Pri­va­cy policy

1. data pro­tec­tion at a glance

Gene­ral information

The fol­lo­wing notes pro­vi­de a simp­le over­view of what hap­pens to your per­so­nal data when you visit this web­site. Per­so­nal data is any data by which you can be per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fied. For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on on data pro­tec­tion, plea­se refer to our pri­va­cy poli­cy lis­ted below this text.

Data coll­ec­tion on this website

Who is respon­si­ble for data coll­ec­tion on this website?

Data pro­ces­sing on this web­site is car­ri­ed out by the web­site ope­ra­tor. You can find his cont­act details in the sec­tion “Note on the respon­si­ble par­ty” in this pri­va­cy policy.

How do we coll­ect your data?

On the one hand, your data is coll­ec­ted by you pro­vi­ding it to us. This can be, for exam­p­le, data that you enter in a cont­act form.

Other data is coll­ec­ted auto­ma­ti­cal­ly or after your con­sent when you visit the web­site by our IT sys­tems. This is main­ly tech­ni­cal data (e.g. Inter­net brow­ser, ope­ra­ting sys­tem or time of page view). The coll­ec­tion of this data takes place auto­ma­ti­cal­ly as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is coll­ec­ted to ensu­re error-free pro­vi­si­on of the web­site. Other data may be used to ana­ly­ze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regar­ding your data?

You have the right at any time to recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on free of char­ge about the ori­gin, reci­pi­ent and pur­po­se of your stored per­so­nal data. You also have a right to request the cor­rec­tion or dele­ti­on of this data. If you have given your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing, you can revo­ke this con­sent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances. Fur­ther­mo­re, you have the right to lodge a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry authority.

For this pur­po­se, as well as for fur­ther ques­ti­ons on the sub­ject of data pro­tec­tion, you can cont­act us at any time.

Ana­ly­sis tools and third-par­ty tools

When visi­ting this web­site, your sur­fing beha­vi­or may be sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­zed. This is done pri­ma­ri­ly with so-cal­led ana­ly­sis programs.

Detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about the­se ana­ly­sis pro­grams can be found in the fol­lo­wing pri­va­cy policy.

2. Hos­ting

Exter­nal hosting

This web­site is hos­ted by an exter­nal ser­vice pro­vi­der (hos­ter). The per­so­nal data coll­ec­ted on this web­site is stored on the hoster’s ser­vers. This may include, but is not limi­t­ed to, IP addres­ses, cont­act requests, meta and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on data, con­tract data, cont­act details, names, web­site acces­ses and other data gene­ra­ted via a website.

The hos­ter is used for the pur­po­se of ful­fil­ling the con­tract with our poten­ti­al and exis­ting cus­to­mers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO) and in the inte­rest of a secu­re, fast and effi­ci­ent pro­vi­si­on of our online offer by a pro­fes­sio­nal pro­vi­der (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). Inso­far as a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, inso­far as the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s ter­mi­nal device (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) as defi­ned by the TTDSG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Our hos­ter will only pro­cess your data to the ext­ent neces­sa­ry to ful­fill its ser­vice obli­ga­ti­ons and fol­low our ins­truc­tions regar­ding this data.

We use the fol­lo­wing hoster:

One.com
Carls­gatan 3
211 20 Malmö
Sweden

Order pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded an order pro­ces­sing agree­ment (AVV) with the abo­ve-men­tio­ned pro­vi­der. This is a con­tract requi­red by data pro­tec­tion law, which ensu­res that this pro­vi­der only pro­ces­ses the per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors in accordance with our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

3. Gene­ral notes and obli­ga­to­ry information

Data pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of the­se pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very serious­ly. We tre­at your per­so­nal data con­fi­den­ti­al­ly and in accordance with the sta­tu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this data pro­tec­tion declaration.

