Cookie policy

COOKIE POLICY

I. GENERAL INFORMATION

Cookies are small text files used by websites to improve the user experience. The law allows cookies to be stored on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of the website. For all other types of cookies, we require your consent.

If you would like to learn more about cookies, please visit Cookiepedia – All About Cookies.

List of Cookies

• Necessary Cookies
  • Necessary cookies make the website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
• Statistics Cookies
  • Cookie Name – Purpose – Duration
    • _gat – Google Analytics // Statistical tracking // 1 day
    • _gat_gtag – Google Analytics // Statistical tracking // 1 day
    • _gid – Google Tag Manager // Statistical tracking // 1 day
    • _gcl_au – Google AdSense // Statistical tracking // 3 months
    • _ga – Google Analytics // Statistical tracking // 2 years

II. GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Please note that this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of this website.

The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is transmitted to and stored on Google’s servers in the United States. IP anonymisation has been activated for this website. Therefore, Google processes your IP address in shortened form within the Member States of the European Union or other countries that are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and shortened there.

On behalf of the website owner, Google uses this information to analyse website usage, compile reports on website activity and provide the website owner with other services relating to website and internet usage.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, please note that doing so may prevent you from using all the features of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by cookies relating to your use of this website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

III. FACEBOOK

Our website uses social media plugins (“Plugins”) for the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). These plugins are identified by the Facebook logo or by labels such as “Facebook Social Plugin” or “Facebook Social Media Plugin”. An overview of Facebook plugins and their appearance is available at: Facebook for Developers.

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook’s servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser and integrated into the website.

Through this connection, Facebook receives information that your browser has accessed a page on our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook.

This information, including your IP address, is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the United States and stored there.

If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook may associate your visit to our website with your Facebook profile.

If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or posting a comment, this information is also transmitted directly to Facebook’s servers and stored there. In addition, the information may be published on your Facebook profile and displayed to your Facebook friends.

Facebook may use this information for advertising, market research and the personalisation of Facebook pages according to users’ needs.

For these purposes, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, for example to evaluate your use of our website in connection with advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services related to the use of Facebook.

If you do not want Facebook to directly associate the information collected through our website with your Facebook profile, you should log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

Further information about the purpose and scope of data collection, the subsequent processing and use of data by Facebook, your rights and the available privacy settings can be found in Facebook’s Privacy Policy: Facebook Privacy Policy.

IV. NEWSLETTER

If you subscribe to the newsletter offered on our website, the information requested from you will be used exclusively for the purpose of sending you newsletters.

If you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter, you can do so by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each newsletter.