services. What is more, no cookies are set and the data transmission to the server is encrypted.

How long and where are the data stored?

Technical data and IP addresses are saved in web server log files for two weeks. Data such as the name of the meeting room are stored for one year, while data that you enter as a user (username, password, email address) will be stored until further notice on AdSimple's servers, which are located in Germany.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

If you do not want any data to be stored during your video conference, you cannot participate in any video conference. To prevent personal data from being temporarily stored during the video meeting, please make sure not to enter such data, for example into the chat box. You have the option to have your personal data deleted at any time. To do this, simply send an email to office@adsimple.at.

We have deliberately chosen this Austrian video conferencing solution because AdSimple VideoMeeting is designed to handle data very sparingly. We hope this privacy policy provided you with sufficient information on data processing by AdSimple VideoMeeting.

Zoom Privacy Policy

On our website we use the video conferencing tool Zoom by the American software company Zoom Video Communications. The company's head office is located at 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, San Jose, CA 95113, California. Thanks to "Zoom", we can easily hold video conferences with customers, business partners, clients, and employees without having to install any software. In this privacy policy we will go into more detail of the service and inform you on the most important data protection aspects.

What is Zoom?

Zoom is one of the world's most well-known video conferencing solutions. With the "Zoom Meetings" service, we can hold an online video conference with you, our employees, or other users via a digital conference room. This allows us to easily get in touch digitally, exchange information on various topics, send text messages or even make calls. You can also use Zoom to share your screen, exchange files and to use a whiteboard.

Why do we use Zoom on our website?

It is important to us that we can communicate with you quickly and easily. And this is exactly what Zoom offers us. Moreover, the software program also works directly via a browser. This means we can simply send you a link for starting our video conference. In addition, Zoom's further functions such as screen sharing, or file exchange are also very handy.

What data is stored by Zoom?

When you use Zoom, your data is collected so Zoom can provide its services. On the one hand, this is data that you deliberately make available to the company. This includes for example your name, telephone number or your email address. On the other hand, there is certain data which is automatically transmitted to Zoom where it is stored. This includes for example your browser's technical data or your IP address. In the following, we will go into more detail on the specific data of yours which Zoom can collect and store:

If you provide data such as your name, username, email address or your telephone number, these data will be stored at Zoom. Any contents you upload while using Zoom are also retained. This can include files or chat logs for example.

In addition to the IP address as mentioned above, Zoom automatically stores technical data such as MAC addresses, further device IDs, device types, which operating system you use, what client you use, and also the type of your camera, microphone and speaker. Furthermore, your approximate location is also determined and stored. Additionally, Zoom store information on how you use the service. To give an example, this can include details on whether you "zoom" in or out via desktop or smartphone, whether you are using a telephone call or VoIP, whether you are participating with or without video or whether you request a password. What is more, Zoom also records so-called metadata such as the duration of the meeting or call, the start and end of your participation in it, as well as your meeting name and chat status.

In their privacy policy, Zoom mention that the company does not use advertising cookies or tracking technologies for its services. These tracking methods are only used on their marketing websites, such as www.zoom.us. Zoom neither sell personal data nor use them for advertising purposes.

How long and where is the data stored?

In this regard, Zoom do not specify a precise time frame, but they emphasise that the collected data remain stored for as long as it is necessary for both, to provide its services and for their own purposes. The data will only be retained for longer if required for legal reasons.

Zoom generally store collected data on American servers, but the data can make their way through different data centers across the globe.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

If you do not want any of your data to be stored during a zoom meeting, you have to do without the meeting. However, you always have both the option and the right to have all your personal data deleted. If you have a Zoom account, you can find instructions on how to delete your account at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363243-How-Do-I-Delete-Terminate-My-Account.

Zoom Video Communications is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNkCAAW&status=Active.

We hope we were able to give you an overview on Zoom's data processing. Of course, it could always happen that the company's data protection guidelines may change. Therefore, for more information we recommend you to read Zoom's privacy policy at https://zoom.us/privacy.

AdSimple Cookie Manager Privacy Policy

On our website we use the AdSimple Cookie Manager of the software development and online marketing company AdSimple GmbH, Fabriksgasse 20, 2230 Gänserndorf, Austria. The AdSimple Cookie Manager offers us, among other things, the opportunity to provide you with a cookie notice that is comprehensive and compliant with data protection laws. This gives you the opportunity to decide which cookies you want to allow or deny. By using this software, data is sent from you to AdSimple, where it is stored. In this privacy policy we inform you on why we use the AdSimple Cookie Manager, which data is transferred and stored and how you can prevent this data transfer.

What is the AdSimple Cookie Manager?

The AdSimple Cookie Manager is a software that scans our website to identify and categorise all existing cookies. Additionally, you as the website visitor will be informed on the use of cookies via a cookie notice script. Then you can decide yourself which cookies you want to allow or deny.

Why do we use the AdSimple Cookie Manager on your website?

We want to offer you maximum transparency when it comes to data protection. Before we can do so, we need to exactly determine which cookies have ended up on our website over time. Since the AdSimple cookie manager regularly scans our website and locates all cookies, we have full control over these cookies and can therefore act in compliance with the GDPR. This enables us to inform you precisely on the use of cookies on our website.
Moreover, you will always receive an up-to-date cookie notice that is data-protection compliant. This enables you to decide yourself which cookies you want to allow or deny via the checkbox system.

Which data are stored by the AdSimple Cookie Manager?

If you agree to cookies on our website, AdSimple Cookie Manager will set the following cookie:

Name: acm_status
Value: ":true, "statistics":true, "marketing":true, "socialmedia":true, "settings":true}
Porpose: This cookie saves the status of your consent. This enables our website to read and adhere to the latest status, even during future visits.
Expiry date: after one year

How long and where are the data stored?

