When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby 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 in to your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that we as providers of the site receive no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use through Facebook. For more information, please see the privacy statement of Facebook under https://www.facebook.com/policy.php If you do not want Facebook to associate visits of our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is transmitted to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this site, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services related to website activity and Internet usage for website operators.
You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, we point out that you will not be able to use all functions of this website, in this case, completely. You can also prevent the capture of the data generated by the cookie, related to your usage of the site (inc. your IP address) and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing available at the following link browser plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, we point out that you will not be able to use all features of this website in this case. By using this site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purposes set out above.
Google records information about your +1 activities to improve Google’s services for you and others. To use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile that must contain at least the chosen name for the profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name can replace a different name you used when sharing content with your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be shown to users who know your e-mail address or other identifying information from you.
Use of the collected information: In addition to the above uses of the information you provide in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policy will be used. Google may release summarised statistics on the +1 activities of users and send it to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or linked sites.