When you use this web­site, various per­so­nal data are coll­ec­ted. Per­so­nal data is data with which you can be per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fied. This pri­va­cy poli­cy explains what data we coll­ect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what pur­po­se this is done.

We would like to point out that data trans­mis­si­on on the Inter­net (e.g. when com­mu­ni­ca­ting by e‑mail) can have secu­ri­ty gaps. Com­ple­te pro­tec­tion of data against access by third par­ties is not possible.

Note on the respon­si­ble entity

The respon­si­ble body for data pro­ces­sing on this web­site is:

Mobility2Grid e. V.
EUREF-Cam­pus 9
10829 Berlin

E‑Mail: geschaeftsstelle@mobility2grid.de

The con­trol­ler is the natu­ral or legal per­son who alo­ne or joint­ly with others deter­mi­nes the pur­po­ses and means of the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g. names, e‑mail addres­ses, etc.).

Sto­rage period

Unless a more spe­ci­fic sto­rage peri­od has been sta­ted within this pri­va­cy poli­cy, your per­so­nal data will remain with us until the pur­po­se for pro­ces­sing the data no lon­ger appli­es. If you assert a legi­ti­ma­te request for dele­ti­on or revo­ke your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing, your data will be dele­ted unless we have other legal­ly per­mis­si­ble reasons for sto­ring your per­so­nal data (e.g. reten­ti­on peri­ods under tax or com­mer­cial law); in the lat­ter case, the data will be dele­ted once the­se reasons no lon­ger apply.

Gene­ral infor­ma­ti­on on the legal basis for data pro­ces­sing on this website.

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, we pro­cess your per­so­nal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO or Art. 9 (2) lit. a DSGVO, if spe­cial cate­go­ries of data are pro­ces­sed accor­ding to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of expli­cit con­sent to the transfer of per­so­nal data to third count­ries, the data pro­ces­sing is also based on Art. 49 (1) a DSGVO. If you have con­sen­ted to the sto­rage of coo­kies or to the access to infor­ma­ti­on in your ter­mi­nal device (e.g. via device fin­ger­prin­ting), the data pro­ces­sing is addi­tio­nal­ly car­ri­ed out on the basis of Sec­tion 25 (1) TTDSG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time. If your data is requi­red for the per­for­mance of a con­tract or for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. Fur­ther­mo­re, if your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a legal obli­ga­ti­on, we pro­cess it on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO. Fur­ther­mo­re, the data pro­ces­sing may be car­ri­ed out on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest accor­ding to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Infor­ma­ti­on about the rele­vant legal basis in each indi­vi­du­al case is pro­vi­ded in the fol­lo­wing para­graphs of this pri­va­cy policy.

Note on data transfer to the USA and other third countries

Among other things, we use tools from com­pa­nies based in the USA or other third count­ries that are not secu­re under data pro­tec­tion law. If the­se tools are acti­ve, your per­so­nal data may be trans­fer­red to the­se third count­ries and pro­ces­sed the­re. We would like to point out that no level of data pro­tec­tion com­pa­ra­ble to that in the EU can be gua­ran­teed in the­se count­ries. For exam­p­le, US com­pa­nies are obli­ged to hand over per­so­nal data to secu­ri­ty aut­ho­ri­ties wit­hout you as a data sub­ject being able to take legal action against this. It can the­r­e­fo­re not be ruled out that US aut­ho­ri­ties (e.g. intel­li­gence ser­vices) pro­cess, eva­lua­te and per­ma­nent­ly store your data loca­ted on US ser­vers for moni­to­ring pur­po­ses. We have no influence on the­se pro­ces­sing activities.

Revo­ca­ti­on of your con­sent to data processing

Many data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons are only pos­si­ble with your express con­sent. You can revo­ke con­sent you have alre­a­dy given at any time. The lega­li­ty of the data pro­ces­sing car­ri­ed out until the revo­ca­ti­on remains unaf­fec­ted by the revocation.

