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PRIVACY POLICY
WE ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE PROTECTION OF YOUR DATA. IN ORDER TO FULLY INFORM YOU ABOUT THE USE OF PERSONAL DATA, WE ASK YOU TO TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING DATA PROTECTION INFORMATION.
PERSONAL DATA THAT YOU TRANSMIT ELECTRONICALLY ON THIS WEBSITE, SUCH AS NAME, E-MAIL ADDRESS, ADDRESS OR OTHER PERSONAL DETAILS, WILL ONLY BE USED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE STATED IN EACH CASE, STORED SECURELY AND NOT PASSED ON TO THIRD PARTIES. THE PROVIDER AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTS AND STORES INFORMATION ON THE WEB SERVER SUCH AS THE BROWSER USED, OPERATING SYSTEM, REFERRING PAGE, IP ADDRESS, TIME OF ACCESS, ETC. THIS DATA CANNOT BE ASSIGNED TO A SPECIFIC PERSON WITHOUT CHECKING OTHER DATA SOURCES AND WE DO NOT EVALUATE THIS DATA FURTHER AS LONG AS THERE IS NO ILLEGAL USE OF OUR WEBSITE.
FORM DATA AND COMMENTS
WHEN WEBSITE VISITORS LEAVE COMMENTS OR FORM ENTRIES, THE DATA ENTERED AND THEIR IP ADDRESSES ARE STORED. THIS IS DONE FOR SECURITY REASONS IN CASE SOMEONE POSTS ILLEGAL CONTENT (INSULTS, LEFT-WING OR RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST PROPAGANDA, HATE POSTINGS, ETC.). IN THIS CASE WE ARE INTERESTED IN THE IDENTITY OF THE AUTHOR.
COOKIES
COOKIES ARE SMALL FILES THAT ENABLE THIS WEBSITE TO STORE SPECIFIC USER-RELATED INFORMATION ON THE VISITOR'S COMPUTER WHILE OUR WEBSITE IS BEING VISITED. COOKIES HELP US TO DETERMINE THE FREQUENCY OF USE AND THE NUMBER OF USERS OF OUR WEBSITE, AS WELL AS TO MAKE OUR SERVICES CONVENIENT AND EFFICIENT FOR YOU. WE USE SESSION COOKIES ON THE ONE HAND, WHICH ARE STORED TEMPORARILY FOR THE DURATION OF YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE ONLY, AND PERSISTENT COOKIES ON THE OTHER HAND, TO RETAIN INFORMATION ABOUT VISITORS WHO RETURN TO OUR WEBSITE. THE PURPOSE OF USING THESE COOKIES IS TO PROVIDE OPTIMAL USER GUIDANCE, TO RECOGNIZE VISITORS AND TO PRESENT THE MOST ATTRACTIVE WEBSITE AND INTERESTING CONTENT FOR REPEAT USERS. THE CONTENT OF A PERMANENT COOKIE IS LIMITED TO AN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER. NAME, IP ADDRESS ETC. ARE NOT STORED. NO INDIVIDUAL PROFILE IS CREATED ABOUT YOUR USAGE BEHAVIOR. IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE TO USE OUR SERVICES WITHOUT COOKIES. YOU CAN DEACTIVATE THE STORAGE OF COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER, RESTRICT IT TO CERTAIN WEBSITES OR SET YOUR WEB BROWSER (CHROME, IE, FIREFOX,...) SO THAT IT NOTIFIES YOU AS SOON AS A COOKIE IS SENT. YOU CAN ALSO DELETE COOKIES FROM YOUR PC'S HARD DISK AT ANY TIME. PLEASE NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT IN THIS CASE YOU WILL HAVE TO RECKON WITH A RESTRICTED DISPLAY OF THE SITE AND LIMITED USER GUIDANCE.
