6. Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, or similar) when you visit our website. Cookies do not harm your device and do not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, or other malicious software. Information yielded in connection with the specific device used is stored in the cookie. However, this does not mean that we directly receive knowledge of your identity through this.
Use of cookies serves, for one thing, to make use of our offering more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called Session cookies to recognize that you have already visited specific pages on our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our website. Likewise, to optimize the user-friendliness, we also use temporary cookies, which are saved on your device for a specific defined period of time. If you visit our website again to use our services, it will automatically be recognized that you already visited us and the entries and settings you made will automatically be recognized so that you do not have to enter them again.
Cookies are divided up into the four categories of “Necessary,” “Statistics,” “Comfort,” and “Marketing.”
The necessary cookies are required for the operation and the basic functions of our website. In particular, they enable the security-relevant functioning of this website.
The statistical cookies are used for improving our services, for ensuring a needs-based design and the continuous optimization of our website.
For this, we collect anonymized data for statistics and analytics, for example, to determine site traffic, page view statistics, and user behavior and to adapt and improve our content and the website experience.
The comfort cookies are used for facilitating the use of our website. If you visit this website again to use our service, it will automatically be recognized that you were on our website and the entries and settings you made will automatically be recognized so that you do not have to enter them again. For example, through this, you will not have to reenter your user data every time, but rather you can access the data already entered when you visit the website again.
We use marketing cookies so that we can provide you with relevant and interest-based content when you visit our website.
The data processed through necessary cookies are necessary for the stated purposes for safeguarding our legitimate interests as well as those of third parties pursuant to Article 6 para. 1 lit. f of the GDPR, mainly for the safe use of our website
The data process through statistic, comfort and marketing cookies is relying on your consent, pursuant to Article 6t para.1 lit. a of the GDPR, for the purposes of offering optimum user experience, statistical purposes as well as marketing purposes. You may change your settings/withdraw your consent at any time by clicking on “Cookies Settings” at the bottom of the website.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a notification message always appears before a new cookie is placed. Each browser differs depending on how it manages cookie settings. This is described in the Help menu of each browser, which explains how to change your cookie settings. Follow the links below depending on the browser you are using:
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Complete deactivation of cookies, however, may lead to you not being able to use all the features of our website.
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