Cookie policy

What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple, small file that is sent along with pages of this website [and/or Flash applications] and stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. The information stored in it may be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.

We use persistent cookies

With the help of a persistent cookie, we can recognize you on a new visit to our website. This allows the website to be specially tailored to your preferences. We can also remember, by means of a cookie, whether you have given consent for the placement of cookies. This means you do not have to repeat your preferences every time, saving you time and allowing for more pleasant use of our website. Persistent cookies can be removed via your browser settings.

We use session cookies

With the help of a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit. This allows us to adapt our service as much as possible to the browsing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We place our own tracking cookies

With your consent, we place a cookie on your device, which can be retrieved whenever you visit a website within our network. This allows us to find out that, in addition to our website, you have also visited other website(s) within our network. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, and similar information, but is used solely to tailor advertisements to your profile, so that they are as relevant as possible for you.

We use Google Analytics

A cookie from the American company Google is placed via our website, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and receive reports on how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. We have no control over this. We have allowed Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not included. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means that an adequate level of protection is in place for the processing of any personal data.

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your data

You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data. Please see our contact page for this. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to properly identify yourself. When it concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must include a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.

More information about enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions and/or the Help function of your browser.