Cookie Policy

Last revised: November 2024

Tracking technologies, such as cookies, tags, pixels, fingerprinting, web beacons, and similar scripts, are used to store and/or share information about website visitors, their systems, and browsers. Information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies varies depending on each website's components and can be of a personal nature (information that directly or indirectly identifies you) and of non-personal nature (information that does not directly or indirectly identify any single individual, such as cookies used to enable language settings on a website). Information of a personal nature may include details about the device you are using, the browser you are using, your IP address, the previous website you visited, whether you clicked on one of our ads, and your browsing behavior.  

For further information on how we handle Personal Information please see our Privacy Policy.

With regards to the retention period, a distinction is drawn between temporary cookies (also known as “session cookies”), which are deleted as soon as you close your browser, and permanent cookies, which remain stored even after the terminal device is closed. With regards to their function, cookies are again differentiated between:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are required for the website to function and cannot be disabled in your systems. Generally, these cookies are set only in response to actions you take that correspond to a service request, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms. You can set your browser to block these cookies or to notify you about these cookies. However, some areas of the website will not function if you do so. These cookies do not store any personal data.


• Functional cookies: With these cookies, the website is able to provide advanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third parties whose services we use on our websites. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.


• Targeting cookies: These cookies may be set by our advertising partners through our website. They may be used by these companies to profile your interests and show you relevant ads on other websites. They do not directly store personal information, but are based on a unique identification of your browser and Internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.


• Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us answer questions about which pages are the most popular, which are the least used, and how visitors move around the site. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not be able to know when you visited our website.

Any use of cookies that is not strictly necessary for the use of this website and its services is only permitted with your express and active consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. This applies in particular to the use of cookies for marketing purposes and functional cookies. 

An overview of all cookies that we use on our website, including the name of the cookie, purpose, host, duration and type can be found in the cookie settings below. There you can also decide which cookies you want to allow and which not. Click on the different category headings to learn more and change the default settings.

Cookie Settings

 
 
In the following, we would like to inform you about further analysis tools and plugins that we use on our website and for which we partly require your consent. Whether consent is required, you can see in the following description of the respective service: 

1. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies" to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.


2. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of the Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the entire IP address first be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. IP anonymization is active on this website.


3. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.


4. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.


5. You can also opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics with future effect by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add on for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.


6. Information from the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/; Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB&gl=de .

1. Google Tag Manager is used on this website. The Google Tag Manager is a solution from Google Inc. that allows companies to manage website tags via an interface. The legal basis for the use of the Tag Manager is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.


2. Tags are small elements of code on our website that are used to, among other things, measure traffic and visitor behavior, track the impact of online advertising and social channels, deploy remarketing and audience targeting, and test and optimize our website. 


3. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-less domain and does not collect any personal data. The tool provides for the triggering of other tags, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

1. We use the web analytics service Adobe Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website and to make it more interesting for you as a user. We perform reach analyses, measure the success of our online marketing measures, and test procedures, for example, to test and optimize different versions of our online offering or its components. The legal basis for the use of Adobe Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR.


2. The collected data is stored and analyzed pseudonymously. Cookies are stored on your computer for this analysis. This website uses Adobe Analytics with the settings "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" and "Obfuscate IP-Removed", which shortens your IP address by the last octet and replaces it with a generic IP address, i.e. one that can no longer be assigned. A personal reference can thus be ruled out.


3. The information collected in this way is stored on Adobe servers, including in the United States. In these cases, Adobe has stated that it has imposed a standard on itself that corresponds to the former EU-US Privacy Shield and has agreed to comply with applicable data protection laws when transferring data internationally. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until revocation. The easiest way to revoke your consent is to use our Consent Manager.


4. Information about the third party provider: Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, Ireland, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland; privacy@adobe.com; privacy policy: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html. 
   

1. We use the OneTrust CMP service of OneTrust LCC (1200 Abernathy Rd NE, Building 600, Atlanta, GA 30328, USA; hereinafter "OneTrust") on our website. 


2. The service is a so-called "cookie management tool" (also called "Consent Management Platform"), which allows us to retrieve your data protection consent to the use of technically unnecessary cookies in a legally compliant manner. For this purpose, you will be shown a so-called "cookie banner" when you access our website for the first time and you will be asked which cookies you wish to allow or not allow. Only after you have given your consent will the corresponding scripts be executed and the selected cookies set. 


3. In order to remember your cookie selection and not to show you a cookie banner again on every subpage of our website, OneTrust itself also uses cookies. For more information on the individual cookies used by OneTrust, please refer to our Cookie Management Tool. For more information about how OneTrust processes your data, please visit: https://www.onetrust.com/privacy-notice/.