What personal data we collect and why we collect it?
Cookies
Our Site uses ‘cookies’ to enhance a User’s experience. The User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to store information about the User’s preferences for use of the Site. The User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert them when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly as a result.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data?
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data?
You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). The use includes the operating standard “Universal Analytics”, which enables data, sessions and interactions from various devices to be matched to a pseudonym user ID and a user’s activities for analytical purposes across devices.
Google Analytics uses what are referred to as cookies. These are text files that are saved on your computer and that make it possible to analyze your website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally sent to and stored on a Google server in the USA. If IP anonymization is enabled on this website, your IP address is first shortened within member states of the European Union or in countries that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, however. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP addresses sent by your browser for the purposes of Google Analytics are not combined with other data from Google. Google uses this information on behalf of this website’s operator to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about website activity and to provide further services relating to website and Internet usage to the website operator. We also have a legitimate interest in data processing for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is § 15 para. 3 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR. Data that is sent by us and linked with cookies, user names (e.g. user IDs) or advertising IDs is automatically deleted after 14 months. Data is automatically deleted monthly after the retention period has expired. Further details on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=us.
You can prevent cookies being saved by configuring your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use all functions of this website fully. You can also prevent cookie-generated data about your website usage (incl. your IP address) from being sent to and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on. Opt-out cookies prevent your data from being collected when you visit this website in the future. To prevent collection by Universal Analytics across various devices, you must implement the opt-out on all systems you are using. Please note that you will not be able to fully use some functions of this website.