Cookie Policy
We use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to differentiate you from other users of our site. This allows us to provide you with a better browsing experience and the ability to improve our site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored in the browser of your computer, cell phone or other device after you visit websites. Cookies are widely used to keep websites working and to collect statistics.
How do we use cookies?
The information that we collect through cookies helps us analyze how our website is used so that we can make it as user-friendly and functional as possible.
Personal information is stored in cookies if you have agreed to their use. This ensures a secure login to your personal account, which is technically necessary.
What types of cookies do we use?
Technical cookies
The use of these functional cookies cannot be prevented when visiting our website, as they ensure that the website works correctly. This includes cookies that collect information about whether other cookies are allowed or not from our website.
Session cookies and preference cookies
Cookies expire at the end of the visit session. We may also use cookies that last longer and are created to remember your preferences and choices during your visit to our site. These cookies have a lifecycle of less than one year.
Analytic cookies
We use web analytics tools to generally analyze site usage and to provide baseline data for improving our offerings. The information obtained in this process may be transmitted in an anonymous form to the web analytics service server, stored and processed there. We may use analytics tools and related cookies from the following service providers:
Web beacons
Web beacons are small graphic images (also called "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") that may be placed on our websites and embedded in our services, applications, messages and tools. Web beacons may be used for a variety of purposes, including evaluating the effectiveness of our websites, monitoring the number of visitors and their behavior on our websites, determining the proportion of emails actually read out of all emails sent, monitoring the effectiveness of our advertising, and counting the number of pages, articles and links actually viewed.
Similar technologies for storing information
Similar storage technologies are technologies that enable you to write certain information into your web browser's cache or device memory with the help of local shared objects or locally stored data, such as Flash and HTML 5 cookies and other Internet application software. These technologies can be used in all web browsers in use. In some cases, managing the use of locally stored data using a web browser is not fully feasible and requires special tools. We may use such storing technologies to protect your account information or to detect abnormal browser use in order to prevent unauthorized access to your account or to evaluate the effectiveness of our websites, services, applications or tools.
How do I allow or disallow cookies?
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. On your device, you can delete stored cookies at any time. You can find out more about how to do this in the instructions for your browser or device manufacturer.
You can also refuse all cookies or only certain cookies in your browser settings. However, all browsers are different, so please refer to the Help section of your browser for more information about cookie settings.
Please note that by disabling cookies you may not be able to use some of the features, services, tools and applications on our website.