Cookies
This Cookie Statement describes the cookies we use on the website and what they are used for.
Why Do We Use Cookies?
- To ensure the website functions properly and provides you with the best user experience
- To gain insight into the number of visitors to our site and the pages they view
- To enable social media integration on the website
- To generate ads tailored to your interests
What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file that is sent along with pages from this website and stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. The information stored in it can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.
Use of Permanent Cookies
With the help of a permanent cookie, we can recognize you on a new visit to our website. This allows the website to be tailored to your preferences. If you have given consent for the placement of cookies, we can remember this via a cookie. This means you don’t have to repeat your preferences every time, saving you time and improving your experience. You can delete permanent cookies via your browser settings.
Use of Session Cookies
With a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you have viewed during your visit. This allows us to tailor our service as much as possible to the browsing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted once you close your web browser.
Tracking Cookies from Our Advertisers
With your permission, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your device. They use these cookies to track which pages you visit within their network to build a profile of your online behavior. This profile is also built using similar information from your visits to other websites within their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, or any other personal details known to us, but is only used to tailor ads to your profile so that they are as relevant to you as possible.
Google Analytics
A cookie from Google is placed through our website as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to monitor 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 where third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no control over this. We have not given Google permission to use the obtained analytics data for other Google services.
The information Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not shared. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google claims to adhere to the Safe Harbor principles and is affiliated with the Safe Harbor program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which ensures an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Right to Access, Correct, or Delete Your Data
You have the right to request access to, correction, or deletion of your data. You can submit your request using the contact form below. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. If your request concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you should include a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.
Enabling, Disabling, and Deleting Cookies
More information about enabling, disabling, and deleting cookies can be found in your browser’s instructions or with the help of your browser’s Help function.