This privacy policy is intended to inform users of this website about the nature, scope, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website operator.

The website operator takes your data protection very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal regulations. As new technologies and the constant development of this website may result in changes to this privacy policy, we recommend that you review the privacy policy at regular intervals.

Definitions of the terms used (e.g., "personal data" or "processing") can be found in Art. 4 GDPR.

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of server request
• IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

If you choose to contact us by email, the data transmitted will be stored solely for the purpose of processing the email.

In accordance with the Federal Data Protection Act and the EU General Data Protection Regulation, you can contact us free of charge if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your personal data and its correction, blocking, deletion, or revocation of consent. We would like to point out that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or personal data deleted, provided that this does not conflict with any legal retention obligations. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, the State Data Protection Officer for North Rhine-Westphalia.

Use of Google Analytics

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 analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party 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 truncated 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 transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at this link .

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link:Disable Google AnalyticsThis will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Please note that on this website, Google Analytics has been extended with the code "anonymizeIp" to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Use of Vimeo

We also use videos from Vimeo on our website. The video portal is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With the help of a plug-in, we can show you interesting video material directly on our website. Certain data about you may be transferred to Vimeo in the process. In this privacy policy, we will show you what data is involved, why we use Vimeo, and how you can manage or prevent your data or data transfer.

Vimeo is a video platform that was founded in 2004 and has been enabling HD-quality video streaming since 2007. Since 2015, it has also been possible to stream in 4K Ultra HD. Use of the portal is free of charge, but paid content can also be published. Compared to the market leader YouTube, Vimeo places primary emphasis on high-quality content. On the one hand, the portal offers a wealth of artistic content such as music videos and short films, and on the other hand, it also offers informative documentaries on a wide variety of topics.

Why do we use Vimeo on our website?

The aim of our website is to provide you with the best possible content. And to make it as easily accessible as possible. Only when we have achieved this will we be satisfied with our service. The video service Vimeo helps us achieve this goal. Vimeo enables us to present high-quality content directly on our website. Instead of just giving you a link to an interesting video, you can watch the video right here on our site. This expands our service and makes it easier for you to access interesting content. In addition to our texts and images, we also offer video content.

What data is stored on Vimeo?

When you visit a page on our website that has a Vimeo video embedded in it, your browser connects to Vimeo's servers. This results in data being transferred. This data is collected, stored, and processed on Vimeo's servers. Regardless of whether you have a Vimeo account or not, Vimeo collects data about you. This includes your IP address, technical information about your browser type, your operating system, or very basic device information. Vimeo also stores information about which website you use the Vimeo service on and what actions (web activities) you perform on our website. These web activities include, for example, session duration, bounce rate, or which button you clicked on our website with the built-in Vimeo function. Vimeo can track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies.

If you are logged in as a registered member of Vimeo, more data can usually be collected, as more cookies may already have been set in your browser. In addition, your actions on our website will be directly linked to your Vimeo account. To prevent this, you must log out of Vimeo while "surfing" on our website.

Below, we show you cookies that are set by Vimeo when you are on a website with integrated Vimeo functionality. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a Vimeo account.

Name: player
Value: ""
Purpose: This cookie stores your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This ensures that your preferred settings are restored the next time you watch a Vimeo video.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: vuid
Value: pl1046149876.614422590311288257-4
Purpose: This cookie collects information about your actions on websites that have embedded a Vimeo video.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Note: These two cookies are always set as soon as you visit a website with an embedded Vimeo video. If you watch the video and click on the button to "share" or "like" the video, for example, additional cookies will be set. These are also third-party cookies such as _ga or _gat_UA-76641-8 from Google Analytics or _fbp from Facebook. Which cookies are set here depends on your interaction with the video.

