Privacy Notice

Thank you for your interest in our website. We attach great importance to the protection of your data and the safeguarding of your privacy. To ensure that you are fully informed about the collection and use of personal data on our homepage, please note the following information.

Information on the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Details of the Responsible Party

Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified.

The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

If you merely use our website for informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or provide us with information in any other way, we only collect data that your browser transmits to us (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data that is technically required for us to display the website to you:

• Website visited by us
• Date, time and frequency at the time of access
• Volume of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from where you accessed the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used in anonymized form
• Processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. No disclosure or other use of the data takes place. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

Data Security

We have implemented technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against loss, damage, manipulation or unauthorized access by third parties.

When transferring personal data via our websites, we adhere to at least established TLS 1.2 standards. You can identify the transmission of encrypted data by the display of a closed key or lock symbol in the status bar of your browser.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies as part of our online offering to communicate with your terminal device and exchange stored information (hereinafter collectively "cookies"). These cookies serve primarily to make the functions of the online offering usable. General examples where the use of cookies is technically required in this sense are, for example, the storage of login data or a shopping list/wishlist or a shopping cart. Accordingly, we can use technically required cookies to enable the aforementioned data collection and their processing and to ensure the proper and secure operation of the online offering. Data processing is then based on Article 6 (1) lit. b) and f) GDPR, since it is necessary to implement the functions you have chosen or to protect our legitimate interest in the functionality of the online offering.

To the extent that we use cookies to analyze the use of the online offering and to be able to tailor it to your interests and, if applicable, to provide you with interest-based content and advertisements, this is done exclusively on the basis of your voluntary consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. You then have the opportunity to make your corresponding settings via the consent management ("cookie consent manager") as part of the online offering. You can revoke any consent given in this way at any time with future effect. You can find further information about the cookies and their individual functions as well as setting and revocation options directly in the corresponding areas of the consent management.

If you do not wish to use cookies at all, you can also prevent their storage by means of appropriate settings on your terminal device. You can delete stored cookies at any time in the system settings of your terminal device. Please note that blocking certain types of cookies may impair your use of our online offering.

Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browser at the following links:

• Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US
• Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us
• Opera: https://help.opera.com/en

Contact

In the course of contacting us (e.g., via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of a contact form is apparent from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for making contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. If your inquiry is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request, which is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally clarified and provided that no legal retention obligations apply.

Rights of Data Subjects

Applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights as a data subject (rights to information and intervention) with respect to the controller regarding the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:

Right to information in accordance with Article 15 GDPR: You have in particular the right to information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us from you, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and intended effects of such processing for you, as well as your right to be informed of what guarantees exist in accordance with Article 46 GDPR for the transfer of your data to third countries;

Right to Correction in accordance with Article 16 GDPR: You have the right to prompt correction of inaccurate data concerning you and/or completion of incomplete data stored with us;

Right to Erasure in accordance with Article 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if the conditions of Article 17 (1) GDPR are met. However, this right does not apply in particular if processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;

Right to Restrict Processing in accordance with Article 18 GDPR: You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data while the accuracy of your data that you have disputed is being verified, if you refuse deletion of your data due to unlawful data processing and instead request restriction of processing of your data, if you need your data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims after we no longer need this data following achievement of the purpose, or if you have lodged an objection on grounds of your particular situation, pending determination of whether our legitimate interests override;

Right to Notification in accordance with Article 19 GDPR: If you have asserted your right to correction, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this correction or erasure of data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.

Right to Data Portability in accordance with Article 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible;

Right to Withdraw Given Consent in accordance with Article 7 (3) GDPR: You have the right to withdraw any consent you have previously given to the processing of data at any time with future effect. In the event of withdrawal, we will immediately delete the affected data, unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent prior to the withdrawal;

Right to Lodge a Complaint in accordance with Article 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have - without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy - the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, place of work or place of the alleged violation. A list of German data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE

RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS DUE TO OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE AFFECTED DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING IS PERMITTED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE AFFECTED DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration of storage of personal data is determined by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods). After the period expires, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continued storage.

Further Information and Contacts

If you have any further questions about "data protection", please contact us. You can find the contact address in our Legal Notice.

Last updated: February 2, 2026