Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by the facebook logo (white letter f on a blue background or a thumbs-up icon) or the notice “facebook social plugin”.

When you visit one of our website's pages that contains a social plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection to the facebook servers. facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website.

The embedded plugins provide facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page on our website. If you are logged into facebook, your visit can be assigned to your facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or leaving a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into facebook, there is a possibility that the plugins will transmit your IP-address to facebook.

For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit facebook’s privacy policy.

If you are a facebook member and do not want facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by facebook, please log out of facebook before entering our website. You can block facebook's social plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the Facebook Blocker.