Privacy Policy

The controller for the purposes of data protection legislation, including in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Chemische Fabrik
Schärer & Schläpfer AG
Manuel Blunier
Juraweg 45
PO box 115
CH-4852 Rothrist AG

Telephone +41 (0)62 785 80 30
info@schaerer-surfactants.com

1. General Information

Under the terms of Article 13 of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation and federal data protection law (Swiss Data Protection Act, DSG), all people are entitled to protection for their privacy as well as protection against the misuse of their personal data. The operator of this website takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential, in line with legal data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.

When working with our hosting providers, we endeavor to protect our databases as far as possible against third party access, loss, misuse or forgery.

Please note that the transmission of data over the internet (e.g. when communicating via email) may present gaps in security. It is not possible to fully protect data against access by third parties.

By using this website you are deemed to have consented to the collection, processing and usage of data as described below. It is generally speaking possible to use this website without registering. Data such as for instance the pages visited or the names of the files accessed, the date and the time are stored on the server for statistical purposes, although these data are not directly attributed to you. Personal data including in particular the name, address or email address are collected where possible on a voluntary basis. Data are not shared with third parties without your consent.

2. Processing of Personal Data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A data subject is a person whose personal data are processed. Processing means any operation performed on personal data, irrespective of the means and processes used, including in particular the recording, disclosure, procurement, erasure, storage, alteration, destruction or usage of personal data.

We process personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection law. In addition – if and insofar as the EU GDPR is applicable – we process personal data in accordance with the following legal bases under Article 6(1) GDPR:

Consent (point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR) - the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes.
Performance of a contract and pre-contractual inquiries (point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR) - processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
Legal obligation (point (c) of Article 6(1) GDPR) - processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
Protection of vital interests (point (d) of Article 6(1) GDPR) - processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person.
Legitimate interests (point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR) - processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data.
Job application as a pre-contractual or contractual relationship (point (b) of Article 9(2) GDPR) - if applicants are asked to provide any special categories of personal data within the meaning of Article 9(1) GDPR (e.g. data concerning health such as a severe disability or ethnic origin) within the ambit of a job application, in order to enable the controller or the data subject to exercise the rights vested in it or respectively him or her in the field of employment and social security and social protection law and to carry out the obligations incumbent upon it or respectively him or her under such laws, those data are processed in accordance with point (b) of Article 9(2) GDPR, in situations involving the protection of the vital interests of the applicant or of another natural person in accordance with point (c) of Article 9(2) GDPR or for the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services in accordance with point (h) of Article 9(2) GDPR. In the event that special categories of data have been provided in accordance with voluntary consent, such data are processed on the basis of point (a) of Article 9(2) GDPR.

We process personal data for the duration required for the respective purpose or purposes. In the even that longer retention obligations apply under the terms of legal or other obligations to which we are subject, we restrict processing accordingly.

3. Applicable Legal Bases

According to Article 13 GDPR, we hereby inform you concerning the legal bases for the data processing carried out by us. The following applies, unless the respective legal basis is indicated in the Privacy Policy: the legal basis for obtaining consent is point (a) of Article 6(1) and Article 7 GDPR, the legal basis for processing for the purpose of providing our services and taking steps prior to entering into a contract as well as answering queries is point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR, the legal basis for processing for the purpose of compliance with our legal obligations is point (c) of Article 6(1) GDPR, and the legal basis for processing for the purposes of upholding our legitimate interests is point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. If the processing of personal data is necessary on account of the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, the legal basis is point (d) of Article 6(1) GDPR.

4. Security Measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the type, scope, circumstances and purpose of processing as well as the various different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedom of individuals, in order to ensure a level of protection commensurate with the risk.

In particular, the measures include ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling the physical and electronic access to the data as well as the access concerning it, data entry, disclosure, assurance of data availability and separation of the data. In addition, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of rights of data subjects, the erasure of data and reactions to data compromise. We also take into account the protection of personal data during the development and selection of hardware, software and procedures complying with the principle of data protection, through technology design and data protection-friendly default settings.