Right to object to the coll­ec­tion of data in spe­ci­fic cases and to direct mar­ke­ting (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PRO­CES­SING IS BASED ON ART. 6 ABS. 1 LIT. E OR F DSGVO, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARI­SING FROM YOUR PAR­TI­CU­LAR SITUA­TI­ON; THIS ALSO APPLI­ES TO PRO­FIL­ING BASED ON THE­SE PRO­VI­SI­ONS. THE RESPEC­TI­VE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PRO­CES­SING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRI­VA­CY POLI­CY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LON­GER PRO­CESS YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA CON­CER­NED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONS­TRA­TE COM­PEL­LING LEGI­TI­MA­TE GROUNDS FOR THE PRO­CES­SING WHICH OVER­RI­DE YOUR INTE­RESTS, RIGHTS AND FREE­DOMS, OR THE PRO­CES­SING IS FOR THE PUR­PO­SE OF ASSER­TING, EXER­CIS­ING OR DEFEN­DING LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJEC­TION UNDER ARTIC­LE 21(1) DSGVO).

IF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA ARE PRO­CES­SED FOR THE PUR­PO­SE OF DIRECT MAR­KE­TING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF PER­SO­NAL DATA CON­CER­NING YOU FOR THE PUR­PO­SE OF SUCH MAR­KE­TING; THIS ALSO APPLI­ES TO PRO­FIL­ING INSO­FAR AS IT IS RELA­TED TO SUCH DIRECT MAR­KE­TING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA WILL SUB­SE­QUENT­LY NO LON­GER BE USED FOR THE PUR­PO­SE OF DIRECT MAR­KE­TING (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ARTIC­LE 21 (2) DSGVO).

Right of appeal to the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry authority

In the event of vio­la­ti­ons of the GDPR, data sub­jects shall have a right of appeal to a super­vi­so­ry aut­ho­ri­ty, in par­ti­cu­lar in the Mem­ber Sta­te of their habi­tu­al resi­dence, their place of work or the place of the alle­ged vio­la­ti­on. The right of appeal is wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to other admi­nis­tra­ti­ve or judi­cial remedies.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we pro­cess auto­ma­ti­cal­ly on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract han­ded over to you or to a third par­ty in a com­mon, machi­ne-rea­da­ble for­mat. If you request direct transfer of the data to ano­ther respon­si­ble par­ty, this will only be done inso­far as it is tech­ni­cal­ly feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For secu­ri­ty reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­si­on of con­fi­den­ti­al con­tent, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site ope­ra­tor, this site uses SSL or TLS encryp­ti­on. You can reco­gni­ze an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by the fact that the address line of the brow­ser chan­ges from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock sym­bol in your brow­ser line.

If SSL or TLS encryp­ti­on is acti­va­ted, the data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

Infor­ma­ti­on, dele­ti­on and correction

Within the frame­work of the appli­ca­ble legal pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right at any time to free infor­ma­ti­on about your stored per­so­nal data, its ori­gin and reci­pi­ent and the pur­po­se of data pro­ces­sing and, if neces­sa­ry, a right to cor­rec­tion or dele­ti­on of this data. For this pur­po­se, as well as for fur­ther ques­ti­ons on the sub­ject of per­so­nal data, you can cont­act us at any time.

Right to rest­ric­tion of processing

You have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data. For this pur­po­se, you can cont­act us at any time. The right to rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing exists in the fol­lo­wing cases:

  • If you dis­pu­te the accu­ra­cy of your per­so­nal data stored by us, we usual­ly need time to veri­fy this. For the dura­ti­on of the veri­fi­ca­ti­on, you have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.
  • If the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data happened/is hap­pe­ning unlawful­ly, you may request the rest­ric­tion of data pro­ces­sing ins­tead of erasure.
  • If we no lon­ger need your per­so­nal data, but you need it to exer­cise, defend or enforce legal claims, you have the right to request rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data ins­tead of deletion.
  • If you have lodged an objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21 (1) DSGVO, a balan­cing of your and our inte­rests must be car­ri­ed out. As long as it has not yet been deter­mi­ned who­se inte­rests pre­vail, you have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.

