In order to be able to use extended functionalities of our website in accordance with the applicable data protection law, we have implemented certain essential technologies. These are already activated when you access the website. These technologies are necessary to manage advanced functionalities of the website, to provide you with the information and choices required by law, and to allow us to demonstrate lawful data processing. The legal basis for the use of these essential technologies and the associated processing of personal data is our legitimate interest as described above (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
4.1 Usercentrics Consent Management Platform
The use of certain other technologies and applications on our website requires your consent, or you have a right to object in this respect. In addition, we are required by law to inform you about the use of cookies and similar technologies (see also the section on "Cookies") on our website when you access the website. For this purpose, we use the service Usercentrics as a so-called cookie management manager. Usercentrics is software developed by Usercentrics GmbH, Rosental 4, 80331 Munich, Germany.
Usercentrics determines the language used by your browser in the process. A cookie is set to check whether you have already made a selection in our cookie management manager during a previous visit to our website. This cookie is necessary because it allows the website to recognize whether or not you have consented to the use of certain technologies. In addition, a log file is created for us in order to be able to prove any consent you may have given. This file contains the IP address in anonymized form, information about the browser that was used, data about the extent of consent, and the date and time of the visit.
The legal basis for the processing described above is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Furthermore, we are required by law to provide the information contained in the cookie management manager when you access our website and to allow you to decide which cookies and similar technologies we use (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR).
The purpose of data processing is the user-friendly and legally compliant design of our website. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to give or revoke consent or to exercise a right of objection regarding the use of certain technologies. We also want to increase the transparency of data processing using cookies, pixels, tags or similar technologies on our website. Our legitimate interest also lies in these purposes of data processing.
The cookie containing your consent or refusal to use cookies will be stored on your terminal device for a period of six months; after this period, the cookie management manager will be displayed again when you visit our website and you can reconsider your decision to consent and change it if necessary. The consent data (consent given and revocation of consent) is stored for three years.
You can check and revoke your consent to the use of certain or all cookies and similar technologies at any time. To do this, you will find a "fingerprint" icon on our website (usually at the bottom right of your screen). By clicking on this "fingerprint" icon, you can reopen the cookie management manager at any time. The cookie management manager will then show you your current settings regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies, and you can change them by selecting the individual applications. Via the "History" tab, you can also retroactively track at which time or in which period you had selected which settings regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies for the above-mentioned period of time.
Cookies in connection with the use of the cookie management manager are stored on your computer and transmitted from it to our site. Therefore, you as a user also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings of your Internet browser, you can disable or restrict the transmission of cookies. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, the cookie management manager can no longer be used to its full extent and there may be functional and comfort restrictions in the use of our website.
4.2 Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager is a solution provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), which allows us to manage website tags through a common interface. Google Tag Manager is a cookie-less domain that does not itself collect any personal Seite 6 von 15 data. However, the Google Tag Manager may trigger other tags that collect personal data. Our cookie management manager contains special instructions for each of these tags, and they are only set with your prior consent. The Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
For more information about Google Tag Manager, you can access the details in our cookie management manager.
4.3 Google Web Fonts (Offline Version)
This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. We have opted for the offline version, in which the Google Fonts are stored locally on our web server. The management of the fonts is then possible - using CSS - as with any other font family. A transmission of the IP address and other data to Google does not take place.
Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers with regard to efficiency and cost-saving considerations. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/