Data Privacy Statement
Usage of Google Analytics (cookies and IP addresses)
This website uses 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 analyse 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 Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. 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. 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 tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Further information can be found under www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/tos.html (Google Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy). Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplementedby "gat._anonymizeIp();" to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
You can prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: Disable Google Analytics
Usage of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing or other social business plugins (e.g. “Like” button)
Please be aware that our web pages may incorporate technologies owned and used by social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Xing, LinkedIn or others. When visiting our web pages, a direct connection between your browser and the server owned by a social network can be established. The particular social network will thus be informed that you have visited our web pages. For example, if you press a Facebook “Like”-button on one of our web pages while logged in to Facebook, you can link the content provided on our web pages to your Facebook presence. So, Facebook is able to link your visit to our website to your Facebook profile. We want to inform you that as the provider of our web pages, we do not have information about what kind of information is being forwarded to Facebook or other social networks, nor do we have information on how these social networks will use that information. Further information can be found on the specific data protection information pages of the individual social networks. Here are the links to Facebook’s data protection information pages: en-gb.facebook.com/about/privacy. If you do not want to enable social networks to track your visit to our site or receive any information about it, please make sure you have logged out of these social networks beforehand.
