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Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer when you visit websites.
These files contain information such as your preferred language for a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie is sent back to it. This allows the website to recognise your browser and remember your language preference, so you do not have to select your language each time.
Why are cookies useful?
Cookies help ensure that a website functions properly, as illustrated by the language selection example above.
Another example is a shopping basket, which keeps track of the products you select while shopping online.
A further example is the automatic completion of information in a form.
Which cookies are used and for what purposes?
The website uses four types of cookies:
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Cookies for essential purposes;
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Cookies for functional purposes;
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Cookies for analytical purposes;
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Cookies for marketing purposes.
Necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. You cannot refuse these cookies if you wish to use our website.
Analytical cookies
These cookies collect information about website visitors’ behaviour and the website’s performance. This information can be used to improve the website and provide visitors with a better user experience.
1. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics. A cookie from the American company Google is placed through our website as part of its “Analytics” service.
We use this service to monitor and generate reports on how visitors use the website.
Google may provide this information to third parties if it is legally required to do so or insofar as those third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. We have no control over this.
We have / have not given Google permission to use the Analytics information collected for other Google services.
The information collected by Google is anonymised as far as possible. Your IP address is not explicitly transmitted.
The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
2. Social media
Our website includes buttons that allow users to promote (“like”) or share web pages on social networks such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
These buttons work through snippets of code supplied by Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram respectively. Cookies are placed through this code. We have no control over this process.
We recommend consulting the privacy policies of Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, which may change periodically, to find out what these companies do with your personal data processed through these cookies.
The information collected is anonymised as far as possible.
The information is transferred to and stored by Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn on servers in the United States.
LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Google+ state that they comply with the Safe Harbor principles and are registered with the US Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor programme. This implies an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies track website visitors’ browsing behaviour. This information is used to create a user profile that enables a personalised browsing experience.
Persistent and temporary cookies
In addition to the types of cookies mentioned above, we also distinguish between persistent cookies and session cookies.
Persistent cookies
These cookies are stored on your computer for a specific period, depending on their settings. They remain stored even after you close your browser.
Temporary cookies
These cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser. They are valid only for the current session and are also known as session cookies.
How are cookies stored?
Cookies are stored when you accept them and thereby consent to their storage. You do this by clicking the consent/accept button.
You can also refuse them by clicking the reject button.
How can I change my cookie settings and delete cookies?
Further information about enabling, disabling and deleting cookies can be found in your browser’s instructions and/or help section.
If you want to find out which cookies have been placed on your device or wish to delete them, you can use your browser settings.
Further information on how to do this is available below:
Chrome: