Use of cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files, consisting of a series of numbers and letters, which are filed and saved on the device you are using. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the device you are using and our website. This includes the language settings on a website, the login status or the point at which a video was viewed. When you visit our website, two types of cookies are used:
- Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
- Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies are saved even after the browser is closed. This means that our website recognizes your computer when you return to our website. For example, information on language settings or log-in information is stored in these cookies. In addition, these cookies can be used to document and save your surfing behavior. This data can be used for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes.
In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be differentiated with regard to their purpose:
- Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, to save logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session, or cookies that are set for security reasons.
- Statistics, marketing and personalization cookies: These are cookies that are used for analysis purposes or for range measurement. Such "tracking" cookies can, in particular, be used to store information on search terms entered or the frequency of page views. In addition, the surfing behavior of an individual user (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) can also be saved in a user profile. Such profiles are used to show users content that corresponds to their potential interests. If we use services that store cookies on your device for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes, we will inform you separately in the following sections of our cookie policy or when obtaining your consent.
Affected data:
- Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
- Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Affected persons: users of our online offers
Purpose of processing: playing our website, ensuring the operation of our website, improving our website, communication and marketing
Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR
If we do not obtain your consent to the setting of cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular the content and functions. You have to object to the use of the cookies set by us as part of our legitimate interest via the security settings of your browser. There you have the option of whether you accept no cookies from the outset, or only accept cookies on request, or whether you want cookies to be deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it is possible that not all functions of the website can be used to their full extent.
ONLINE ADVERTISING
We use services to display Internet advertising. The services we use are used to collect certain user data through a cookie or pixel. This includes in particular the information from which website you came to our website (so-called referrer), which pages of our website you accessed, how long you visited our pages and which interactions you made there. In addition, data is collected on the browser, computer system and type of device you are using. In addition, demographic information, such as age or gender, can also be recorded as pseudonymous values via such a service. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, these can also be processed, depending on the provider. In order to collect and save this data, the respective service places a cookie or a so-called counting pixel on the device you are using, with which the IP address assigned to you is also collected. However, this is shortened using a so-called IP masking process so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. In principle, no clear data such as names or e-mail addresses are saved when the respective service is used. This is only the case if you are a member of a social network that offers one of the services listed below and combines your profile with the aforementioned data. with which the IP address assigned to you is also collected. However, this is shortened using a so-called IP masking process so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. In principle, no clear data such as names or e-mail addresses are saved when the respective service is used. This is only the case if you are a member of a social network that offers one of the services listed below and combines your profile with the aforementioned data. with which the IP address assigned to you is also collected. However, this is shortened using a so-called IP masking process so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. In principle, no clear data such as names or e-mail addresses are saved when the respective service is used. This is only the case if you are a member of a social network that offers one of the services listed below and combines your profile with the aforementioned data.
The data is evaluated by the service we use in order to produce a report with statistical statements about the number of visitors generated by the advertising and the success of the advertising measure. Among other things, the reports show the total number of users who were referred to our website via our ads. In addition, the reports contain information about the end devices and browsers of the users, the locations at which the users were located, and the times at which the advertisement was clicked. However, the reports do not contain any information with which you could be personally identified as a user of our site.
We would like to point out that, depending on the location of the service provider, the data collected via the service can be transferred and processed outside of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be maintained and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.
Affected data:
- Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
- Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)
Affected persons: users of our online offers
Purpose of processing: range measurement, success control of campaigns, remarketing as well as interest- and behavior-related marketing
Legal basis: If we have asked for your consent before using the respective service, this is the legal basis, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. In addition, we use the respective service due to our legitimate interest in directing visitor flows to our website, analyzing these visitor flows in order to be able to continuously improve the functions, offers and the user experience, Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f GDPR .
We use the following service providers for online advertising:
Affiliate Marketing Collaboration
TF BANK AB processes your personal data to carry out an affiliate marketing campaign. In this way, we are able to track which third party provider of websites, apps or other technologies referred potential customers to our websites and apps (“Affiliate”) and to pay them a commission in return for these referrals. We pursue the legitimate interest in carrying out an online advertising campaign that is remunerated based on performance. We work with the affiliate service providers listed below who support us in implementing this affiliate marketing campaign.
