Cookie-Information

Information About Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website temporarily places, with help from the browser, onto the hard disk of a client’s computer in order to store little bits of information about the website. There are various types of cookies, which can be divided into two categories: technical cookies and profiling cookies, the latter of which are used for marketing and promotional purposes.
This website uses both technical and profiling cookies.

Technical cookies are mainly relevant for the functionality of the website. This category of cookies includes navigation and/or session cookies, which enable user-friendly navigation around the website. In addition there are analytics cookies, which collect information such as the number of website visitors and the manner in which traffic arrives at the website. The group of technical cookies also encompasses functional cookies, which enable the website to remember selections you’ve made (for example, the filter settings you selected or an automatic language preference for the website).
In addition, there are cookies that detect the user’s settings, preferences and actions; a user profile is created through these cookies, which are called profiling
cookies. This also allows advertising messages to be combined with the interests of users, thus enabling advertising to be addressed to specific target groups. As soon as the user opens a web page that utilizes this latter form of cookies, a banner noting that the operator of the website uses cookies for marketing purposes is displayed. The banner also informs the user that the site may allow third-party cookies.
The banner links to a page with detailed information (where you are presently located), through which the user can decline the storage of cookies. The banner allows the user to give his or her explicit consent, and indicates that further navigation on the website signifies automatic consent to the use of cookies.
Clicking on the detailed information does not necessarily imply consent. The banner does not disappear after a certain time, but rather continues to be displayed until the user has either accepted cookies or has consciously navigated further. We are legally required to record and store the user’s decision; thus, no banner will appear on subsequent visits to the website.
In addition, the use of cookies may be declined either generally or selectively. If you do not want to accept our cookies, you can decline them through your web browser. The applicable function varies from browser to browser. Please note that rejecting cookies completely will quite likely lead to limitations in the website’s functioning.

We emphasize that no personal data is stored through the profiling cookies used, and that usage profiles are not matched with personal data. It is not possible to identify individual persons through the profiling cookie; rather, only information that enables the targeted compilation of anonymous information for interest-based marketing campaigns is stored. If you would like to stop profiling cookies from being placed, you can block them directly by using your browser settings (see descriptions below). Please note that for promotional reasons it is possible that the profiling cookies are transferred to third parties or third-party systems such as Facebook, Google, Instagram and others. At this time, the privacy policy of their own systems is applied.

Web Tracking – Google Analytics
In order to continually improve and optimize our service, we use what are known as tracking technologies. This website uses Google Analytics, a webanalytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies that enable the analysis of your website usage, for the purpose of determining the attractiveness of our website and improving its performance and content. The information that the cookie generates about your usage of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there.
On behalf of the operator of this site, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports about website activity and continuing to provide website-usage and internet-related services to the website operator. In addition, Google may transmit this information to third parties when doing so is required by law and/or where such third parties process the information on behalf of Google and/or other web-analytics service providers. Under no circumstances, however, will your IP address be associated with other data from Google and/or other web-analytics service providers.
You may decline the use of cookies by selecting the relevant settings on your browser; please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all of this website’s features to their fullest extent. In  addition, you can prevent the data relating to your usage of the website generated by the cookie (incl. your IP address) from reaching Google as well as the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the following browser plugin: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For general information about Google Analytics and data protection, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
By using this website you consent to data processing by Google and/or other web-analytics services in the previously described manner and for the purposes outlined above.