Data Protection

Preamble
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We therefore treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the relevant legal data protection regulations as well as this data protection declaration.

Data Protection
The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal information. As far as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) are collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis. These data will not be disclosed to third parties without your explicit consent.
Please note that data transmission via the Internet (for example communicating via e-mail) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible. We cannot assume any liability for damages arising as a result of such security vulnerabilies.

Personal data
Personal data is information that can be used to determine a person, ie information that can be traced back to a person. This includes the name, email address or phone number. Personal data are only collected, used and passed on by the provider if this is permitted by law or if the users consent to the data collection.

Contact
If you send us inquiries via the website contact form, your details will be stored in the request form including the contact details you provided there for the purpose of processing the request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not share this information without your consent.

Integration of services and contents of third parties
It may happen that content from third parties, such as maps from Google Maps, RSS feeds or graphics from other websites are included in our website. That requires that the providers of this content (hereinafter referred to as „third party provider“) recognize the IP address of the users. Without the IP address recognition, no content could be send to the user’s browser. Therefore the IP address is required for the presentation of this content.
We attempt to use only content whose respective providers use the IP address solely for the delivery of the content. However, if the third parties provide the IP address, e.g. store for statistical purposes. As far as we know, we will inform users about it.

Cookies
The website pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called „session cookies“. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them.
These cookies enable us to re-recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or generally exclude and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser.
Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

SSL encryption
This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of sensitive content such as requests or orders you send to us as the site operator.
You can recognize an encrypted connection by changing the address line of the browser from „http: //“ to „https: //“ and the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us can not be read by third parties.
Right to information, cancellation, blocking
You have at any time the right to gain knowledge of the data stored concerning your person,
the origin, the recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data. For further information on personal data you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Matomo (Piwik)
This website uses the open source web analytics service Matomo. Matomo uses so-called „cookies“. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. For this purpose, the information generated by the Coke on the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymized before saving.
The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website will not be disclosed to third parties. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.
If you do not agree with the storage and use of your data, you can disable the storage and use here. In this case, an opt-out co-op is deposited in your browser, which prevents Matomo from saving usage data. If you delete your cookies, this will result in deletion of the Matomo opt-out cookie as well. The opt-out must be reactivated when visiting our site again.

Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The supplier is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called „cookies“. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Newsletter data
We provide a newsletter service (New Title Alert) in cooperation with Newbooks.
The newsletter is only accessible in the login-protected area of our website.
If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter we require an e-mail address and password from you as well as information of your Institution. Further data are not collected. We use this data exclusively for the delivery of the requested information and do not pass it on to other third parties than Newbooks who create the newsletter. A data protection declaration has been signed with Newbooks.
The granted consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time, for example via the „unsubscribe“ link in the newsletter.

IP anonymization
We have activated the function IP anonymization on this website. This will result in your IP address being shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.
You may also prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by using the browser available at the following link. Download and install plugin:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Opposition to data collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set which prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website: disable Google Analytics.
For more information on how to handle user data on Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Cookie Banner
To display the cookie banner on the website, your browser loads the required data from cookies.mplg.info (Marketplace GmbH – Agency for Web & App).
None of your data will be saved.

Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts, provided by Google, for the uniform representation of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. As a result, Google learns that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interests of a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font will be used by your computer.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Source: https://www.e-recht24.de/ as well as F.Delbanco GmbH & Co.KG