We use the following affiliate service providers:
Moneytrax GmbH, Zeil 13, 60313 Frankfurt You can find the
privacy policy of the affiliate service provider here . It contains information about your rights in relation to data processing by Moneytrax.
Adservice A / S, Rosenkrantzgade 23, 1st & 2nd fl., DK-8000 Aarhus C
The privacy policy of the affiliates service provider can be found here . It contains information about your rights with regard to data processing by Adservice.
financeAds GmbH & Co. KG, Karlstrasse 9, 90403 Nuremberg You can find the
privacy policy of the affiliate service provider here . It contains information about your rights with regard to data processing by financeAds.
DZ-Media Verlag GmbH, Huyssenallee 48, 45128 Essen
The privacy policy of the affiliate service provider can be found here. It contains information about your rights with regard to data processing by DZ-Media.
Awin AG, Eichhornstraße 3, 10785 Berlin
You can find the privacy policy of the affiliate service provider here . It contains information about your rights with regard to data processing by Awin.
In some cases, affiliate service providers and affiliates may maintain a restricted profile related to you. However, this will not reveal your identity, your online behavior or other personal characteristics. The sole purpose of this profile is to determine whether a forwarding has started on one device and completed on another.
In some cases, affiliate service providers and the potential customer's affiliate may receive and process your personal data in order to implement the affiliate marketing campaign together with us.
We also receive personal data of potential customers from affiliate service providers and the affiliates, which can be divided into the following categories: cookie data, data relating to the website, app or technology from which a potential customer was referred to us and technical information via the device you are using.
Affected data:
- Usage data (e.g. previously visited websites, usage times, interest in content),
- Business transaction data (e.g. duration, customer category, subject matter of the contract),
- Communication and metadata (e.g. IP address, information about the device or computer system)
Processing Purpose: : which affiliate links have collection referenced by our partners on our website and have been used by our visitors to handle commission payments.
Affiliate service providers or affiliates place a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. The tracking cookie of the affiliate service provider or affiliate does not store any personal data. Only the identification number of the affiliate, i.e. the partner who mediates the potential customer, as well as the order number of the visitor to a website and the clicked advertising material are stored.
Legal basis: Consent, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR, fulfillment of contracts and pre-contractual inquiries, Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR, legitimate interest, Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR
Facebook Pixel:
We use the so-called “Facebook pixel” from Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”) on our website. This allows the users of our website to be shown interest-related advertisements (“Facebook Ads”) when they visit the social network Facebook or other websites that also use the process. Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server through the Facebook pixel. We have no influence on the extent and further use of the data that is collected by Facebook through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: By integrating the Facebook pixel, Facebook receives the information that you are viewing an ad from us have clicked on or called up the corresponding website on our website. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider will find out and save your IP address and other identification features.
By using the Facebook pixel, we pursue the purpose of only displaying Facebook ads that we have placed to Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our website. With the help of the Facebook pixel, we would like to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interest of the users and are not annoying. Furthermore, with the help of the Facebook pixel, we can understand the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad. The legal basis for the use of the Facebook pixel is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR. c)
Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https: //www.facebook. com /
data protection declaration: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
data protection declaration for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data
You can object to the use of the Facebook pixel at any time by using the opt-out option listed below.
Web analysis and statistics
We use web analysis services to record and statistically evaluate the flow of visitors to our website. Such services collect, among other things, data on the website from which you accessed our website (so-called referrer), which pages of our website you accessed, how long you visited our pages and which interactions you made there. In addition, data is collected on the browser, computer system and type of device you are using. In addition, demographic information, such as age or gender, can also be recorded as pseudonymous values via such a service. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, these can also be processed, depending on the provider.
