Cookie Statement
What is a cookie?
We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. The information stored in it can be sent back to our servers on a subsequent visit.
Use of permanent cookies
With the help of a permanent cookie, we can recognize you on a new visit to our website. This allows the website to be specially tailored to your preferences. Also, when you have given permission for placing cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. This saves you from having to repeat your preferences each time, saving you time and making our website more pleasant to use.
You can delete permanent cookies via your browser settings.
Use of session cookies
With the help of a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you viewed during this visit. This allows us to adjust our service as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Google Analytics
Through our website, a cookie is placed by the American company Google, as part of the “Analytics” service. We use this service to keep track of and receive reports on how visitors use our website. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or insofar as third parties process the information on behalf of Google. We have no influence over this. We have allowed Google to use the obtained analytics information for other Google services.
The information that Google collects is anonymized as much as possible. Your IP address is explicitly not provided. The information is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google states that it adheres to the Privacy Shield principles and is affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means that there is an adequate level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Use of social media buttons
Our website includes buttons to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. These buttons work through pieces of code originating from Facebook or LinkedIn themselves. This code places cookies. We have no influence over this.
Read the privacy statements of Facebook and LinkedIn (which may change regularly) to see what they do with your (personal) data processed via these cookies.
The information they collect is anonymized as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn on servers in the United States. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ state that they adhere to the Privacy Shield principles and are affiliated with the Privacy Shield program of the US Department of Commerce. This means there is an adequate
level of protection for the processing of any personal data.
Right to access, correct or delete your data You have the right to request access to, correction or deletion of your data. See our privacy statement for more information.
To prevent abuse, we may ask you to adequately identify yourself. When it comes to access to personal data linked to a cookie, you must send a copy of the cookie in question. You can find it in your browser settings.