All data collected by the AdSimple Cookie Manager is transferred and stored exclusively within the European Union. The collected data is stored on the AdSimple servers at Hetzner GmbH in Germany. Therefore, only AdSimple GmbH and Hetzner GmbH have access to the data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. You can prevent data collection and storage by for example rejecting the use of cookies via the cookie notification script. Another option to prevent data processing or to manage it according to your wishes is your browser. Depending on the browser you use, managing cookies differs slightly. Below you will find links to the instructions for the most common browsers:

We hope we were able to provide you with a good overview of data traffic and data processing by AdSimple Cookie Manager. If you want to learn more about this tool, we recommend the description page at https://www.adsimple.at/adsimple-cookie-manager/.

Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy

Our primary goal is to provide you an experience on our website that is as secure and protected as possible. To do this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). With reCAPTCHA we can determine whether you are a real person from flesh and bones, and not a robot or a spam software. By spam we mean any electronically undesirable information we receive involuntarily. Classic CAPTCHAS usually needed you to solve text or picture puzzles to check. But thanks to Google's reCAPTCHA you usually do have to do such puzzles. Most of the times it is enough to simply tick a box and confirm you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version you don't even have to tick a box. In this privacy policy you will find out how exactly this works, and what data is used for it.

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that protects websites from spam software and misuse by non-human visitors. This service is used the most when you fill out forms on the Internet. A captcha service is a type of automatic Turing-test that is designed to ensure specific actions on the Internet are done by human beings and not bots. During the classic Turing-test (named after computer scientist Alan Turing), a person differentiates between bot and human. With captchas, a computer or software program does the same. Classic captchas function with small tasks that are easy to solve for humans but provide considerable difficulties to machines. With reCAPTCHA, you no longer must actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk techniques to distinguish people from bots. The only thing you must do there, is to tick the text field "I am not a robot". However, with Invisible reCAPTCHA even that is no longer necessary. reCAPTCHA, integrates a JavaScript element into the source text, after which the tool then runs in the background and analyzes your user behavior. The software calculates a so-called captcha score from your user actions. Google uses this score to calculate the likelihood of you being a human, before entering the captcha. reCAPTCHA and Captchas in general are used every time bots could manipulate or misuse certain actions (such as registrations, surveys, etc.).

Why do we use reCAPTCHA on our website?

We only want to welcome people from flesh and bones on our side and want bots or spam software of all kinds to stay away. Therefore, we are doing everything we can to stay protected and to offer you the highest possible user friendliness. For this reason, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google. Thus, we can be pretty sure that we will remain a "bot-free" website. Using reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine whether you genuinely are human. reCAPTCHA thus ensures our website's and subsequently your security. Without reCAPTCHA it could e.g. happen that a bot would register as many email addresses as possible when registering, in order to subsequently "spam" forums or blogs with unwanted advertising content. With reCAPTCHA we can avoid such bot attacks.

What data is stored by reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA collects personal user data to determine whether the actions on our website are made by people. Thus, IP addresses and other data Google needs for its reCAPTCHA service, may be sent to Google. Within member states of the European Economic Area, IP addresses are almost always compressed before the data makes its way to a server in the USA.
Moreover, your IP address will not be combined with any other of Google's data, unless you are logged into your Google account while using reCAPTCHA. Firstly, the reCAPTCHA algorithm checks whether Google cookies from other Google services (YouTube, Gmail, etc.) have already been placed in your browser. Then reCAPTCHA sets an additional cookie in your browser and takes a snapshot of your browser window.

The following list of collected browser and user data is not exhaustive. Rather, it provides examples of data, which to our knowledge, is processed by Google.

Referrer URL (the address of the page the visitor has come from)
IP address (e.g. 256.123.123.1)
Information on the operating system (the software that enables the operation of your computers. Popular operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X or Linux)
Cookies (small text files that save data in your browser)
Mouse and keyboard behaviour (every action you take with your mouse or keyboard is stored)
Date and language settings (the language and date you have set on your PC is saved)
All JavaScript objects (JavaScript is a programming language that allows websites to adapt to the user. JavaScript objects can collect all kinds of data under one name).
Screen resolution (shows how many pixels the image display consists of)

Google may use and analyze this data even before you click on the "I am not a robot" checkmark. In the Invisible reCAPTCHA version, there is no need to even tick at all, as the entire recognition process runs in the background. Moreover, Google have not given details on what information and how much data they retain.

The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: With the following list we are referring to Google's reCAPTCHA demo version at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo.
For tracking purposes, all these cookies require a unique identifier. Here is a list of cookies that Google reCAPTCHA has set in the demo version:

Name: IDE
Value: WqTUmlnmv_qXyi_DGNPLESKnRNrpgXoy1K-pAZtAkMbHI-111464339-8
Purpose:This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to register and report a user's interactions with advertisements. With it, ad effectiveness can be measured, and appropriate optimisation measures can be taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: 1P_JAR
Value : 2019-5-14-12
Purpose: This cookie collects website usage statistics and measures conversions. A conversion e.g. takes place when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant adverts to users. Furthermore, the cookie can prevent a user from seeing the same ad more than once.
Expiry date: after one month

Name: ANID
Value: U7j1v3dZa1114643390xgZFmiqWppRWKOr
Purpose:We could not find out much about this cookie. In Google's privacy statement, the cookie is mentioned in connection with "advertising cookies" such as "DSID", "FLC", "AID" and "TAID". ANID is stored under the domain google.com.
Expiry date: after 9 months

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.en+20150628-20-0
Purpose: This cookie stores the status of a user's consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT also serves to prevent fraudulent logins and to protect user data from unauthorised attacks.
Expiry date: after 19 years

Name: NID
Value: 0WmuWqy111464339zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q
Purpose: Google uses NID to customize advertisements to your Google searches. With the help of cookies, Google "remembers" your most frequently entered search queries or your previous ad interactions. Thus, you always receive advertisements tailored to you. The cookie contains a unique ID to collect users' personal settings for advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 6 months

Name: DV
Value: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie is set when you tick the "I am not a robot" checkmark. Google Analytics uses the cookie for personalized advertising. DV collects anonymous information and is also used to distinguish between users.
Expiry date: after 10 minutes

Note: We do not claim for this list to be extensive, as Google often change the choice of their cookies.

