Privacy Policy

1.2 Data Controller

The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the GDPR is:

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2.2 SSL/TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries), this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by "https://" and the lock icon in your browser's address bar.

When you contact us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected via a contact form is evident from that form. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of answering your inquiry and for the related technical administration.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to your request (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted once your inquiry has been finally handled—i.e., when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter has been conclusively clarified and provided no statutory retention duties conflict with deletion.

Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). The Tag Manager provides the technical basis to bundle various web applications—including tracking and analytics services—and calibrate, control, and condition them via a single interface.

The Tag Manager itself does not store or read information on user devices and does not perform independent data analyses. However, when a page is called, your IP address is transmitted to Google and may be stored there. Transmission to servers of Google LLC in the USA is also possible.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google that ensures protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized sharing with third parties. For data transfers to the USA, the provider participates in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which—based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission—ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.

Further legal information about Google Tag Manager is available at: Google Privacy Policy

Cookie Consent Tool

This website uses a cookie consent tool to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The tool appears as an interactive interface when the page loads, allowing you to grant consent for specific cookies/services by ticking boxes.

Through this tool, any consent-requiring cookies/services will load only if you grant consent via checkbox, ensuring such cookies are set on your device only if consent is given. The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed for this.

If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed to store, assign, or log cookie settings, this is based on our legitimate interest in lawful, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus a legally compliant website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Another legal basis is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR, as we are legally obliged to make the use of non-essential cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

The duration of storage depends on the legal basis, the processing purpose, and—where applicable—statutory retention periods (e.g., commercial and tax retention obligations).

• Where processing is based on your explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), the data is stored until you withdraw your consent.
• If statutory retention periods apply to data processed within (pre-)contractual obligations (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), such data is routinely deleted after the retention periods expire, provided it is no longer required for contract performance or initiation and/or we have no legitimate interest in continued storage.
• Where processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, data is stored until you exercise your right to object under Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
• Where data is processed for direct marketing under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, it is stored until you exercise your right to object under Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise specified in this policy for specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.