Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes how we collect, store and use information about visitors to our website (personal data). By visiting our website, you declare that you agree to this.

1. Use of the Data

If you provide us with your personal data, this is done on a voluntary basis. We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• within the framework of contacting you on the basis of your enquiries;
• to process your orders (e.g. for info material);
• for the processing of registrations for information events and the like;
• to analyse user behaviour in order to improve our services, and
• for the implementation of marketing measures, in particular for the dispatch of electronic newsletters.

2. Involvement of External Service Providers / Exclusion of Data Trade

Insofar as this is necessary for processing, we involve third parties who process your personal data on our behalf as contract data processors (e.g. external IT providers, external commercial-administrative service providers; external consultants, etc.). Such disclosure will be made to fulfill the purposes described above and such third parties will be required to protect your privacy to the same extent as we are. Your data will not be sold to third parties or otherwise traded.

3. Storage of Access Data

Each time you access a page on our website and each time you retrieve a file, your access data is stored in a log file. Each record consists of: the page from which you requested the file, the name of the requested file, the date and time of the request, the amount of data transferred, the access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.), a description of the type of web browser used, and the client IP address.

4. Your Rights

By law, you have various rights. Please note that the rights applicable to you may vary in substance and scope depending on the applicable data protection law. You can request information about your personal data at any time. If your personal data that we process is incorrect, you have the right to demand that it be corrected. You can demand from us that we delete your personal data, whereby important opposing reasons remain reserved. If the processing of your personal data is based on a consent, you can revoke this consent for the future. Under certain circumstances, you have the option of requesting that your processing activity be restricted. If our processing activity is based on a legitimate interest, you may object to data processing if necessary. Depending on the applicable law, you also have the option of requesting the data concerning you in a common, machine-readable form and handing it over to a third party. Finally, the legal remedies granted by the respective legal system are available to you for the protection of your personality, including any right of appeal.

5. Duration of Storage

Personal data is stored for as long as it is necessary for fulfilment for the purposes of processing or as long as we have a justified interest in it. Personal data that is used for marketing purposes will be deleted from the specific marketing measure (e.g. newsletter) after you have unsubscribed.

6. Cookies and Google Analytics

We collect information about your visit to this website, such as pages you visit and the website from which you came to our website. We use this information to improve the content of our website and to compile statistics for internal market analysis purposes about the use of our website. For this purpose, we use cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that enable us to analyse the use of the website. These cookies register your domain name, your Internet provider, your operating system and the date and time of your visit to the website. These cookies are automatically deleted when you exit all instances of the browser. Our website uses the following cookies:

PHPSESSID
This cookie is generated automatically and is not used to store or evaluate data from the user. It is mainly used in forms to increase user friendliness. Data entered in forms is stored for a short time, for example, if there is an input error by the user and the user receives an error message. | Validity (expiry): None / end of session

_ga, _gid, _gat
Web Analytics: These cookies allow us to analyze your use of this website by giving your device a unique, randomly generated ID that allows us to recognize your device on your next visit. | Validity (expiry): 2 years

Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. You can also disable the storage of cookies or set your browser to notify you when cookies are sent. Our websites use Google Analytics, a service of Google LLC, USA, which monitors and records the way our websites are used. Google Analytics also does this by setting cookies on your computer or other devices. This integration of Google Analytics is always done via anonymized IP addresses by shortening them within the EU / EEA. Google is subject to the CH-US and the EU-US Privacy Shield. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website in this way. We are free to change the analysis software used at any time.

7. Links to other websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to this site, but not to third party sites. We may link to other websites that we think may be of interest to our visitors. We make every effort to ensure that such websites meet the highest standards. However, due to the nature of the internet, we are unable to guarantee the privacy standards of any linked web site or accept liability for its content.

8. Contact

For inquiries in connection with the processing of personal data as well as for the exercise of claims we are at your disposal [Contact].