How long and where are the data stored?

Due to the integration of reCAPTCHA, your data will be transferred to the Google server. Google have not disclosed where exactly this data is stored, despite repeated inquiries. But even without confirmation from Google, it can be assumed that data such as mouse interaction, length of stay on a website or language settings are stored on the European or American Google servers. The IP address that your browser transmits to Google does generally not get merged with other Google data from the company's other services.
However, the data will be merged if you are logged in to your Google account while using the reCAPTCHA plug-in. Google's diverging privacy policy applies for this.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you want to prevent any data about you and your behaviour to be transmitted to Google, you must fully log out of Google and delete all Google cookies before visiting our website or use the reCAPTCHA software. Generally, the data is automatically sent to Google as soon as you visit our website. To delete this data, you must contact Google Support at https://support.google.com/?hl=en-GB&tid=111464339.

If you use our website, you agree that Google LLC and its representatives automatically collect, edit and use data.

You can find out more about reCAPTCHA on Google's Developers page at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/. While Google do give more detail on the technical development of reCAPTCHA there, they have not disclosed precise information about data retention and data protection. A good, basic overview of the use of data however, can be found in the company's internal privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

Google Custom Search Privacy Policy

We integrated Google's custom search plug-in to our website. Google is the largest and most widely known search engine in the world and is operated by the American company Google LLC (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Through Google Custom Search data can be transferred from you to Google. In this privacy policy we will inform you on why we use this plug-in, which data is processed and how you can manage or prevent the transmission of your data.

What is Google Custom Search?

Google's Custom Search plug-in is a Google search bar that is integrated directly into our website. With it, searches take place just like on www.google.com, but the search results focus on our content and products or a limited area.

Why do we use Google Custom Search on our website?

A website with much interesting content often grows so big that it is easy to lose track. Over time, lots of valuable material has accumulated also on our site. But as part of our service we want you to be able to find our content in a quick and simple manner. Therefore, we have integrated Google Custom Search, which makes finding interesting content a breeze. Moreover, the built-in Google plug-in improves our website's overall quality and makes searches easier for you.

What data does Google Custom Search store?

The customized Google search only transfers your data to Google, if you actively use the Google search function that is integrated to our website. This means that only when you type a search term in the search bar and click on "Search" or "Enter", the search term is sent to Google along with your IP address, where they are stored and processed. Based on the placed cookies (such as 1P_JAR), Google may also receive data on website use. If you search for content via the built-in Google search function on our website, while you are logged into your Google account, Google can assign the collected data to your Google account. As the website operator, we have no influence on what Google do with the collected data or how Google process this data.

The following cookies are set in your browser if you use Google Custom Search and are not logged into a Google account:

Name: 1P_JAR
Value: 2020-01-27-13111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie collects website usage statistics and measures conversions. A conversion occurs e.g. when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant ads to users.
Expiry date: after one month

Name: CONSENT
Value: WP.282f52111464339-9
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT also protects user data from unauthorised attacks.
Expiry date: after 18 years

Name: NID
Value: 196=pwIo3B5fHr-8
Purpose: NID is used by Google to adapt ads to your Google search. With the help of cookies, Google "remembers" your search queries and your previous interaction with ads. That way you always receive customized advertisements.
Expiry date: after 6 months

Note: We do not claim for this list to be exhaustive, Google keep changing the choice of their cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google's servers are located all over the world. Since Google is an American company, most data is stored on American servers. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=en you can find out where exactly Google's servers are.
Your data is distributed across various physical data carriers. This means the data can be accessed faster and is better protected against potential manipulation. Google also have special emergency programs for your data. In case e.g. internal technical problems occur and some servers would stop working, the risk of an interruption of service and data loss remains low.
Google store data for different lengths of time, depending on what type of data they are. You can delete some data yourself, while others are automatically deleted or anonymised by Google. However, Google stores certain data for longer if it is necessary for legal or business reasons.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

According to the European Union's data protection regulations, you have the right to access information about your data as well as to update, delete or to restrict it. There are certain data which you can delete anytime. If you have a Google account, you can delete data about your web activity there, or set it to be deleted after a specified period.
In your browser you can also deactivate, delete or manage cookies according to your wishes and preferences. Here are instructions for the most popular browsers:

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. We hope we were able to give you the most important information on Google's data processing. If you want to learn more about it, we recommend Google's extensive privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

Cookiebot Privacy Policy

We use functions of Cookiebot on our website. The company behind Cookiebot is Cybot A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, DK. Cookiebot offers us the opportunity to provide you with an extensive cookie notice (also known as a cookie banner or cookie notice).
By using this function, your data can be sent to Cookiebot or Cybot, where it may be saved and processed. In this privacy policy we will inform you on why we use Cookiebot, what data is transmitted and how you can prevent the transmission of data.

What is Cookiebot?

Cookiebot is a software product from Cybot. The software automatically creates a GDPR-compliant cookie notice for our website visitors. The technology behind Cookiebot also scans, controls and evaluates all cookies and tracking measures on our website.

Why do we use Cookiebot on our website?

We take data protection very seriously. We want to show you exactly what is happening on our website and which of your data is stored. Cookiebot helps us to get a good overview of all our cookies (first- and third-party cookies). This enables us to be transparent and to inform you precisely on the use of cookies on our website. Cookiebot ensures you always receive an up-to-date and GDPR compliant cookie notice, so you can decide yourself which cookies you allow or deny.

What data are stored by Cookiebot?

If you allow cookies, the following data will be transmitted to Cybot, where it is stored and processed.

