Information about the use of cookies
What are cookies and what do we use them for?
Cookies are small data files generated by a web server, transmitted via the internet and stored on your device by your browser. The website primarily uses cookies to recognise users or their devices and to store user preferences or information for the duration of a browsing session or for a return visit. Cookies are also used to deliver behavioural advertising and control advertising content.
How can you prevent the use of cookies or delete cookies?
You can disable the storage of cookies in your browser settings and delete cookies that have already been stored at any time. Common browsers allow users to control how cookies are stored, for example:
Chrome: chrome://settings/content/cookies
Firefox: about:preferences#privacy
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-at/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: support.microsoft.com/de-at/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Edge: https://praxistipps.chip.de/microsoft-edge-cookies-deaktivieren-so-gehts_42129
Which cookies are used?
Certain cookies are necessary for us to provide our online services securely. This category includes, for example:
Cookies that temporarily store certain user entries, such as the content of an online form
Cookies that store certain user preferences, such as search or language settings
Cookies that store data to ensure the uninterrupted playback of video or audio content
Analytics cookies
We use analytics cookies to record the behaviour of our users, such as advertising banners clicked, subpages visited and search queries submitted, and to evaluate this information in statistical form.
Advertising cookies
We also use cookies for advertising purposes. The user behaviour profiles created with the help of these cookies, such as advertising banners clicked, subpages visited and search queries submitted, are used to display advertising or offers tailored to your interests, known as interest-based advertising.
Third-party advertising cookies
We also allow other companies to collect data from our users with the help of advertising cookies. This enables us and third parties to display interest-based advertising to users of our online services based on an analysis of their overall user behaviour, such as advertising banners clicked, subpages visited and search queries submitted, rather than solely on their use of our online services.
Tracking cookies associated with social plugins
The integration of so-called social plugins regularly results in cookies being stored by the providers of these plugins. Further information can be found in the Privacy policy.