Cookie Settings

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded by and stored on your browser the first time you visit the website. When you call up the website with the same device or browser again, the cookie and the information stored therein is either sent back to the respective website that created it (first party cookie) or to another website to which it belongs (third party cookie). This makes it possible to detect that the website was called up using the respective browser, using this status to change the display of the contents. By doing so, cookies remember your preferences, share how you use a web page and, in part, adapt the individual offers displayed to you.

Absolutely necessary, so-called essential, cookies guarantee the functioning of the website, are used exclusively by the operator and are only stored on your computer during the current browser session. Examples of when essential cookies are used:

• Saving your decision regarding the use of cookies on the website
• Login to the website

The data processing activities carried out as a result of the use of cookies are based on our legitimate interest in the provision of a fully functioning website and the services desired by you (Art. 6 Para. 1 Item f GDPR, § 96 Para. 3 Telecommunications Act).

Essential cookies may be deactivated via the browser settings (see below). However, the operator points out to users that in this case, they may not be able to use all the functions of these web pages to the full extent.

In addition, we also use non-essential marketing and statistics cookies on the basis of the consent granted by you, if applicable (Art. 6 Para. 1 Item a GDPR, § 96 Para. 3 Telecommunications Act). These are not absolutely necessary in order to use the website, but still perform important tasks. Without these cookies, functions that enable the convenient use of the website are no longer available. Settings configured by you cannot be saved and must therefore be repeatedly entered on every new page. Furthermore, we no longer have the option of providing you with individually adapted offers.

You may revoke your consent at any time by using the slider (see above) or via the browser settings (see below).

Statistics cookies

Statistics cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting pseudonymised information on visitors’ use of the website.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to display personalised contents on the website in accordance with your interests. The personalisation occurs since cookies (also across different websites) make it possible to understand user behaviour.

You can (de)activate non-essential cookies at any time by using the slider.

If you wish to limit or block cookies altogether, you must carry out the corresponding changes in the settings of your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved may be deleted at any time. If cookies are deactivated, it may no longer be possible to use all the functions of the website to the full extent.

The procedures for managing and deleting cookies in your browser can be found in the respective function integrated in the browser. More detailed information on this is available at the following links:

Internet Explorer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Chrome:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Safari:
https://support.apple.com/de-at/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Opera:
http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website (see previous chapter). As a rule, the information generated by the cookie on your use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, in the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, within Member States of the European Union or in other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, your IP address is previously abbreviated by Google. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to perform further services for the website operator associated with the use of the website and the use of the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the scope of Google Analytics is not linked to other Google data. You may prevent the storage of the cookies by carrying out the corresponding settings in your browser software; however, we must point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to the full extent. Furthermore, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link, or by activating the following checkbox: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

You can also (de)activate Google Analytics by using the slider “Marketing cookies” or “Statistics cookies”.

More detailed information on the terms of use and data protection is available at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/