The following list shows a selection of possible cookies that are set when you interact with the Vimeo video:

Name: _abexps
Value: %5B%5D
Purpose: This Vimeo cookie helps Vimeo remember the settings you have chosen. These may include, for example, a default language, region, or username. In general, the cookie stores data about how you use Vimeo.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: continuous_play_v3
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie is a first-party cookie from Vimeo. The cookie collects information about how you use the Vimeo service. For example, the cookie stores when you pause or resume playing a video.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.1522249635.1578401280311288257-7
Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Google. By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. It is primarily used to distinguish between website visitors.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _gcl_au
Value: 1.1.770887836.1578401279311288257-3
Purpose: This third-party cookie from Google AdSense is used to improve the efficiency of advertisements on websites.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: _fbp
Value: fb.1.1578401280585.310434968
Purpose: This is a Facebook cookie. This cookie is used to display advertisements or advertising products from Facebook or other advertisers.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Vimeo uses this data, among other things, to improve its own service, to communicate with you, and to implement its own targeted advertising measures. Vimeo emphasizes on its website that only first-party cookies (i.e., cookies from Vimeo itself) are used for embedded videos as long as you do not interact with the video.

How long and where is the data stored?

Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains, New York (USA). However, its services are offered worldwide. The company uses computer systems, databases, and servers in the USA and other countries. Your data may therefore also be stored and processed on servers in America. The data remains stored at Vimeo until the company no longer has any economic reason for storing it. The data is then deleted or anonymized.

How can I delete my data or prevent it from being stored?

You always have the option to manage cookies in your browser according to your preferences. For example, if you do not want Vimeo to set cookies and collect information about you, you can delete or disable cookies in your browser settings at any time. This works slightly differently depending on your browser. Please note that after disabling/deleting cookies, various functions may no longer be available to their full extent. The following instructions show you how to manage or delete cookies in your browser.

If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage the cookies used in the Vimeo settings.

legal basis

If you have consented to your data being processed and stored by integrated Vimeo elements, this consent serves as the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). In principle, your data is also stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) in fast and effective communication with you or other customers and business partners. However, we only use the integrated Vimeo elements if you have given your consent. Vimeo also sets cookies in your browser to store data. We therefore recommend that you read our privacy policy on cookies carefully and review the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider.

We would like to point out that, in the opinion of the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for data transfers to the US. Data processing is primarily carried out by Vimeo. This may result in data not being processed and stored anonymously. Furthermore, US government authorities may have access to individual data. It may also happen that this data is linked to data from other Vimeo services for which you have a user account.

You can find out more about the use of cookies at Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy. Information on data protection at Vimeo can be found at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Use of YouTube

We have integrated YouTube videos into our website. This allows us to present interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page on our website that has a YouTube video embedded in it, your browser automatically connects to the YouTube or Google servers. Various data is transferred during this process (depending on your settings). Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all data processing in the European Union.

Below, we would like to explain in more detail what data is processed, why we have integrated YouTube videos, and how you can manage or delete your data.

On YouTube, users can watch, rate, comment on, and upload videos free of charge. Over the past few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels worldwide. YouTube provides a code snippet that we have incorporated into our website so that we can display videos on our website.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?

YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We strive to offer you the best possible user experience on our website. And, of course, interesting videos are a must. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with additional helpful content alongside our texts and images. In addition, our website is easier to find on the Google search engine thanks to the embedded videos. Even though we place ads via Google Ads, Google can only show these ads to people who are interested in our offers, thanks to the data it collects.

What data does YouTube store?

As soon as you visit one of our pages that has a YouTube video embedded in it, YouTube will set at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually assign your interactions on our website to your profile using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution, or your Internet service provider. Additional data may include contact details, any ratings, sharing content via social media, or adding to your favorites on YouTube.

If you are not signed in to a Google account or YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier linked to your device, browser, or app. This allows your preferred language settings to be retained, for example. However, much interaction data cannot be stored because fewer cookies are set.

The following list shows cookies that were set in a browser test. On the one hand, we show cookies that are set without a logged-in YouTube account. On the other hand, we show cookies that are set with a logged-in account. The list cannot claim to be complete because user data always depends on interactions on YouTube.

