We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website [and/or Flash applications] and is stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. The information stored in it can be sent back to our servers during a subsequent visit.
We distinguish between functional and non-functional cookies. We always place functional cookies. These are necessary for the website to work properly. For example, they ensure that you can stay logged in to the website when you wish to do so. In addition to functional cookies, we also place analytical cookies by default. This is an example of a non-functional cookie. It is not necessary for the proper functioning of the website. This way we know which website sections are popular and where we can improve our website. Only when you agree to the placement of cookies do we also place a number of other non-functional cookies. These all have different purposes, but enable us to improve our service. For example, we use cookies to show online surveys on our website, test improvements to our website, show social media buttons, or to show relevant advertisements for our services on other websites.
With the help of a permanent cookie, we can recognize you when you visit our website again. The website can therefore be specially tailored to your preferences. Even when you have given permission for the placement of cookies, we can remember this through a cookie. This means you don’t have to repeat your preferences every time, saving you time and allowing you to make more pleasant use of our website. You can delete permanent cookies through your browser settings.
With the help 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 behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
With your consent, we place a cookie on your device, which can be retrieved as soon as you visit a website from our network. This allows us to find out that in addition to our website, you have also been to the relevant other website(s) from our network. The profile built up as a result is not linked to your name, address, email address and the like, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile, so that they are as relevant as possible for you.
With your consent, our advertisers place “tracking cookies” on your device. They use these cookies to track which pages you visit from their network, in order to build a profile of your online browsing behavior. This profile is partly built up based on similar information they receive from your visit to other websites in their network. This profile is not linked to your name, address, email address and the like as known to us, but only serves to tailor advertisements to your profile so that they are as relevant as possible for you.
Through our website, a cookie is placed by 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 provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence over this. We have not allowed Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.
The information that Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not provided. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Our website includes buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work through pieces of code that come from Facebook and Twitter themselves. Cookies are placed through this code. We have no influence over this. Please read the privacy statement of Facebook and Twitter respectively (which may change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data that they process through these cookies.
The information 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. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google + state that they adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your data. For this, see our privacy policy that can be found on the website. To prevent abuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. When it comes to accessing personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.
If you do not want cookies from our website to be placed, you can choose this in the cookie notification that you see when you first visit our website. If you have previously accepted our cookies, you will no longer see this notification and you must first delete our cookies. More information about enabling and disabling and deleting cookies can be found in the instructions below and/or with the help of your browser’s Help function.
Some tracking cookies are placed by third parties who, among other things, show you advertisements through our website. You can delete these cookies centrally via Your Online Choices, so that they are not replaced at a third party’s website. See below.
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