Privacy Policy for Facebook Plugins (Like/Share Button, etc.)

Plugins of the social media provider Facebook.com (for Europe: Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland; for the USA: Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA) are implemented on this website. An overview of Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

By visiting pages with Facebook plugins, a connection between your browser and a Facebook server is established through the plugin. Facebook receives information about your IP address and your visit to our website.

By clicking on the Facebook plugins, you will be redirected to the Facebook login area. Already logged-in Facebook users can immediately share content from our website on their Facebook profiles. By using these plugins, Facebook can assign the visit to our website to your personal user account. We explicitly point out that we, as providers of these websites, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and its use by Facebook. For more information on Facebook's privacy policy, please visit: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

To prevent Facebook from assigning your visit to our website to your user account, you must log out of your Facebook account.

Privacy Policy for YouTube and Google

We embed videos from the “YouTube” platform provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Privacy Policy for LinkedIn

Within our online offer, functions and content of the service LinkedIn, offered by LinkedIn AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany, can be embedded. This may include content such as images, videos, or texts and buttons with which users can express their liking of the content, subscribe to the authors of the content, or our contributions. If users are members of the LinkedIn platform, LinkedIn can assign the access to the above-mentioned content and functions to the user profiles there.

LinkedIn's privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy LinkedIn is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active).

Privacy Policy for WhatsApp

For communication with our customers and other third parties, we use the instant messaging service WhatsApp, among others. The provider is WhatsApp Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Communication takes place via end-to-end encryption (peer-to-peer), which prevents WhatsApp or other third parties from gaining access to the communication content. However, WhatsApp receives access to metadata that arises during the communication process (e.g. sender, recipient and time). We would also like to point out that WhatsApp says it shares its users' personal data with its US-based parent company Facebook. Further details on data processing can be found in WhatsApp's data protection policy at: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#privacy-policy.

The use of WhatsApp is based on our legitimate interest in communicating with customers, interested parties and other business and contractual partners as quickly and effectively as possible (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). If consent has been requested, data processing will be carried out exclusively on the basis of consent; this can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

The communication content exchanged between and on WhatsApp will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.