Privacy Policy

Information according to § 5 TMG
FORTIS IMAGINATIO GmbH
Am Kanal 30
04179 Leipzig
Company registration no: HRB Leipzig 31448
Represented by: Dr. Michael Faustino Bauer, Jan Peter
telefax: 0049-341-86094613

Webdesign
Polygraph Design GbR, Berlin

English translation
Jean-Michel Johnston

Responsible for the content of this website according to § 55 Abs. 2 RStV is
Dr. Michael Faustino Bauer

Copyright photographs
Information on the authors of the photographs on this website are included on the photographs. The authors of the photographs on the front page are:

Photograph 1 © Jürgen Rehberg
Photograph 2 © LOOKSfilm / Tobias Fritzsch
Photograph 3 © Jürgen Rehberg
Photograph 4 © Susanne Schiebler
Photograph 5 © Falk Wenzel
Photograph 6 © AVANGA Dresden

Copyright Law
Content and works created by the owner of this website are subject to German copyright law.  Reproduction, processing, distribution as well as any kind of use even partially are subject to prior written consent of the rights owner, even outside the scope of copyright. You may apply for permission through us, at the address as provided above. Downloads as well as copying this website is permitted for private purposes only and are explicitly not allowed forcommercial purposes. An indication of source, copyright or right holder is compulsory.

Data Privacy Statement
The Fortis Imaginatio GmbH (in the following called „Fortima) takes the protection of personal data seriously and would appreciate if you feel safe when visiting our website. Usually you may visit our website without providing your personal data.

Data transferred by browser technology
Visiting our website is logged automaticallyData about your IP Address as well as date and time of access, browser type and type of your operation system, as well as the websites you have been visiting is collected. It is not possible for us to identify you personally. Any other kind of data evaluation, with the exception for statistical purposes, does not occur.

Usage of your personal data, right of objection
Personal data you are providing when surfing on our website (e.g. name, address, E-Mail) is used for the purpose of correspondence with you, as well as for purposes only to which you have given your prior consent. You may object to the usage of your data at any time.

Right to information, adjustment, suspension, deletion
You are entitled to receive information regarding the personal data stored about you as well as to adjust incorrect data, as well as to suspend or delete such data. For such inquiries please write an email to office@fortima.de.

Links to other web content
This website may contain links to any other websites. Fortima is not responsible for the content of this other websites.

Collection, processing and usage of personal data
Generally you may use our website without being obliged to provide personal data.

Social Plugins
On this websites so called Social Plugins of Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo and Facebook are used, through which you are able to share our content in social networks:

1. Tumblr
By using embedded push buttons, this website provides features of the Tumblr service. These features are provided through Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA, www.tumblr.com. Making use of the push buttons, you may share an article or parts of our website through Tumblr, or you may follow a link you to our contents on Tumblr.

Requesting a site from our web presence by using a Tumblr push button, your web browser will set up a direct link to the servers of Tumblr and data is transferred from Tumblr to your web browser. In case if you hold your own Tumblr account the information on websites you have been visiting, as well as transferred content, will be connected with your Tumblr account. Even if you do not own a Tumblr account and should request one of our websites, your web browser will establish a direct link to the servers of Tumblr for exchanging data. According to our information Tumblr uses third party services like Google Analytics, comScore, Yahoo Web analytics, as well as cookies (as long as their use has not been excluded in the settings of your web browser). Especially, when posting through Tumblr you should be aware that Tumblr will store and process information about your IP-address, as well as other common information like the web browser you are using, preferred language, devise, operating system etc. We would like to emphasize that we neither receive any data from Tumblr, nor are we aware on the extent of the data as it is collected by Tumblr, or as it is processed by Tumblr, or that we receive the content itself. Furthermore you should consider that data will be transferred to and stored at servers outside of the European Union (especially to the US). We do not receive this data. Further information on the privacy declaration of Tumblr you may find at http://www.tumblr.com/policy/de/privacy. In case if you own a Tumblr account you may edit your account-settings at https://tumblr.com/settings/account.

2. Twitter
This website has embedded features, so-called social plugins of the Twitter network, as provided by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Making use of these social plugins, you may share an article or parts of our website through the Twitter service, or you may follow a link you to our contents on Twitter. Social plugins of Twitter can be identified by the white bird on light blue background. Information on these features is described at https://twitter.com/about/resources.