If you have rest­ric­ted the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data, such data may — apart from being stored — only be pro­ces­sed with your con­sent or for the asser­ti­on, exer­cise or defen­se of legal claims or for the pro­tec­tion of the rights of ano­ther natu­ral or legal per­son or for reasons of important public inte­rest of the Euro­pean Uni­on or a Mem­ber State.

4. Data coll­ec­tion on this website

Coo­kies

Our Inter­net pages use so-cal­led “coo­kies”. Coo­kies are small text files and do not cau­se any dama­ge to your ter­mi­nal device. They are stored eit­her tem­po­r­a­ri­ly for the dura­ti­on of a ses­si­on (ses­si­on coo­kies) or per­ma­nent­ly (per­ma­nent coo­kies) on your end device. Ses­si­on coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted at the end of your visit. Per­ma­nent coo­kies remain stored on your end device until you dele­te them yours­elf or until they are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted by your web browser.

In some cases, coo­kies from third-par­ty com­pa­nies may also be stored on your ter­mi­nal device when you enter our site (third-par­ty coo­kies). The­se enable us or you to use cer­tain ser­vices of the third-par­ty com­pa­ny (e.g. coo­kies for pro­ces­sing pay­ment services).

Coo­kies have various func­tions. Many coo­kies are tech­ni­cal­ly neces­sa­ry, as cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work wit­hout them (e.g. the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of vide­os). Other coo­kies are used to eva­lua­te user beha­vi­or or dis­play advertising.

Coo­kies that are neces­sa­ry to car­ry out the elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on pro­cess, to pro­vi­de cer­tain func­tions that you have reques­ted (e.g. for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or to opti­mi­ze the web­site (e.g. coo­kies to mea­su­re the web audi­ence) (neces­sa­ry coo­kies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO, unless ano­ther legal basis is spe­ci­fied. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in sto­ring neces­sa­ry coo­kies for the tech­ni­cal­ly error-free and opti­mi­zed pro­vi­si­on of its ser­vices. If con­sent to the sto­rage of coo­kies and com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies has been reques­ted, pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of this con­sent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG); con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

You can set your brow­ser so that you are infor­med about the set­ting of coo­kies and only allow coo­kies in indi­vi­du­al cases, exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies for cer­tain cases or in gene­ral and acti­va­te the auto­ma­tic dele­ti­on of coo­kies when clo­sing the brow­ser. If coo­kies are deac­ti­va­ted, the func­tion­a­li­ty of this web­site may be limited.

If coo­kies are used by third-par­ty com­pa­nies or for ana­ly­sis pur­po­ses, we will inform you about this sepa­ra­te­ly within the frame­work of this data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­on and, if neces­sa­ry, request your consent..

Detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on on the indi­vi­du­al coo­kies can be found in the Coo­kie Poli­cy.

Ser­ver log files

The pro­vi­der of the pages auto­ma­ti­cal­ly coll­ects and stores infor­ma­ti­on in so-cal­led ser­ver log files, which your brow­ser auto­ma­ti­cal­ly trans­mits to us. The­se are:

  • Brow­ser type and version
  • Ope­ra­ting sys­tem used
  • Refer­rer URL
  • Host name of the acces­sing computer
  • Time of the ser­ver request
  • IP address

This data is not mer­ged with other data sources.

The coll­ec­tion of this data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the tech­ni­cal­ly error-free pre­sen­ta­ti­on and opti­miza­ti­on of its web­site — for this pur­po­se, the ser­ver log files must be collected.

Cont­act form

If you send us inqui­ries via the cont­act form, your data from the inquiry form, inclu­ding the cont­act data you pro­vi­ded the­re, will be stored by us for the pur­po­se of pro­ces­sing the inquiry and in case of fol­low-up ques­ti­ons. We do not pass on this data wit­hout your consent.

