Privacy policy

We have written this Privacy Policy in order to explain to you, in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act (DSG), what information we collect, how we use data and which You have the choices you have as a visitor to this website.

Unfortunately, it is in the nature of things that these explanations sound very technical. However, we tried to describe the most important things as simple and clear as possible during the creation.

Automatic data storage

When you visit a website today, certain data is created and stored automatically, including on this website.

If you visit my website as you are doing it now, our web server (the computer on which this website is stored) automatically stores data such as:

  • The address (URL) of the website being accessed

  • Browser and browser version

  • The operating system used

  • The address (URL) of the previously visited page (Referrer URL)

  • The host name and IP address of the device from which it is accessed

  • Date and time

  • Files (web server log files).

We do not share this data, but we cannot rule out the possibility that such data may be viewed in the presence of unlawful conduct.

Storage of personal data

Personal data that you transmit to us electronically via this website, such as name, e-mail address, address or other personal information in connection with the transmission of a form or comments in the blog, will be provided by us together with the time and the IP address used only for the specified purpose, kept securely and not passed on to third parties.

We therefore use your personal data only for communication with those visitors who expressly wish to be contacted and for the processing of the services and products offered on this website.

We do not share your personal data without consent, but we cannot rule out the possibility that such data may be viewed in the presence of unlawful conduct.

If you send us personal data by e-mail we cannot guarantee secure transmission and the protection of your data. We recommend that you never send confidential data unencrypted by e-mail.

Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation

According to the provisions of the GDPR and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG), you are entitled to the following rights in principle:

  • Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)

  • Right of erasure ("right to be forgotten") (Article 17 GDPR)

  • Right to restrict processing (Article 18 GDPR)

  • Right to notification - obligation to notify in connection with the rectification or deletion of personal data or the restriction of processing (Article 19 GDPR)

  • Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)

  • Right of objection (Article 21 GDPR)

  • Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling (Article 22 GDPR)

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection claims have otherwise been violated in a way, you can complain to the supervisory authority, which is the data protection authority in Austria, whose website can be found under https://www.dsb.gv.at/.

Evaluation of visitor behavior

In the following privacy policy, we inform you whether and how we evaluate data from your visit to this website. The analysis of the collected data is usually anonymous and we cannot indemnify your behaviour on this website on you.

You can find out more about the possibilities of this evaluation of the visit data in the following data protection declaration.

TLS encryption with https

We use https to transmit data securely on the Internet (data protection by technical design Article 25 paragraph 1 GDPR).

By using Transport Layer Security (TLS), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission over the Internet, we can ensure the protection of sensitive data. You can see the use of this data transmission protection by the small lock icon at the top left of the browser and the use of the https scheme (instead of http) as part of our Internet address.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

We use Google Analytics from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on this website to statistically evaluate visitor data. Google Analytics uses target-oriented cookies.

Cookies from Google Analytics

_ga Expiration time: 2 years Usage: Differentiation of website visitors Example value: GA1.2.1326744211.152221105823

_gid Expiration time: 24 hours Usage: Differentiation of website visitors Example value: GA1.2.1687193234.152221105823

_gat_gtag_UA_<property data-preserve-html-node="true"-id> Expiration time: 1 minute Usage: Used to throttle the request rate. When Google Analytics is provided through the Google Tag Manager, this cookie is named _dc_gtm_ <property data-preserve-html-node="true"-id>. Example value: 1

For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de. Pseudonymization

Our concern in the sense of the GDPR is the improvement of our offer and our website. Since the privacy of our users is important to us, the user data is pseudonymized. The data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of Section 96 (3) TKG and Article 6 EU GDPR ( 1 lit a) and/or f (legitimate interest) of the GDPR. Deactivation of data collection by Google Analytics

The browser add-on to disable Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js) helps website visitors prevent Google Analytics from using their data.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Google Analytics Addendum to Data Processing

We have entered into a direct customer agreement with Google to use Google Analytics by accepting the "Data Processing Addendum" in Google Analytics.

You can find out more about the data processing supplement for Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3379636?hl=de&utm_id=ad

Google Analytics IP Anonymization

We have implemented the IP address anonymization of Google Analytics on this website. This feature was developed by Google to enable this website to comply with the applicable data protection regulations and recommendations of the local data protection authorities if they prohibit the storage of the full IP address. The anonymization or masking of the IP takes place as soon as the IP addresses arrive in the Google Analytics data acquisition network and before the data is stored or processed.

