Legal
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your device to save certain information.
1Cookie policy
1.1
When visiting our website, cookies are stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your device to save certain information. The next time you visit our website on the same device, the information saved in the cookies will subsequently be transmitted either to our website (“First Party Cookie”) or to another website to which the cookie belongs (“Third Party Cookie”).
1.2
Through the information saved and returned, the respective website recognizes that you have already accessed and visited it with the browser you use on that device. We use this information to be able to design and display the website in an optimum way in line with your preferences. In that respect, only the cookie itself is identified on your device. Beyond this extent, your personal data will only be saved upon your express consent or if it is strictly necessary to be able to use the service offered to and accessed by you accordingly.
1.3
This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:
- Strictly necessary cookies
- Functionality and Performance Cookies
- Consent based Cookies (e.g. Marketing)
1.4
On the Website we use the following cookies:
| Cookie name | Cookie type | Cookie provider | Data collected by the cookie | Purpose of the cookie | Lifecycle of the cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Strictly necessary cookie | own cookie | user session hash | to store the encrypted username and password of the logged in user | session |
| agreed_with_cookie_policy | Strictly necessary cookie | own cookie | user consent for usage of cookies | to decide whether we need to show the cookie popup or not | 10 years |
| account | Functional cookie | own local storage | user account | stores the encrypted token and refresh token of the logged in user | no expiration |
| account | Strictly necessary cookie | own local storage | app state | to store the state of the apps functionality | no expiration |
| NID | Functional cookie | user preference for google maps | to collect website statistics and track conversion rates | 1 week | |
| _ga | Analytical cookie | client ID for google analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data how the visitor using the website | 2 years | |
| _gat | Performance cookie | limit request numbers made to doubleclick.net | used by google analytics to throttle request rate | 10 min | |
| _gid | Analytical cookie | holds a unique ID | to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 1 day | |
| GAClientId | Analytical cookie | store unique ID for the user | to attach a uniques ID to the generated statistical data | session | |
| collect | Advertisement cookie | track the user across devices and marketing channels | used to send data to google analytics about the visitors device and behaviour | session | |
| ads/ga-audiences | Advertisement cookie | store Google AdWords data | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour | session |
Note:Using the above action will not clear any strictly necessary cookie's
2Strictly necessary cookies
2.1
Strictly necessary cookies guarantee functions without which you cannot use our web pages as intended. These cookies are used exclusively by us and are therefore first party cookies. This means that all information stored in the cookies will be returned to our website.
2.2
Strictly necessary cookies serve, for example, to ensure that you as a registered user always remain logged in when accessing various subpages of our website and thus do not have to re-enter your login data every time you access a new page.
2.3
The use of strictly necessary cookies on our website is possible without your consent. For this reason, strictly necessary cookies cannot be activated or deactivated individually. However, you can deactivate cookies in your browser at any time (see section 10.8).
2.4
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) b GDPR.
3Functionality and Performance Cookies
3.1
Functionality cookies enable our website to store information already provided (such as registered name or language selection) and to offer you improved and more personalized functions based on this information. These cookies collect and store only anonymous information so that they cannot track your movements on other websites.
3.2
Performance cookies collect information about how our websites are used in order to improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. These cookies help us, for example, to determine whether and which subpages of our website are visited and in which content users are particularly interested.
3.3
In particular, we record the number of visits to a page, the number of subpages accessed, the time spent on our website, the order of the pages visited, which search terms led you to us, the country, region and, if applicable, the city from which access is made, and the proportion of mobile devices accessing our websites. We also capture movement, clicks and scrolling with the computer mouse to understand which areas of our website are of particular interest to users.
3.4
We do not use this data in connection with your profile or with your name, but only process it as part of statistical data.
3.5
As a result, we can tailor the content of our website more specifically to the needs of our users and optimize our offering. The IP address of your computer transmitted for technical reasons is automatically made anonymous and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the individual user.
3.6
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.
4Consent based Cookies
4.1
Cookies, which are neither strictly necessary nor functionality or performance cookies will be used only upon your express consent, e.g. marketing cookies.
4.2
We also reserve the right to use information that we have obtained by means of cookies from an anonymous analysis of the usage behaviour of visitors to our website in order to display specific advertising for certain of our products on our own websites. We believe that you as a user benefit from this because we display advertising or content that we think suits your interests based on your surfing behaviour, so that you will see less randomly scattered advertising or certain content that might be of less interest to you.
4.3
Marketing cookies come from external advertising companies (third party cookies) and are used to collect information about the websites visited by the user in order to create target group-oriented advertising for the user.
4.4
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.
4.5
Opt-out for cookies used for online advertising
- You can also manage many companies’ cookies used for online advertising via the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programs in many countries, such as the EU-based https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
- You can withdraw your consent to the use of consent based cookies individually at any time with effect for the future by adjusting your cookie settings accordingly.
5Administration and deletion of all cookies
5.1
You can set your web browser in such a way that cookies are generally prevented from being saved to your device and/or that you are asked each time whether you are in agreement with cookies being enabled. You can also at any time delete cookies that have been enabled again. You can find out how all this works in detail from your browser’s help function.
5.2
Please note that generally deactivating cookies may lead to functional restrictions of our Website.
6Google Analytics
6.1
he Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses a specific form of cookie, which is stored on your computer and enables an analysis of your use of our website. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
6.2
You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the proper setting using your browser software. In addition, you can prevent Google from recording the data related to your use of the website generated by the cookie (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
6.4
The Website also uses Google Analytics for a device-independent analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can disable cross-device tracking of your usage in your Google Account under "My information", "Personal information".
6.4
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.