Privacy Statement
We want to strengthen users' confidence on the internet, which is why we are disclosing the way in which we handle personal data. Here you can find out
- what information is collected, stored and used.
You can generally access our webpages without needing to provide any personal information. If in certain cases your name, address, or other personal data are required, you will be notified in advance. If you decide to send your personal data to us or our business partners over the internet, e.g. for the purpose of correspondence, we will handle such information sensitively in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations. If you ask us not to use your data to contact you, and/or you wish us to change or delete the data, we will comply with this request.
We obtain usage data when you access our webpages and analyze this information to identify trends and compile statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are small amounts of data that the web server sends to your browser. These are stored on your hard drive.
As well as for statistical purposes, we use cookies to create references to personal data and provide you with personalized information about products, services, and offers. This also allows the webpage to retrieve your individual settings during your next visit and enable certain features, such as product comparison.
You can choose whether or not to accept the cookies we use by changing your browser settings (usually found under "Options" or "Settings" in the browser menu). If you decide not to accept our cookies, some features may not work as intended.
We kindly ask for your understanding.
Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies" — text files that are stored on your computer and enable the analysis of website usage. The information produced by the cookie about your use of this website is usually sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will first be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or other states 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 USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyze your use of the website, compile reports about website activities and provide the site operator with other services relating to website and internet use. The IP address sent by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by selecting the relevant setting in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case some parts of this website may lose full functionality. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en .
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.
You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.