More information on IP anonymization can be found on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=de. Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reports

We've turned on advertising reporting features in Google Analytics. The demographic and interest reports contain information on age, gender and interests. This allows us to get a better picture of our users without being able to assign this data to individual persons. Learn more about the advertising features on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3450482?hl=de_AT&utm_id=ad.

You can stop using your Google Account's activities and information under "Advertising Settings" on https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated by checking in.

Google Analytics deactivation link

By clicking on the following deactivation link, you can prevent Google from recording further visits to this website.

Attention: The deletion of cookies, the use of the incognito/private mode of your browser, or the use of another browser leads to the re-collect of data.

Deactivate Google Analytics for this website and this browser.

Cookies

Our website uses HTTP cookies to store user-specific data. In the following, we explain what cookies are and why they are used to help you understand the following privacy policy. What exactly are cookies?

Whenever you browse the Internet, use a browser. Known browsers include Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Most web pages store small text files in your browser. These files are called cookies.

One thing cannot be dismissed out of hand: cookies are really useful helpers. Almost all websites use cookies. More specifically, they are HTTP cookies, as there are also other cookies for other application areas. HTTP cookies are small files that our website stores on your computer. These cookie files are automatically placed in the cookie folder, almost the "brain" of your browser. A cookie consists of a name and a value. When defining a cookie, one or more attributes must also be specified.

Cookies store certain user data about you, such as language or personal page settings. When you visit our site again, your browser returns the "user-related" information to our site. Thanks to cookies, our website knows who you are and gives you the setting you are used to. In some browsers, each cookie has its own file, in others, such as Firefox, all cookies are stored in a single file.

There are both first-party cookies and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are created directly from our site, third-party cookies are created by partner websites (e.g. Google Analytics). Each cookie is to be evaluated individually, as each cookie stores different data. The expiration time of a cookie also varies from a few minutes to a few years. Cookies are not software programs and do not contain viruses, trojans or other "pests". Cookies also cannot access information from your PC.

For example, cookie data may look like this:

Name: _ga Value: GA1.2.1326744211.152221105823 Purpose: Differentiation of website visitors Expiration date: after 2 years

These minimum sizes should be supported by a browser:

At least 4096 bytes per cookie At least 50 cookies per domain At least 3000 cookies in total

What types of cookies are there?

The question of which cookies we use in particular depends on the services used and will be clarified in the following sections of the Privacy Policy. At this point, we would like to briefly discuss the different types of HTTP cookies.

There are 4 types of cookies:

  • Indispensable cookies: These cookies are necessary to ensure basic functions of the website. For example, these cookies are needed if a user puts a product in the shopping cart, then continues to surf on other pages and later goes to the checkout. These cookies do not delete the shopping cart, even if the user closes his browser window.

  • Useful cookies: These cookies collect information about the user's behaviour and whether the user receives any error messages. These cookies are also used to measure the loading time and behaviour of the website on different browsers.

  • Target-oriented cookies: These cookies improve the user experience. For example, entered locations, font sizes, or form data are saved.

  • Advertising cookies: These cookies are also called targeting cookies. They are used to provide the user with individually adapted advertising. This can be very practical, but also very annoying.

  • Usually, when you visit a website for the first time, you are asked which of these types of cookies you want to allow. And of course, this decision is also stored in a cookie.

How can I delete cookies?

How and whether you want to use cookies is up to you. Regardless of which service or website the cookies originate, you always have the option to delete, disable or only partially allow cookies. For example, you can block third-party cookies, but allow all other cookies.

If you want to determine which cookies have been stored in your browser, if you want to change or delete cookie settings, you can find this in your browser settings:

  • Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome

  • Safari: Managing Cookies and Website Data with Safari

  • Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

  • Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies

  • Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies

If you do not want to receive cookies, you can set up your browser to always inform you when a cookie is to be set. This allows you to decide whether or not to allow the cookie for each cookie. The procedure varies depending on the browser. It is best to search for the instructions in Google with the search term "Delete cookies Chrome" or "Disable cookies Chrome" in the case of a Chrome browser.

What about my privacy policy?

