What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent with pages of this website [and/or Flash applications] and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers on your next visit.

Use of permanent cookies

With the help of a permanent cookie we can recognize you when you visit our website again. The website can therefore be adjusted to your preferences. Even if you have given permission to place cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. This saves you having to repeat your preferences over and over again, thus saving you time and making our website more pleasant to use. Permanent cookies can be removed through the settings of your browser.

Use of session cookies

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

Tracking cookies from us

With your permission, we place a cookie on your equipment, which can be retrieved when you visit a website from our network. This enables us to know that, in addition to our website, you have visited the corresponding other website(s) in our network. The profile built up in this way is not linked to your name, address, email address and the like, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.

Tracking cookies from our advertisers

With your permission, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your equipment. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages from their network you visit, in order to build a profile of your online surfing behavior. This profile is partly built on the basis of similar information which they receive from your visit to other websites from their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, etc. as known to us, but is only used to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.

Google Analytics

Through our website, a cookie is placed by the U.S. company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and get reports about how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or to the extent that third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. We have no influence on this. We have allowed Google to use the obtained analytics information for other

Google services.

The information that Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is expressly not given. The information is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states 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 there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.

Right to access and correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. See our contact page. To prevent abuse we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. When it comes to access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in the settings of your browser.

Enabling and disabling cookies and deleting them

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

Deleting tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who, among other things, show you advertisements on our website. You can delete these cookies or block them permanently via your browser settings.