Privacy Disclaimer

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and appreciate your interest in the Deutsche Leberstiftung (German Liver Foundation). The protection of your personal data is very important to us. You can visit the website provided here without us needing any personal data from you. We do not collect any personal data on this website. Further information on data protection can also be found on the German website of the Deutsche Leberstiftung (German Liver Foundation) at www.deutsche-leberstiftung.de/datenschutz.

Cookies and website tracking

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and enable your website use to be analysed. As a rule, the information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transferred to and stored on a Google server in the U.S. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address is shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the U.S. and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your website use, compiling website activity reports and providing further services relating to website and Internet use to the website operator.

The IP address transferred by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the installation of cookies by making the appropriate setting in your browser software; however, you should be aware that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie in relation to your website use (incl. your IP address) as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in, which is available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". As a result, IP addresses are processed in shortened form to prevent direct personal references. Any personal references in the data collected about you are immediately prevented and the personal data are deleted without delay.

We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistical data obtained enable us to improve our website and make it more interesting to you as the user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data are transferred to the U.S. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework, https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is point (f) of Art. 6 (1) GDPR.

Information on the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of Service: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Overview of Data Protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, as well as the Privacy Policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Statistical information

To keep our website up to date and optimise it according to the visitors' requirements, we collect statistical information, such as the number of visitors to every single web page. We use the following cookies for the collection of statistical information:

    _ga: installed by Google Analytics, used to distinguish users. Expiration time: 24 months. Category: tracking cookie

   _gat: installed by Google Analytics, used to throttle the request rate. Expiration time: 10 minutes. Category: tracking cookie

    _gid: installed by Google Analytics, used to distinguish users. Expiration time: 24 h. Category: tracking cookie

This information is used exclusively for internal purposes and does not contain any personal references.

Usage/Access data

In addition, cookies are also set. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer as soon as you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie indicates that it is a repeat visit. The cookie exclusively contains a one-time number. The cookie does not contain any personal information. The cookie cannot identify you on websites of third parties, including the websites of the analytics service provider.

You can configure your browser to reject cookies in general or to inform you before a cookie is set. For further information on this, please refer to the operating instructions of your Internet browser.

Moreover, we point out that we do not use IP addresses or cookies to identify you personally, but exclusively to increase the efficiency of our website.

Responsible for data protection:

Deutsche Leberstiftung (German Liver Foundation)

Bianka Wiebner

Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1

30625 Hanover

Tel  0511 – 532 6815

Email: datenschutz@deutsche-leberstiftung.de