Privacy

Privacy Policy for Cookies

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page and the section "Privacy Policy for Google Analytics" below.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the CookiePolicyGenerator.com

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods listed at the end of this page.

Privacy Policy for Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on
your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the
USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google before transmission in the European Union.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to
evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Privacy Policy for Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps. Google Maps is a map service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.
By using Google Maps, information about the use of this website, including your IP address and geolocations, when using the route planning function, such as start and endpoints
may be transmitted to the USA. When you visit a page within our website that uses Google Maps, your browser will make a direct connection to servers of Google Inc. The map information is directly transmitted to your browser from Google. We have no means of influencing the direct transmissions between you and Google. As to our knowledge these data are transmitted:

Date and time of the page visit
Address (URL) of the visited page
Your IP address
Geolocations (e.g. starting point) when using route planning functions

We can not be held responsible for the storage and processing of the data transmitted by Google, since we can not affect it in any way.
If you prefer to not transmit data to Google when visiting our website, you can deactivate JavaScript in your internet browser. In this case, you will not be able to use the map services provided by Google Maps.

For more details, please refer to the relevant documentation by Google.
By using our website, you agree to the processing of data collected - by Google Maps services - in the abovementioned way and extent.

Privacy Policy for Webfonts

This website uses Webfonts. They are provided by Google (http://www.google.com/webfonts/).
Your internet browser loads them directly from Google. In doing so, the text on the pages of this website are improved visually.
If your browser does not support this functionality, a stock font will be used to display the text on the pages of this website.

Additional information regarding webfonts
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?hl=de-DE&csw=1
General privacy information from Google
http://www.google.com/intl/de-DE/policies/privacy/