IP address (in anonymous form, the last 3 digits are replaced with 0)
date and time of your consent
our website's URL
technical browser data
encrypted, anonymous key
the cookies you allowed (as status of consent)

If you have allowed the use of cookies, the following cookies get set by Cookiebot:

Name: CookieConsent
Value: {stamp:’P7to4eNgIHvJvDerjKneBsmJQd9111464339-2
Purpose:Your consent status is stored in this cookie. This enables our website to read and follow the current status even for future visits.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: CookieConsentBulkTicket
Value: kDSPWpA%2fjhljZKClPqsncfR8SveTnNWhys5NojaxdFYBPjZ2PaDnUw%3d%3111464339-6
Purpose:This cookie is placed if you allow all cookies and thus have activated “collective consent”. The cookie then stores its own, random and unique ID.
Expiry date: after one year

Note: Please keep in mind that this is an exemplary list and that we do not claim for this list to be exhaustive. In the cookie statement at https://www.cookiebot.com/en/cookie-declaration/ you can read which further cookies may be used.

According to Cybot’s privacy policy, the company does not sell any personal information. However, Cybot shares data with trustworthy third-parties or subcontractors who help the company achieve its business goals. Data may also be transferred if it is legally required.

How long and where is the data stored?

All collected data is only transferred and stored within the European Union. The data is saved in an Azure data centre (with the cloud provider Microsoft). At https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/global-infrastructure/regions/ you can find out more on all “Azure regions”. All user data will be deleted by Cookiebot 12 months after registration (cookie consent) or immediately after termination of the Cookiebot service.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. You can prevent data collection and storage, by e.g. rejecting the use of cookies via the cookie notice. Furthermore, your browser offers another option to prevent data processing or to manage it according to your wishes. Depending on the browser, the cookie settings work a little differently. Here you will find the instructions for the most popular browsers:

If you want to learn more about the data protection guidelines of “Cookiebot” or the company Cybot, we recommend the privacy policy at https://www.cookiebot.com/en/privacy-policy/.

WooCommerce Privacy Policy

We have integrated the open-source shop system WooCommerce to our website as a plugin. This WooCommerce plugin is based on the content management system WordPress, which is a subsidiary company of Automattic Inc. (60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA). Through the implemented functions, data are stored and sent to Automattic Inc where they are processed. In this privacy policy we want to inform you on what data this is, how the network uses this data and how you can manage or prevent data retention.

What is WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is an online shop system that has been part of the WordPress directory since 2011 and was specially developed for WordPress websites. It is a customisable, open source eCommerce platform that is based on WordPress. It has been integrated into our website as a WordPress plugin.

Why do we use WooCommerce on our website?

We use this practical online shop system, to be able to offer you our physical or digital products or services in the best possible way on our website. The aim is to give you easy and easy access to our offer, so that you can quickly and easily navigate to the products you want. With WooCommerce we have found a good plugin that meets our requirements for an online shop.

What data is stored by WooCommerce?

Information that you actively enter to a text field in our online shop can be collected and stored by WooCommerce or Automattic. Hence, if you register with us or order a product, Automattic may collect, process and save this data. In addition to email address, name or address, this can also be your credit card or billing information. Subsequently, Automattic can also use this information for their own marketing campaigns.

There is also evidence that Automattic automatically collects information on you in so-called server log files:

IP-address
Browser information
Pre-set language settings
Date and time of the web access

Moreover, WooCommerce sets cookies in your browser and uses technologies such as pixel tags (web beacons), to for example clearly identify you as a user and to be able to offer interest-based advertising. WooCommerce uses several different cookies, which are placed depending on the user action. This means that if you for example add a product to the shopping cart, a cookie is set so that the product remains in the shopping cart when you leave our website and come back later.

Below we want to show you an example list of possible cookies that may be set by WooCommerce:

Name: woocommerce_items_in_cart
Value: 1
Purpose:This cookie helps WooCommerce to determine when the contents of the shopping cart change.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: woocommerce_cart_hash
Value: 447c84f810834056ab37cfe5ed27f204111464339-7
Purpose:This cookie is also used to recognise and save the changes in your shopping cart.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: wp_woocommerce_session_d9e29d251cf8a108a6482d9fe2ef34b6
Value: 1146%7C%7C1589034207%7C%7C95f8053ce0cea135bbce671043e740111464339-4aa
Purpose:This cookie contains a unique identifier for you to allow the shopping cart data to be found in the database.
Expiry date: after 2 days

How long and where is the data stored?

Unless there is a legal obligation to keep data for a longer period, WooCommerce will delete your data if it is no longer needed for the purposes it was saved for. Server log files for example, the technical data for your browser and your IP address will be deleted after about 30 days. This is how long Automattic use the data to analyse the traffic on their own websites (for example all WordPress websites) and to fix possible problems. The data is stored on Automattic’s American servers.

How can I delete my data and prevent data retention?

You have the right to access your personal data anytime, as well as to object to it being used and processed. You can also lodge a complaint with a state supervisory authority anytime.

You can also manage, delete or deactivate cookies individually in your browser. However, please note that deactivated or deleted cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of our WooCommerce online shop. Depending on the browser you use, managing cookies differs slightly. Below you will find links to the instructions for the most common browsers:

Automattic is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbqcAAC.
You can find more details on the privacy policy, as well as on which data is collected by WooCommerce in what way at https://automattic.com/privacy/ . Moreover, you can find general information on WooCommerce at https://woocommerce.com/.

Klarna Checkout Privacy Policy

On our website we use the Klarna Checkout online payment system by the Swedish company Klarna Bank AB. Klarna Bank is headquartered in Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden. If you choose this service, your personal data will be sent to Klarna, where it will be stored and processed. With this privacy policy we want to give you an overview of Klarna’s data processing.

What is Klarna Checkout?

Klarna Checkout is a payment system for online shops. The user selects the payment method and Klarna Checkout takes over the entire payment process. Once a user has made payment via the checkout system and provided the relevant data, future online purchases can be made even faster and easier. Klarna’s system then recognises the existing customer after they enter their email address and postcode.

Why do we use Klarna Checkout on our website?

It is our goal to offer you the best possible service with our website and our integrated online shop. In addition to the overall website and offer experience this also includes smooth, fast and secure payment processing of your orders. To ensure this, we use the Klarna Checkout payment system.