The so-called "cookie guidelines" have been in place since 2009. It states that the storage of cookies requires your consent. However, there are still very different reactions to these directives within EU countries. In Austria, however, this directive was transposed in Paragraph 96(3) of the Telecommunications Act (TKG).

If you want to know more about cookies and don't shy away from technical documentation, we recommend https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265, the Request for Comments of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) called "HTTP State Management Mechanism".

Squarespace Privacy Policy

This website is created, maintained and hosted on Squarespace.com by Squarespace Inc., 459 Broadway 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013. During your visit of this website, Squarespace may receive, store and process data like your IP address.

Squarespace.com is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnjcAAC&status=Active

Please refer to the Squarespace Privacy Policy for more details.

Cookies from Squarespace

Squarespace uses essential cookies to ensure the basic functionality of this website. A full list of cookies used by Squarespace is available at https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507.

Facebook Pixel Privacy Policy

On this website we use the Facebook pixel of Facebook, a social media network of the company Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. The code implemented on this page can evaluate the behavior of visitors who have entered this website from a Facebook advertisement. This can be used to improve Facebook ads and this data is collected and stored by Facebook. The collected data is not visible to us, but can only be used in the context of advertisements. By using the Facebook pixel code, cookies are also set.

By using the Facebook pixel, the visit of this website is communicated to Facebook, so that visitors on Facebook can see suitable advertisements. If you have a Facebook account and are logged in, visiting this website will be associated with your Facebook user account.

See how the Facebook pixel is used for advertising campaigns on https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/facebook-ads-pixel.

You can change your ad settings in Facebook on https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen if you're signed in to Facebook. On http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/, you can manage your preferences for online usage-based advertising. You can disable or activate many providers there at once, or make the settings for individual providers.

For more information about Facebook's data policy, visit https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Amazon Partner Program Privacy Policy

We are a participant in the Amazon Partner Program, which allows you to place Amazon ads and partner links on websites. This placement of Amazon Advertising will result in an advertising expense refund. In order to understand the origin of orders, Amazon uses cookies. The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws are Amazon Europe Core S.A.R.l., Amazon EU S.A.R.L., Amazon Services Europe S.A.R.L. and Amazon Media EU S.A.R.L., all four located 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg and Amazon Instant Video Germany GmbH, 28, 80807 Munich. Amazon Deutschland Services GmbH, Marcel-Breuer-Str. 12, 80807 Munich, is acting as data processor on its behalf. The privacy policy, what information Amazon collects and how it uses it can be found on https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_privacy?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3312401.

Cloudflare Privacy Policy

We use Cloudflare from Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) on this website to make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare uses cookies and processes user data. Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that offers a content delivery network and various security services. These services are located between the user and our hosting provider. In the following, we will try to explain in more detail what all this means.

What is Cloudflare?

A content delivery network (CDN) provided by Cloudflare is nothing more than a network of connected servers. Cloudflare has distributed such servers around the world to get websites to your screen faster. Simply put, Cloudflare creates copies of our website and places them on their own servers. When you visit our website now, a load-sharing system ensures that most of our website is delivered by the server that can view our website the fastest. The distance of data transfer to your browser is significantly shortened by a CDN. Thus, the content of our website is delivered to you by Cloudflare not only from our hosting server, but also from servers from all over the world. The use of Cloudflare is particularly helpful for users from abroad, as the site can be delivered from a nearby server. In addition to quickly delivering web pages, Cloudflare also offers various security services, such as DDoS protection or the Web Application Firewall.

Why do we use Cloudflare on our website?

Of course, we want to offer you the best possible service with our website. Cloudflare helps us make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare offers us both web optimizations and security services, such as DDoS protection and web firewall. This includes a reverse proxy and the content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare blocks threats and limits abusive bots and crawlers that waste our bandwidth and server resources. By storing our website on local data centers and blocking spam software, Cloudflare enables about 60% of our tape width. Providing content through a data center near you and some web optimizations performed there reduces the average load time of a Web page by about half. According to Cloudflare, the "I'm Under Attack Mode" setting can mitigate further attacks by displaying a JavaScript computing task that must be solved before a user can access a website. Overall, this makes our website significantly more powerful and less vulnerable to spam or other attacks.

What data does Cloudflare store?

