#Privacy Policy
Thank you for your interest in my website and our work. We – the service provider and the web provider – follow all legal requirements of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the German Teleservices Act (TMG), and other data protection regulations.
Usage data that the provider of this website and/or their web provider collects when you visit this website:

The web statistics record data such as the date and time of the page load. This is done anonymously and without identification of the visitor. Personal information is the subject of the data protection regulations. According to section 3, paragraph 1 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) personal data includes details related to personal or factual matters of a specified or specifiable natural person, for example information such as name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, or IP address.

Contact

In order to contact you, your e-mail address and possibly other information is required. We confirm that this information is used exclusively internally. Under no circumstances is this information passed on to third parties. The transfer of this information is unencrypted.

Cookies

For the purpose of gathering and saving data, so-called cookies are used. These are small data packets that are saved in the Internet browser of your device upon visiting our website. Two types of cookies are used:

Temporary cookies or session cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your browser.

Permanent cookies allow the user to be recognized upon revisiting our website (for a maximum of one month, after which these cookies are also deleted). This function is used for example within the content management system for logging in.
You can deactivate cookies in your browser (see the help section of your browser: “How do I deactivate cookies?”).

Server Log Files

With every page load, the following data is saved: the loaded page with the name of the requested file, the date and time of the page load, the amount of data transferred, and whether or not the access/loading was successful. Your IP address is saved in anonymous form, with the final octet set to 0. This data may be used for statistical purposes. The identification of individual persons is not possible.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google").

Please note that this website initializes Google Analytics with the setting "anonymizeIp". This guarantees anonymized data collection by masking the last part of your IP address. The identification of individual persons is not possible.

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the area of Member States of the European Union or in other countries which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them with other services relating to website use and Internet usage. The IP address transferred by your browser during the use of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software, however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to the usage of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

You can also opt out from being tracked by Google Analytics by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which will prevent your data from being collected in future when you visit this website:

Disabling Google Analytics

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 or at https://policies.google.com/.

Right to information and withdrawal

You have at any time and without giving reason the right to receive free of charge details of the personal data stored by us relating to you. You also have the right to demand that the data collected by us relating to you is corrected or deleted. You may also withdraw the consent you provided us for collecting and using data, without indicating a reason. To do so, please contact us using the e-mail address provided in the Contact page. Thank you.
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