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This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of anonymous IP activation on this website, however, Google will shorten your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other countries that are parties to the European Economic Area agreement. Only under exceptional circumstances is the complete IP address transmitted to a server of Google in the United States and shortened there. Under the authority of the provider of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. In accordance with Google Analytics, your IP address, which is transmitted via your browser, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the compilation of data (including your IP address) through cookies and website use by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available through the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Alternative to the browser-add-on or within the browsers on mobile devices, please click “deactivate” to prevent future acquisition of data by Google Analytics within this website. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device for this purpose. If the cookies are deleted from this browser, you must click on this link again.

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge. The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it.Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook. For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker“.

This site uses the +1 button from the Google Plus social networking site operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”). The button can be identified by the “+1” or “g+” symbol on a black or colored background. When a user accesses a web page on this site that features one of these buttons, the browser establishes a direct connection with Google’s servers as soon as the Google+ button is pressed. Google then transfers the content of the “g+” button directly to the user’s browser, which integrates the content into the web page. The provider has no control over the amount of data that Google collects via the button after the user clicks on it. According to Google, no personal data is collected unless the user actually clicks on the button. Such data (including IP address) is only collected and processed for members who have logged in. If users want to find out what data Google collects about them and why, how it processes and uses their data, and what rights and settings they can assert to protect their privacy, they should refer to Google’s data protection policy for the “g+” button: http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html and the FAQs: http://www.google.com/intl/de/+1/button/.

This website uses Twitter buttons. These buttons are provided by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. They can be identified by the use of terms such as “Twitter”, “tweet” or “follow” in association with a gray letter “t”. These buttons enable users to share an article or page from this site on Twitter, or to follow the provider on Twitter. When a user accesses a web page on this site that features one of these buttons, the browser establishes a direct connection with Twitter’s servers as soon as the Twitter button is pressed. Twitter transfers the content of the Twitter buttons directly to the user’s browser. The provider has no control over the amount of data that Twitter collects via this plugin after the user clicks on the button, but it attempts to inform the user to the best of its current knowledge. As far as we are aware, only the user’s IP address and the URL of the relevant web page are transferred when the user clicks the button, and this information is only used for the purpose of displaying the button. For further information, please refer to Twitter’s data protection policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.

Liability for content
The contents of our website were prepared with the utmost diligence. However, we cannot give a warranty as to the correctness, completeness and topicality of those contents. We, being the service provider, are responsible for our own contents on this website pursuant to the general laws. However, we, being the service provider, are not obliged to monitor submitted or stored third-party information or to search for circumstances that indicate any form of illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information in accordance with general laws shall remain unaffected. However, a legal responsibility on our part in this respect can only become a possibility from the point in time that we learn of a specific infringement of rights. As soon as we learn of corresponding infringements of rights, we will remove such contents immediately.

Liability for links
Our offer includes links to external websites of third parties, the contents of which we cannot influence. Therefore, we cannot give a warranty with respect to those third-party contents. The respective provider or operator of the websites is responsible for the contents of the linked websites. The linked websites were checked for possible infringements of rights at the time of linking. Illegal contents were not recognizable at the point in time that the link was established. However, a permanent control of the contents of the linked websites cannot be reasonably expected without specific grounds to suspect an infringement of rights. As soon as we learn of infringements of rights, we will remove such links immediately.