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We use cookies on this website to personalize content, provide social media features and analyze traffic. We also pass on information about your use of our website to our partners. They may combine your information with data that you have provided to them or that they have collected as part of your use of their services.
Find out more about how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our privacy policy. Please provide your consent ID and the date when you contact us regarding your consent. This cookie policy does not constitute complete information within the meaning of the GDPR (on storage duration, your rights, etc.). This can be found in our privacy policy.
1. what are cookies?
Our website uses cookies in several places, some of which are necessary for the operation of the website and some of which serve to make our offer more user-friendly and effective. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser on your end device. The next time you visit our website with the same end device, the information stored in cookies is either sent back to our website (“first party cookie”) or to another website to which the cookie belongs (“third party cookie”). Your data is collected and stored exclusively in anonymous or pseudonymous form.
2. consent to the use of cookies and transmission to the USA
All cookies that are not absolutely necessary for the operation of this website are only set after your explicit consent. Some of these cookies, for which your consent is required, are operated by companies that process data in the USA, such as Google Inc.
By agreeing to the use of these cookies, you also expressly consent to the transfer of your data to the USA (Art 49 para 1 lit a GDPR).
There is no adequacy decision by the EU Commission for the USA and, despite extensive measures, we cannot guarantee the high level of EU data protection in the USA. Your transmitted data may not be deleted or further processed for any purpose. US authorities may gain disproportionate access to your data and you may not be able to effectively enforce your rights in the USA. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
3. what types of cookies does our website use?
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- Technically necessary cookies
Cookies that are required for the basic functions of the website and cannot be deactivated. These cookies are used exclusively by us (“first party cookies”). Technically necessary cookies store, for example, the cookie selection you have made in the cookie banner. Due to our legitimate interest in offering a functioning website (Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR), these cookies cannot be deactivated in the cookie banner.we use the following technically necessary cookies:- session… contains the session ID of the website visitor. Scope: this domain (1st party). Storage duration: until the browser is closed
- cc_cookie… contains the cookie preferences set by the website visitor in the cookie banner. Scope: this domain (1st party). Storage period: 1 year
- Functional cookies
Cookies that improve the user-friendliness of the website and whose use is therefore strongly recommended. In some places on our website, we also embed videos from YouTube and map material from Google Maps. Without your consent to the functional cookies, this content cannot be displayed. Among other things, Google stores a unique user ID as well as information about your Google account and details about the use of Google services in cookies. If we process personal data in the process, we may do so on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and only as long as you have not deactivated the respective functional cookie. This is possible at any time with effect for the future.we use the following functional cookies:- language… contains the language version last used by the website visitor. Scope: this domain (1st party). Storage period: 1 year
- ifm_youtube… is set when a website visitor selects “Always load videos” for YouTube videos. Scope: this domain (1st party). Storage period: 6 months
- Statistics cookies
If you consent to this cookie category, our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by Google Analytics cookies about the use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, your IP address will be shortened and anonymized by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there, and Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. However, the IP address transmitted by the browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data; if we process personal data in the process, we may do so on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and only as long as you have not deactivated the respective statistics cookie. This is possible at any time with effect for the future.we use the following statistics cookies:
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and ga_ABCDEF… contains a randomly generated website visitor ID. Google Analytics can use this ID to recognize returning website visitors and merge data from previous visits. Scope: this domain (1st party). Storage period: 2 years. You can find out more in the Google Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
- Marketing cookies
If you consent to this cookie category, marketing cookies will be used on our website. These third-party cookies are set by external advertising companies to collect information about the websites you visit and subsequently display targeted advertising to you. If we process personal data in the process, we may do so on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and only as long as you have not deactivated the respective marketing cookie. This is possible at any time with effect for the future.we use the following marketing cookies:- IDE… Contains a randomly generated user ID. Google can use this ID to recognize the user across different websites and display personalized advertising. Scope of application: doubleclick.net (3rd party). Storage period: 1 year
- Technically necessary cookies
