Legal Disclosure

 

Legal Information according to § 5 TMG (German Telemedia Act)

Responsible according to § 18 para. 2 MStV  (German Interstate Agreement on Media Services)

 

 

Represented by

 

Board: Werner Schneider (chairmen), Eszter Fontana, Berthold Schmid, Rainer Hennig, Jörg Schmidt

 

Office

 

Contact

 

Register

Register Court: Leipzig, No VR 4677

 

Person in charge for site content § 18 para. 2 MStV

 Werner Schneider

 

 

Sources for the images, graphics and audio files used

 

 

 

Content

The contents of these pages were prepared with utmost care. Nonetheless, we cannot assume liability for the timeless accuracy and completeness of the information. According to § 7 para 1 TMG (German Telemedia Act) we are responsible for our own content on these pages in correspondence with general laws. But according to §§ 8 to 10 TMG we are not obligated as a service provider to monitor transmitted or saved external information nor to investigate any circumstance that indicate illegal activities. The obligation to remove or to block the usage of information in correspondence with general laws remains unaffected hereof. As a provider we are only liable as soon as we are made aware of a concrete infringement of rights. We will then immediately remove the according content.

Links

Our website contains links to external websites. As the contents of these third-party websites are beyond our control, we cannot accept liability for them. Responsibility for the contents of the linked pages is always held by the provider or operator of the pages. The linked pages were checked for any violation of the law at the time they were linked to our website. At this time there was no illegal content identifiable. A permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without specific evidence of any violation of the law. As soon as we are made aware of any illegal content we will remove the according links immediately.

Copyright

All the content we created and published on our website is protected by the German copyright laws. Any duplication, editing, distribution or any kind of exploitation outside of the boundaries of the German copyright laws need written consent of the relative author or originator. Downloads and copies of this website and its contents are only allowed for private and therefor non-commercial use. If the content on this website is not provided by the owner of the site, the copyright of the according third party has to be respected. Contents of third parties will be marked as such. Should you find any infringement of copyright on our part, please let us know as soon as possible. We will then remove these contents immediately.

 

Privacy Policy

In general, when visiting this website, no personal data is saved. However, this kind of data can be given on a voluntary basis. No data will be passed on to third parties without your consent. We point out that in regard to unsecured data transmission in the internet (e.g. via email), security cannot be guaranteed. Such data could possibly be accessed by third parties.

We strongly disagree with the usage of our address as provided in the legal disclosure for the distribution of any advertising or general information material (not matter if provided through postal services or via e-mail). If any advertising material is send without our consent, we will reserve the right to take legal action.

Facebook-plugins (like-button)

On our website we integrated plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You can recognise these plugins by the Facebook logo or the “like-button” on our website. Here you can find an overview of the Facebook plugins: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. If you visit our website the plugins establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook then receives the information of your IP address visiting our website. If you click on the Facebook “like-button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link content from our website to your Facebook profile. Through this action Facebook can correlate your visit to our website with your user account. We point out that we, as provider of this website, don’t receive any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its exploitation by Facebook. Further information on this topic can be found in Facebooks own privacy policy: http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

If you don’t want Facebook to be able to correlate your visit at our website with your Facebook account, please log out of your account first.

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 the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of the cookies by the according settings in your browser. But we point out that these settings might prevent the full usage of all functions on our website. Furthermore you can prevent the collection and exploitation by Google of the data created by the cookie and connected to your usage of this website (incl. your IP address) by downloading and installing a plugin provided under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can also prevent the recording by Google Analytics by clicking on the following Link.
An opt-out cookie will be placed, which will prevent the collection of your data while visiting our website in the future. More specific information on terms of use and privacy policy can be found under the following links https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/index.html

We point out that on our website Google Analytics was extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” which ensures an anonymized storage of IP addresses (so called IP masking).

 

Cookie Policy

With this policy we like to inform you about the usage of cookies and other storage technologies on this website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. Next time when you visit our website using the same device the information stored in the cookies will be send back to our website (first party cookie) or to another site, to which the cookie belongs (third party cookie). With the help of the information stored in the cookie and send back to us, our website remembers that you visited it before. This helps to make our website work more efficiently and to display it according to your preferences.

