What is a cookie?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent with pages from this website and stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. The information stored in it can be retrieved the next time you visit the site. You can delete cookies at any time via the settings of your browser.

Which cookies are placed.

Permanent cookies.

Permanent cookies enable us to recognize you when you visit our website again. This allows the website to be tailored to your preferences. If you have given us permission to place cookies, we can remember this by means of a cookie. This means that you do not have to repeat your preferences all the time, which saves you time and makes it easier for you to use our website (e.g. choice of language). Permanent cookies can be deleted at any time via the settings of your browser.

Session cookies.

Using a session cookie, we can see which parts of the website you have viewed during this visit. This enables us to adapt our service as much as possible to the surfing behavior of our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your web browser.

Tracking cookies.

With your permission, we place a cookie on your device, which can be retrieved when you visit our website. The profile built on the basis of your surfing behavior only serves to match the content to your profile, so that it is as relevant to you as possible.

Advertising.

With your permission, our advertisers will place "tracking cookies" on your device. They use these cookies to keep track of which pages you visit, in order to build up a profile of your online surfing behavior.

Google Analytics.

Through our website, a cookie is placed by the U.S. company Google; this as part of the Analytics service. This service is used by us to obtain reports on how our visitors use the website. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We have no influence on this.

Google has been granted permission by us to use the analytics information for other harvesting services.

The information that Google collects is made anonymous as much as possible. The information is stored by Google on servers located in the European Union and/or the United States. Google is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's US Privacy-Shield program, which requires it to provide an appropriate level of data protection.

Social Media

The website uses cookies for social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. to enable the integration of these social media on the website. This allows you to share a page or promotion/action directly on your profile, promote web pages and like web pages by means of buttons. These actions ensure that cookies are placed.

It is therefore advisable to read the privacy statement of the social networks about what they do with your personal data that they acquire via cookies. These terms and conditions change regularly.

The information collected is made anonymous as much as possible. The information is stored on servers located in the European Union and/or the United States. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn are affiliated with the US Privacy Shield program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which requires them to provide an appropriate level of data protection.

Management of cookies.

When your computer, tablet or smartphone is used by more than one person or multiple internet browsers are used, it is possible that different choices are made to allow the placing of cookies. Therefore, the choices you make as an involved/user may not be permanent.

Given that the above factors cannot be verified by us, there can be no assurance that the choices you have made are permanent and we recommend that you check your choices regularly and update them if necessary.

Delete cookies.

You can delete existing cookies on your device. To do so, please refer to your browser's manual under the section "Help" and search for "Managing cookies". By deleting existing cookies from our website, you will be asked to agree to our cookie policy on your next visit.

For further questions regarding the protection of your personal data, please click on the link below for our privacy policy: Link to privacy policy