6. Cookies and web analysis tools
a) Use of cookies
We use cookies to track the preferences of our visitors and to optimize our web pages. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer when you visit our website. You are free to delete cookies at any time. However, this may result in individual functions not being available any longer. Please see the help function of your browser on how to delete cookies.
b) Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, the web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “Cookies”, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of this website. The information about your usage of this website that is generated by the Cookie is usually transferred to one of Google’s servers in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization was activated for this website, your IP address is truncated first by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other member states of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the USA and truncated there.
Google will use this information on our behalf to analyze the use of this website, to create reports about website activities, and to perform other services in connection with the use of our website and the internet. The IP address that is transmitted by your browser through Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You can prevent the saving of Cookies in the settings of your browser software; however, please note that in that case you may not be able to use any functions of this website to your full benefit. Moreover, you can prevent the transmission of the data generated by the Cookie with respect to the use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and their processing by Google by clicking on the link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) below and download and install the browser plug-in that is available there.
As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can prevent the collection of your data by Google Universal Analytics by clicking on the link below:
Disable the collection of data by Google Analytics for this website
This will activate an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website. For more information, see http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information about Google Analytics and data privacy).
Please note that on this website Google Analytics was extended by the code »gat._anonymizeIp();« to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (referred to as IP masking).
c) Google Maps
This website uses the Google Maps service via an API which is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland To use the functionalities of Google Maps it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the USA and stored there. We don’t have any influence on the transmission of this data. For Google’s data privacy statement, see https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.
d) YouTube
This website uses plugins from YouTube which is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (“Google”). For Google’s data privacy statement, see https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.