5. Transmission of Personal Data

Within the ambit of the processing of personal data by us, it is possible that data may be transmitted to other agencies, companies, legally independent organizational units or persons, or that it is disclosed to them. The recipients of these data might include, for example, IT service providers or providers of services and content that are integrated in a website. In such cases, we observe the legal requirements and in particular conclude corresponding contracts or agreements that serve to protect your data with the recipients of your data.

6. Data Processing in Third Countries

If we process data in a third country (in other words, outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) or processing takes place as part of the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, agencies or companies, this is only carried out in accordance with the legal requirements.

Subject to express consent or transfer required by contract or law, we only process the data in third-party countries with a recognized data protection level, contractual obligation through standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, or upon submission of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations (Article 44 to 49 GDPR, EU Commission information page: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_en).

7. Privacy Policy concerning Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are text files containing data from websites or domains visited, which are stored on a browser and on the user’s computer. A cookie is used primarily to store information relating to a user during or also after visiting a website. The information stored may include e.g. the language settings for a website or for the page on which a video was watched. We take the term “cookie” to cover also other technology that performs a similar function to cookies (e.g. where information concerning the user is stored under a pseudonym, also referred to as a “user ID”).

A distinction is drawn among the following cookie types and functions:

Temporary cookies (also: session cookies): temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user has left a website and closed his or her browser.
Permanent cookies: permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser has been closed. Thus login status can be stored, for example, or preferred contents displayed directly when a user visits a website again. Similarly, the user’s interests, which are used for audience measurement or marketing purposes, are stored in a cookie of this type.
First-party cookies: first-party cookies are saved by us.
Third-party cookies: third-party cookies are used mainly by advertising providers (third parties) in order to process user information.
Necessary (also: essential or absolutely essential) cookies: cookies may also be absolutely necessary for the proper operation of a website (e.g. on security grounds).
Statistical, marketing and personalization cookies: cookies are also used as a rule for audience measurement purposes and if the interests or behavior of a user (e.g. looking at specific content, using functions etc.) on individual websites are stored in a user profile. These profiles are used to display content to users that for instance reflects their potential interests. This process is referred to as “tracking” because it tracks the user’s potential interests. We inform you specifically in our Privacy Policy or shall do so when obtaining consent whenever we use tracking technologies.

Information on legal bases: the specific legal basis we use to process your personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask you for your consent. If we do so, and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for processing your data is your consent. Otherwise, the data processed using cookies are only processed based on our legitimate interests (e.g. in the economic operation and improvement of our online consent) or if the use of cookies is required in order for us to fulfill our contractual obligations.

Duration of storage: if we do not provide you with any specific information concerning the duration of storage for permanent cookies (e.g. within a cookie opt-in), please assume that storage may last for up to two years.

General information on revocation and objection (opt out): depending upon whether processing is based on consent or legal authorization, you have the option of withdrawing your consent or objecting to the processing of your data using cookie technologies at any time (collectively referred to as an “opt-out”). You can object primarily via your browser’s settings, e.g. by disabling cookies (although the proper operation of our website may be impaired as a result). It is also possible to object to the usage of cookies for online marketing purposes using a variety of services, especially in the event that tracking is used, via the websites optout.aboutads.info and https://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Further information concerning options for objecting can also be obtained in the information concerning the services providers and cookies used.

Processing of cookie data on the basis of consent: we use a cookie consent management process within which the user’s consent to the usage of cookies or the forms of processing and providers indicated within the cookie consent management process is obtained and managed by users, and may be withdrawn. The declaration of consent is stored in order to avoid having to ask for it again and as proof that consent has been provided in accordance with the legal obligation. Storage may occur on the server and/or via a cookie (known as an “opt in cookie”, or using comparable technologies) in order to enable consent to be attributed to a user or his or her device. The following applies, except as specifically indicated by the providers of cookie management services: the declaration of consent may be stored for up to two years. For this purpose a pseudonymized user ID is created and saved along with the time of consent, details concerning the scope of consent (e.g. the specific categories of cookie and/or service provider) as well as the browser, system and device used.