What data is stored by Klarna Checkout?

As soon as you choose Klarna’s payment service and pay using Klarna Checkout, you transmit personal data to the company. On Klarna’s checkout page, technical data such as browser type, operating system, our web address, date and time, your IP address as well as your language and time zone settings are collected and transmitted to Klarna’s servers where they are stored. This data is stored even if you have not yet completed an order at that point.

If you order a product or service from our shop, you must enter your personal data in the provided fields. Klarna processes this data for handling the payment. The following personal data (along with general product information) may be stored and processed by Klarna to check your creditworthiness and identity:

Contact information: Name, date of birth, national ID number, title, invoice- und shipping address, email address, telephone number, nationality or salary.
Payment information such as credit cards or your account number
Product details such as shipment number, as well as type and price of the product

Furthermore, there are data which may optionally be collected if you have specifically decided for it. These are for example political, religious, or ideological beliefs or various health data.

In addition to the data mentioned above, Klarna can also collect data about the goods or services you order. It may also do this via third parties (such as e.g. us or public databases). This can for example be the type or tracking number of the ordered article, but also information on your creditworthiness, as well as your income or loan grants. Klarna can also pass on your personal data to service companies such as software and data storage providers or us as a retailer.

Every time data is automatically filled into a form, cookies are involved. If you do not want to use this function, you can deactivate these cookies anytime. Below you will find instructions on how to delete, deactivate or manage cookies in your browser. Our tests have shown that Klarna does not directly place cookies. If you choose the payment method “Klarna Sofort” and click on “Order”, you will be redirected to the “Sofort” website. After successful payment you will land on our thank-you page. There the following cookie is set by sofort.com:

Name: SOFUEB
Value: e8cipp378mdscn9e17kajlfhv7111464339-4
Purpose: This cookie stores your session ID.
Expiry date: after ending the browser session

How long and where are the data stored?

Klarna strives to store your data only within the EU or the European Economic Area (EEA). However, it can also happen that data is transferred outside the EU/EEA. If this happens, Klarna ensures that the data protection either complies with the GDPR, that the third country is subject to an adequacy decision of the European Union or that the country has the US Privacy Shield certificate. Any data is always stored for as long as Klarna requires it for processing.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You can withdraw your consent for Klarna to process personal data anytime. Moreover, you always have the right for information, rectification, and deletion of your personal data. For this you must simply contact the company or its data protection team by email at privacy@klarna.co.uk. You can also contact them directly via “My Privacy Request” on Klarna’s website.

Cookies that Klarna may use for their functions can be deleted, deactivated, or managed in your browser. These settings can vary slightly, depending on the browser you use. The following instructions will show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

We hope we were able to give you a good overview of Klarna’s data processing. If you want to learn more about the handling of your data, we recommend Klarna’s privacy notice at https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/legal/terms/0/en_gb/privacy.

Sofortüberweisung Privacy Policy

On our website we offer the payment method “Sofortüberweisung” from Sofort GmbH for cashless payment. Sofort GmbH has been part of the Swedish company Klarna since 2014, but is based in Germany, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich.

If you choose this payment method, your personal data will also be transmitted to Sofort GmbH or Klarna, where it will be stored and processed. In this privacy policy we will give you an overview of Sofort GmbH’s data processing.

What is “Sofortüberweisung”?

Sofortüberweisung is an online payment system that enables you to place an order via online banking. The payment is processed by Sofort GmbH, while we immediately receive information about your payment. Anyone who has an active online banking account with a PIN and TAN can use this method. Only a few banks do not yet support this payment option.

Why do we use “Sofortüberweisung” on our website?

It is our goal to offer you the best possible service with our website and our integrated online shop. Next to the overall experience of the website and offers, this also includes smooth, fast, and secure payment processing of your orders. To ensure this, we use “Sofortüberweisung” as a payment system.

What data is stored by “Sofortüberweisung”?

If you make an immediate transfer via the Sofort/Klarna service, data such as your name, account number, sort code, payment reference, amount and date are stored on the company’s servers. We then also receive this information via the payment confirmation.

As part of the check for sufficient account coverage, Sofort GmbH reviews whether your account balance and overdraft can cover the payment amount. In some cases, it is also reviewed whether any instant transfers have been successfully carried out within the last 30 days. Furthermore, a shortened (“hashed”) form of your user identification (such as your signatory or contract number) as well as your IP address will be stored. For SEPA transfers your BIC and IBAN will also be stored.

According to Sofort GmbH, no other personal data (such as account balances, sales data, transaction limits, account lists, mobile phone numbers, authentication certificates, security codes or PIN/TAN) are collected, stored or passed on to third parties.

Sofortüberweisung also uses cookies to make our service more user-friendly. When you order a product, you will be redirected to the Sofort or Klarna website. After successful payment you will be redirected to our thank-you page. There, the following three cookies are placed:

Name: SOFUEB
Value: e8cipp378mdscn9e17kajlfhv7111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie stores your session ID.
Expiry date: after ending the browser session

Name: User[user_cookie_rules] Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie stores the status of your consent to the use of cookies.
Expiry date: after 10 years

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.69759879.1589470706
Purpose: Analytics.js uses the _ga cookie by default to store your user ID. Hence, it basically serves to differentiate between website visitors. It is a Google Analytics cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Note: We do not claim for this cookie list to be exhaustive. Moreover, it is always possible that Sofortüberweisung may also use other cookies.

How long and where are the data stored?

All gathered data are stored within the legal storage obligations. This obligation can last between three and ten years.

Klarna/Sofort GmbH try to only save data within the EU or the European Economic Area (EEA). If data is transferred outside the EU/EEA, data protection must comply with the GDPR. Also, the country the data is transferred to must be subject to the EU’s adequacy decision or have the US Privacy Shield certificate.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You can withdraw your consent for Klarna to process your personal data at any time. You also always have the right for information, rectification and deletion of your personal data. For this, you can simply email the company’s data protection team at privacy@klarna.co.uk.

