Privacy policy

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the registration form 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 bar of the browser says "https://" as well as the lock icon in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us cannot be read by third parties.

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host's servers. These may include IP addresses, meta and communication data, contact data, website access, and other data generated through a website. A host is used in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider. Our host will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and will follow our instructions with respect to this data.

If you contact us by e-mail or telephone, contact form or social media channels, your request will be stored and processed by us, including any resulting personal data (e.g. name, request) for the purpose of processing your request. We will not share this information without your consent. The data sent by you to us will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for the data storage is omitted (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular, statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

You can register on this website to use additional features on the site. We will only use the data entered for this purpose for the purpose of using the respective offer or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will refuse registration. For important changes, such as the scope of the offer, or in the case of technically necessary changes, we use the e-mail address provided at the time of registration in order to inform you in this way. The data collected during registration will be stored by us as long as you are registered on this website and will then afterwards be deleted. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The purpose of cookies is to make our website more user-friendly, effective and more secure Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about the storing of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to enable the automatic deletion of the cookies when the browser is closed.

When disabling cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your browsing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.

This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies, which allows an analysis of your use of the website. 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. The storage of Google Analytics cookies and the use of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behaviour in order to optimize its website.

If you wish to obtain the ifaNEWS offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and agree to receive the ifaNEWS. Further data are not collected or only on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for the sending of the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties for any other purpose. You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address as well as its use for sending the ifaNEWS at any time, for example via the "unsubscribe" link in the ifaNEWS. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation. The data transmitted by you for the purpose of receiving the ifaNEWS will be stored by us, or the newsletter service provider until you are unsubscribed from the ifaNEWS and deleted from the distribution list after unsubscribing from the ifaNEWS. Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected. After you have been removed from the distribution list, your e-mail address may be blacklisted by us or the newsletter service provider in order to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist is used only for this purpose and not merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with legal requirements. Blacklist storage is not limited in time. You may object to storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interests.

This website uses CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede, Germany. CleverReach is a service that organizes and analyzes the shipping of the ifaNEWS. The data you enter for ifaNEWS subscription (e.g. e-mail address) will be stored on CleverReach's servers in Germany or Ireland. Our ifaNEWS sent with CleverReach allow us to analyze the behaviour of ifaNEWS receivers. Among other things, it is possible to analyze how many recipients of the ifaNEWS have opened it and how often which link has been clicked. For more information on cleverreach's data analysis, see here. If you do not want an analysis by CleverReach, you need to unsubscribe from the ifaNEWS. For this purpose, we provide a corresponding link in each ifaNEWS. For more information, see the CleverReachs Privacy Policy.