Types of data processed: usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
Data subjects: Users (such as website visitors, users of online services).
Legal bases: consent (point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR), legitimate interests (point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR).

8. Privacy Policy for SSL/TLS Encryption

This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of confidential data when transmitted, for example when submitting an inquiry to us as the website operator. You can see whether an encrypted connection is in place by looking for the padlock symbol in the browser and for “https://” instead of “http://” in the address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

9. Privacy Policy for Server Log Files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in “server log files”, which are automatically transmitted by your browser to us. These include:

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

These data cannot be allocated to any particular persons. These data are not cross-referenced with data obtained from any other sources. We reserve the right to examine these data retrospectively should we become aware of any specific indications of unlawful usage.

10. Third Party Services

This website uses Google Maps in order to embed maps as well as YouTube in order to embed videos.

These services provided by the US firm Google LLC use cookies amongst other things, which means that data are transmitted to Google in the USA. As far as we are aware, the mere usage of our website does not result in any personal tracking.

Google has undertaken to guarantee adequate data protection under the terms of the US-EU and the US-Swiss Privacy Shield.

Further information can be found in the Google Privacy Policy.

11. Privacy Policy for the Contact Form

If you send an inquiry using our contact form, we will store the information you enter, including the contact details you provide, in order to process your inquiry and any follow-up questions. We will not pass these data on without your consent.

12. Rights of Data Subjects

Right to confirmation

Each data subject has the right to obtain from the operator of the website confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning the data subject are being processed. Please contact the Data Protection Officer at any time if you would like to exercise this right to confirmation.

Right of access

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to obtain at any time from the operator of this website, free of charge, information concerning any personal data concerning him or her that are being stored and to obtain a copy of these data. In addition, under certain circumstances the following information may be provided:

the purposes of the processing
the categories of personal data concerned
the recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed
where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period
the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing
the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source

In addition, the data subject has the right to be informed whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards in relation to such transfers.

Please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time if you would like to exercise this right of access.

Right to rectification

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject also has the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

Please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time if you would like to exercise this right to rectification.

Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to obtain from the operator of this website the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies and where processing is not necessary:

the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed
the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing
the data subject objects to the processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in the event of direct marketing and related profiling
the personal data have been unlawfully processed
the personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject
the personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services made directly to a child

Please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time if any of the above reasons applies and you would like to obtain the erasure of any personal data stored with the operator of this website. The Data Protection Officer for this website will take steps to ensure that the erasure request is acted on without undue delay.

Right to restriction of processing

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to obtain from the controller of this website restriction of processing where one of the following applies:

the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data
the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead
the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims
the data subject has objected to processing on grounds relating to his or her particular situation pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject

Please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time if any of the above requirements applies and you would like to obtain the restriction of processing of any personal data stored with the operator of this website. The Data Protection Officer for this website will arrange the restriction of processing.

Right to data portability

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she also has the right to have these data transmitted to another controller, where the legal prerequisites are met.

In addition, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible, provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

You can contact the Data Protection Officer appointed by the operator of this website at any time in order to exercise the right to data portability.

Right to object

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her.

In the event of an objection, the operator of this website will no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

You can contact the Data Protection Officer for this website at any time in order to exercise the right to object.

Right to withdraw consent to data processing

Each data subject whose personal data are processed has the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at any time if you would like to exercise your right to withdraw consent.

13. Privacy Policy for Objecting to Advertising Emails

We hereby object to the use of the contact details published as part of our legal notice obligation for the purpose of sending any unsolicited advertisements or information. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertisements, e.g. in the form of spam emails.

