Cookie Policy

General information on the use of cookiesOur website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device and accessible to your browser. Their purpose is to make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. We use temporary cookies that are automatically deleted when you shut down your browser (“session cookies”) as well as permanent (“persistent”) cookies.

You have the option to choose whether you want to allow the placing of cookies. You can adjust the settings of your browser accordingly. Your options are to accept all cookies, to be informed when cookies are placed, or to accept 
no cookies at all. If you opt for the third alternative, you may not be able to use our services to the full extent.
Regarding the use of cookies, it is important to distinguish between indispensable cookies and cookies placed 
for further purposes (access quantification, marketing).

Cookies That Are Indispensable For The Use Of Our Website:

We use session cookies that are indispensable for the use of our website. These include cookies that enable us 
to recognise you when you visit our site for a single session. These session cookies help to make our site more secure.

Use Of Cookies With Your Prior Consent:

Hereinafter, we provide you with an overview of the cookies we use if we have obtained your respective consent upon access to our website (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a GDPR). These cookies are used for the purpose of analysing user behaviour and for marketing purposes. Respective opt-out options are included in each description.


Use Of Cookies To Analyse Usage Behaviour (Tracking):

The use of tracking cookies allows us to “recognise” users when they revisit our website and to allocate usage events to an internal indicator (pseudonym). Thus, we can capture and analyse the repeated access to our website. We use the following tracking cookies:

Google Cookies:

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and facilitate an analysis of your use of our website. 
The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is usually transferred to a Google server 
in the U.S.A. and stored there.

Since we have activated IP anonymisation on our website, Google will shorten your IP address within the member states of the European Union and contracting states of the agreement of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address will be transferred to a server of Google in the U.S.A. and shortened there. Google uses this information on our behalf to analyse your use of this website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide additional services related to website and Internet use.

The IP address transferred by your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data of Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser accordingly. Please note, however, that in such case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent. Moreover, you can prevent the collection of data related to your use of the website generated by the cookie (including your IP address) and the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

We use Google Analytics to analyse and constantly improve the use of our website. The resulting statistics help us to improve our offer and make it more attractive for our users. For exceptional cases where personal data is transferred to the U.S.A., Google has accepted the provisions of the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the storage of the cookie is consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a GDPR. The further evaluation of the collected data with the help of Google Analytics for a period of up to 2 years is based on Art. 
6 (1) sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

For further information please also refer to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de; for general information on Google Analytics and data protection please go to https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/


Use Of Cookies For Marketing Purposes:

We use cookies for marketing purposes, e.g. to display our advertisements in accordance with the interests of our users. Moreover, cookies are used for frequency capping (i.e. to limit the frequency of advertisement displays) 
and ad efficiency evaluation. By tracking which websites and which products were clicked, we can collect information on usage behaviour in order to display interest-based advertising. This information will be shared with third parties. 
In such cases, the cookies will be placed directly by our marketing partners. We place the following cookies:

Google Remarketing:

In addition to AdWords tracking, we also use Google Remarketing, a retargeting function that allows us to display interest-based advertisements beyond our own advertising space. With the help of this function, we can display our advertisements to you on other websites you visit based on the services / products you previously called up on our website.

A “recognition” cookie stored on your local device allows Google to record your interest in certain products during your visit to our website and to display respective targeted advertisements on other websites you call up. According to Google, the data collected within the scope of remarketing will not be merged with any personal data about you stored by Google; in particular, remarketing data will be used in pseudonymised form.

We use this function for purposes of interest-based advertising and targeted promotion regarding our products. Google has accepted the provisions of the EU-US Privacy Shield. The legal basis for the storage of the cookie is consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a GDPR. The further evaluation of the collected data for a period of up to two years is based on Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

If you do not wish to be shown interest-based advertisements, you can deactivate respective cookies on your browser or go to https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/ to prevent the further use of cookies by Google.