The pro­ces­sing of this data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO, if your request is rela­ted to the per­for­mance of a con­tract or is neces­sa­ry for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res. In all other cases, the pro­ces­sing is based on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the effec­ti­ve pro­ces­sing of the requests sent to us (Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO) or on your con­sent (Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO) if this has been reques­ted; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data you enter in the cont­act form will remain with us until you request us to dele­te it, revo­ke your con­sent to store it, or the pur­po­se for sto­ring the data no lon­ger appli­es (e.g. after we have com­ple­ted pro­ces­sing your request). Man­da­to­ry legal pro­vi­si­ons — in par­ti­cu­lar reten­ti­on peri­ods — remain unaffected..

Inquiry by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne or fax

If you cont­act us by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne or fax, your inquiry inclu­ding all resul­ting per­so­nal data (name, inquiry) will be stored and pro­ces­sed by us for the pur­po­se of pro­ces­sing your request. We do not pass on this data wit­hout your consent.

The pro­ces­sing of this data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO, if your request is rela­ted to the per­for­mance of a con­tract or is neces­sa­ry for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res. In all other cases, the pro­ces­sing is based on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the effec­ti­ve pro­ces­sing of the requests sent to us (Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO) or on your con­sent (Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO) if this has been reques­ted; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data you send to us via cont­act requests will remain with us until you request us to dele­te it, revo­ke your con­sent to store it, or the pur­po­se for sto­ring the data no lon­ger appli­es (e.g. after your request has been pro­ces­sed). Man­da­to­ry legal pro­vi­si­ons — in par­ti­cu­lar legal reten­ti­on peri­ods — remain unaffected.

Regis­tra­ti­on function

If you crea­te a user account with us via our web­site in order to view pro­tec­ted con­tent and use the dis­cus­sion forum, we will coll­ect and store the data you enter during regis­tra­ti­on (e.g. your name, address or e‑mail address) sole­ly for the pur­po­se of user main­ten­an­ce. At the same time, we will store the IP address and the date of your regis­tra­ti­on along with the time of day. Of cour­se, this data will not be pas­sed on to third par­ties. We use the plug­in “Simp­le Mem­ber­ship” for regis­tra­ti­on and user manage­ment. (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-membership/).

During the regis­tra­ti­on pro­cess, your con­sent to this pro­ces­sing is obtai­ned and refe­rence is made to this pri­va­cy poli­cy. The data coll­ec­ted by us in this pro­cess will be used exclu­si­ve­ly for the pro­vi­si­on of the user account.

Inso­far as you con­sent to this pro­ces­sing, Art. 6 (1) a) DSGVO is the legal basis for the processing.

If the ope­ning of the user account also ser­ves pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res or the ful­fill­ment of the con­tract, the legal basis for this pro­ces­sing is also Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO.

The con­sent given to us for the ope­ning and main­ten­an­ce of the user account can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future in accordance with Art. 7 (3) DSGVO. For this pur­po­se, you only need to inform us of your revocation.

The data coll­ec­ted in this respect will be dele­ted as soon as the pro­ces­sing is no lon­ger neces­sa­ry. In doing so, howe­ver, we must obser­ve reten­ti­on peri­ods under tax and com­mer­cial law.

5. Use of the dis­cus­sion forum

Pre­re­qui­si­te for the use of the forum is regis­tra­ti­on via the appro­pria­te online form. The forum can­not be read wit­hout registration.

If we have acti­va­ted your account, we store all acti­vi­ties in the forum, in par­ti­cu­lar your public topics and posts, your pro­fi­le details, your pri­va­te mes­sa­ges, your signa­tu­re, your account wall and your repu­ta­ti­on, in addi­ti­on to your regis­tra­ti­on data until you log out, in order to ope­ra­te the forum. We store your IP address with date and time when you post new topics and posts, which we dele­te after days. The sto­rage ser­ves the legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest of defen­ding against claims by third par­ties for the publi­ca­ti­on of ille­gal or untrue con­tent by you. We store your e‑mail address and name for the pur­po­se of cont­ac­ting you if third par­ties should legal­ly object to your content.

