Cookie Policy

With this cookie policy, we would like to explain what cookies and cookie-like technologies are, how we and other service providers use them on this website, what information they collect, for how long and for what purposes we use them.

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 information similar to text files that can be stored and read on the 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?

The setting and reading of cookies in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) are under Art. 5 (3) ePrivacy Directive and Recital 66 ePrivacy Directive, only permitted if a user has given his 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?

Services and their cookies can be set and read on the legal basis of your consent or legitimate interest. When you first visited this website, you were asked for your permission and had the opportunity to object to using certain services. In our consent dialogue, we explained which legal basis is used for which service.

You have the right to view the history of your decisions, change your privacy settings, object to the use of services and revoke your consent at any time. Below, you find possibilities to exercise your rights:

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.

You can find more information on the handling of cookies devowl.io/rcb/cookie-handling/.

What types of cookies exist?

  1. Essential 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 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 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 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, 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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