Information about the use of cookies

The website might contain pixel graphics which are called „web beacons“, „single-pixel GIFs“ or „clear GIFs“. Third-party suppliers might use web beacons in order to get information about the behaviour of your website visitors and to measure the effects of advertising activities. Web beacons might also be used in advertising e-mails in order to determine whether they are opened or provoke any user activity. The information preserved in web beacons is only linked to your personal data in case of your prior consent. By clicking on a link in the advertising e-mail, which is only sent to you with your prior consent, you accept the use of web beacons, as long as the installation of these web beacons is not prevented by a change of the settings of your computer.

Currently the website uses the following cookies: Current status of our cookie use, their purpose, their effects on privacy as well as their durability:

• Session ID: The web server potentially creates session cookies which are necessary for the use of particular interactive website elements (e.g. contact form or registration). The cookie contains a session ID on the basis of which it is possible to distinguish between your visit of our website and the visit of other visitors who use the website at the same time. Session cookies are necessary for the use of the website. Therefore your prior consent is not required.
• Analytics: This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics creates several first-party supplier cookies with which they guarantee that every following visit of the website can be attributed to the same (distinct) visitor. Moreover, you can determine how they found the website.
• Website navigation: The content management tool creates several first-party supplier cookies. These are session cookies which are deleted as soon as you close the browser. They enable the proper functioning of our website. These data are aggregated and can not be attributed to a person.On the basis of the data collected by means of first-party supplier cookies aggregate reports are compiled, giving indications about how visitors arrive at the website and how the use it. Thanks to these reports we get insight into the visitor’s behaviour. These data is used to update and improve the website.
• Cookies of third-party suppliers: Third-party supplier cookies are cookies compiled by partners. If partners are allowed to embed a cookie on one site of the website, the website provider has to refer to the guidelines and inform you about the fact that the gathering of information by means of such cookies requires the consent of the visitor. You can refuse by changing your computer settings.Cookies of advertising partners are used and external contents of third-party suppliers are embedded in the website. These are cookies which belong to the domain of the third-party supplier and therefore they can only be indicated and administrated by those third-party supplier. These third-party suppliers include amongst others Facebook and Twitter, whose cookie guidelines you can read at the respective websites. In addition, the Google Maps tool as well as the „Like“-plugin of Facebook are used. Here the data privacy policies of the provider apply. The website provider has no direct control over the content of the cookies, which are created by these plugins.
• Others: Sometimes other services are tested which might create cookies on your computer. In that case the corresponding use is listed here.