In this process only the cookie on your device will be identified. Other personal data will only be stored if you specifically agree to it or if the storage is strictly necessary to use the offered or selected service.

Agreement to the usage of cookies

 

Cookies that aren’t strictly necessary to provide the services on this website will only be used after you agreed to it. If you keep visiting our site after our cookie-banner is shown automatically you agree to the usage of cookies. You can adjust your cookie settings anytime by e.g. activating or deactivating certain cookie categories. How you can deactivate or delete cookies (including the strictly necessary cookies) in your browser is explained under the paragraph “deactivation and deletion of all cookies”.

Cookie categories

 

According to their usage and task the cookies on our site are divided into the following categories

• strictly necessary cookies;
• functional cookies;
• performance cookies;
• advertising / third party / approval requiring cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies make our website or service work as it should. That means without these cookies our website or service is not usable as intended. This kind of cookie is only used by us, the website provider (first party cookie) and any information stored in the cookies will only be sent to our website.

On our website the following strictly necessary cookies are used:

name	usage	term
ckies_functional	Opt-out for functional cookies	1 year
ckies_performance	Opt-out for performance cookies	1 year
ckies_marketing	Opt-out for advertising / third party/ approval requiring cookies	1 year

The usage of strictly necessary cookies on this website is possible without your agreement. Therefor the strictly necessary cookies cannot be deactivated or activated on their own. This function is only possible with the three other categories of cookies used on our website as listed above. But you can deactivate all cookies within your browser at any time (see paragraph “deactivation and deletion of all cookies”).

Legal foundation for the usage of first party cookies is a legitimate interest (which means an interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) according to art. 6 para. 1 let. f GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation).

Functional cookies

Functional cookies enable this website to store your specifications such as your user name or your language preferences and based on these offer you enhanced and personalized functions. These cookies collect and store only anonymized information.

On our website the following functional cookies are used:

name	usage	term
cookielaw	If someone clicked on the cookie banner	1 year
shd	Will be placed if the user logs into his Jimdo-account	1 year
has_close_teaser	Shows if the user did close a teaser, so that it will not be shown again	Session

You can object to the usage of functional cookies at any time by changing your cookie settings.

Legal foundation for the usage of functional cookies is a legitimate interest (which means an interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) according to art. 6 para. 1 let. f GDPR.

Performance Cookies

Performance Cookies collect information on the usage of our website, so that they can improve its attractiveness, content and functionality based on this information. These cookies help us for example to determine if and which subpage has been visited and which content you find most interesting. We record the number of page impressions, the number of subpages viewed, the time spent on our website, the order of the viewed pages, which search terms led you to us, the country, region and if required city from where you accessed our website, as well as the number of mobile devices used to access our website. The IP address of a device which is transmitted for technical reasons is being anonymized automatically and doesn’t allow us to link it to you personally.  

According to Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR you as the user of a website have the right for reasons that result from your particular situation to object to the processing of your personal data which is being collected for statistical purposes. To exercise this and other rights of the individuals affected, you can contact us at the addresses listed in our legal disclosure at any time.

On our website the following performance cookies are used:

name	usage	term

You can object to the usage of performance cookies at any time by changing your cookie settings.

Legal foundation for the usage of performance cookies is a legitimate interest (which means an interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) according to art. 6 para. 1 let. f GDPR.

Advertising / Third Party / Approval requiring Cookies

Advertising / third party / approval requiring cookies originate amongst others from external advertising companies and are being used to collect information on the websites you visited so that for example they can generate target-group-oriented advertising specifically for you.

On our website the following advertising / third party / approval requiring cookies are used:

name	usage	term

You can object to the usage of advertising cookies at any time by changing your cookie settings.

Due to the intended use described above the legal foundation for the processing of personal data using cookies complies with art. 6 para. 1 let. f GDPR. If you agreed to the usage of cookies based on the cookie banner placed on our website, the legality of the usage of cookies also complies with art. 6 para. 1 let. f GDPR.

Deactivation or Deletion of all Cookies

You can change your browser settings so that the storage of cookies on your device is being prevented in general respectively so that you are being asked if you do agree to the placement of cookies each time this occurs. You can delete placed cookies at any time. For further information, visit the help function of your browser. A general deactivation of cookies might cause this website to perform incorrectly.