Cookie Policy

Controller of the website

Addition to the privacy policy

This cookie policy supplements this website’s privacy policy. The cookie policy specifies how a website uses cookies and what data it collects through them, while the privacy policy provides a more comprehensive overview of all data processing activities on the website and beyond.

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies are small pieces of information, similar to text files, that can be stored and read on an end device. They serve various purposes, including maintaining the website’s basic functionalities, security, and privacy, providing optional website functions, collecting statistical data on visitor flows, and providing marketing systems. Practical examples of what can be stored in cookies are login status in user accounts, the content of shopping baskets in e-commerce platforms, or a user ID for tracking behaviour on the website.

Information can technically be stored in various ways. The best-known examples are HTTP cookies and cookie-like technologies like local storage, session storage, or IndexedDB. Each type of storage has different properties, which determine the technical handling, accessibility, and the controllers authorised to access the information. All these types of storage are usually summarised under the term “cookies” and are therefore called as such in this cookie policy.

What is the legal basis for setting/reading cookies?

Under Art. 5 (3) of the ePrivacy Directive and Recital 66, the setting and reading of cookies in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) is only permitted if a user has given their consent based on comprehensive information about the purposes of the processing. The website operator may also set cookies if they are strictly necessary to provide you as a user with the expressly requested service, e.g., the essential content of this website or other pure cookies needed for the basic functionality of the website to be displayed to you without your consent.

What rights does the website visitor have?

  1. You have the right to be informed about the use of cookies on this website and to decide whether to allow non-essential cookies.
  2. When you first visit this website, you are given the option to accept or reject non-essential cookies. Your choice is stored in your browser and applied automatically on future visits.
  3. You can manage or restrict cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality or performance of this website.
  4. If you wish to exercise your rights under data protection law, including the right to access, rectify, or erase personal data, you can contact us using the details provided in this policy.

How to manage cookies in a browser?

  1. How to remove cookies in a browser: To remove cookies from your device, you can clear the browsing data in your browser’s settings. This action will remove all cookies from all websites you’ve visited, potentially including saved login details and site preferences. In some browsers, you can delete the cookies and similar data without deleting the browsing history.
  2. How to control cookies in a browser: For more granular control over cookies specific to certain websites, navigate to your browser’s privacy and cookie settings. Here, you can adjust preferences related to individual sites’ cookie usage.
  3. How to block cookies in a browser: Most modern browsers allow you to configure their settings to block all cookies from being placed on your device. However, blocking cookies could cause certain services and functionalities to not function correctly, e.g., user logins. You can also use extensions for many browsers that can block the setting of cookies on websites.
  4. How to manage cookies on this website: To tailor your preferences regarding cookies, you can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the link in the “section ‘Rights of the website visitor’” Rights of the website visitor section.

What types of cookies exist?

  1. Essential cookies: These cookies are indispensable for a website’s basic functionality and enable functions such as saving login information or access to secure areas of the site. These include, for example, security cookies, which can identify a bot that is not wanted on the website by storing an authentication key in a cookie.
  2. Functional cookies: Functional cookies improve the user experience by storing information and preferences, such as language settings or website appearance settings, to provide personalised services. This includes, for example, preference cookies that store the user’s preferred video quality on a website.
  3. Statistics cookies: Statistics cookies collect data about a website’s use to gain insights into user behaviour and optimise the site’s performance. This includes, for example, a randomly assigned user ID that allows you to attribute whether you have visited a website subpage.
  4. Marketing cookies: Marketing cookies track user behaviour across different websites and display personalised advertising based on users’ interests and surfing behaviour. This includes, for example, advertising cookies that store an interaction with an advertisement on the website and pass it on to advertisers or a chat system for pre-sale questions and customer support.

Who can set cookies on this website?

On this website, both the operator of the website and third-party services are used. This website may set cookies and access its content. Who can access which cookies and their content differs between first-party and third-party cookies? The visited website creates first-party cookies that can only be read by the website operator, and integrated third-party services are available on this website. Third-party services usually set third-party cookies on other domains, which can be read on all websites on which the service that controls the domain is embedded, and for example, are used by advertising networks to track user behaviour across different websites and offer personalised advertising.

This cookie policy was updated on 18th February 2025

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