Cookies

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tech­no­lo­gies such as HTML5 Storage or Local Shared Objects (herein­after coll­ec­tively referred to as “cookies”) to reco­gnize user prefe­rences and to be able to design the websites opti­mally. This makes navi­ga­tion easier and a high degree of user-friend­li­ness of a website possible.

Cookies are small files that are stored on your device. They can be used to deter­mine whether your device has already commu­ni­cated with our website. Only the cookie on your end device is iden­ti­fied. Personal data can be stored in cookies if you have agreed or if this is tech­ni­cally abso­lutely neces­sary, e.g. to enable a protected login.

When you use our website, you agree to the use and storage of cookies on your end device. However, you can also view our website without cookies. Most brow­sers accept cookies auto­ma­ti­cally. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your terminal device by selec­ting *do not accept cookies* in your browser settings. You can delete cookies already set on your device at any time. How this works in detail, please refer to the instruc­tions of your browser or device manu­fac­turer. You can find further infor­ma­tion on deac­ti­vating Local Shared Objects under the follo­wing link: Infor­ma­tion on deac­ti­vating Local Shared Objects

If you do not accept cookies, however, this can lead to func­tional rest­ric­tions of our offers.

We divide cookies into the follo­wing cate­go­ries:

Uncon­di­tio­nally required cookies (Type 1)

These cookies are essen­tial for websites and their func­tions to work properly. Without these cookies, certain services cannot other­wise be provided.

func­tional cookies (type 2)

These cookies enable us to improve the comfort and perfor­mance of websites and to provide various func­tions. For example, language settings can be stored in func­tion cookies.

perfor­mance cookies (type 3)

These cookies collect infor­ma­tion about how you use websites. Perfor­mance cookies help us, for example, to iden­tify parti­cu­larly popular areas of our Internet offe­ring. This enables us to tailor the content of our websites more speci­fi­cally to your needs and thus improve our services for you. The infor­ma­tion coll­ected with these cookies is not personal. Further infor­ma­tion on the coll­ec­tion and evalua­tion of the infor­ma­tion can be found in the section “Evalua­tion of usage data”.

Third party (type 4) cookies

These cookies are set by third parties, e.g. social networks They are prima­rily used to inte­grate social media content such as social plugins on our site. Infor­ma­tion on how we use social plugins can be found in the “Social Plugins” section of the privacy policy.

We use the follo­wing cookies on our website:

Used cookies

name descrip­tion type
PSJSESSIONID, JSESSIONID, PHPSESSID Assigns an anony­mized ID (session ID) to your browser for the dura­tion of your visit in order to bundle several related requests to the server and to be able to assign them to a session. Type 1
cookie_policy indi­cates that you agree to the use of cookies on our pages. It is set when you close the “Use of cookies” notice layer. If this cookie is present, the hint layer will no longer be displayed for 12 months. Type 2
PREF, NID, OGPC, __utma, GEUP, ghcs, ghvm, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, ACTIVITY Are set by YouTube and/or Google as soon as a video is embedded and/or played on a page. For more infor­ma­tion regar­ding the type, use and purpose of cookies, click on the follo­wing link: http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ Type 4
datr, xs, wd, sb, pl, fr, c_user will be set by Face­book as soon as the Face­book Social Plugin has been acti­vated by the user on our website. For more infor­ma­tion regar­ding the type, use and purpose of cookies, click on the follo­wing link: https://de-de.facebook.com/help/cookies/ Type 4
pid, guest_id, dnt, remember_checked, twll, external_referer, eu_cn will be set by Twitter once the Twitter social plugin has been acti­vated by the user on our website. For more infor­ma­tion regar­ding the nature, use and purpose of cookies, click on the follo­wing link: https://twitter.com/privacy Type 4
OGPC, PREF, NID, GAPS, ACCOUNT_CHOOSER, RMME, OTZ will be set by Google once the Google+ Social Plugin has been acti­vated by the user on our website. For more infor­ma­tion about the nature, use and purpose of cookies, click on the follo­wing link: http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ Type 4

Evalua­tion of usage data

We use cookies to reco­gnize the prefe­rences of our visi­tors and parti­cu­larly popular areas of our website. This enables us to tailor the content of our website more speci­fi­cally to your needs and thus improve our offer for you.

If you do not want us to collect and analyze infor­ma­tion about your visit, you can always opt-out at any time.

An opt-out cookie is set in your browser for the tech­nical imple­men­ta­tion of this objec­tion. This cookie is used exclu­si­vely to assign your objec­tion. Please note that for tech­nical reasons an opt-out cookie can only be used for the browser from which it was set. If you delete the cookies or use a diffe­rent browser or terminal device, you will have to opt-out again.