What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent with pages from this website [and/or Flash applications] and stored by your browser on your device (computer/phone/tablet). The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.

Use of permanent cookies

With the aid of a permanent cookie, we can recognise you upon a new visit to our website. The website can therefore be specifically tailored to your preferences. Even if you have given consent for the placement of cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. This means you do not have to repeatedly state your preferences, thereby saving you time and allowing for a more pleasant use of our website. You can remove permanent cookies via your browser settings.

Use of session cookies

With the aid of a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit. We can therefore adapt our service as much as possible to the browsing behaviour of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

Use of our own tracking cookies

With your consent, we place a cookie on your equipment, which can be retrieved as soon as you visit a website from our network. This allows us to ascertain that, in addition to our website, you have also visited the relevant other website(s) within our network. The profile thus created is not linked to your name, address, email address, and similar details, but serves solely to tailor advertisements to your interests, so that they are as relevant as possible to you.

Use of third-party tracking cookies

With your consent, our advertisers place so-called tracking cookies on your equipment. They use these cookies to track which pages you visit within their network, in order to build a profile of your online browsing behaviour. This profile is also built based on similar information they receive from your visits to other websites within their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address, and similar details as known to us, but serves solely to tailor advertisements to your interests so that they are as relevant as possible to you.

Use of Google Analytics

Via our website, a cookie is placed by the American company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to track and obtain reports on how visitors use the website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no influence over this. We have, however, permitted Google to use the acquired analytics information for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymised as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not transmitted. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Standard Contractual Clauses are therefore part of Google's terms and conditions.

Use of Remarketing

We utilise remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites after you have visited our Website. We, and third parties with whom we collaborate, use cookies to optimise the advertisements displayed based on your previous visits. We use the following remarketing services:

Google: Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. 

Use of Facebook and Twitter buttons

Our website includes buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons function by means of code snippets originating from Facebook and Twitter themselves, respectively. Through this code, cookies are placed. We have no influence over this. Please read the privacy statements of Facebook and Twitter respectively (which may change regularly) to understand what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.

The information they collect is anonymised as much as possible. The information is transferred to Twitter and Facebook and stored on servers in the United States. Standard Contractual Clauses are therefore part of the terms and conditions of these parties.

Right to access and correction or deletion of 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 purpose. To prevent misuse, we may ask you to identify yourself adequately. When it concerns access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.

Enabling and disabling cookies and their deletion

Further information regarding the enabling, disabling, and deletion of cookies can be found in the instructions and/or by using the Help function of your browser.

Deletion of tracking cookies placed by third parties

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