Legal bases are Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b) and f) DS-GVO.

If your user is dele­ted, your forum posts and topics will remain visi­ble to all rea­ders and will be mark­ed with “Guest”. All other data will be dele­ted. If you also wish your forum posts and topics to be dele­ted, you must noti­fy the respon­si­ble par­ty via the cont­act details abo­ve befo­re the account is dele­ted. After the dele­ti­on of the account, an assign­ment and dele­ti­on of the con­tri­bu­ti­ons is no lon­ger possible.

Duties as a forum user

As a user, you agree that you will not post any mes­sa­ges that vio­la­te the­se rules, mora­li­ty, or any other appli­ca­ble Ger­man law. In par­ti­cu­lar, you are pro­hi­bi­ted from,

  • publish offen­si­ve or untrue content;
  • Send spam to other users through the system;
  • use con­tent pro­tec­ted by law, in par­ti­cu­lar by copy­right and trade­mark law, wit­hout authorization;
  • to take anti-com­pe­ti­ti­ve actions;
  • Pos­ting your topic mul­ti­ple times in the forum (pro­hi­bi­ti­on of dou­ble posting).;
  • Publish third par­ty press artic­les on the forum wit­hout the con­sent of the author;
  • Adver­ti­sing in the forum wit­hout the express writ­ten per­mis­si­on of the pro­vi­der. This also appli­es to so-cal­led sur­rep­ti­tious adver­ti­sing such as, in par­ti­cu­lar, the lin­king of one’s own home­page with or wit­hout post text in the signa­tu­re or within posts. Home­page URLs and address or cont­act data may only be published in the user pro­fi­le of the forum.

As a user, you under­ta­ke to check your con­tri­bu­ti­ons and topics befo­re publi­shing them to see whe­ther they con­tain infor­ma­ti­on that you do not wish to publish. Your con­tri­bu­ti­ons and topics can be recor­ded in search engi­nes and thus beco­me acces­si­ble world­wi­de. A cla­im for dele­ti­on or cor­rec­tion of such search engi­ne ent­ries against the pro­vi­der is excluded.

In the event of a vio­la­ti­on, the pro­vi­der may also impo­se the fol­lo­wing sanc­tions on the user, irre­spec­ti­ve of termination:

  • Dele­ti­on or modi­fi­ca­ti­on of con­tent pos­ted by the user,
  • Issu­an­ce of a war­ning or
  • Blo­cking access to the forum.

Should third par­ties or other users make claims against the pro­vi­der due to pos­si­ble legal vio­la­ti­ons that a) result from the con­tent pos­ted by you as a user and/or b) result from the use of the provider’s ser­vices by you as a user, you as a user agree to indem­ni­fy the pro­vi­der from any claims, inclu­ding claims for dama­ges, and to reim­bur­se the pro­vi­der for the cos­ts incur­red by the pro­vi­der due to the pos­si­ble legal vio­la­ti­on. In par­ti­cu­lar, the pro­vi­der is released from the cos­ts of the neces­sa­ry legal defen­se. The pro­vi­der is entit­led to demand an appro­pria­te advan­ce pay­ment from you as the user for this pur­po­se. As a user, you are obli­ga­ted to sup­port the pro­vi­der in good faith with infor­ma­ti­on and docu­ments in the legal defen­se against third par­ties. All fur­ther rights as well as claims for dama­ges of the pro­vi­der remain unaf­fec­ted. If you as a user are not respon­si­ble for the pos­si­ble inf­rin­ge­ment, the afo­re­men­tio­ned obli­ga­ti­ons do not apply.

