Thank you for your interest in our homepage. Despite careful control of the content, we cannot accept any liability for external links to third-party content. The protection of your personal data when it is collected, processed and used during your visit to our website is very important to us. Your data is protected in accordance with legal regulations. Succession you will find information on which data is captured during your visit to the homepage and how it is used:

1. collection and processing of data

Every access to our homepage and every retrieval of a file stored on the homepage is logged. The data is stored for internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following are logged Name of the retrieved file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser and requesting domain.

The IP addresses of the requesting computers are also logged. In some places, the website uses so-called cookies.

Cookies are small amounts of data in the form of text information that the web server sends to your browser. These are stored on your hard drive. Some of these cookies are necessary for the operation of the website; you cannot deselect them in the consent tools upstream of the website. We use these cookies as part of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit f GDPR). For all other cookies, you have the choice in this consent tool as to whether you wish to permissible them. If you allow them, this constitutes consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit a GDPR. Changes to this can be made at any time in the consent tool: Consent tool

• Always allow and save cookies,
• Allow cookies but delete them after each session,
• Prohibit cookies.

If you generally prohibit cookies, this may result in functional restrictions and error messages on the website.

If you have registered for our newsletter or have provided us with an e-mail address for sending the newsletter by other means, we will use the e-mail address you have provided for this newsletter. If this e-mail address is different from the one used for other communication, we will use it exclusively for the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter mailing list at any time. If you have provided an exclusive newsletter e-mail address, we will delete it immediately after you unsubscribe.

As part of sending the newsletter, we can track whether you have opened the newsletter and which links within the newsletter you have clicked on. We use this data to shape future newsletters more effectively.

Further personal data is only captured if you provide this information voluntarily, for example when contacting us.

2 Use and disclosure of personal data

If you have provided us with personal data, we will only use it to answer your enquiries, to process contracts concluded with you and for technical administration.

Your personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transmitted to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of processing the contract, for billing purposes or if you have given your prior consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

Stored personal data will be deleted or blocked if you withdraw your consent to its storage, if knowledge of it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was stored or if its storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.

3 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from capturing 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 plugin available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

You can find more information on this at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or at privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/ (general information on Google Analytics and data protection). We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to ensure anonymised capture of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

4. piwik

Our website uses the open source software Piwik to statistically analyse visitor access.

Piwik uses "cookies" to analyse user access. These text files, which are stored on the computer of the respective user, make it possible to analyse the use of the website. The information and data generated by cookies are stored on a server in Germany. The IP address is anonymised before storage. You can deactivate the use of cookies in your browser settings. However, this may mean that our website can no longer be used to its full extent.

The data will not be passed on to third parties. Piwik uses user data in anonymised form so that we can optimise our website and our offer. IP addresses are stored by Piwik without the last digits. This enables us to determine the network from which an enquiry originates. It is therefore not possible to assign the IP address to a computer.

By using our website, you consent to data processing by Piwik to the extent described above and for the purpose stated above.

5 JW Player

If you have given your consent when accessing our website, we use the JW Player software to show you videos. Data is transferred to the manufacturer. This processing is based on your consent mentioned above, which fulfils the conditions of § 25 TTDSG and forms the legal basis according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. You can revoke this consent at any time by deactivating it in the consent tool at the beginning of the website. The exact circumstances of the processing can be found in the explanations under "Show details" in the consent tool.

6. data protection officer

Your trust is important to us, which is why we take data protection very seriously. We would therefore like to be able to answer your questions regarding the processing of your personal data at any time. To this end, we have appointed an external data protection officer:

Henning Welz gds Gesellschaft für Datenschutz Mittelhessen mbH Auf der Appeling 8 35043 Marburg-Cappel www.gdsm.de E-mail: datenschutz@gdsm.de

If you have any questions that are not answered by this data protection declaration or if you would like more detailed information on any point, please contact the data protection officer at any time.

7. right to information

Upon written request, we will be happy to inform you about the personal data stored about you.

Security notice:

We make every effort to store your personal data in such a way that it is not accessible to third parties by taking all technically feasible and organisational measures. We cannot guarantee complete data security when communicating by e-mail, so we recommend that you send confidential information by post.