Cloudflare generally only forwards data that is controlled by website operators. The content is therefore not determined by Cloudflare, but always by the website operator itself. In addition, Cloudflare may collect certain information about the use of our website and process data that is sent by us or has received instructions for Cloudflare. In most cases, Cloudflare receives data such as IP address, contact and log information, security fingerprints, and website performance data. For example, log data helps Cloudflare detect new threats. This allows Cloudflare to ensure a high level of security protection for our website. Cloudflare processes this data as part of the Services in compliance with applicable laws. Of course, this also includes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

For security reasons, Cloudflare also uses a cookie. The cookie (__cfduid) is used to identify individual users behind a shared IP address and to apply security settings for each individual user. This cookie becomes very useful, for example, if you use our website from a local where there are a number of infected computers. However, if your computer is trustworthy, we can detect this by means of the cookie. This allows you to browse our website unhindered and worry-free, despite infected PCs in your environment. It is also important to know that this cookie does not store any personal data. This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare security features and cannot be disabled.

Cookies from Cloudflare

Name: __cfduid Value: d798bf7df9c1ad5b7583eda5cc5e78221105823 Purpose: Security settings for each individual visitor Expiration date: after one year

Cloudflare also works with third-party vendors. They may process personal data only under the direction of Cloudflare and in accordance with the Privacy Policy and other confidentiality and security measures. Cloudflare does not share any personal data without our explicit consent. How long and where is the data stored?

Cloudflare stores your information primarily in the United States and the European Economic Area. Cloudflare can transfer and access the information described above from around the world. In general, Cloudflare stores user-level data for domains in Free, Pro, and Business versions for less than 24 hours. For enterprise domains that have Cloudflare Logs (formerly Enterprise LogShare or ELS), the data can be stored for up to 7 days. However, if IP addresses trigger security alerts on Cloudflare, there may be exceptions to the above retention period.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Cloudflare only keeps data logs for as long as necessary and in most cases this data is deleted within 24 hours. Cloudflare also does not store any personal data, such as your IP address. However, there is information that Cloudflare stores indefinitely as part of its permanent protocols to improve the overall performance of Cloudflare Resolver and identify any security risks. All data that Cloudflare collects (temporary or permanent) is cleaned up by all personal data. All permanent protocols are also anonymized by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare states in your privacy statement that they are not responsible for the content they receive. For example, if you ask Cloudflare if you can update or delete your content, Cloudflare generally refers to us as a website operator. You can also completely prevent the entire collection and processing of your data by Cloudflare by disabling the execution of script code in your browser or by including a script blocker in your browser.

Cloudflare is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnZKAA0. For more information on cloudflare data protection, visit https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/

Google Font's Privacy Policy

On our website we use Google Fonts. These are the "Google fonts" of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). You don't need to sign in or enter a password to use Google fonts. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts/fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google Account, you don't need to worry that your Google account information will be transferred to Google while using Google Fonts. Google collects the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely. We will take a look at exactly what data storage looks like.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory with over 800 fonts that Google LLC provides to its users free of charge. Many of these fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License, while others are published under the Apache license. Both are free software licenses.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

With Google Fonts, we can use fonts on our own website and do not have to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important building block to keep the quality of our website high. All Google fonts are automatically optimized for the web and this saves data volume and is especially useful for use on mobile devices. When you visit our site, the low file size ensures a fast loading time. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different image synthesis systems (rendering) in different browsers, operating systems and mobile devices can lead to errors. Such errors can sometimes distort texts or entire websites visually. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all major browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). So we use the Google fonts so that we can present our entire online service as beautifully and uniformly as possible.

What data is stored by Google?

When you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded via a Google server. This external call transmits data to the Google servers. In this way, Google also recognizes that you or Your IP address visited our website. The Google Fonts API is designed to reduce the use, storage and collection of end-user data to what is necessary for proper font provision. By the way, API stands for "Application Programming Interface" and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software area.

Google Fonts securely stores CSS and font requests on Google and is therefore protected. The usage figures collected allow Google to determine how well the individual fonts are getting. Google publishes the results on internal analytics pages, such as Google Analytics. Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites use Google fonts. This data is published in the BigQuery database of Google Fonts. Entrepreneurs and developers use Google's BigQuery web service to explore and move large amounts of data.

