Disclaimer of Liability

Liability for content:

The contents of our website are created with the greatest of care. Nevertheless we cannot make any guarantee for the correctness, completeness and up-to-datedness of the contents. As a service provider we are responsible according to § 7 subs. 1 German Telemedia Act (TMG) for our own contents on these pages in accordance with general legislation. According to  §§ 8 to 10 German Telemedia Act (TMG), as service providers we are however not obliged to monitor information that has been transmitted or stored or to research circumstances that would indicate an activity violating the law. Obligations to remove or to stop the use of information according to the general laws remain unaffected by this. Liability with respect to this is however only possible from the point in time onwards at which knowledge was gained regarding a concrete violation of rights. Upon gaining knowledge of corresponding infringements of rights we will immediately remove such contents.

Liability for links

Our offering contains links to third-party websites, the contents of which are not subject to our influence. Therefore, we cannot make a guarantee for these third-party contents. For the contents of linked sites the responsibility lies with the respective offerer or operator of the website. The sites linked were checked for possible violations of rights at the time of linking. Legally violating contents were not recognizable at the time of linking. A permanent checking of the contents of the linked sites is however not reasonable without any concrete suspicions for a violation of rights. If such infringements of rights become known to us then such links will be immediately removed.

Copyright law

The contents and works created on this website are subject to German copyright law. The copying or reproduction, processing and distribution and any kind of use beyond the limitations of German copyright law require our written consent. Copies of this website are granted only for private and not for commercial use. As far as the contents of this website are not created by us, the copyrights of third parties are respected. In particular the contents of third parties are marked as such.  Should an infringement of copyright become known to you, please indicate this to us correspondingly. If an infringement of legal rights becomes known to us we will immediately remove such contents.

Data protection

The use of our website is generally possible without the stating of person-related data. If person-related data (e.g. name, address or email addresses) is collected on our website, then this takes place – as far as possible – always on a voluntary basis. This data will not be given to third parties without your express consent.

We draw your attention to the fact that data transfer on the Internet (e.g. with communication via email) can pose security risks. It is impossible to completely safeguard against access to the data by third parties. Deadlines, conditions, orders etc. sent to us via email are therefore only valid when they are confirmed by us.

The use by third parties of contact data published within the context of the obligation of imprint for sending advertising and information materials not expressly requested is hereby expressly objected to. We retain the right to all legal steps in the case of unwarranted sending of advertising information for example by means of spam mails.

Cookies

This website makes use of so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device memory until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the use of cookies and enable cookies in individual cases only, activate the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or general rules and the automatic deletion of cookies when you close the browser. Upon deactivation of cookies, the functionality of this site may be limited.

Privacy Statement for the Use of Piwik

This website uses the open source web analytics service Piwik. Piwik uses “Cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your use of the website. For this purpose the information generated by the cookie about your use of this website are stored on our server. Your IP address is anonymized prior to storage. The information gathered by the cookie on the use of this website will not be disclosed to any third parties.

Privacy Policy for Usage of Facebook Plugins

Our pages integrate plugins of the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road , Menlo Park, California, 94025 , United States). The Facebook plugin is recognisable through the Facebook logo or the “Like-widget” on our site. For an an overview of Facebook plugins check http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby obtains the information that you have been visiting our website 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. Facebook can then correlate your visit of our site with your user account. We point out that as providers of the site, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use through Facebook . For more information, please refer to the privacy statement of facebook.

If you do not wish Facebook to make a record of your visit to our pages in your Facebook account, please log out from your Facebook account.

Privacy Statement for the Use of Twitter

Our pages integrate plugins of the Twitter service (Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA). Through the use of Twitter and the function of “re-tweet”, the web pages you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. These data is also transmitted to Twitter.

As providers of this site, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or the use that Twitter makes of them For more information, please refer to the privacy statement of Twitter.

You can change your privacy preferences at Twitter in the account settings.

Privacy Policy for use of YouTube

Our website uses plugins operated by Google site YouTube. Operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is made. This informs the Youtube server which of our pages you have visited.If you are logged into your YouTube account you allow YouTube to attribute your surfing habits directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. To learn how to handle user data, please see the privacy policy of YouTube.

Information, erasure or blocking

You always have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and destination and the purpose of the data processing and the right to correct, block or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as other questions relating to personal data you can contact us at any time at the address stated under contact us.

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