14. Use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps. This enables us to display interactive maps to you directly in the website, and allows you to use the maps function with ease. Whenever the website is visited, Google is informed that you have accessed the respective sub-page on our website. This occurs irrespective of whether you have logged in to your Google user account, or whether you have a user account at all. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be allocated directly to your account. If you do not wish data to be allocated to your Google profile, you will have to log out before clicking on the button. Google stores your data as a usage profile, which it uses for the purposes of marketing, market research and/or designing its website in response to demand. This assessment is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) for the purpose of displaying needs-based advertising and informing other users on the social network concerning your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of this user profile. Please contact Google if you would like to exercise this right. Further information concerning the purpose and scope of data collection and data processing by Google can be obtained along with additional information concerning your related rights and settings options for protecting your privacy at: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy.

15. Google Ads

This website uses Google conversion tracking. If you have accessed our website via an ad placed by Google, Google Ads will store a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is saved when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across Ads customers’ websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you can reject the storing of a cookie required for this – i.e. via a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or by setting your browser in such a way that cookies from the domain “googleleadservices.com” are blocked.

Please note that you should not delete the opt-out cookies if you do not want any analytical data to be recorded. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must save the respective opt-out cookie again.

16. Usage of Google Remarketing

This website uses the remarketing function provided by Google Inc. This function is intended to enable the display of interest-based ads to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A cookie is saved in the browser of the website visitor, which enables it to recognize the visitor if he or she visits any websites that belong to Google advertising network. Adverts can be displayed to the visitor on these pages relating to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function.

According to the information provided by Google, it does not collect any personal data as part of this process. Should you nonetheless not wish the Google remarketing function to operate, you can as a general rule disable it via the respective settings options at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can disable the usage of cookies for interest-based advertising via the network advertising initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

17. Privacy Policy for Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited. If the controller with responsibility for data processing on this website is not based in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, data processing within the ambit of Google Analytics is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited will be referred to below jointly as “Google”.

The statistics obtained enable us to improve our content and make it more interesting for you as a user. This website also uses Google Analytics for the purpose of cross-device analysis of visitor traffic under a single user ID. If you have a Google user account, you can disable cross-device analysis of your usage via the settings under “My data”, “Personal data”.

The legal basis for the usage of Google Analytics is point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. Please note that Google Analytics has been supplemented by the code “_anonymizeIp();” on this website in order to ensure that IP addresses are recorded anonymously. This means that IP addresses are processed after truncation in order to prevent them from being allocated to any specific individual. If the data collected establishes any information concerning you specifically, the respective processing will be halted immediately and the personal data erased promptly.

The full IP address is only sent to and truncated by Google servers in the US in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operators of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities and providing other services relating to use of the website and internet usage.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. You may prevent cookies from being stored via the appropriate browser settings; however, please note that in this event you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website to the full extent. In addition, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: Disable Google Analytics.

You can also prevent the usage of Google Analytics by clicking on this link: Disable Google Analytics. This will store an opt-out cookie on your device, which prevents personal data from being processed by Google Analytics. Please note that, if all cookies are deleted on your device, this will also delete any opt-out cookies, which means that you will have to save the opt-out cookies again if you wish this form of data collection to remain blocked. An opt-out cookie is specific to the particular browser on the particular computer/device, and therefore has to be activated separately for each browser, computer or other device.

18. Privacy Policy on Usage of Google Web Fonts

In order to ensure fonts are displayed uniformly, this website uses web fonts provided by Google. When a page is accessed, your browser loads the required fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support Google Fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information on Google Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google Privacy Policy at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

19. Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a solution that enables us to manage “website tags” via an interface and therefore incorporate for instance Google Analytics and other Google marketing services into our online content. The Tag Manager itself, which creates the tags, does not process any personal data relating to the user. Please refer to the following information relating to Google services for further details regarding the processing of users’ personal data. Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

20. Newsletter - Mailchimp

The newsletter is dispatched using the transmission service provider ‘MailChimp’, a newsletter transmission platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. The Privacy Policy of the transmission service provider can be consulted here. The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, thus offering a guarantee that it will comply with the European level of data protection (Privacy Shield). The transmission service provider is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in accordance with point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR and as a processor in accordance with gem. Article 28(3), sentence 1 GDPR.

The transmission service provider may use the data of recipients in pseudonymized form, i.e. without allocation to a specific user, in order to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for technical optimization of the transmission and display of the newsletter or for statistical purposes. However, the transmission service provider does not use the data of recipients of our newsletter in order to contact them itself or to share the data with third parties.

21. Usage of Adobe Fonts

We use Adobe Fonts for the purpose of the visual display of our website. Adobe Fonts is a service provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA (Adobe), which enables us to access a font library. In order to incorporate the fonts used by us, your browser needs to establish a connection with an Adobe server in the USA and download the font required for our website. Adobe does not become aware that our website has been accessed via your IP address as a result of this operation. Further information concerning Adobe Fonts can be found in the Adobe Privacy Policy, which you can access here: Adobe Fonts

22. Privacy Policy for YouTube

This website incorporates functions from the service “YouTube”. “YouTube” is owned by Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operating according to Irish law with registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which provides services within the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

The legal agreement between you and “YouTube” incorporates the terms and conditions available on the following page: https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=en&template=terms&hl=en. These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement between you and “YouTube” in relation to usage of the services. The Google Privacy Policy explains how “YouTube” manages your personal data and protects your data if you use the service.

23. Notice concerning the Transmission of Data to the USA

Our website incorporates, amongst others, tools from companies based in the USA. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transmitted to the US servers of the respective companies. Please note that the USA is not a secure third country for the purposes of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to share personal data with law enforcement authorities, and there is no option for you as a data subject to take court action to challenge this. It is therefore not possible to exclude the possibility that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) may process, assess and permanently store your data stored on US servers for surveillance purposes. We do not have any influence over these types of processing.

24. Copyright

Copyright and all other rights over content, images, photographs or other files on the website is held exclusively by the operator of this website or the holders of the rights specifically mentioned. Written permission must be obtained in advance from the copyright holder for the reproduction of any files.

Any person who commits a copyright infringement without the approval of the respective holder of rights may incur criminal liability and may potentially be liable to pay compensation.

25. General Disclaimer of Liability

All information on our website has been carefully checked. We endeavor to ensure that our content is up to date, substantively accurate and complete. Nevertheless, the possibility of errors cannot be excluded entirely, and accordingly we are unable to provide any guarantee that any information, including information of a journalistic or editorial nature, is complete, accurate and up to date. No liability claims may be brought for any tangible or intangible losses caused due to usage of the information provided, except in the event of demonstrable willful wrongdoing or gross negligence.

The publisher may alter or erase text at its own discretion and without prior notice, and is not obliged to update the content of this website. This website is used or accessed at the user’s own risk. Neither the publisher nor its appointees or partners shall bear any responsibility for losses, such as direct losses, indirect losses, accidental losses, specific losses quantifiable in advance or consequential losses allegedly arising as a result of any visit to this website, and shall consequently not incur any liability in this regard.

The publisher also declines all responsibility and liability for the content on and availability of third party websites that can be reached via external links on this website. The respective operator bears exclusive responsibility for the content of linked pages. The publisher therefore expressly dissociates itself from all third party content that may be relevant under criminal or tort law or that may be at odds with common decency.

26. Amendments

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time without prior announcement. The current version published on our website shall apply. If this Privacy Policy constitutes part of an agreement concluded with you, we shall inform you by email or in another suitable manner in the event that it is updated or amended.

27. Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions concerning data protection, please send us an email or contact directly the Data Protection Officer within our organization mentioned at the start of the Privacy Policy.