Liability for content

As a ser­vice pro­vi­der, we are respon­si­ble for our own con­tent on the­se pages in accordance with gene­ral law pur­su­ant to Sec­tion 7 (1) of the Ger­man Tele­me­dia Act (TMG). Howe­ver, accor­ding to §§ 8 to 10 TMG, we as a ser­vice pro­vi­der are not obli­ged to moni­tor or, under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, to rese­arch trans­mit­ted or stored third-par­ty infor­ma­ti­on that indi­ca­tes ille­gal acti­vi­ty. Obli­ga­ti­ons to remo­ve or block the use of infor­ma­ti­on in accordance with gene­ral laws remain unaf­fec­ted. Howe­ver, we can only be held lia­ble from the moment that we beco­me awa­re of a spe­ci­fic inf­rin­ge­ment. If we beco­me awa­re of any such inf­rin­ge­ments, we will remo­ve the con­tent in ques­ti­on imme­dia­te­ly.

Liability for links

Our web­site con­ta­ins links to exter­nal third-par­ty web­sites, over who­se con­tent we have no influence. The­r­e­fo­re, we can­not assu­me any lia­bi­li­ty for this third-par­ty con­tent. The respec­ti­ve pro­vi­der or ope­ra­tor of the lin­ked pages is always respon­si­ble for their con­tent. The lin­ked pages were che­cked for pos­si­ble legal vio­la­ti­ons at the time of lin­king. No ille­gal con­tent was found at the time of lin­king. Howe­ver, per­ma­nent con­tent con­trol of the lin­ked pages is not reasonable wit­hout con­cre­te evi­dence of a vio­la­ti­on of the law. If we beco­me awa­re of any vio­la­ti­ons of the law, we will remo­ve such links imme­dia­te­ly.

Copyright

The con­tent and works on the­se pages crea­ted by the site ope­ra­tors are sub­ject to Ger­man copy­right law. The repro­duc­tion, pro­ces­sing, dis­tri­bu­ti­on and any kind of explo­ita­ti­on out­side the limits of copy­right requi­re the writ­ten con­sent of its respec­ti­ve aut­hor or crea­tor. Down­loads and copies of the­se pages are only per­mit­ted for pri­va­te, non-com­mer­cial use. Inso­far as the con­tent is not crea­ted by the web­site ope­ra­tor, the copy­rights of third par­ties are respec­ted. In par­ti­cu­lar, third-par­ty con­tent is mark­ed as such. Should you nevert­hel­ess beco­me awa­re of a copy­right inf­rin­ge­ment, we kind­ly request that you noti­fy us. As soon as we beco­me awa­re of any inf­rin­ge­ment, we will imme­dia­te­ly remo­ve such con­tent.

Privacy Policy:

Comments

When visi­tors post comm­ents on the site, we coll­ect the infor­ma­ti­on dis­play­ed in the com­ment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the user agent string (which iden­ti­fies the brow­ser) to help detect spam.

An anony­mi­zed string crea­ted from your email address (also cal­led a hash) may be pro­vi­ded to the Grava­tar ser­vice to see if you are using it. The Grava­tar ser­vice pri­va­cy poli­cy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your com­ment has been appro­ved, your pro­fi­le pic­tu­re will be visi­ble to the public in the con­text of your com­ment.

Media

If you are a regis­tered user and upload pho­tos to this site, you should avo­id uploa­ding pho­tos with an EXIF GPS loca­ti­on. Visi­tors to this site could down­load pho­tos stored on this site and extra­ct their loca­ti­on infor­ma­ti­on.

Contact forms

When you sub­scri­be to the news­let­ter, your cont­act infor­ma­ti­on is for­ward­ed to Mailchimp, an Ame­ri­can plat­form for mar­ke­ting auto­ma­ti­on and email mar­ke­ting.

Cookies

If you wri­te a com­ment on our web­site, this may con­sti­tu­te con­sent to store your name, email address and web­site in coo­kies. This is a con­ve­ni­ence fea­ture so that you do not have to re-enter all this data if you wri­te ano­ther com­ment. The­se coo­kies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set up a tem­po­ra­ry coo­kie to deter­mi­ne if your brow­ser accepts coo­kies. This coo­kie con­ta­ins no per­so­nal data and is dis­card­ed when you clo­se your brow­ser.

When you log in, we will set up seve­ral 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 signed in” when you sign in, your sign-in will be main­tai­ned for two weeks. When you sign out of your account, the sign-in coo­kies will be dele­ted.

When you edit or publish an artic­le, an addi­tio­nal coo­kie will be stored in your brow­ser. This coo­kie con­ta­ins no per­so­nal data and only refers to the post ID of the item you have just edi­ted. The coo­kie expi­res after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this site may include embedded con­tent (e.g. vide­os, images, posts, etc.). Embedded con­tent from other web­sites beha­ves exact­ly the same way 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 on to this web­site.

How long we store your data

If you wri­te a com­ment, it will be stored inde­fi­ni­te­ly, inclu­ding meta­da­ta. This is so we can reco­gni­ze and appro­ve any fol­low-up comm­ents auto­ma­ti­cal­ly ins­tead of hol­ding them in a mode­ra­ti­on queue.

For users that regis­ter on our web­site (if any), we also store the per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on they pro­vi­de in their user pro­files. All users can view, edit, or dele­te their per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on at any time (except they can­not chan­ge their user­na­me). Web­site admi­nis­tra­tors can also see and edit that infor­ma­ti­on.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comm­ents, you can request to recei­ve an expor­ted file of the per­so­nal data we hold about you. You can request that we era­se any per­so­nal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obli­ged to keep for admi­nis­tra­ti­ve, legal, or secu­ri­ty pur­po­ses.

Where we send your data

Visi­tor comm­ents may be che­cked through an auto­ma­ted spam detec­tion ser­vice.