Privacy Policy

The pro­tection of your per­sonal data is very important to us. We the­refore ask you to read the fol­lowing privacy policy care­fully.

The purpose of this policy is to inform you about the reason for and extent to which your per­sonal data will be pro­cessed when you visit our website. If you have any further ques­tions, please do not hesitate to contact the con­troller.

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption to protect the trans­mission of per­sonal data and other con­fi­dential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the con­troller). You can reco­gnize an encrypted con­nection by the cha­racter string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

Contact of the data pro­tection officer:
Andrea Straaten
Kas­seler Straße 1a
60486 Frankfurt am Main
datenschutz.de@fibl.org

1. According to the app­li­cable laws, you have various rights regarding your per­sonal data:
   • • Right to obtain con­fir­mation and access
     • Right to request rec­ti­fi­cation
     • Right to erasure (‘right to be for­gotten’)
     • Right to request restriction of pro­cessing
     • Right to data por­ta­bility
     • Right to object
     • Right to withdraw the given consent
     • If you wish to assert these rights, please send your request by e‑mail or by post to the address men­tioned above.
2. You also have the right of lodging a com­p­laint with a super­visory aut­hority about the pro­cessing of your per­sonal data with us.

1. When using our website for infor­mation pur­poses only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with infor­mation, we only collect the per­sonal data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). If you want to visit our website, we collect the fol­lowing infor­mation that is tech­ni­cally necessary for us to display our website and to ensure the sta­bility, func­tio­n­ality and security of our website:
   • our visited website
   • used IP address
   • date and time of access
   • Time zone dif­fe­rence to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
   • Access status / HTTP status code
   • the amount of data trans­ferred in bytes
   • Website from which you accessed the site (source/reference)
   • used browser
   • the ope­rating system used and its interface
   • Lan­guage and version of the browser software.

2. The legal basis is our legi­timate interest in ensuring a smooth con­nection setup and a com­for­table use of the website as well as in the pos­si­bility to eva­luate system security and sta­bility and to pursue further admi­nis­trative pur­poses in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

3. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way.

1. In addition to the purely infor­ma­tional use of our website, we offer various ser­vices which you can use if you are inte­rested. For this purpose, you must gene­rally provide further per­sonal data, which we use to perform the respective service and to which the afo­re­men­tioned data pro­cessing principles apply. In some cases we use external service pro­viders to process your data. These have been care­fully selected and com­mis­sioned by us, are bound by our inst­ruc­tions and are regu­larly checked.
2. We may also pass on your per­sonal data to third parties if we cooperate with service pro­viders who offer you pro­mo­tions, lot­teries or similar.
3. Fur­thermore, we inform you in the respective offer about a transfer of your data outside the European Eco­nomic Area (EEA).

1. If you send us enquiries via e‑mail, your data will be stored for the purpose of ans­wering the enquiry and in the event of follow-up ques­tions. You will be required to provide your name and e‑mail address. Pro­viding a tele­phone number and other data is vol­untary and serves to faci­litate contact and to enable us to address you per­so­nally. These data are stored and used solely for the purpose of responding to your request or for estab­li­shing contact and the tech­nical admi­nis­tration. The legal basis for pro­cessing the data is our legi­timate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
2. Your data will be deleted when your inquiry has been finally cla­rified and if no sta­tutory retention obli­ga­tions oppose this.

• In order to present our content cor­rectly and gra­phi­cally appe­aling across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries from Google Web­fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google web fonts are trans­ferred to your browser’s cache to avoid mul­tiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or pre­vents access, the content is dis­played in a standard font. The legal basis for the use of Google Web Fonts is our legi­timate interest in the correct graphic repre­sen­tation of our website in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit.f GDPR.
• Calling up script libraries or font libraries auto­ma­ti­cally estab­lishes a con­nection to the library ope­rator. It is theo­re­ti­cally pos­sible – but cur­r­ently also unclear whether and, if so, for what pur­poses – that ope­rators of such libraries collect data.
• You can find the privacy policy of the library ope­rator Google here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy

1. We uses the ser­vices of etracker GmbH, Hamburg, Germany (her­ein­after referred to as “etracker”) to analyse usage data. We do not use cookies for web ana­lysis by default. If we use ana­lysis and opti­mi­sation cookies, we will obtain your explicit consent sepa­r­ately in advance. If this is the case and you agree, cookies are used to enable a sta­tis­tical range ana­lysis of this website, a mea­su­rement of the success of our online mar­keting mea­sures and test pro­ce­dures, e.g. to test and optimise dif­ferent ver­sions of our online offer or its com­ponents. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the Internet browser on the user’s device. etracker cookies do not contain any infor­mation that could identify a user.
2. The data gene­rated by etracker on behalf of the pro­vider of this website is pro­cessed and stored by etracker solely in Germany by com­mission of the pro­vider of this website and is thus subject to the strict German and European data pro­tection laws and stan­dards. In this regard, etracker was inde­pendently checked, cer­tified and awarded with the data pro­tection seal of approval.
3. The data pro­cessing is based on Art. 6 Section 1 lit f (legi­timate interest) of the General Data Pro­tection Regu­lation (GDPR). Our legi­timate interest is the opti­mi­sation of our online offer and our website. As the privacy of our visitors is very important to us, the data that may pos­sibly allow a refe­rence to an indi­vidual person, such as IP address, regis­tration or device IDs, will be anony­mised or pseud­ony­mised as soon as pos­sible. etracker does not use the data for any other purpose, combine it with other data or pass it on to third parties.

   You can object to the out­lined data pro­cessing at any time. Your objection has no dis­ad­van­ta­geous con­se­quences.

1. If you have con­sented to the pro­cessing of your data, it is pos­sible at any time to withdraw this pro­cessing for the future. As a result, your data will no longer be pro­cessed for the agreed purpose.
2. If your data are pro­cessed on the basis of a weighing of inte­rests in accordance with the legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 sen­tence 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you can object to this if you have special reasons against pro­cessing the data.
3. You also have the pos­si­bility to object to the pro­cessing of your data for the purpose of direct mar­keting. Thus, your data will no longer be pro­cessed for the purpose of direct adver­tising.