Cookie Policy

When you visit this website, small bits of information (cookies) will be stored on your device. We use these cookies to provide basic functionality, personalize your experience, improve our websites and in some cases use them for marketing purposes. Some of these cookies are set by external providers.

The use of some cookies is optional and can be activated or deactivated by you here. All voluntary cookies are deactivated by default. However, cookies that are absolutely necessary are always activated because they are indispensable for the trouble-free operation of the site. In these cases, cookies may also be set without your express consent, as the website service cannot otherwise be made available to you for technical reasons.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis tool from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files that are stored on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of these websites will be transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA.

In case of activation of the IP address anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. This website uses active IP anonymization. On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for the website provider and providing other services associated with website activity and internet usage to the website provider.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Cookies on our site are used only on the basis of your consent. Furthermore, you can permanently prevent cookies from being stored by making the appropriate changes in your browser settings. We wish to point out, however, that if you do so, you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

In addition, this website uses the following Google Analytics features for display advertising, which are also implemented via cookies:

• Google Analytics demographics and interest reports
• Impressions reports on the Google Display Network
• remarketing

These reporting capabilities enable us to use and evaluate Google's interest-based advertising data and third-party visitor data in Google Analytics. The data includes information such as age, gender and interests. The demographic data is not attributable to any particular person.

Remarketing with Google Analytics for online advertising: Our ads appear on third-party websites (including Google). We and third parties (including Google) share first-party cookies (such as Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as DoubleClick cookies) to serve ads based on previous visits by a user to our site to align and optimize.

The cookies required for Google Analytics display advertising are also set on our website only on the basis of your consent. In addition, you can permanently prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in full. You can also opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising directly from Google and customize your ads on the Google Display Network by visiting the ad settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads.

Videos from the following third-party website are embedded on our website:

YouTube:
This website from which videos are embedded via iFraming is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

By clicking on the videos it will be marked by the YouTube logo. You can find YouTube’s Data Protection Notice [here].

If you visit one of our websites with embedded videos, the Internet Explorer will not automatically establish a link to the server on the appropriate network. By clicking on the embedded Video you give your consent to communication with the aforementioned website and the placing of cookies by this website. By clicking on the embedded video the information that you visited our website will be automatically be forwarded to the aforementioned website operator and cookies will be placed by the aforementioned website.

If you are logged into the aforementioned website visiting our website, the data transmitted will be associated with your user account. If you wish to prevent a network from linking information with your user account in this manner, please log out from the respective network before clicking on the respective video.

Even if you are not registered as a member of the aforementioned website, or you are currently not logged in your data may be stored by the operator of the aforementioned website after you click on the respective video. We have no influence on the placement of third-party cookies and over the scope and content of the data collected by the aforementioned website or on how that data is used. For more information, please read the privacy policies of the aforementioned website.