Privacy policy
Comments
When visitors post comments on the website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, the visitor's IP address and the user agent string (which identifies the browser) to help recognise spam.
An anonymised character string (also known as a hash) can be created from your email address and passed to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service's privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.
Cookies
If you write a comment on our website, this may be a consent to save your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that if you leave another comment you will not be
you have to enter all this data again. These cookies are stored for one year.
If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.
When you sign up, we will set up some cookies to store your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and cookies for display options after one year. If you select "Stay logged in" when you log in, your login will be maintained for a fortnight. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you have just edited. The cookie expires after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.
When you write a comment, it is saved indefinitely, including metadata. In this way, we can automatically recognise and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the user name cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and change this information.
What rights you have to your data
If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including any data you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have stored about you. This does not include the data that
we are required to store for administrative, legal or security reasons.
Where we send your data
Analysis services
We use the web analysis service on our website trackboxx. We use it to statistically evaluate visitor access and analyse the use of our website. The data is stored anonymously on a server in Germany for this purpose and is subject to the provisions of the GDPR.
We do not use cookies or store any personal data. Instead, your IP address is used to generate a code that is then assigned to an anonymous user ID for as long as you are on our website. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person and is encrypted with a code that changes daily. It is therefore not possible to "recognise" you when you visit our website again.
There is no cross-site tracking, linking of data with other sources or forwarding of information to third parties.
The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6, para. 1, lit. f, GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the needs-based design and optimisation of our website.
If you still do not want to help improve our site, you can control this at any time using the "Do-Not-Track" function in your browser. We have summarised links here on how this works for the most common browser types:
