We use Google Analytics on our website, a service provided by Google Inc. , 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (hereinafter: Google). Through its participation in the EU-US Privacy Shield program, Google guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations if it processes EU sourced data in the United States. For more information refer to: https://www.privacyshield.gov. The Google Analytics service is used to analyze how our website is used. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1(f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation, and economic operation of our site.
Usage and user-related information related to your visits to our web site, such as browser type and version, operating system, referrer-url, IP address and time of server request may be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of visits to our website and what visitors do once there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and of the internet in general. Google states that it will not connect your IP address to other data. In addition, Google provides further information with regard to its data protection practices at the web addresses below, which includes options you can exercise to prevent such use of your data.
Google also offers an opt-out add-on for most popular browsers which gives offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you visit our website. The add-on informs Google Analytics that no information about the website visit should be transmitted to Google Analytics. Note that this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use as detailed herein. Alternatively, especially when using a mobile device, the link above may be used to put a opt-out-cookie in the used browser, which inhibits further collection of data via our website.