Cookies

This policy is intended to inform you why we use cookies, what they do and what choices you have about their use.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are generated upon request from your browser to our web server and stored on your device. Their purpose is usually to be able to identify your device and its behavior when visiting our sites.

There are two types of cookies – permanent and temporary (session cookies).

Session cookies are temporarily stored on your computer when you visit our Site, but are deleted the moment you close the page.

Persistent cookies are stored as a file on your computer or mobile device for a longer period of time.

With the exception of cookies necessary for the functioning of our site, we store cookies on your device only with your consent. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can adjust your browser settings - more information about this can be found at the end of this document.

If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you could refuse them by setting your internet browser to warn you before accepting a cookie or refuse cookies when your internet browser signals their presence. You could also refuse all cookies by turning them off through your internet browser settings. Note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will usually also disable certain features of our website.

How are cookies deleted?

You know when and if your browser receives cookies because it notifies you on your first visit. In this way, you have the option to accept or decline a cookie.

Your browser can be set to reject all cookies. If you want to find out how to do this, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/or the Microsoft Cookie Guide https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies.

Please note that changes to your browser that disable the cookie function may prevent the site from functioning properly.

You can choose which cookies to allow or disallow by visiting the respective sites for your browser settings:

Internet Explorer cookie settings: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-10

Chrome cookie settings: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&ref_topic=14666

Cookie settings on Safari web https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=en_US and iOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265.

Absolutely necessary cookies

Certain cookies are necessary for us to securely provide our services through the website. This category includes, for example:

– “Cookies” that identify or authenticate our users;

- "Cookies" that temporarily store certain user data (for example, content of an online form);

– "Cookies" that store certain user preferences (eg search settings or language settings);

- "Cookies" that store data to ensure smooth playback of video or audio content.

Analytical “Cookies”

We use analytical cookies to record user behavior (eg clicks on ad banners, entered search queries) and statistically evaluate these actions.

Advertising Cookies

We also use cookies for advertising purposes. User behavior profiles created using such cookies (eg clicks on banner ads, subpages visited, search queries entered) are used by us to show you ads or offers that are tailored to your interests ( "individual interest-based advertising").

Third-party advertising Cookies

We also allow other companies to evaluate our users' data through advertising cookies. This allows us and third parties to show users of our website interest-based advertisements that are based on an analysis of your usage behavior (e.g. clicks on banner ads, subpages visited, queries entered), such as this is not limited to our online offers.

“Cookies” on referral

Our referral tracking partners place cookies on your computer ("referral cookie") if you have reached our website through an advertisement of that partner. These cookies usually expire after 30 days. In the event that you visit certain pages we host and the cookie has not yet expired, we and the relevant conversion tracking partner may see that a particular user clicked on the advertisement and was redirected to our page. The information collected through the referral cookie is used to create referral statistics and to determine the total number of users who clicked on the relevant advertisement and were directed to a page that is equipped with a referral tracking tag.

Web space analysis

We need statistical information about the use of our website to make it more accessible, to measure reach and to do market research.

For this purpose, we use the web analysis tools described in this section.

User profiles created by these tools, using analytical cookies or by evaluating log files, do not contain personal data. Tools either do not use users' IP addresses at all or truncate them immediately after collection.

The providers of the tools process the data only as processors of the personal data according to our instructions and not for their own purposes.

Below you will find information about each tool provider and how you can object to the collection and processing of personal data through the tool.

You should note that for tools that use opt-out cookies, the opt-out feature is device or browser specific and, therefore, valid for the currently used end device or browser. If you use multiple end devices or browsers, you must select the opt-out feature on each end device and in each browser used.

In addition, you can generally prevent the creation of user profiles by disabling the use of cookies.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). We use Google Analytics with the additional function offered by Google to anonymize IP addresses. Google abbreviates the IP address already within the EU and only in exceptional cases in the USA, in both cases only abbreviated IP addresses are recorded.

You can object to the collection and processing of your data by downloading and installing a browser plug-in from the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en