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Copyright
The copyright and all other rights to content, images, photos, or other files on the website belong exclusively to Horizon X or the specifically named holders. The written consent of the copyright holders must be obtained in advance for the reproduction of any elements.

In this privacy policy, we explain how we collect and process personal data.
This is not an exhaustive description; other privacy policies may regulate specific matters.

Personal data refers to all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person. If you provide us with the personal data of other persons (e.g. family members, data of work colleagues), please ensure that these persons are aware of this privacy policy and only provide us with their personal data if you are authorized to do so and if this personal data is correct.

This privacy policy is aligned with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although the GDPR is a regulation of the European Union, it is relevant to us. The German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) complements the GDPR, and companies outside the European Union or the EEA must comply with the GDPR under certain circumstances.

Collection and processing of personal data
We primarily process the personal data that we collect from users when operating our website.
Personal data is treated as strictly confidential and is neither sold nor passed on to third parties.
In close cooperation with our hosting providers, we endeavor to protect the databases as well as possible against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or falsification.

When you access our website, the following data is stored in log files, for example, Details of your device and settings, cookies, date and time of visit, pages and content accessed, functions used, referring website, location details.
This usage data forms the basis for statistical, anonymous analyses so that trends can be identified, which we can use to improve our offers accordingly.

Purposes of data processing and legal basis
We also use personal data from you and other persons for the following purposes, where permitted and where we deem it appropriate, in which we (and sometimes third parties) have a legitimate interest corresponding to the purpose:

1. offering and further developing our offers, services and websites, apps and other platforms (if available) on which we are present;

2. communication with third parties and processing their inquiries (e.g. applications, media inquiries);

3. examination and optimization of procedures for needs analysis for the purpose of direct customer contact and collection of personal data from publicly accessible sources for the purpose of customer acquisition

4. advertising and marketing (including the organization of events), provided you have not objected to the use of your data (if we send you advertising from us as an existing customer, you can object to this at any time and we will then place you on a blacklist against further advertising mailings);

5. market and opinion research, media monitoring;

6. assertion of legal claims and defense in connection with legal disputes and official proceedings;

7. guaranteeing our operations, in particular, IT, our websites, apps and other platforms;

If you have given us your consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (for example, when you register to receive newsletters), we will process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent, unless we have another legal basis and require one. Consent that has been given can be revoked at any time, but this has no effect on data processing that has already taken place.

Cookies/tracking and other technologies in connection with the use of our website

Use of Facebook plugins (Like button)
Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook 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 into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.

Further information on this can be found in Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

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 this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory 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 truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of analyzing your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

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. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

If you block cookies, you may no longer be able to use certain functions of the website.

In some of our newsletters and other marketing emails, we also include visible and invisible image elements, where permitted, which we can retrieve from our servers to determine whether and when you have opened the email so that we can measure and better understand how you use our offers and tailor them to you. You can block this in your email program; most are preset to do so.

By using our websites and agreeing to receive newsletters and other marketing emails, you consent to the use of these techniques. If you do not want this, you must set your browser or e-mail program accordingly.

Data security

We take appropriate technical and organizational security precautions to protect your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse.

Rights of the data subject
You have the right to information, correction, deletion, the right to restrict data processing and otherwise to object to our data processing as well as to the surrender of certain personal data for the purpose of transfer to another body (so-called data portability) within the framework of the data protection law applicable to you and insofar as provided for therein (such as in the case of the GDPR).

The exercise of such rights generally requires that you clearly prove your identity (e.g. by means of a copy of your identity card, where your identity is otherwise not clear or cannot be verified). To assert your rights, you can contact us at the address given above.

Every data subject also has the right to enforce their claims in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. The competent data protection authority in Germany is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch).

Amendments

We may amend this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on our website shall apply. If the data protection declaration is part of an agreement with you, we will inform you of the change by e-mail or other suitable means in the event of an update.