In your browser, you can manage, delete, or deactivate Sofortüberweisung’s possible cookies. The settings vary a bit depending on what browser you use. The following instructions will show you how to manage cookies in the most common browsers:

If you want to know more about Sofort GMmbH’s data processing, we recommend the privacy policy at https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/legal/terms/0/en_gb/privacy.

Stripe Privacy Policy

On our website we use a payment tool by Stripe, an American technology company and online payment service. Stripe Payments Europe (Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland) is responsible for customers within the EU. Therefore, if you choose Stripe as your payment method, your payment will be processed via Stripe Payments. Hence, the data required for the payment process is forwarded to Stripe where it is then stored. In this privacy policy we will give you an overview of Stripe’s data processing and retention. Moreover, we will explain why we use Stripe on our website.

What is Stripe?

The technology company Stripe offers payment solutions for online payments. Stripe enables us to accept credit and debit card payments in our webshop while it handles the entire payment process. A major advantage of Stripe is that you never have to leave our website or shop during the payment process. Moreover, payments are processed very quickly via Stripe.

Why do we use Stripe on our website?

We of course want to offer the best possible service with both our website and our integrated online shop. After all, we would like you to feel comfortable on our site and take advantage of our offers. We know that your time is valuable and therefore, payment processing in particular must work quickly and smoothly. In addition to our other payment providers, with Stripe we have found a partner that guarantees secure and fast payment processing.

What data are stored by Stripe?

If you choose Stripe as your payment method, your personal data (transaction data) will be transmitted to Stripe where it will be stored. These data include the payment method (i.e. credit card, debit card or account number), bank sort code, currency, as well as the amount and the payment date. During a transaction, your name, email address, billing or shipping address and sometimes your transaction history may also be transmitted. These data are necessary for authentication. Furthermore, Stripe may also collect relevant data for the purpose of fraud prevention, financial reporting and for providing its services in full. These data may include your name, address, telephone number as well as your country in addition to technical data about your device (such as your IP address).

Stripe does not sell any of your data to independent third parties, such as marketing agencies or other companies that have nothing to do with Stripe. However, data may be forwarded to internal departments, a limited number of Stripe’s external partners or for legal compliance reasons. What is more, Stripe uses cookies to collect data. Here is a selection of cookies that Stripe may set during the payment process:

Name: m
Value: edd716e9-d28b-46f7-8a55-e05f1779e84e040456111464339-5
Purpose: This cookie appears when you select your payment method. It saves and recognises whether you are accessing our website via a PC, tablet or smartphone.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: __stripe_mid
Value: fc30f52c-b006-4722-af61-a7419a5b8819875de9111464339-1
Purpose: This cookie is required for carrying out credit card transactions. For this purpose, the cookie stores your session ID.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: __stripe_sid
Value: 6fee719a-c67c-4ed2-b583-6a9a50895b122753fe
Purpose: This cookie also stores your ID. Stripe uses it for the payment process on our website.
Expiry date: after end of the session

How long and where are the data stored?

Generally, personal data are stored for the duration of the provided service. This means that the data will be stored until we terminate our cooperation with Stripe. However, in order to meet legal and official obligations, Stripe may also store personal data for longer than the duration of the provided service. Furthermore, since Stripe is a global company, your data may be stored in any of the countries Stripe offers its services in. Therefore, your data may be stored outside your country, such as in the USA for example.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

Stripe is still a participant of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework which regulated correct and secure transfer of personal data until July 16, 2020. However, since the European Court of Justice declared the agreement to be invalid, the company no longer relies on this agreement, but still acts according to the principles of Privacy Shield.

You always reserve the right to information, correction and deletion of your personal data. Should you have any questions, you can contact the Stripe team at https://support.stripe.com/contact/email.

You can delete, deactivate or manage cookies in your browser that Stripe uses for its functions. This works differently depending on which browser you are using. Please note, however, that if you do so the payment process may no longer work. The following instructions will show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

We have now given you a general overview of Stripe’s data processing and retention. If you want more information, Stripe’s detailed privacy policy at https://stripe.com/at/privacy is a good source.

Cloudflare Privacy Policy

We use Cloudflare by the company Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) on this website to enhance its speed and security. For this, Cloudflare uses cookies and processes user data. Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that offers a content delivery network and various security services. These services take place between the user and our hosting provider. In the following, we will try to explain in detail what all this means.

What is Cloudflare?

A content delivery network (CDN), as provided by Cloudflare, is nothing more than a network of servers that are connected to each other. Cloudflare has deployed servers around the world, which ensure websites can appear on your screen faster. Simply put, Cloudflare makes copies of our website and places them on its own servers. Thus, when you visit our website, a load distribution system ensures that the main part of our website is delivered by a server that can display our website to you as quickly as possible. The CDN significantly shortens the route of the transmitted data to your browser. Thus, Cloudflare does not only deliver our website’s content from our hosting server, but from servers from all over the world. Cloudflare is particularly helpful for users from abroad, since pages can be delivered from a nearby server. In addition to the fast delivery of websites, Cloudflare also offers various security services, such as DDoS protection, or the web application firewall.

Why do we use Cloudflare on our website?

Of course, we want our website to offer you the best possible service. Cloudflare helps us make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare offers us web optimisations as well as security services such as DDoS protection and a web firewall. Moreover, this includes a Reverse-Proxy and the content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare blocks threats and limits abusive bots as well as crawlers that waste our bandwidth and server resources. By storing our website in local data centres and blocking spam software, Cloudflare enables us to reduce our bandwidth usage by about 60%. Furthermore, the provision of content through a data centre near you and certain web optimizations carried out there, cut the average loading time of a website in about half. According to Cloudflare, the setting “I’m Under Attack Mode” can be used to mitigate further attacks by displaying a JavaScript calculation task that must be solved before a user can access a website. Overall, this makes our website significantly more powerful and less susceptible to spam or other attacks.

What data is stored by Cloudflare?

