Privacy Policy

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws as well as other data protection regulations is:

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

This website uses no cookies and no tracking. No analytics or advertising tools are used. Personal data is processed exclusively in the context of contact via the contact form.

The use of this website is generally possible without providing personal data. Wherever personal data is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis.

Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

The hosting provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
• Hostname of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request

This data cannot be attributed to specific individuals. This data is not merged with other data sources.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the secure and error-free operation of the website)

Retention period: Log files are deleted or anonymised after a maximum of 30 days.

This website uses so-called Google Fonts for the uniform display of fonts, provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

When a page is accessed, your browser loads the required fonts directly from Google servers. In doing so, your IP address is transmitted to Google. Google thereby receives the information that our website has been visited from your IP address.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the uniform and technically flawless presentation of the website)

Third-country transfer: Google LLC is based in the USA. The transfer is carried out on the basis of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR.

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

On the subpage "How Mediation Works" we embed a video from YouTube. The operator is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter: "YouTube" / "Google").

Two-click solution (facade method)

The video is not loaded by default. A connection to YouTube servers is only established when you actively click the "Play" button. Until that point, no data is collected by YouTube and no cookies are set.

Privacy-friendly embedding mode

We exclusively use YouTube's enhanced privacy mode via the domain youtube-nocookie.com. YouTube states that in this mode it does not store any information about visitors as long as the video is not played.

Data processing upon playback

Once you play the video, your browser transmits information to YouTube, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version, operating system
• Reference to the page accessed (referrer)

YouTube may then set cookies and capture your user behaviour, in particular if you are simultaneously logged in to a Google account.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the clear presentation of our services). The facade method ensures that data transmission is contingent on your active decision.

Third-country transfer: Google LLC is based in the USA. The transfer is carried out on the basis of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR.

Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Data collected:

• First and last name
• Email address
• Content of your message

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of pre-contractual measures) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in responding to enquiries)

Retention period: Your enquiry and our response will be stored for a period of 3 years, unless statutory retention periods require longer storage. Thereafter, the data will be routinely deleted.

Use of Formspree

The contact form on this website is operated by the service Formspree (Formspree Inc., 2261 Market Street #4990, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA). Your form entries are transmitted to Formspree servers and forwarded from there to our email address.

Formspree stores the transmitted data (name, email address, message content) as well as technical metadata (IP address, timestamp) in accordance with its own privacy policy.

Third-country transfer: Formspree is based in the USA. The transfer is carried out on the basis of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR. A data processing agreement (DPA) pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with Formspree.

Formspree's privacy policy can be found at: https://formspree.io/legal/privacy-policy

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.