We will only collect personal data to the extent that it is required for the Specific Purposes or to comply with legal obligations. We will not hold more personal data than we need for the Specific Purposes.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data we hold is accurate and kept up to date. We will check the accuracy of any personal data at the point of collection and at reasonable intervals afterwards. We will consider challenges to the accuracy of the information that we hold and we will take all reasonable steps to amend or securely destroy inaccurate or out-of-date data.
We will not keep personal data longer than is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which they were collected. At reasonable intervals we will review the length of time that we hold personal data and we will take all reasonable steps to securely destroy, or erase from our systems, all data which is no longer required.
Data subjects may make a formal request for the information we hold about them. This request must be made in writing and may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing the information we hold on the data subjects.
We use cookies on our site to detect the multiple use of our service, by the same user/ Internet
connection owners. Cookies are small text files that are stored and saved by your Internet browser
on your computer. They are used to improve our website and our service. These are usually called
"session cookies", which are deleted after the end of your visit.
In part, these cookies usually provide information to automatically recognise you again. This
recognition is made possible through the stored IP address in the cookie. This acquired information
is used to improve our services and to allow you easier access to our site.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however,
we would like to point out that you may not be able to use all features of our website in this case.
Listed are some but not all external cookies and the use of these cookies which we use on our site.
We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc.,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 United States, hereinafter "Google".
Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and thereby
allow analysis of your use of the website.
The information generated by these cookies, e.g., time, place and frequency of your Website
visits including your IP address, will be transferred to Google in the US and stored there.
We use Google Analytics with the extension "gat._anonymiseIp" on our website. In this case,
within the European Union or in other countries in contractual agreement with the European
Economic Zone, your IP address will be condensed and thereby made anonymous.
Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports
for us on website activity and providing more related services to website and Internet usages.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties, provided that it is required by law
or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Google will, by its own account, not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software;
however, we point out that you may not be able to use all features of our website in this case.
In addition, Google provides for the most common browsers a deactivation add-on, which gives you
more control over, which data is collected by Google from an opened websites. The add-on communicates
with JavaScript ( ga.js ) to Google Analytics that no information should be submitted of the visited sites.
The deactivation add-on for browser from Google Analytics does not prevent that information is transmitted
to us or to others of our web analytics services. More information about installing the browser add-on can
be obtained from the following link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
On our page we are or may be making use of plug-ins from the Facebook, products of Facebook Inc., 1601 S.
California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. in short "Facebook".
On every visit to our site that features a Facebook plug-in, the plug-in induces your browser to download
the component from Facebook. Facebook will be notified which specific site you are visiting on our homepage.
If you are visiting our site while you are logged on to Facebook, Facebook will collect through its
plugins information which specific site you are visiting and will allocate that information to your Facebook
profile. For instance if you are clicking on "like" or leave a comment, the collected data will be allocated
to your Facebook profile and saved. Further, the information that you have visited our site be forwarded to
Facebook, whether you click a Facebook plugin or not.
If you wish to avoid being tracked by Facebook in the above mentioned ways, you will need to to log out
of your Facebook account before visiting our site. Facebook's privacy details for its plug-ins with further
detailed information about the tracking, transfer and use of data collected by Facebook, your rights and about
your profile settings can be found here:
https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
External tools can be used to block Facebook-social-plugins with the help of add-ons usable by all major
browsers: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker
Here you will find an overview of all of Facebook's plugins that are in use:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. Where appropriate, we will notify data subjects of those changes by mail or email.
Last updated: October 2015