PRIVACY POLICY FOR THE USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS
THIS WEBSITE USES GOOGLE ANALYTICS, A WEB ANALYTICS SERVICE PROVIDED BY GOOGLE INC (“GOOGLE”).GOOGLE ANALYTICS USES SO-CALLED“COOKIES”, WHICH ARE TEXT FILES PLACED ON YOUR COMPUTER, TO HELP THE WEBSITE ANALYZE HOW USERS USE THE SITE.THE INFORMATION GENERATED BY THE COOKIE ABOUT YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS USUALLY TRANSFERRED TO A GOOGLE SERVER IN THE USA AND STORED THERE.HOWEVER, IF IP ANONYMIZATION IS ACTIVATED ON THIS WEBSITE, YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL FIRST BE TRUNCATED BY GOOGLE WITHIN MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION OR IN OTHER STATES PARTY TO THE AGREEMENT ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA.ONLY IN EXCEPTIONAL CASES WILL THE FULL IP ADDRESS BE TRANSMITTED TO A GOOGLE SERVER IN THE USA AND SHORTENED THERE.ON BEHALF OF THE OPERATOR OF THIS WEBSITE, GOOGLE WILL USE THIS INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATING YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, COMPILING REPORTS ON WEBSITE ACTIVITY AND PROVIDING OTHER SERVICES RELATING TO WEBSITE ACTIVITY AND INTERNET USAGE TO THE WEBSITE OPERATOR. THE IP ADDRESS TRANSMITTED BY YOUR BROWSER AS PART OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS WILL NOT BE MERGED WITH OTHER DATA HELD BY GOOGLE.YOU MAY REFUSE THE USE OF COOKIES BY SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE SETTINGS ON YOUR BROWSER, HOWEVER PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU DO THIS YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE FULL FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS WEBSITE.YOU CAN ALSO PREVENT GOOGLE FROM COLLECTING THE DATA GENERATED BY THE COOKIE AND RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE (INCLUDING YOUR IP ADDRESS) AND FROM PROCESSING THIS DATA BY GOOGLE BY DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING THE BROWSER PLUG-IN AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK (HTTP://TOOLS.GOOGLE.COM/DLPAGE/GAOPTOUT?HL=EN).
FURTHER INFORMATION ON TERMS OF USE AND DATA PROTECTION CAN BE FOUND AT HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/ANALYTICS/TERMS/EN.HTML OR AT HTTPS://SUPPORT.GOOGLE.COM/ANALYTICS/ANSWER/6004245?HL=EN.WE WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT ON THIS WEBSITE GOOGLE ANALYTICS HAS BEEN EXTENDED BY THE CODE “GAT._ANONYMIZEIP();”HAS BEEN ADDED TO ENSURE ANONYMIZED COLLECTION OF IP ADDRESSES (SO-CALLED IP-MASKING).
DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION FOR THE USE OF FACEBOOK
PLUGINS OF THE SOCIAL NETWORK FACEBOOK, 1601 SOUTH CALIFORNIA AVENUE, PALO ALTO, CA 94304, USA ARE INTEGRATED ON OUR PAGES. YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE FACEBOOK PLUGINS BY THE FACEBOOK LOGO OR THE “LIKE BUTTON” (“LIKE”) ON OUR SITE. YOU CAN FIND AN OVERVIEW OF THE FACEBOOK PLUGINS HERE: HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.FACEBOOK.COM/DOCS/PLUGINS/.
WHEN YOU VISIT OUR SITE, A DIRECT CONNECTION IS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN YOUR BROWSER AND THE FACEBOOK SERVER VIA THE PLUGIN. FACEBOOK THEREBY RECEIVES THE INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE VISITED OUR SITE WITH YOUR IP ADDRESS. IF YOU CLICK ON THE FACEBOOK “LIKE-BUTTON” WHILE YOU ARE LOGGED INTO YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT, YOU CAN LINK THE CONTENT OF OUR PAGES TO YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE. THIS ALLOWS FACEBOOK TO ASSOCIATE YOUR VISIT TO OUR PAGES WITH YOUR USER ACCOUNT. WE WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT, AS THE PROVIDER OF THE PAGES, WE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTENT OF THE TRANSMITTED DATA OR ITS USE BY FACEBOOK. FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS CAN BE FOUND IN FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY POLICY AT HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/POLICY.PHP IF YOU DO NOT WANT FACEBOOK TO BE ABLE TO ASSOCIATE YOUR VISIT TO OUR PAGES WITH YOUR FACEBOOK USER ACCOUNT, PLEASE LOG OUT OF YOUR FACEBOOK USER ACCOUNT.
RIGHT OF ACCESS
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERSONAL DATA STORED ABOUT YOU, ITS ORIGIN AND RECIPIENTS AS WELL AS THE PURPOSE OF STORAGE AT ANY TIME.
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