Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on your computer and remember what you typed when you visited a website. We use cookies to improve our service and enhance your user experience, e.g. B. to show you the most relevant information when you return to our website.

When we use cookies, we generally do not process any information that personally identifies a user. By using our websites, you agree to the use of cookies. You can manage the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings, disable or delete cookies. Your preferred browser's help function should provide you with the correct information.

For more information on disabling or deleting cookies, see below and About Cookies

Some browsers offer helpful cookie instructions:

Chrome

Firefox

Internet Explorer

Safari 5 for Mac

Opera

In addition, Google Analytics offers its own opt-out options:

Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics

For mobile devices, it may be necessary to consult the device's user manual in order to effectively manage cookies. Restricting cookies may affect the functionality of our websites.

TYPES OF COOKIES

We can use cookies for different purposes and with different functions.

Essential cookies are necessary for our websites to function effectively. They help make our websites usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of our websites. Cookies of this type can also be used to protect and speed up our websites for security reasons and to identify our trusted visitors. You can filter bots and distinguish them from legitimate users to prevent any form of spam activity on our websites.

Preference cookies allow our websites to remember information that changes the way our websites behave or look. They can also be used to provide services you have requested.

Analytics cookies analyze information about how our websites are used. Analytics cookies may collect information about the number of visitors to our websites, where visitors to our websites come from, the pages they visit, scrolling activity, downloads, information about user agents, the time spent on our websites and the approximate geographic location of a device you use to access our websites. We use this information to create reports that help us improve our websites.

When we allow others to set cookies through our websites and/or applications, these cookies are referred to as "third party cookies".

Below you will find more information about the cookies we use, how they are used and how long they are stored on your computer or device.

Our most common cookies are:

Google Analytics - Placed by Google

This third-party cookie provides us with information about your use of the website, including where the website is accessed from, time of visit, pages viewed, etc. This cookie is stored for 2 years.

Custom Facebook Audiences

This cookie is used to deliver our ads that are relevant to you based on your local actions. This cookie is stored for 180 days. We may use Facebook Custom Audiences to serve advertisements to email subscribers based on email addresses we collect.

Viafoura

This third-party cookie allows us to provide interactive features for our users on some of our websites and allows you to log in to comment, like a comment, follow a user or conversation, etc.

Hotjar - Placed by Hotjar

This third-party cookie enables us to measure and monitor user behavior on our websites without being linked to any personal data.