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This processing takes place on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) sent. 1 point (f) GDPR because of our legitimate interest to make our websites more attractive to our website visitors. With Google Fonts fonts on our websites may be displayed consistently and we may offer faster loading times for our websites. When accessing our website your browser downloads the necessary Google Fonts to the browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. According to Google your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to the Google server while using other Google services that are authenticated. <br /><br /> In accordance with the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of 12 July 2016 transfers from a controller or processor in the European Union to organisations in the U.S. that have self-certified their adherence to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework Principles with the Department of Commerce and have committed to comply with them are allowed. 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