Privacy policy

1. Names and contact details of the controller and the company data protection officer

This privacy policy applies to data processing by:

Responsible:
VANTOPIA GmbH
Frohmestr. 59
22459 Hamburg

Phone +49 (0) 40 360369090
E-mail info@vantopia.de

Registered office Hamburg, Hamburg Local Court, HRB 15512
Managing directors: Bastian Gembler and Larissa Peters

Contact:
Phone: 040 / 360 369 90
E-mail: info@vantopia.de

A company data protection officer has not been appointed. There is currently no legal obligation to do so.

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2. General information on data processing

a) Scope of the processing of personal data
We only process your personal data insofar as this is necessary to provide a functional website and to provide our contractual services.

b) Legal basis for the processing of personal data
Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis. When processing personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR serves as the legal basis. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d GDPR serves as the legal basis. If the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.

c) Data erasure and storage duration
The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Data may also be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the controller is subject. The data will also be blocked or erased if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

3. Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of its use

a) While visiting our Website unter www.vantopia.de
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our website, which are overriding in the context of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the forms provided for this purpose as described below are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the scope described here. This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
When you visit the website www.vantopia.de, information is automatically sent from your browser to the server of our website without any action on your part. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file and automatically deleted after 6 months at the latest. This information cannot be assigned to you personally. We do not merge this data with other data sources. This data includes the browser type and version used, the operating system used, the URL of the previously visited website (referrer URL), the host name of the accessing computer (shortened IP address), the time of the server request, the access status and, if applicable, the name of your access provider. The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:
– Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
– Ensuring a comfortable use of our website,
– evaluating system security and stability and – for other administrative purposes.
The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

b) If you contact us by e-mail or telephone
If you have any questions about our services, we offer you the option of contacting us by e-mail or telephone. When contacting us by e-mail, the e-mail address of the sender is automatically transmitted. The processing of this personal data is necessary so that we know who sent the request and can answer it. This also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in processing the data. Further information can be provided voluntarily. You are free to decide whether to provide further data. The necessary and required data processing for the purpose of implementing a contractual relationship is carried out on the basis of the legal authorization from Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. For further processing purposes, your voluntary consent is generally required in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For personal data sent by email, this is the case when the respective conversation with you has ended. The conversation is ended when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified.

c) Data processing for the processing of bookings
When you book services with us, we need your first and last name, your e-mail address, your telephone number, your postal address and your payment information to process your booking. We use the e-mail address to communicate with you and for the booking confirmation. We process your data for the processing of your booking, including any subsequent liability cases. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (fulfillment of contract).

CHECKFRONT FOR WORDPRESS
If you decide to make a booking via this website, Checkfront will collect various personal data from you. You can read about this in checkfront’s privacy policy and terms and conditions at the following link: https://www.checkfront.com/privacy , https://www.checkfront.com/terms , https://www.checkfront.com/security . The aforementioned documents have not yet been translated into German. If you have any difficulties in understanding the information, please contact us. Checkfront uses cookies to optimize your booking process. The optimization of the booking process constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device and do not cause any damage. They remain on your device until you delete them. The transmission of your data to checkfront is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing for the performance of a contract). You have the option of withdrawing your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of data processing operations in the past.

4. Forwarding of data

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if: – you have given your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, – disclosure in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests, unless your interests, fundamental rights or freedoms, which require the protection of personal data, prevail, – in the event that there is a legal obligation for disclosure in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, and – this is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

5. E-mail advertising with newsletter registration

The following information explains the content of our newsletter as well as the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation procedure and your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to receive it and to the procedures described. Content of the newsletter: We only send newsletters, emails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter “newsletter”) with the consent of the recipient or with legal permission. If the content of the newsletter is specifically described when registering for the newsletter, it is decisive for the user’s consent. Our newsletters also contain information about our products, offers, promotions and our company.
Double opt-in and logging: Registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registering you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no-one can register with other people’s e-mail addresses. Subscriptions to the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with legal requirements. This includes storing the time of registration and confirmation as well as the IP address. The changes to your data stored with the mailing service provider are also logged. Mailing service provider: The newsletter is sent via “MailChimp”, a newsletter mailing platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. You can view the privacy policy of the mailing service provider here: Mailchimp Privacy Policy . The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee of compliance with the European level of data protection (US Privacy Shield Mailchimp) Furthermore, according to its own information, the mailing service provider may use this data in pseudonymous form, i.e. without assignment to a user, to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of the dispatch and presentation of the newsletter or for statistical purposes to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, the mailing service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or pass it on to third parties. Registration data: To subscribe to the newsletter, it is sufficient to enter your e-mail address. Statistical survey and analyses – The newsletters contain a so-called “web beacon”, i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the server of the mailing service provider when the newsletter is opened. As part of this retrieval, technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and time of retrieval, is initially collected. This information is used for the technical improvement of the services based on the technical data or the target groups and their reading behavior based on their retrieval locations (which can be determined with the help of the IP address) or the access times. The statistical surveys also include determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our intention nor that of the mailing service provider to observe individual users. The evaluations serve us much more to recognize the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users. The use of the mailing service provider, the performance of statistical surveys and analyses as well as the logging of the registration process are based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We are interested in using a user-friendly and secure newsletter system that serves our business interests and meets the expectations of users. Cancellation/revocation – You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. At the same time, your consent to its dispatch by the dispatch service provider and the statistical analyses will expire. Unfortunately, it is not possible to withdraw your consent to the newsletter being sent by the newsletter service provider or to the statistical analysis separately. You will find a link to unsubscribe from the newsletter at the end of each newsletter. If users have only registered for the newsletter and have canceled this registration, their personal data will be deleted.