It should be borne in mind, however, that any Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, version of the browser, screen resolution of the browser and the name of the browser to the Google servers. Whether this data is also stored is not clear or is not clearly communicated by Google.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google stores requests for CSS assets for one day on your servers, which are mainly located outside the EU. This allows us to use the fonts using a Google style sheet. A style sheet is a style that allows you to easily and quickly change the design or font of a Web page.

The font files are stored on Google for one year. Google's goal is to fundamentally improve the loading time of websites. When millions of websites refer to the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and immediately reappear on all other websites visited later. Sometimes Google updates font files to reduce file size, increase speech coverage, and improve the design.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The data that Google stores for a day or a year cannot simply be deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is accessed. To delete this data early, you must contact Google Support on https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=221105823. In this case, you can only prevent data storage if you do not visit our site. Unlike other web fonts, Google gives us unrestricted access to all fonts. So we can access a sea of fonts without restrictions and get the most out of our website. For more information about Google Fonts and other questions, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=221105823. Although Google deals with data protection-related matters, it does not contain really detailed information about data storage. It is relatively difficult to get really precise information about stored data from Google. You can also read about which data is generally collected by Google and what this data is used for on https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps Privacy Policy

We use Google Maps of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on our website Google Maps. With Google Maps, we can show you locations better and thus adapt our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transferred to Google and stored on the Google servers. Here we want to go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can prevent it.

What is Google Maps?

Google Maps is an internet map service provided by Google Inc. With Google Maps, you can search online from a PC, tablet, or app to find exact locations of cities, attractions, accommodations, or businesses. If companies are represented on Google My Business, more information about the company is displayed in addition to the location. To view the way to get there, map snippets of a location can be integrated into a website using HTML code. Google Maps shows the earth's surface as a road map or as an aerial or satellite image. Thanks to the Street View images and the high-quality satellite images, very accurate representations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

All our efforts on this page are aimed at providing you with a useful and meaningful time on our website. By integrating Google Maps, we can provide you with the most important information about various locations. You can see at a glance where we have our headquarters. The directions always show you the best or fastest way to us. You can get there for routes by car, by public transport, on foot or by bike. For us, the provision of Google Maps is part of our customer service.

What data is stored by Google Maps?

In order for Google Maps to fully offer its service, the company must collect and store data from you. This includes, among other things, the search terms entered, your IP address and also the latitude or longitude coordinates. Use the route planner function to also save the entered start address. However, this data storage happens on the websites of Google Maps. We can only inform you about this, but we cannot influence you. Since we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google sets at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behaviour. Google primarily uses this data to optimize its own services and to provide you with personalized, personalized advertising. The following cookie is set due to the integration of Google Maps in your browser:

Name: NID Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ221105823 Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize ads to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google "remembers" your most frequently entered searches or your previous interaction with ads. This way you always get customized ads. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal settings for advertising purposes. Expiration date: after 6 months

Note: We cannot guarantee completeness of the information provided for in the stored data. Especially when using cookies, changes can never be ruled out. In order to identify the nid cookie, a separate test page was created, where only Google Maps was involved.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google servers are located in data centers around the world. However, most servers are located in America. For this reason, your data is also increasingly stored in the USA. Here you can find out exactly where the Google data centers are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Google distributes the data on different data carriers. This makes the data more accessible and better protected from possible attempts at tampering. Each data center also has special emergency programs. For example, if there are problems with Google hardware or if a natural disaster paralyzes the servers, the data will almost certainly remain protected.

Google stores some data for a specified period of time. For other data, Google only offers the possibility to delete it manually. Furthermore, the company also anonymizes information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 and 18 months respectively.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? The automatic deletion of location and activity data, introduced in 2019, stores location and web/app activity information for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deletes it. In addition, you can also manually delete this data from the history via the Google account at any time. If you want to completely prevent your location tracking, you must pause the "Web and App Activity" section of the Google Account. Click Data and Personalization, and then click the Activity Setting option. Here you can turn the activities on or off. In your browser, you can also disable, delete or manage individual cookies. Depending on which browser you are using, this always works a little differently. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:

  • Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome

  • Safari: Managing Cookies and Website Data with Safari

  • Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

  • Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies

  • Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies

If you do not want to have cookies, you can set up your browser to always inform you when a cookie is to be set. This allows you to decide whether to allow it or not for each cookie.

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG. If you want to know more about Google's data processing, we recommend the company's in-house privacy policy under https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.