On our websites, we use services and technologies to store information on your end device and/or technologies to access information that is already stored on your end device. These technologies can be cookies, for example. Cookies are text files and/or entries in the browser's own database that assign the browser you are using by means of a characteristic character string. Certain information flows between the place that sets the cookie and your end device.
Cookies and other services may contain data that make it possible to recognize the device used. In some cases, cookies and other technologies only contain information on certain settings that are not personally identifiable.
You can refuse or technically prevent some services if your browser allows this. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent.
Die Hilfe-Funktion in der Menüleiste der meisten Webbrowser erklärt Ihnen z.B., wie Sie Ihren Browser davon abhalten, neue Cookies zu akzeptieren, wie Sie Ihren Browser darauf hinweisen lassen, wenn Sie ein neues Cookie erhalten oder auch, wie Sie sämtliche erhaltenen Cookies löschen. Auch können Sie Ihren Browser so verändern, dass spezielle Technologien nicht in Ihrem Browser ausgeführt werden (z.B. JavaScript), welche die Dienste benötigen. Soweit die Dienste auf unseren Webseiten, die personenbezogenen Daten auf Grundlage von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f EU-DSGVO verarbeiten, kann der Widerspruch somit technisch über diese Browserfunktionen und Technologien umgesetzt werden.
With regard to their function, a distinction is made between services:
Technical services: These are essential to navigate the website, use basic functions and ensure the security of the website; they do not collect information about you for marketing purposes or store which websites you have visited;
Performance Services: These collect information about how you use our website, which pages you visit and, for example, whether errors occur during website use; they do not collect any information that could identify you - all information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve our website and to find out what interests our users;
Advertising, targeting & sharing services, social media plugins: These are used to offer website users needs-based advertising on the website or offers from third parties and to measure the effectiveness of these offers. These services can also be used to improve the interactivity of our website with other services (e.g. social networks).
What all services have in common is that they store information on your end device and/or access information that is already stored on your end device.
In contrast to the functional differentiation of services, the legislator only distinguishes between two purposes of services:
1. services that are necessary for the transmission of a message via a public telecommunications network and/or are absolutely necessary for the provider of a telemedia service to be able to provide a telemedia service expressly requested by the user. The necessity can be based on technical, legal, economic, operational and/or contractual agreements.
2. services for all other purposes.
Jeder Einsatz von Diensten, die zwingend technisch, rechtlich, wirtschaftlich, betrieblich und/oder vertraglich erforderlich sind, um einen ausdrücklich gewünschten Dienst bereitzustellen, können auf eine andere Rechtsgrundlage als die Einwilligung nach Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a EU-DSGVO gestützt sein.