Cloudflare generally only transmits data that is controlled by website operators. Therefore, Cloudflare does not determine the content, but the website operator themselves does. Additionally, Cloudflare may collect certain information about the use of our website and may process data we send or data which Cloudflare has received certain instructions for. Mostly, Cloudflare receives data such as IP addresses, contacts and protocol information, security fingerprints and websites’ performance data. Log data for example helps Cloudflare identify new threats. That way, Cloudflare can ensure a high level of security for our website. As part of their services, Cloudflare process this data in compliance with the applicable laws. Of course, this also includes the compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Furthermore, Cloudflare uses a cookie for security reasons. The cookie (__cfduid) is used to identify individual users behind a shared IP address, and to apply security settings for each individual user. The cookie is very useful, if you e.g. use our website from a restaurant where several infected computers are located. However, if your computer is trustworthy, we can recognise that with the cookie. Hence, you will be able to freely and carelessly surf our website, despite the infected PCs in your area. Another point that is important to know, is that this cookie does not store any personal data. The cookie is essential for Cloudflare’s security functions and cannot be deactivated.

Cookies from Cloudflare

Name: __cfduid
Value: d798bf7df9c1ad5b7583eda5cc5e78111464339-3
Purpose: Security settings for each individual visitor
Expiry date: after one year

Cloudflare also works with third parties. They may however only process personal data after the instruction of Cloudflare and in accordance with the data protection guidelines and other confidentiality and security measures. Without explicit consent from us, Cloudflare will not pass on any personal data.

How long and where is the data stored?

Cloudflare stores your information primarily in the United States and the European Economic Area. Cloudflare can transfer and access the information described above, from all over the world. In general, Cloudflare stores domains’ user-level data with the Free, Pro and Business versions for less than 24 hours. For enterprise domains that have activated Cloudflare Logs (previously called Enterprise LogShare or ELS), data can be stored for up to 7 days. However, if IP addresses trigger security warnings in Cloudflare, there may be exceptions to the storage period mentioned above.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

Cloudflare only keeps data logs for as long as necessary and in most cases deletes the data within 24 hours. Cloudflare also does not store any personal data, such as your IP address. However, there is information that Cloudflare store indefinitely as part of their permanent logs. This is done to improve the overall performance of Cloudflare Resolver and to identify potential security risks. You can find out exactly which permanent logs are saved at https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-privacy/privacy-policy/privacy-policy/. All data Cloudflare collects (temporarily or permanently) is cleared of all personal data. Cloudflare also anonymise all permanent logs.

In their privacy policy, Cloudflare state that they are not responsible for the content you receive. For example, if you ask Cloudflare whether you can update or delete content, Cloudflare will always refer to us as the website operator. You can also completely prevent the collection and processing of your data by Cloudflare, when you deactivate the execution of script-code in your browser, or if you integrate a script blocker to your browser.

Cloudflare is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnZKAA0.
You can learn more on Cloudflare’s data protection at https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/privacypolicy/.

eKomi Privacy Policy

On our website we use technologies from the German software company eKomi Ltd., Zimmerstrasse 11, 10969 Berlin, Germany. The company offers an online rating tool that helps us to continuously improve our services. For this review system to work, we have integrated the eKomi software (JavaScript code) into our website. By using this tool, data is transferred to eKomi, where it is processed and stored. In this privacy policy we will show you what data is involved, how it is stored and how you can prevent the processing and retention of your data.

What is eKomi?

eKomi is the software provider of an online rating system. After you have ordered a product from us or used one of our services, you will receive an email asking you to submit an anonymous rating. Then you will be forwarded to a review page via a link, where you can quickly and easily submit a review using the 5-star system and add a short text. eKomi also offers an interface for social media channels. This way, customer feedback can be made available to even more people.

Who do we use eKomi on our website?

Thus, eKomi collects reviews for us and our products, which we can then present on our website. For this, eKomi sonnects a certain technology to our website or to our online shop. Your ratings give us quick feedback and we can improve our products and/or services with much greater efficiency. Thus, on the one hand, the ratings serve to optimise our offers. On the other hand, they give you and all our future customers a good overview of the quality of our products and services.

Which data are stored by eKomi?

To offer this rating service, eKomi is also receives personal data such as your email address, your IP address or your name. Moreover, order information such as the order number of purchased items will be forwarded to eKomi even after you have submitted your review. This is necessary to ensure that reviews are only made by people who have really bought our products. This is the only way that customers can share their experiences with our products in an authentic manner. Every customer review also appears anonymously on eKomi.

We will send your email address to eKomi so the company can send you an email after purchasing one of our products. To include this review to our website, eKomi also receives the information that you have accessed our website. If you decide to make a rating, eKomi will receive the information provided in said rating. Furthermore, eKomi is responsible for all personal data that you provide to them.

Our test showed that eKomi sometimes uses the following third-party cookies (Google Analytics):

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.489076422.1596109839111464339-3
Purpose: By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to save the user ID. Its general purpose it to differentiate between website visitors.
Expiry date: after two years

Name: _gat
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie is used to dial down the request rate, which restricts data retention on high-traffic websites.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: _gid
Value: GA1.2.499030530.1596109839111464339-8
Purpose: This cookie stores user behaviour on a website.
Expiry date:after two days

How long and where are the data stored?

Personal data that is mentioned in a review is disguised by eKomi’s employees and is therefore only visible to system administrators and team leaders of the customer feedback management team. All collected data is stored on eKomi’s servers. The data will be fully deleted after the end of the order. Personal data will also be deleted if they are no longer necessary for their purpose or if you revoke your consent to data processing or request for your data to get deleted.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

According to the European Union’s privacy law, you have the right to receive information about your data, as well as to update it, to delete it or to restrict it. If you do not want eKomi to set cookies in your browser, you can prevent this with your browser settings. There you can manage, deactivate, or delete cookies. You will find the relevant instructions for the most common browsers below:

We hope we were able to provide you with the most important information about data processing by eKomi. If you want to find out more about the company and how it handles data, we recommend you to read their privacy policy at https://www.ekomi.de/de/datenschutz/.

jQuery CDN Privacy Policy

We use jQuery CDN services by the jQuery Foundation to deliver our website and our subpages to you quickly and easily on different devices. jQuery is distributed via the Content Delivery Network (CDN) of the American software company StackPath (LCC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA). This service stores, manages and processes your personal data.