6. Use of data for payment processing

If you choose a payment method offered via the payment service provider “Stripe”, payment processing will be carried out via Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland, to whom we will pass on the information you provided during the ordering process together with information about your order (name, address, account number, bank code, credit card number if applicable, invoice amount, currency and transaction number) in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will only be passed on for the purpose of payment processing with Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. and only to the extent that it is necessary for this purpose. You can find more information on data protection from “Stripe” at the following Internet address: https://stripe.com/de/privacy#translation.

7. Cookies and web analysis

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). The duration of storage can be found in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:

  • Internet Explorer™
  • Safari™
  • Chrome™
  • Firefox™
  • Opera™

If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited. As part of the use of Google Analytics (see below), this website also uses the so-called DoubleClick cookie, which enables your browser to be recognized when you visit other websites. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The information automatically generated by the cookie about your visit to this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The IP address is shortened by activating IP anonymization on this website before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Google will use this information to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage.This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our website, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google DoubleClick by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted. Google Double Click is an offer from Google LLC. (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield. You can deactivate the DoubleClick cookie via this link. You can also obtain information from the Digital Advertising Alliance about the setting of cookies and make settings for this. Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted. You can also manage cookies used for online advertising via the tools developed in many countries as part of self-regulation programs, such as https://www.aboutads.info/choices/, which is based in the USA, or http://www.youronlinechoices.com/at/praferenzmanagement, which is based in the EU.

8. Analysis and tracking tools and Google services

The analysis and tracking tools listed below and used by us are used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. With the tracking measures used, we pursue the purpose of ensuring a needs-based design and the continuous optimization of our offer. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record and evaluate the use of our website. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision. The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tool.

a) WORDPRESS STATS
This website uses the WordPress tool Stats to statistically analyze visitor access. The provider is Automattic Inc, 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA. WordPress Stats uses cookies, which are stored on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookies about the use of our website is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address is anonymized after processing and before storage. “WordPress-Stats” cookies remain on your device until you delete them. The storage of “WordPress Stats” cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behaviour in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of our website may be restricted. You can object to the collection and use of your data for the future by clicking on this link to set an opt-out cookie in your browser: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/. If you delete the cookies on your computer, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

b) Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as “Google”) for the purpose of designing and continuously optimizing our website to meet your needs. In this context, pseudonymous user profiles are created and cookies are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website, such as browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address), time of the server request, is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymization However, if IP anonymization is activated, as on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and the needs-based design of this website. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are always anonymized so that they cannot be assigned (IP masking). You may refuse the use 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 our website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of our website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link. The current link is: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, please click the following link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data within our website in the future. This will place an opt-out cookie on your device that will prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. If you delete the cookies in your browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again. Preventing data collection by Google Analytics Contract data processing We have concluded a contract with Google for contract data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the relevant data protection authorities when using Google Analytics. Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics Help section, for example (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

c) Use of the Google Tag Manager for web analysis
Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows marketers to manage website tags via an interface, which serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-free domain and does not collect any personal data. The tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager.

d) Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This informs Google that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer. Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

e) Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether the data input on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent on the website by the website visitor or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place. Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website from abusive automated spying and SPAM. Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy can be found at the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

f) Google AdWords Remarketing
We use Google Adwords to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, the so-called remarketing cookie is set by Google when you visit our website, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you visit. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google AdWords Remarketing by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted. Any further data processing will only take place if you have consented to Google linking your web and app browsing history to your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalize ads you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, Google temporarily links your personal data with Google Analytics data in order to create target groups. Google AdWords Remarketing is an offer from Google LLC (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield. You can deactivate the remarketing cookie via this link. You can also obtain information from the Digital Advertising Alliance about the setting of cookies and make settings for this.

9. Other marketing networks and third-party plug-ins

FACEBOOK-PLUGINS (LIKE & SHARE-BUTTON)
Plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated on our pages. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

INSTAGRAM PLUGIN
Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. You can find more information on this in Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

PINTEREST PLUGIN
On our website, we use social plugins from the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”). When you visit a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Pinterest servers. The plugin transmits log data to the Pinterest server in the USA. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the websites visited that also contain Pinterest functions, the type and settings of the browser, the date and time of the request, your use of Pinterest and cookies. Further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy in this regard can be found in Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

10. Rights of data subjects

You have the right: – to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it has not been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details; – in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us; – in accordance with Art. in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to demand the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; – in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you oppose the erasure of the data and we no longer need the data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR to object to the processing; – in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller; – in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to withdraw your consent to us at any time. This means that we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future and – to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters.

11. Right of objection

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation. If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to info@vantopia.de.

12. Data security

On our website, we use the Transport Layer Security method, more commonly known by its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), as a hybrid encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the Internet, in conjunction with the highest security level supported by your browser. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual (sub)page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the status bar of your browser. In addition, we use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties.