This is the Minimal Carbon Site Privacy policy
Disclaimer and privacy policy
Liability concerning content
The contents of this website were created carefully. Nevertheless, we are not able to warrant the information provided on this website to be complete, correct and always up-to-date.
According to § 7 par. 1 TMG (Teleservices Act) we, as service provider, are responsible for own contents of these pages according to the general laws. However, pursuant to §§ 8 through 10 TMG, we are not responsible as service provider to monitor transferred or stored information of third parties or to research circumstances that suggest an illegal activity. Obligations to the removal or blockage of the use of information according to the general laws remain untouched from this. A liability referring to this is however only possible from the moment of actual notice of a specific infringement. These contents will be immediately removed upon discovery of any corresponding infringements.
Liability concerning links
This website contains links to third-party external websites with content over which we have no influence. Thus, we cannot take over warranty for these foreign contents. The respective supplier or operator of the external website is always responsible for the contents of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked at the time the link was established for possible legal infringements and recognizable legal violations. Illegal contents were not recognizable at the time of linking. A permanent control of the linked pages without precise clues concerning a breach of law is not reasonable. As soon as we become aware of a legal violation, we will remove such contents immediately.
Copyright and Trademark Law
The content and works on these sites produced by the site operators are subject to German copyright law. Contributions by third parties are marked as such. Downloads and copies on this website may only be used to the extent agreed, or – if nothing has been agreed – that corresponds to the purpose pursued by us with making available and transfer by us. Irrespective of this information, trademarks and other content on our website must not be altered, copied, duplicated, sold, hired out, used, added or utilised in any other way without our prior written approval. We endeavour to observe the copyright of others and/or to fall back on works we have prepared ourselves or which are licence-free. If, however, any copyright violation comes to your attention, we would like you to provide us with a corresponding indication. As soon as we learn of such legal offences, we will remove such contents.
Data Protection
Generally, the use of this site is possible without the declaration of personal data. Where personal data (such as name, address or e-mail-adress) is collected on our pages, this is done voluntarily where possible. These data will not be passed to third parties without your explicit consent. We would like to point out that at the transmission of data over the Internet (e.g. at the communication by e-mail) security gaps might occur. Continuous protection of your data from access by third parties is not possible and is not guaranteed.
The use of contact details, released in accordance with the legal requirements as regards the imprint, by third parties for the transmission of advertising and information material without explicit permission is not permitted. The operators of these pages reserve the right to legal steps against the receipt of unwanted advertising such as spam e-mails.
Cookies
Partially, websites use so called “cookies”. Cookies do not damage your computer and contain neither viruses nor other damaging tools. Cookies serve the purpose of making our offer user-freindly, effective and safer. Cookies are small textfiles which are placed by your browser on your computer.
Most of the cookies that we use are so called “session cookies”, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser session. Other cookies are stored on your device until you delete them. Those cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit to our website. You can configure your browser to always inform you about established cookies, te decide case by case if you accept cookies or to generally not accept cookies. However, the deactivation or rejection of cookies may restrict the functionality of our web offer.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses cookies within the framework of Google Analytics. This is a web analytics service by Google LLC (“Google”). By using the analytics cookies, we learn how the website is used and can thus continuously optimize our offer. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
IP anonymisation
By anonymising your IP address on this website, Google will reduce your IP address within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the USA. Google uses this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.
Browser Plugin
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Opposition to the data collection
You can prevent the capturing of your data on this website by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set in order to prevent the capturing of your data during future visits to this website: Click here to deactivate Google Analytics
Through the use of this website, you express your consent to the processing of data collected about you by Google in the manner described above and in the purpose described above.
More information on how Google uses user data of Goolge Analytics can be found in the data protection declaration of Google: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Use of Facebook Social Plugins
Our online presence uses social plugins (“plugins”) from the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are recognisable through one of the Facebook logos (white “f” on a blue square or a “thumbs up” sign) or are labelled with “Facebook Social Plugin”. The list and appearance of Facebook social plugins can be viewed here: developers.facebook.com/plugins
If you access a webpage from our online presence which contains such a plugin, your browser is directly connected to the Facebook servers. The plugin content is directly transferred to your browser and included in the website. Thus, we do not have any influence on the scope of data which Facebook collects with the help of these plugins and are accordingly informing you of our state of knowledge.
Facebook, with the plugin inclusion, receives the information that you have accessed pages from our website. If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can allocate the visit to your Facebook account. When you interact with these plugins for example by using the “Like” button or writing a comment the corresponding information on your browser is directly transferred to Facebook and saved there. If you are not a Facebook member there is still the possibility in spite of this of Facebook finding and saving your IP address.
The purpose and scope of the data collection, further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as the rights and settings possibilities to protect your private sphere in regard to this can be read on the data protection section Facebook: www.facebook.com/policy.php
If you are a member of Facebook and would not like Facebook to collect and link data about you to the data saved on Facebook via our internet presence you have to log out of Facebook before visiting our internet presence.
Use of the Google+ Button
Our online presence uses the social network Google Plus “+1″ button which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”). The button is recognisable by the “+1″ sign on a white or coloured background.
When you access a web page from our online presence which has this button, your browser makes a direct connection with the Google servers. The “+1″ button content is directly transferred from Google to your browser and included in the website. Thus, we do not have any influence on the scope of data which Google collects with the button. Personal data is not collected without clicking on the button according to Google. Only logged-in members will have such data, e.g. the IP address, collected and processed. The purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of the data by Google as well as the rights and settings possibilities to protect your privacy in regards to this can be read in the data protection section on the “+1″ button: www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html. If you are a Google Plus member and would not like Google to collect data about you via our online presence and link the data to your member data saved by Google, you have to log out of Google Plus before visiting our website.
Use of Twitter
Our online presence uses the social network Twitter. The included functions are provided by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. By using Twitter and the function “retweet” the web pages you visited on the website will be connected with your Twitter account and communicated to other users. In the process, data is transmitted to Twitter. Please note that we, as a website provider, do neither receive knowledge of the content of the transmitted data nor of its utilisation by Twitter.
Further information can be found in the data protection declaration of Twitter: http://twitter.com/privacy.
Your privacy settings can be adjusted in the settings of your Twitter account: http://twitter.com/account/settings.
SSL encryption
For the purposes of security and safe transfers of confidential contents, our online presence uses a SSL encryption. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) ensures that your personal data can only be transferred over the internet in encrypted form and decrypted only by our servers. You can check you have a secure and encrypted connection with SSL by looking for the padlock symbol in the status bar on your browser and the URL address will change from “http://” to “https://”.
Legal effect of this liability disclaimer
This liability disclaimer is to be viewed as part of the internet offering from which you were referred from. Should parts or specific wordings of this text do not, no longer or do not completely comply with the current legal situation, this shall not prejudice the remaining parts with regard to their content and validity.