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of regionally distributed servers that are connected to each other via the Internet. Through this network content and especially very large files, can be delivered quickly – even in peak demand periods.

jQuery uses JavaScript libraries to be able to deliver our website content quickly. For this, a CDN server loads the necessary files. As soon as a connection to the CDN server is established, your IP address is recorded and stored. This only happens if the data has not already been saved in your browser during a previous website visit.

StackPath’s privacy policy explicitly mentions that StackPath uses aggregated and anonymised data of various services (such as jQuery) for both, security enhancement and its own services. However, it is impossible for you to be personally identified with the use of this data.

If you want to avoid this data transfer, you always have the option to use JavaScript blockers such as ghostery.com or noscript.net. You can also simply deactivate the execution of JavaScript codes in your browser. If you decide to deactivate JavaScript codes, the usual functions will also change. For example, websites may no longer load as quickly.

StackPath is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active.
Also, you can find more information about StackPath’s data protection at https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/ and jQuery’s data protection at https://openjsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/84/2019/11/OpenJS-Foundation-Privacy-Policy-2019-11-15.pdf.

jsdelivr.com-CDN Privacy Policy

In order for us to be able to deliver our individual websites to you quickly and correctly on different devices, we use the open source services of jsdelivr.com by the Polish software company ProspectOne, Królewska 65A/1, 30-081, Kraków, Poland.

jsDelivr is a Content Delivery Network (CDN). This is a network of regionally distributed servers that are connected via the Internet. As a result, content, especially large files, can be delivered quickly and optimally, even with large peak loads.

jsDelivr is designed to enable the download of JavaScript libraries that are hosted on npm and Github servers. WordPress plugins can also be loaded, provided they are hosted on WordPress.org. To be able to provide this service, your browser may send personal data to jsdelivr.com. can Therefore, jsDelivr can collect and save user data such as IP address, browser type, browser version, information on which website is loaded or the time and date of the page visit. The jsdelivr.com privacy policy expressly states that the company does not use cookies or other tracking services.

If you want to prevent this data transmission, you can install a JavaScript blocker (for example at https://noscript.net/). However, please note that this means that the website then can no longer offer its usual services (such as fast loading speeds).

Further information on data processing by the software service jsDelivr can be found in the company’s privacy policy at https://www.jsdelivr.com/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net.

BootstrapCDN Privacy Policy

In order to be able to deliver all the individual sub-pages of our website to you quickly and securely on all devices, we use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) BootstrapCDN of the American software company StackPath, LLC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA.

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of regionally distributed servers that are connected to each other via the Internet. Through this network, content – especially very large files, can be delivered quickly, even with large peak loads.

BootstrapCDN enables the delivery of JavaScript libraries to your browser. If your browser then downloads a file of the BootstrapCDN, your IP address is transmitted to the company StockPath during the connection with the Bootstrap CDN server.

In their privacy policy, StackPath also mention that the company uses aggregated and anonymised data from various services (such as BootstrapCDN). This is done to extend the backup, as well as for other StackPath services and clients. However, none of this data can be used to identify any person.

If you want to prevent this data transmission, you can install a JavaScript blocker (for example at https://noscript.net/), or deactivate the execution of JavaScript codes in your browser. However, please note that this means that the website then can no longer offer its usual services (such as fast loading speeds).

StackPath is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information on this can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active.
More information on data protection at StackPath or BootstrapCDN can be found at https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/.

Riddle Privacy Policy

As you may have noticed, you can also take an online quiz on our website. To make this work, we use a software tool from the German company Riddle Technologies AG (Lenaustrasse 1, 66125 Saarbrücken, Germany). The quiz is integrated via an iFrame. This allows external documents or applications (such as a quiz in this case) to be visually integrated into a website. When you use the quiz, Riddle collects so-called “aggregated data”, but no personal data that could personally identify you. In this privacy policy, we will go into more detail and show you which data is stored where, how and why.

What is Riddle?

Riddle was founded in 2014 by a group of quiz fans. It is a software company that specialises in quiz production, among other things. The company offers content types such as quizzes or personality tests to website operators, that can be integrated into a website. Thanks to Riddle, we can design our quiz exactly according to our ideas. This allows users like you to take part in individually created puzzles that match our website’s theme.

Why do we use Riddle on our website?

Our website’s primary goal is to provide you with a pleasant and entertaining time in addition to our high-quality content and offers. And who doesn’t love a little online quiz? After all, we want you to have fun here, and that’s why we have Riddle’s online quiz on our website.

Which data are stored by Riddle?

Whenever you use the embedded Riddle function on our website, no data will be stored by Riddle itself. Instead, the data is retained on our webspace and Riddle can only access it as part of their maintenance work and/or support services. Thus, their access is limited and only available to the responsible maintenance staff. Riddle does not collect any personal information and only collects summarised data that does not identify users personally. Instead it is analysed how many (anonymous) people have selected a certain answer. However, it is not evaluated which person gave what answer. Riddle only uses anonymised data for statistical evaluations. If we request data from you via a form, these data will be collected and stored in our webspace.

By default, the embedded Riddle function sets the following session cookie:

Name: sid
Value: 3c531f634a459f0933e1689ffb1945111464339-6be
Purpose: This cookie stores your session ID and your last login time in a digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiry date: after closing your browser

How long and where are the data stored?

All data are retained locally on our web server. The data will be stored on our web server until they are no longer required for the purposes listed above.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to information, rectification, deletion or restriction of the processing of your personal data at any time. You can also revoke your consent to data processing anytime.

If you generally want to deactivate, delete or manage cookies, there are separate instructions for each browser: