When you first visit this Website, we will inform you about the use of cookies and similar technologies served through this website and ask for your consent to the use of such cookies. The wording of the Cookie Consent declaration can be viewed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. You can also change your cookie preferences at any time with effect for the future.
The specific types of cookies served through this website, their purposes and
your options to manage them are described in further detail in our Cookie
policy.
8 INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND OTHER PLUGINS
We may implement so called plug-ins (“Plugins”) from social networks ( “Social Networks”) and other platforms (
“Platforms”) on certain webpages of this Website such as “Share” or “Like” buttons, video player or interactive maps. We use such Plugins in order to give you the possibility to share or recommend interesting offers in Social Networks, to use interactive maps on our Website or to watch videos and to promote our services. We consider these purposes as in our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.
You may find the following Plugins on this Website:
Plugins of the social network facebook.com which is operated by Facebook
Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”)
Plugins of the social network instagram.com which is operated by
Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
(“Instagram”)
Plugins of Google+ and Google Maps which are operated by Google Inc.,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”)
Plugins of the video platform YouTube which is operated by YouTube LLC,
901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, – belongs to Google Inc. –
(“YouTube”)
Plugins of Twitter which is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St,
Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”)
The Plugins can be clearly identified as they
feature the logo of the associated Social Network/Platform (e.g. white
“f” on blue background for Facebook).
The integration of Plugins enables the respective Social Network or Platform to
collect data about you as you access a website that contains the respective
Plugin. Your browser will establish a direct connection to the servers of the
respective Social Network/Platform. We have no influence on the extent of the
data collected by these Social Networks/Platforms via the Plugins. If you visit
a website that contains a Plugin while you are logged in with the corresponding
Social Network/Platform, the provider of such Social Network/Platform will be
able to correlate your account data with information about your visit to the
respective website (including your IP address). This information is transmitted
directly to the servers of the respective providers. In addition information
you intended to share with Social Networks will be published and shown to your
contacts on these Social Networks. For further information, please refer to the
privacy policy of the respective Social Networks and Platforms.
Data protection policy of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Data protection policy of Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/
Data privacy notices of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=ZZ
Data privacy notices of YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=ZZ
Data protection policy of Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
9 USE OF THIRD PARTY TOOLS
We allow certain third parties to use cookies
or similar technologies on this Website. These third parties include analytics,
advertising networks and other service providers that assist us in providing,
evaluating, and improving this Website and our services and to provide targeted
advertising based on your browsing activities and interests.
These third parties may use cookies or similar technologies and collect data about your use of this Website and your interaction with its content and functions, including the total number of visitors to this Website, the websites our visitors have come from, the pages you visit, date, time and duration of your visit, frequency, clicked banners/links as well as information about type of device, browser version, language settings and geographic location (including country, city, region). They may also collect online-identifiers (e.g.
User-ID) and/or IP-addresses. We do not have access to these cookies or to any personal identifiable data collected with these cookies that allow us to identify single users. We may however use information arising from such cookies provided by these third parties. All data collected is made available to us
only anonymously and in statistical form.
Below we will give you an overview and description of third party provider
technologies we may use for this Website.
9.1 Advertising tools
We use third-party advertising technologies on this Website to provide you with personalized content that we believe may be of interest to you. Such third party providers may use cookies to perform these
services.
You have the option to opt-out from targeted advertising provided by the third parties we work with through the designated links provided below. When you opt-out, the respective third party providers will stop serving you targeted advertising based on the data collected via your browser, but may continue to collect and use information for other purposes. The use of cookies and the related collection of information by third party providers is beyond our control. The third party provider may combine data they collect about your use of this Website with personal data they may otherwise collect or have access to.
10 DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We only disclose your personal data to third parties, if this is necessary for the purpose of providing this Website and services, we are obligated or entitled here to by contract or law or you have
granted your explicit consent.
10.1 Service providers
We also work with technical service
providers, who may have access to your personal data, but only to the extent
necessary to perform their respective services. For instance we engage
technical service providers to manage our Newsletter or to host or surveys.
These service providers may not disclose your personal data to third parties or
use these for any other purposes than instructed.
We use Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) for hosting this website. AWS is a service
of Amazon Web Service Inc, P.O. Box 81226 Seattle, WA 98108-1226, USA
(“Amazon”).
