The safety of personal data such as name, address, telephone number and e-mail address is very important to us. This is why we operate our web activities in compliance with German data protection and data security laws.

We do not gather any personal information via our website without your consent. You alone decide whether you wish to give us these data, for example in order to register, or for surveys etc.  Normally we only use your personal data in order to reply to your inquiries, process your order or allow you access to special information or offers.  In the interests of good client relations, it is also sometimes necessary to store or process your personal data. We may also forward data to subsidiaries to enable us to fulfil your wishes more closely or to improve or products and services. We (or third parties acting on our behalf)  may also use these data in order to inform you about offers that may be helpful to your business, or to carry out online surveys so that we can meet your requirements better.

Of course, we  will respect your wishes if you do not want us to use your personal data to support our client relations, especially for direct marketing or market research. We will not sell your personal data to third parties or market them in any other way.

When you access our website, information is sometimes automatically collected, that is not allocated to a particular individual (e.g. Internet browsers or operating systems used; number of visits, average time on site etc.). We use this information in order to assess how attractive our website is and to improve the content. When you visit our website, we may save information on your computer in the form of cookies which will automatically recognise you the next time you visit the site. Cookies enable us to adapt a website to suit your interests, for example or to save your password so that you do not have to enter it again every time you visit the site. If you do not want us to recognise your computer, you must set your Internet browser so that it deletes cookies from your hard disc, blocks all cookies or warns you before a cookie is saved.

We take every precaution to ensure that your personal data remains safe. Your data will be conscientiously protected against loss, destruction, forgery, manipulation, unauthorised access or unauthorised exposure.