Cookies Policy
This website uses tracking tools, including cookies. We use tracking tools for a variety of reasons, including to recognise new and past website visitors, better understand your interests, serve you interest-based ads and analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners and affiliated companies who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
Find our complete cookie policy below:
What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of code that allow for personalisation of our website experience by saving your information such as user ID and other preferences. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your device’s hard disk (such as your computer or smartphone) for record-keeping purposes.
First-party cookies and third-party cookies
Cookies are downloaded by your internet browser the first time you visit the Site. The next time you visit the Site from the same device, the cookie and the information stored in it is either sent back to the site that generated it (first-party cookie) or to a different website to which it belongs (third-party cookie).
These third-party providers set cookies when you are logged on to their pages and visit our Site. We have no influence on the cookie settings of these websites. Please visit the websites of third-party providers to obtain further information on how they use cookies.
First-party and third-party cookies enable the website to recognise whether you have already accessed the Site through this browser and, in many cases, it then make the content displayed vary.
If you deny the use of all cookies, neither first-party cookies nor third-party cookies will be used. There will be no differentiation between both types of cookies.
Persistent and session cookies
Depending on their lifespan, Cookies can be distinguished between “persistent” or “session” cookies.
- A persistent cookie is a cookie that is stored on your computer until it expires or you delete it.
- A session cookie, on the other hand, is deleted when you close your browser.
Apart from the acceptance of cookies when visiting the Site as described in the way as set out below you generally can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser.
What kinds of Cookie do we use?
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. These cookies will be dropped and used even if you do not consent to the use of cookies.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Website, e.g., which pages you go to most often, in order to improve how the Website works. We use these cookies only if you have consented via the cookie banner.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited the Website and this information may be shared with other organisations, e.g., advertisers. We use these cookies only if you have consented.
Social Media Cookies: Social media cookies collect information about social media usage, to build your profile.
How do I manage/control Cookies?
You can disagree consent or withdraw your consent at any time, for example by deleting the cookies and changing your cookie preferences. If you withdraw your consent, you may still browse the Website; however, you may not be able to use the full functionalities of the Website.
If you reject the use of all cookies, first-party and third-party cookies will be deactivated. Moreover, first-party cookies will be deleted. We are not able to delete any third-party cookie. Therefore, you have to delete third-party cookies on your own.
If you wish to change the cookie settings or remove third-party cookies most browsers allow you to do this. These settings will typically be found in the “options” “tools” or “preferences” menu in your internet browser. You will need to do this on each device you use.
Please consult the below links for more details on how to manage your cookie settings:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
As regards the browser settings for the deletion of former cookies, the same principles apply as for the deactivation of new cookies via your browser settings. Please follow the respective guidance of your browser as described above .
There are online tools available for clearing all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, such as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please note: Deleting or blocking cookies may not be effective for all types of tracking technologies, such as Local Storage Objects (LSOs) like Flash objects or HTML5.
UPDATES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
You can find out when this Cookie Policy was last amended by checking “LAST REVISED” at the top of this page.
All considered changes to this Cookie Policy will be communicated to you well in advance of the changes actually taking effect.
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Google Analytics and other Google tools
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, to analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the USA.
In the event IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances a full IP address will be saved to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing us with other services relating to the use of this website and the internet.
The IP-address that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.
By using this website, you agree to the processing of any data collected from you by Google, as well as the aforementioned method of data processing and purpose. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your web browser. However, doing so may result in many of the features on our website not functioning correctly. You can also block the cookie’s collection of data regarding your use of this website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser add-on found under the following link: (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).
You can find more information on Google’s user provisions and data protection under the following links: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or https://www.google.de/intl/gb/policies/
We may also use certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Universal Analytics, such as Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the Google Ads (formerly DoubleClick) Campaign Manager Integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the Google Ads advertising cookie) or other third party cookies together to inform, optimise, and display ads based on your past visits to our Services.
We use tracking technologies for a variety of reasons.
We use tracking tools for a variety of reasons, including to:
- Recognise new or past customers
- Improve our website and to better understand your visits on our platforms
- Serve you with interest-based or targeted advertising (see below for more on interest-based advertising)
- Observe your behaviours and browsing activities over time across multiple websites or other platforms
- Better understand the interests of our customers and our website visitors.
How do we gather relevant information about you for interest-based advertising?
To decide what is relevant to you, we use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties. We gather this information using the tracking tools described above. For example, we or our partners might look at your purchases or browsing behaviours. We might look at these activities on our platforms or the platforms of others.
We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect. That might include past purchases made offline or online. Or, it might include online usage information. These activities are all based on your consent. If you have not consented to the use of such analytical and advertising tracking tools, the information in this section does not apply to you.