Privacy Policy

1. Privacy at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the privacy policy set out below.

2. Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

3. How do we collect your data?

Some of your data is collected because you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically, or after you have given your consent, by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. web browser, operating system or time of the page request). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

4. What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

5. What rights do you have regarding your data?

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

You can contact us at any time regarding these and any other questions on data protection.

6. Hosting

We host our website with a professional hosting provider. The hosting provider's privacy policy is available on its website.

7. General information and mandatory 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 privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

8. Data collection on this website

Server log files

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

• browser type and browser version
• operating system used
• referrer URL
• host name of the accessing computer
• time of the server request
• IP address

This data is not combined with other data sources.

This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of the website - for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

9. Plugins and tools

Google Fonts (local hosting)

This site uses so-called Google Fonts, provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. No connection to Google servers is made in the process.

Google AdSense (blog and reading lists only)

On the blog pages and the reading lists of this website (the blog overviews at /blog and /blog-en, all posts under /blog/, the reading list overviews at /reading-lists/ and /reading-lists/index-de, and all reading lists under /reading-lists/), we use Google AdSense, a service for displaying advertisements. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google AdSense is not loaded on any other page of this website.

Google AdSense uses cookies and similar technologies (e.g. device identifiers and local storage) to deliver ads, limit how often ads are shown, prevent fraud and measure the effectiveness of ads. In particular, your IP address, information about your browser and device, the page visited, the date and time of access and your interaction with ads may be processed. Whether ads are shown, and whether they are personalised or non-personalised, depends on your choice in the consent dialog. A transfer of data to Google LLC in the USA cannot be ruled out; Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

The legal basis for the delivery of ads, their personalisation and the storing of and access to cookies and other identifiers on your device is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act, TDDDG). We obtain this consent through Google's consent management platform (CMP) before any such processing takes place. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time with effect for the future via the “Privacy and cookie settings” link in the footer of every blog and reading list page.

Visitors from US states with applicable privacy laws are shown an opt-out notice by the Google CMP instead of the consent request. You can object to the sale or sharing of your personal information via the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer of the blog and reading list pages.

Only the loading of the AdSense script, to the extent that it delivers the consent dialog of the Google CMP, is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. It is technically necessary in order to be able to ask for your consent at all; in the process, your IP address is transmitted to Google.

Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy and at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

10. Changes

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services.

11. Contact