6. Plug­ins and tools

Com­pli­anz, The Pri­va­cy Suite for WordPress

This web­site uses Complianz’s Pri­va­cy Suite for Word­Press to coll­ect con­sent forms. For this func­tion­a­li­ty, your IP address is stored anony­mously. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se see Complianz’s pri­va­cy policy.

etra­cker

The pro­vi­der of this web­site uses ser­vices of etra­cker GmbH from Ham­burg, Ger­ma­ny (www.etracker.com) for the ana­ly­sis of usa­ge data. We do not use coo­kies for web ana­ly­sis by default. Inso­far as we use ana­ly­sis and opti­miza­ti­on coo­kies, we obtain your expli­cit con­sent sepa­ra­te­ly in advan­ce. If this is the case and you con­sent, coo­kies are used to enable sta­tis­ti­cal covera­ge ana­ly­sis of this web­site, mea­su­re­ment of the suc­cess of our online mar­ke­ting mea­su­res, and test pro­ce­du­res, for exam­p­le, to test and opti­mi­ze dif­fe­rent ver­si­ons of our online offe­ring or its com­pon­ents. Coo­kies are small text files that are stored by the Inter­net brow­ser on the user’s ter­mi­nal device. etra­cker coo­kies do not con­tain any infor­ma­ti­on that enables iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of a user.

The data gene­ra­ted by etra­cker is pro­ces­sed and stored by etra­cker on behalf of the pro­vi­der of this web­site exclu­si­ve­ly in Ger­ma­ny and is the­r­e­fo­re sub­ject to the strict Ger­man and Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion laws and stan­dards. etra­cker has been inde­pendent­ly audi­ted in this regard, cer­ti­fied and award­ed the ePri­va­cy­se­al data pro­tec­tion seal of approval.

The data pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out on the basis of the legal pro­vi­si­ons of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f (legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest) of the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­ti­on (DSGVO). Our con­cern in terms of the DSGVO (legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest) is the opti­miza­ti­on of our online offer and our web pre­sence. Sin­ce the pri­va­cy of our visi­tors is important to us, the data that may allow a refe­rence to an indi­vi­du­al per­son, such as the IP address, log­in or device iden­ti­fiers, are anony­mi­zed or pseud­ony­mi­zed as soon as pos­si­ble. No other use, com­bi­na­ti­on with other data or transfer to third par­ties will take place.

You can object to the afo­re­men­tio­ned data pro­ces­sing at any time. The objec­tion has no adver­se consequences.

You can find more infor­ma­ti­on about data pro­tec­tion at etra­cker here.

Goog­le reCAPTCHA

We use “Goog­le reCAPTCHA” (her­ein­af­ter “reCAPTCHA”) on this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

The pur­po­se of reCAPTCHA is to veri­fy whe­ther data ent­ry on this web­site (e.g. in a cont­act form) is made by a human or by an auto­ma­ted pro­gram. For this pur­po­se, reCAPTCHA ana­ly­zes the beha­vi­or of the web­site visi­tor based on various cha­rac­te­ristics. This ana­ly­sis beg­ins auto­ma­ti­cal­ly as soon as the web­site visi­tor enters the web­site. For the ana­ly­sis, reCAPTCHA eva­lua­tes various infor­ma­ti­on (e.g. IP address, time spent by the web­site visi­tor on the web­site or mou­se move­ments made by the user). The data coll­ec­ted during the ana­ly­sis is for­ward­ed to Google.

The reCAPTCHA ana­ly­ses run enti­re­ly in the back­ground. Web­site visi­tors are not noti­fied that an ana­ly­sis is taking place.

The sto­rage and ana­ly­sis of the data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in pro­tec­ting its web offers from abu­si­ve auto­ma­ted spy­ing and from SPAM. If a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, inso­far as the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s ter­mi­nal device (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) as defi­ned by the TTDSG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about Goog­le reCAPTCHA, plea­se see the Goog­le Pri­va­cy Poli­cy and the Goog­le Terms of Ser­vice at the fol­lo­wing links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=de.

