Website:
We want you to be able to take the best advantage of our website. Therefore we have designed a number of features into this site.
Many pages are available in German and English and you can switch languages using the links beneath the left-hand menu when available.
If you have questions or feedback regarding our website, or if in spite of our best efforts you have found an error, then please contact our webmaster: The link "Feedback for this page" beneath the left-hand menu will call your standard mail client application and create a new message. Apart from the correct address for our webmaster this message will be prefilled with some information that will help us analyse your problem. You may obviously edit this information if you feel it contains data you don't want to share with us but keeping the data intact helps us to help you.
We'd like to let you know about some of the other (technical) highlights of our site:
Technology of the site
While designing and implementing our site we tried to incorporate accessibiliy as well as compatibility with the different hard- and software environments our clients might be using. Therefore we decided to use XHTML and CSS and refrained from using HTML-frames. We are doing our best to honour your personal browser preferences, i.e. font and window sizes and your preferred language dynamically. We have an optimized layout for printing. And using text based menus instead of images helps alternative browsers present our pages in the best possible way.
Browser compatibility
We generally develop and test the site on the current versions of Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox on Mac OS X and Windows XP. Basically any browser supporting CSS, JavaScript and XHTML should work just fine. Where possible, fallbacks are implemented for missing browser functionality. But these usually imply reduced or missing functionality. JavaScript is required for most of the site and should be allowed for the site. Cookies are also required for some functionality and should be allowed for the site.
If you do encounter any issues, please let us know by using the Feedback for this page link below the menu on the left. This will help us improve the site and fix any remaining issues.
Qualification of links
Links pointing to pages, and which appear in the content proper of the page, are usually marked as follows:
Links pointing to destinations within this site look like this: Example 1 (local).
Links pointing to other websites look like this: Example 2 (external).
(Try moving the mouse over the links to see the difference.)
Journal
In case you frequently visit our website you might like to know what has changed. Therefore What's new lists all pages sorted by their modification date. If you allow setting a cookie then we can save the time of your last loading of the Journal and can hilight the changes since then.
Privacy
Your visit at web pages leaves a digital trace in the log files of the web servers you visited. However no really personal data is given to us through your page loading. Nevertheless we want to inform you in our privacy policy about how we are using personal data and how we respect your privacy.
Impressum
Not only for the sake of German law but also because we want to present ourselves transparently to customers we give further details about the organization responsible for this web site.