When visiting websites using social plugins of Twitter, your web browser will establish a direct link to the servers of Twitter, thorough which data, including your IP-address will be transferred to Twitter – if you should you own a Twitter account – and a connection between your Twitter account and the visit on our website will be recorded. Even if you should not own a Twitter account, having visited a site on our web presence which has embedded a social plugin of Twitter, your web browser will establish a direct link to the servers of Twitter, transferring content of the plugin directly to your web browser. We would like to emphasize, that we do neither receive any information from Twitter, nor are we aware on the extent of the data as it is collected by Twitter, or as it is processed, or that we receive the content itself. Furthermore you should consider that data will be transferred to and stored at servers outside of the European Union (especially to the US). We do not receive this data. According to our information your IP-address well as the URL of the respective website when clicking on the plugin will be transferred to Twitter, mainly for the purpose to display the plugin itself. Further information on Twitter’s social plugins you may find at https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons, as well as further information on data protection at Twitter’s privacy declaration at https://twitter.com/privacy. In case if you own a Twitter account you may edit your account-settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

3. Vimeo
This website has embedded features, so-called social plugins of the Vimeo network, as provided by Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With every request for a website which is offering one or more Vimeo video clips a direct link between your browser and a server of Vimeo in the United States is established. Hereby information on your visit as well as your IP address is stored there. Through interactions withVimeo plug-ins (for example by clicking the start buttons) this information will be transmitted to Vimeo and will be stored there.

When visiting websites using social plugins of Vimeo, your web browser will establish a direct link to the servers of Vimeo, thorough which data, including your IP-address will be transferred to Vimeo – if you should you own a Vimeo account – and a connection between your Vimeo account and the visit on our website will be recorded. Even if you should not own a Vimeo account, having visited a site on our web presence which has embedded a social plugin of Vimeo, your web browser will establish a direct link to the servers of Vimeo, transferring content of the plugin directly to your web browser. We would like to emphasize, that we do neither receive any information from Vimeo, nor are we aware on the extent of the data as it is collected by Vimeo, or as it is processed, or that we receive the content itself. Furthermore you should consider that data will be transferred to and stored at servers outside of the European Union (especially to the US). We do not receive this data.

If you own a Vimeo user account and do not want that Vimeo will collect data about your through this website and will combine this data with the information of your Vimeo Account,you need to log out from Vimeo service prior to visiting this website. The Vimeo disclaimer and further information on collection and use of your data through Vimeo you will find athttp://vimeo.com/privacy. In case if you own a Vimeo account you may edit your account-settings at https://vimeo.com/settings/profile.

Additionally Vimeo makes use of the Google Analytics tracker through the iFrame in which the video is displayed. This is a unique tracking system of Vimeo to which we do not have any access on. You may deactivate tracking through Google Analytics by using deactivation-tools Google offers for some web browser. As Vimeo user you may furthermore prevent the collection of data generated by Google Analytics as well as data from visiting the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing a browser-plugin which is available at this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

4. Facebook
This website has integrated plugins of the so called social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Facebook plugins you may recognize by the Facebook logo or the “like button” on our website.

If you are visiting our website through the plugin a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook servers will be established. Facebook hereby receives the information that you have visited our website by identifying you IP address. Clicking on the Facebook “Like-Button” while you are logged in with your Facebook account may connect content of our website with your Facebook profile. Through that Facebook may relate the visit of our website with your user account. We do not receive any information about the transmitted data as well as on the use of this data through Facebook. Further information you will find at the Facebook disclaimer at http://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php.

 If you do not want Facebook to allocate the visit of our website with your user account, you need to log out from your Facebook account prior to visiting our website.

Google Analytics
This website is using Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. („Google“). Google Analytics is using so-called „cookies“, which are text files stored at your computer and through which an analysis can be done how you used the website. The information generated by the cookie about how you used the website will be sent to a Google server in the US and will be stored there. In case of using IP anonymizers on this website your IP address will be shortened within the scope of member states of the European Union or in other countries who have signed the treaty on the common EU market. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address is transferred to a Google server in the US and shortened. Mandated by the owner of this website Google will use this information to examine how you have used the website, as well as for generating reports on website activities and internet services towards the user of this websiteThe IP address as identified by Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data. You may prevent storage of cookies by using an adequate browser setting: But you must be informed that in such cases you might not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. You may prevent the collection of data (including your IP address) through cookie generated information which is related to information how you have used this website by downloading and installing a browser-plugin available at this source: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You may avoid the collection of data through Google Analytics by clicking at the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set which prevents from future collection of data when visiting this website: <href=“javascript:gaOptout()“>Google Analytics deaktivieren</a)

Further information on terms of use and data protection you will find at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Please be informed that on this website Google Analytics has been expanded by theanonymizelp“ codewhich allows anonymized collection of IP-Addresses (so called IP-Masking).

 By using this website you agree that data which has been collected about you will be processed by Google in the way as described above for the aforementioned purpose.