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y311288257-1
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics about the video viewed.
Expiration date: after the end of the session

Name: PREF
Value: f1=50000000
Purpose: This cookie also records your unique ID. Google receives statistics via PREF about how you use YouTube videos on our website.
Expiration date: after 8 months

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track your GPS location.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 95Chz8bagyU

Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user's bandwidth on our websites (with embedded YouTube videos).
Expiration date: after 8 months
Additional cookies that are set when you are logged in with your YouTube account:

Name: APISID
Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7311288257-
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. The data is used for personalized advertising.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT also serves security purposes by verifying users and protecting user data from unauthorized attacks.
Expiration date: after 19 years

Name: HSID
Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I

Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. This data helps to display personalized advertising.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL…
Purpose: This cookie stores information about your login details.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: SAPISID
Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM
Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile of your interests.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: SID
Value: oQfNKjAsI311288257-
Purpose: This cookie stores your Google account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: SIDCC
Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL
Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and which advertisements you may have seen before visiting our site.
Expiration date: after 3 months

How long and where is the data stored?

The data that YouTube receives from you and processes is stored on Google servers. Most of these servers are located in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de, you can see exactly where the Google data centers are located. Your data is distributed across the servers. This makes the data faster to access and better protected against manipulation.

Google stores the collected data for varying lengths of time. Some data can be deleted at any time, some is automatically deleted after a limited period of time, and some is stored by Google for a longer period of time. Some data (such as items from "My Activity," photos or documents, products) stored in your Google Account will remain stored until you delete it. Even if you are not signed in to a Google Account, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser, or app.

How can I delete my data or prevent it from being stored?

You can manually delete data in your Google Account. With the automatic deletion feature for location and activity data introduced in 2019, information is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted.

Regardless of whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable cookies from Google. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways.

If you do not want cookies at all, you can set your browser to always inform you when a cookie is about to be set. This allows you to decide whether to accept or reject each individual cookie.

legal basis

If you have consented to your data being processed and stored by integrated YouTube elements, this consent serves as the legal basis for data processing (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). In principle, your data is also stored and processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) in fast and good communication with you or other customers and business partners. However, we only use the integrated YouTube elements if you have given your consent. YouTube also sets cookies in your browser to store data. We therefore recommend that you read our privacy policy on cookies carefully and review the privacy policy or cookie policy of the respective service provider.

We would like to point out that, in the opinion of the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for data transfers to the US. Data processing is primarily carried out by YouTube. This may result in data not being processed and stored anonymously. Furthermore, US government authorities may have access to individual data. It may also happen that this data is linked to data from other YouTube or Google services for which you have a user account.

Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a joint privacy policy. If you would like to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend reading the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Source: Created with the privacy policy generator from AdSimple

Using Google Search Console and Google Ads

We use Google Search Console and Google Ads, two services provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), on our website. Google Search Console helps us to monitor and improve the attractiveness of the information we provide on our website in Google search results. We use Google Ads to create and optimize targeted information about our therapy services.
When using these services, data about the use of our website, such as your IP address and information about your usage behavior, may be transmitted to Google and processed there. Processing is usually carried out on Google's servers. We have very little influence on the type and scope of data that Google collects and processes using these tools.

Legal basis and right to object

The use of Google Search Console and Google Ads is based on our legitimate interest in the effective analysis, optimization, and operation of our online offering (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). You can object to data processing by Google at any time by adjusting the settings in your Google account or deactivating the use of cookies in your browser.

Further information

Further information on data use by Google, settings and objection options can be found in Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy and in the terms of use for Google services at: https://policies.google.com/terms.

Note on the responsible body

The responsible body (website operator) for data processing on this website is:

IOZK AG
Hohenstaufenring 30-32
50674 Cologne

The responsible body is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).

Data Protection Officer:

Jacob Hösl

IOZK
Hohenstaufenring 30-32
50674 Cologne

Email: datenschutz@iozk.de