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 stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. The information stored in it can be sent back to our servers upon your next visit.

Use of persistent cookies

With a persistent cookie, we can recognize you on a new visit to our website. The website can then be specially tailored to your preferences. If you have given consent to the placement of cookies, we can remember this via a cookie. This way, you don’t have to repeat your preferences every time, saving time and improving your user experience. You can remove persistent cookies via your browser settings.

Use of session cookies

Session cookies allow us to see which parts of the website you viewed during this visit. We can adjust our service as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Tracking cookies from ourselves

With your consent, we place a cookie on your device, which can be retrieved when you visit another website in our network. This allows us to know that besides our website, you have also visited other sites in our network. The resulting profile is not linked to your name, address, email, etc., but is used only to tailor advertisements to your profile for maximum relevance.

Tracking cookies from our advertisers

With your consent, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your device. These cookies track which pages you visit in their network to build a profile of your online surfing behavior. This profile is partly built based on similar information they get from your visits to other sites in their network. The profile is not linked to your name, address, or email as known to us, but is used only to tailor advertisements to your profile for maximum relevance.

Google Analytics

Our website places a cookie from the American company Google as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and get reports on how visitors use the website. Google may disclose this information to third parties if required by law or if those third parties process the data on Google’s behalf. We have no influence on this. We have not given Google permission to use the analytics information obtained for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is not shared. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and participates in the Privacy Shield framework of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This means there is an adequate level of protection for processing any personal data.

Social media buttons

Our website contains buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work by using code from Facebook and Twitter themselves. Through this code, cookies are placed. We have no influence on this. Please read the privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter (which may change regularly) to understand how they handle your personal data collected through these cookies.

The data they collect is anonymized as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. These companies adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and participate in the U.S. Department of Commerce Privacy Shield framework, ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data processing.

Right to access, correct or delete your data

You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. Please refer to our contact page for this. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. If the request concerns data linked to a cookie, you should send a copy of the relevant cookie, which you can find in your browser settings.

Enabling and disabling cookies and deleting them

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

Deleting tracking cookies placed by third parties

Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who show you advertisements via our website. You can delete these centrally via Your Online Choices so they are not replaced by a third-party website.

More information about cookies

You can find more information about cookies on the following websites:
www.aboutcookies.org

Updating the cookie policy

This cookie policy may be updated occasionally to communicate changes and related consequences for data acquisition and management. You can see the last update date at the bottom of the document. We reserve the right to make changes to how we handle data and to adjust the terms described in this cookie policy, applying these changes to all your data. By visiting our website, you agree to the then current terms of the cookie policy.

May 2018