In order to collect and save this data, the web analysis service we use places a cookie on the device you are using, with which the IP address assigned to you is also collected. However, this is shortened using a so-called IP masking process so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. Otherwise, no clear data such as names or e-mail addresses are saved. Neither we nor the service we use knows the identity of the visitors to our website.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country in which the service provider named below is based, the data collected via the service may be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be maintained and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.
Affected data:
- Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
- Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Affected persons: users of our online offers
Purpose of processing: range measurement, success control of campaigns, remarketing as well as interest- and behavior-related marketing
Legal basis: If we have asked for your consent before using the respective service, this is the legal basis, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. In addition, we use the respective service on the basis of our legitimate interest in analyzing the flow of visitors to our website in order to be able to continuously improve the functions, offers and the user experience, Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
We use the following web analysis services:
Google Analytics
Service provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Seat within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://marketingplatform.google. com / intl / de / about / analytics /
data protection declaration : https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Opt-out option : If you do not want your data to be used by Google Analytics. you can set a so-called opt-out plug-in, which will prevent your data from being recorded on our website in the future. You can get this plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Hotjar
Service provider: Hotjar Ltd, Dragonara Business Center, 5th Floor, Dragonara Road, Paceville St Julian's STJ 3141, Malta
Website: https://www.hotjar.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/ privacy /
opt-out option: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/do-not-track/
Online presence on social networks
We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the data listed below will be collected and processed by the respective provider. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and usage profiles are created with it. In the usage profiles, data can be saved regardless of the device you are using. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and logged in to it. The usage profiles can be used by the providers to show you interest-based advertising. You have a right of withdrawal against the creation of user profiles. In order to exercise this, you must contact the respective provider.
If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when you visit our website, the respective provider can collect data about your usage behavior on our website. To prevent your data from being linked in this way, you can log out of the provider's service before visiting our website.
For what purpose and to what extent data is collected by the provider, you can refer to the respective data protection declarations of the providers, which are communicated below.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country in which the provider named below is based, the data collected via its platform can be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be maintained and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.
Affected data:
- Inventory and contact details (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address)
- Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
- Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
- Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Purpose of processing: communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behavior
Legal basis: Consent, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR, legitimate interests Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR
Opposition options: For the respective options for objection (opt-out), we refer to the information provided by the providers linked below.
We maintain an online presence on the following social networks:
Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https: //www.facebook. com /
data protection declaration: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
data protection declaration for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data
Service provider: Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA Parent
company: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
website: https://www.instagram.com/
Privacy Policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy
Service provider: LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA
Headquarters in Germany: LinkedIn, Hofstatt 4th Floor, Sendlinger Str. 12, 80331 Munich
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/?trk=nav_logo
Data protection declaration : https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=uno-reg-guest-home-privacy-policy
Service provider: New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg
Website: https://www.xing.com/
Data protection declaration: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung
Third party plugins used
We have plugins in the form of. "Social media buttons" from the providers we use are embedded. You can identify which plug-in belongs to which provider by the respective logo with which the plug-in is identified. If you call up a page of our online presence on which such a plug-in is implemented, a connection is automatically established with the respective provider of the plug-in between your browser and the provider's servers and the provider places a cookie on you device used. At this point in time, data can also be transferred if you do not have an account with the respective operator of the social network or if you have an account there, but are not logged in at the moment of visiting our website.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country of residence of the service provider named below, the data specified below can be transferred and processed to servers outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be maintained and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.
Affected data:
- Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
- Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)
Affected persons: users of our website
Purpose of processing: playing our website, offering content, ensuring the operation of our website
Legal basis: Consent via cookie consent banner, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR, legitimate interests, Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR
We use the following plugins:
Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https: //www.facebook. com /
data protection declaration: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
data protection declaration for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data
Service provider: LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA
Headquarters in Germany: LinkedIn, Hofstatt 4th Floor, Sendlinger Str. 12, 80331 Munich
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/?trk=nav_logo
Data protection declaration : https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=uno-reg-guest-home-privacy-policy
Service provider: New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg
Website: https://www.xing.com/
Data protection declaration: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung