Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Responsible party in terms of data protection laws, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Daniel Schütz

Eiserntalstraße 477

57080 Siegen Phone: 0271-303818200

Email: [email protected]

YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details of our Data Protection Officer provided:

• Information about your stored data and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
• Correction of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
• Deletion of your stored data (Art. 17 GDPR),
• Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
• Objection to the processing of your data with us (Art. 21 GDPR), and
• Data portability, if you have consented to data processing or have a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can address a complaint to a supervisory authority at any time, e.g., to the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or to the authority responsible for us as the responsible entity.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/Service/Addresses/States/Laender-node.html.

COOKIES Like many other websites, we also use “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. You can also find information and instructions on how these cookies can be deleted or their storage blocked in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you can find the necessary information under the following links:

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en Opera: http://www.opera.com/help Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

USED COOKIES If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our website:

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SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook Third-party services: Google reCAPTCHA YouTube Google Fonts HubSpot

NECESSARY COOKIES We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can also be identified after a page change.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. It is necessary for these functions that the browser is recognized again after a page change.

We require cookies for the following applications:

• Transfer of language settings
• Remembering search terms

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Recipient: Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who work as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Providing required or necessary: Providing the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and features may not be available or may be restricted.

OBJECTION Please read the information about your right to object under Art. 21 GDPR below.

TECHNICALLY UNNECESSARY COOKIES Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to improve it based on statistical evaluations in general.

Which providers set cookies can be found in the information below on the technologies used for presentation, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis.

Legal basis: The legal basis for these processes is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Recipient: Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who work as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Further recipients can be found in the information below on the technologies used for presentation, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis.

TRANSFER TO THIRD COUNTRIES: Information about this can be found in the lists of the individual presentation, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis providers.

PROVIDING REQUIRED OR NECESSARY: Of course, you can generally view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see revocation of consent).

Please note that some functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT: You can revoke your consent to tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from tracking your activities on this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

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: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.

USE OF SCRIPT LIBRARIES (GOOGLE WEB FONTS) To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as “Google”) to display fonts.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry