Data Protection

Liability for Content
We created the content of our web pages with the greatest possible care. In addition, we make every effort to continuously extend and update the information published on our website,  and reserve the right to amend this information or data at any time and without any prior announcement.  However, despite taking the greatest possible care in reviewing this content, we cannot assume any guarantee for the correctness, up-to-dateness and/or completeness of the information and data provided on our website.

We are responsible for our own content on these pages according to general laws in Germany and in the USA. However, we are not obligated to monitor third-party information sent to or saved on our website or to investigate any circumstances that indicate any illegal activity. This shall not affect our obligations under general laws to remove or block the use of information. However, we can assume liability for taking such action only from the time we receive knowledge of a specific legal violation or infringement of rights. We will remove such content from our website as soon as possible after we receive knowledge of any respective legal violations or infringement of rights by said information.

We shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages, including loss of profit, arising out of the use of the information or data that can be found on our website. Any and all rights and obligations between our company and the user of this website or third parties shall also be expressly excluded.

Liability for Links
Our website contains links to external third-party websites that are not under our control. For this reason, we cannot assume any guarantees for this third-party content. The particular party offering or operating third-party sites shall be solely responsible for the content of the pages linked to our website. The linked pages were reviewed for any possible legal violations or infringement of rights at the time they were linked. Illegal content could not be discerned at the time these pages were linked. However, it is not reasonable for us to monitor the linked pages continuously without having received any specific indication of a legal violation or an infringement of rights by said content. Upon receiving knowledge of such legal violations or infringement of rights, we will remove these links as soon as possible.

We shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages, including loss of profit, arising from the use of the information or data on websites that are referred to in our website or that are hyper-linked to our website.

Cookies
We may use so-called cookies in certain areas of our website and use them exclusively to facilitate your use of our website. Cookies are small data packages that can be sent to your computer from an Internet server. During your visit to our website, a cookie will only identify your computer. If you wish to decide for yourself whether to accept or reject cookies, you can configure this via your Internet browser settings.

Web Analytics
Additionally we use 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 analyze 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/anonymize the last octet of 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 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. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

General Provisions
Any and all information or data, its use and application for inclusion in this website and any and all actions, toleration or failure to act relating to this website shall be governed exclusively by German law. 
The place of venue and exclusive jurisdiction shall be the legal domicile of the operator designated in the website credits.
Data Protection
If personal data are collected (for example, names, residential addresses or e-mail addresses) on our pages, this is done on a voluntary basis. As far as possible, our offers and services can be used without having to provide personal data. 

We would like to point out that data transfer on the Internet (e.g., during communication by e-mail) may be exposed to security gaps. Complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible. 

We expressly negate that the contact data we publish as part of the legally required website credits are used by third parties for the transmission of unsolicited advertising and information materials. The providers and operators of these pages expressly reserve the right to take legal steps in the event of any such unsolicited advertising, such as spam e-mail.