1. what are cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files that are stored on your terminal device via the browser when you use our website. These text files contain information to provide user-friendly services and are read by web browsers. Cookies enable our website to recognize you so that our web server can present you with a more personalized, better, faster and more customized website.
Therefore, please keep in mind that you may not be able to access some web content if you block cookies. Basically, cookies are divided into the following types:
Session-related cookies: these are stored while you are surfing our websites, on your computer or terminal device and are deleted afterwards.
Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on your computer for a longer period of time.
Third-party cookies: These cookies are created by partner websites and embedded in our site. They are used, for example, to deliver personalized advertising.
2. how we use cookies
In general, we use Internet technologies (e.g. cookies, Java script) only to make it easier for you to use our website and to optimize our services and your communication with our content:
We use so-called session-related cookies to keep the current session active.
We use cookies for data analysis. This allows us to see, for example, how our forms are accepted, how many visitors use our pages, or which are the most frequently visited web pages.
We use third-party cookies that are used to improve your experience with our content and advertisements. This website also uses web analytics services provided by Google. For more information, please see "Privacy Policy".
3 Third-party cookies
Some third-party providers set cookies on your computer, in particular to register visitor behavior and personalize offers (including advertising). Depending on the platform, several cookies are set by third-party providers. You can read how the third-party provider handles cookies on the corresponding pages of the network. You can find the information about the networks in the table below. We have no control over the third-party cookies. We therefore recommend that you check the respective third-party websites to see which cookies are used and how they can be managed. For common third-party providers such as Facebook, Google and many more, the "Digital Advertising Alliance" offers a possibility to make a collected opt-out of all DAA companies. You can find more information about this in points 4 and 5.
4. currently we use the following cookies
CONSENT: Youtube / This cookie is used to store the user's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google's SafeSearch filter / 20 years.
SAPISID: Google/Youtube / This cookie is used to store the user's preferences and other information. This includes, in particular, the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page, and the decision whether or not to activate Google's SafeSearch filter / 2 years.
SID: Google/Youtube / This cookie is used to store the user's preferences and other information. This includes, in particular, the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google's SafeSearch filter / 2 years.
SIDCC: Google/Youtube / Security cookie that protects user data from unauthorized access. / 1 day
SSID: Google/Youtube / This cookie is used to store the user's preferences and other information. This includes, in particular, the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google's SafeSearch filter / 2 years.
PHPSESSID: self set / Keeps the user's states for all page requests / session cookie
LOGIN_INFO: Youtube / This cookie is set by the video service YouTube on web pages with embedded YouTube videos. / 2 years
PREF: Youtube / This cookie is used to store the user's preferences and other information. This includes, in particular, the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google's SafeSearch filter / 10 years.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: YouTube / This is a cookie that YouTube sets to calculate the user's bandwidth. This information is used to determine whether the user should use the new or old user interface of the player. / 1 year
YSC: YouTube / This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on websites with embedded YouTube videos / Session cookie.
5. cookie management / objection
In your browser menu you will find setting options for the use of cookies. Usually, a browser has the following setting options:
View cookies
Allow cookies
Disable all or certain cookies
Disable all cookies when closing the browser
Block cookies
Notify me when a cookie is about to be set
Opt-out of tracking web analytics
For the following browsers, you can find instructions on how to disable cookies on the manufacturer's pages. If you block our cookies in your browser, you will not be able to use some areas of our website.