This website uses “Google Analytics”, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc – “Google”. “Google Analytics” uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. 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. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by “Google” within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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 behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of “Google Analytics” will not be merged with other data from “Google”. 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 this website. In addition, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the “cookie” and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to “Google” as well as the processing of this data by “Google” by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link. The current link is
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
In view of the discussion about the use of analysis tools with complete IP addresses, we would like to point out that this website uses “Google Analytics” with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” and therefore IP addresses are only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude direct personal references.