Goog­le Web Fonts (local hosting)

This site uses so-cal­led web fonts pro­vi­ded by Goog­le for the uni­form dis­play of fonts. The Goog­le Fonts are instal­led local­ly. A con­nec­tion to Goog­le ser­vers does not take place.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about Goog­le Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the pri­va­cy poli­cy of Goog­le: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Lin­ke­dIn (social network)

Lin­ke­dIn plug­ins and but­tons — This may include, for exam­p­le, con­tent such as images, vide­os or text and but­tons that allow users to share con­tent from this online offe­ring within Lin­ke­dIn. Ser­vice pro­vi­der: Lin­ke­dIn Ire­land Unli­mi­t­ed Com­pa­ny, Wil­ton Place, Dub­lin 2, Irland; Web­site: https://www.linkedin.com; Pri­va­cy poli­cy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy; Pri­va­cy Shield (Ensu­ring the level of data pro­tec­tion when pro­ces­sing data in the USA): https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active; Pos­si­bi­li­ty of objec­tion (Opt-Out): https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

 

Poly­lang

For the mul­ti­l­in­gua­lism of our web­site we use the pro­gram Poly­lang. Poly­lang is a pro­duct of WP SYN­TEX, 28, rue Jean Sebas­tien Bach, 38090 Vil­le­fon­taine, France. Coo­kies from Poly­lang are set exclu­si­ve­ly to reco­gni­ze and record the lan­guage used or cho­sen by the user. The­se coo­kies remain stored for one year and are then deleted.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about pri­va­cy com­pli­ance, click here: https://polylang.pro/doc/is-polylang-compatible-with-the-eu-cookie-law/

Vimeo

This web­site uses plug­ins of the video por­tal Vimeo. The pro­vi­der is Vimeo Inc, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equip­ped with a Vimeo video, a con­nec­tion to the Vimeo ser­vers is estab­lished. In the pro­cess, the Vimeo ser­ver is infor­med which of our pages you have visi­ted. In addi­ti­on, Vimeo obta­ins your IP address. This also appli­es if you are not log­ged in to Vimeo or do not have an account with Vimeo. The infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted by Vimeo is trans­mit­ted to the Vimeo ser­ver in the USA.

If you are log­ged into your Vimeo account, you enable Vimeo to assign your sur­fing beha­vi­or direct­ly to your per­so­nal pro­fi­le. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your Vimeo account.

Vimeo uses coo­kies or com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) to reco­gni­ze web­site visitors.

The use of Vimeo is in the inte­rest of an appe­al­ing pre­sen­ta­ti­on of our online offers. This repres­ents a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Inso­far as a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, inso­far as the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s ter­mi­nal device (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TTDSG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data transfer to the USA is based on the stan­dard con­trac­tu­al clau­ses of the EU Com­mis­si­on and, accor­ding to Vimeo, on “legi­ti­ma­te business inte­rests”. Details can be found here: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on the hand­ling of user data, plea­se refer to Vimeo’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Word­fence

We have inte­gra­ted Word­fence on this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Defi­ant Inc, Defi­ant, Inc, 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seat­tle, WA 98104, USA (her­ein­af­ter “Word­fence”).

Word­fence is used to pro­tect our web­site from unwan­ted access or mali­cious cyber­at­tacks. For this pur­po­se, our web­site estab­lishes a per­ma­nent con­nec­tion to Wordfence’s ser­vers so that Word­fence can match its data­ba­ses with the acces­ses made to our web­site and block them if necessary.

The use of Word­fence is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in pro­tec­ting its web­site as effec­tively as pos­si­ble against cyber­at­tacks. Inso­far as a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, inso­far as the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s ter­mi­nal device (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) as defi­ned by the TTDSG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the stan­dard con­trac­tu­al clau­ses of the EU Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/.