This data privacy statement provides information about the personal data that is processed when you visit our website and about what rights you have. We would therefore request you to read the following explanations carefully.

Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This, for example, includes your name, your address and communication data or your email address.

Processing means any operation or series of operations carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures using personal data, such as the collation, collection, organisation, ordering, storage, adaptation or alteration, reading out, querying, use, disclosure by transfer, dissemination or any other form of provision, reconciliation or linking, restriction, deletion or destruction.

The person concerned is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the person responsible for processing.

The person responsible or ‘person responsible for processing’ is the natural or legal person, authority, institution or other body which either by itself or jointly with others decides the purposes for and means of processing personal data.

Users include all categories of persons affected by data processing. Such persons include our business partners and other visitors to our website.

We would also like to refer you to the definitions set out in Art. 4 of the Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO – General Data Protection Regulation) in regard to the terms used. The terms used, such as ‘user’, are to be understood as gender-neutral.

We implement technical, contractual and organisational measures to ensure the security of data processing in accordance with the state of the art. It is in this way that we ensure that the regulations set out in the data-protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation, are observed and that the data we process is protected against destruction, loss, modification and unauthorised access. These security measures also include the encrypted transfer of data between your browser and our servers. Please note that SSL encryption is only activated for transfers made over the Internet if the key symbol appears in the lower menu bar of your browser window and the address starts with http://https://. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) uses encryption technology to protect the transfer of data against illegal data access by third parties. You may also choose not to send certain data over the Internet if this option is not available.

All information that you transfer to us is stored and processed on our servers in the Federal Republic of Germany.

We integrate external services or content on our website. This is done on the basis of our legitimate interests in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

When such services are used or third-party content is displayed, communication data such as the date, time and IP address are exchanged between you and the respective provider for technical reasons. This, in particular, includes your IP address, which is required to display content in your browser.

The provider of the respective services or contents may process your data for its own additional purposes. Due to the fact that we are unable to influence the data collected by third parties and how it is processed by such third parties, we are, however, also unable to make any binding statements about why and the extent to which your data is processed.

We would therefore refer you to the information about data protection provided by the providers of the services or content that we have incorporated who are responsible for the legal aspects of data protection for more information about the purpose and scope of the collection and processing of your data.

The following list provides an overview of third-party providers as well as their contents along with links to their data privacy statements, which contain further information about the processing of data and objection options.

• Maps provided by the ‘Google Maps’ service for route planning are provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Data privacy statement: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/  Opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/.

We maintain various presences in "social media" in order to communicate with the users registered there and to inform them about our offers and services. On our website you will find buttons with hyperlinks to our social media presences on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Xing, X (Twitter) and YouTube. You can recognize the respective providers by their logo.

When you visit our site, no personal data is initially transmitted to these social media platforms. Only when you click on the respective button will data be transferred to the social media platforms. In this case, the provider receives the information that you have called up the corresponding website of our online offer (e.g. date, time, IP address, website called up).

Please note that you use these platforms and their functions on your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions that these platforms offer, such as sharing, rating or commenting.

By activating the buttons, personal data of you is transmitted to the respective provider and stored there (in the case of US providers in the USA). Since the provider collects data in particular via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies before clicking on them via the security settings of your browser. The data is transferred regardless of whether you have an account with the respective social media platform and are logged in there. If you are logged in with the social media provider, the data we collect will be directly assigned to your account with the provider. We recommend that you log out regularly after using a social network, but especially before activating the button, as this will help you avoid being assigned to your profile with the plug-in provider.

It is possible that the provider of the respective services or content processes your data for further, own purposes. However, since we have no influence on the data collected by third parties and the processing of such data by them, we cannot provide any binding information on the purpose and scope of the processing of your data. Further information about the purpose and scope of the collection and processing of your data can therefore be found in the data protection information of the respective providers responsible for data protection. Here you will also find further information on the processing of data and the possibility to object. For a detailed presentation of the respective processing and the possibilities of objection (opt-out), we refer to the following linked information of the providers.

Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA); Datenschutzerkärung.

Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Irland); Datenschutzerklärung, Privacy Shield.

X / Twitter (Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA); Datenschutzerklärung, Privacy Shield.

YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland); Datenschutzerklärung, Privacy Shield.

LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland); Datenschutzerklärung, Privacy Shield.

Xing (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Deutschland); Datenschutzerklärung.

When we process your personal data, you are the person concerned in the meaning of  Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) and therefore possess the following rights concerning the personal data relating to you in regard to us:

• Right to information (Art. 15 DSGVO)
• Right to correction (Art. 16 DSGVO)
• Right to deletion (Art. 17 DSGVO)
• Right to limit processing (Art. 18 DSGVO),
• Right to data transferability (Art. 20 DSGVO)
• Right to object to processing (Art. 21 DSGVO)

You are also entitled to make complaints about how we are processing your personal data to a supervisory data-protection authority.

We reserve the right to change the data privacy statement in order to adapt it to changed legal situations or in the event of changes to the service and to data processing. This only applies, however, in regard to declarations about data processing. The changes will only be made with the users' consent if user consents are required or components of the data privacy statement contain provisions of the contractual relationship with the users.

Please inform yourself regularly about the contents of the data privacy statement.