Privacy Statement

Thank you for visiting our website. We see the protection of your private sphere in using our website as a top priority. Rest assured that any personal details you provide via our website will only be used for the purpose of dealing with your queries and that this information will not be processed or used for other purposes. Your details will not be disclosed to third parties.

Gathering, Processing, and Use of Personal Data

Personal details are only gathered if you provide these voluntarily, for example within the scope of contacting us or registering for personalised services. When registering for personalised services, the personal details you provide are only processed if you give your consent and only for the purpose of providing the appropriate electronic services. To ensure your enquiry or your order is processed smoothly and for the purpose of any queries and complaints, we require some obligatory particulars from you as well as your contact details. This relates to the:

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Collection of Anonymous Data and User Profiles

You can always visit our website without letting us know who you are. Only the name of your provider, the website from which you reached our website, and the individual webpages you called up on our website can be established. This information is used for statistical purposes. As an individual user you remain completely anonymous and personalised user profiles are not created. The data gathered from your browsing our website is strictly anonymous and no conclusions about you can be drawn from such data.

Data Processing Outside Germany

No data is used in, or exported to, countries outside the European Economic Area.

Cookies

Visitors to our website with access to its internal area are required to login using their user name and a password. If you do this, a cookie is stored locally on your computer, enabling a renewed login without the need to re-enter your login data. This cookie is valid for four weeks. You may disable this function on our website or in the settings of your browser program. This cookie is merely supposed to simplify your visit to our website, e.g. by automatically filling in your name and address in the form when you are placing an order.

Web Analysis Services and Log Files

This website uses a web analysis service and writes log files, enabling the analysis of your use of the website. Your IP address is ascertained in this connection. The reason it is ascertained is to evaluate your use of the website, put together reports on website activities for the website operators, and to secure our offering from the technical side so as to be in a position to render services in connection with the use of our website and the internet. Under no circumstances is your IP address linked to other data. By using this website you declare yourself agreed with the processing of the data gathered on you by Web analysis services in the above-described manner and for the above-mentioned purposes.

Registered Members (internal commBLUE area)

Only registered users have access to the internal commBLUE area of our website. On request we will send the login data (user name and password) to the user. He or she will receive an automatically generated password which must be changed into a personally chosen password after the first login. The passwords are not visible to us.

Recording of Anonymous Statistics (internal commBLUE area)

The following user data is generally recorded in the commBLUE membership area: date when used, user ID, the IP address, the browsed content. This user data is stored and used beyond the end of the visit to the website. This is only done for the purpose of statistical analyses and is usually pseudonymized or anonymized so that no conclusions can be drawn about the individual person. This data is stored for a period of 12 months for the purpose of drawing up an annual overview.

How to reach us

By entering an address you may obtain route directions showing how to reach us. This data is transferred to, and processed by, the service provider Map24. We have no recourse to the entered address data.

Revocation right concerning data usage

You are free to object to the use of your data at any time. In this case please contact us in order to have your data changed or deleted.

External Links

Our website contains links to third parties for the purpose of providing you with the best possible information. If this is not clearly recognisable, we draw your attention to the fact that the link is an external one. Since these are websites operated by other providers, we have no influence on the related content. This privacy statement does not correspondingly apply to such sites.

Provision of Information

If you wish to inform yourself about the data stored when you visit our website, please contact us. Our contact address is to be found in the imprint.

Previous Versions

Privacy Contact Form

Version from 2008-10-16