Analytical and Marketing Cookies

Based on your consent, we store and read information on your device in order to subsequently process the collected personal data.

This is particularly the case for:

- Presenting you with relevant advertisements, content, and online banners
- Creating online ads with information likely to interest you
- Preventing you from constantly receiving the same ads
- Providing you with a personalized user experience

Essential Cookies

We store and read essential cookies on your device in order to subsequently process the collected personal data.

This is particularly the case for:

- Allowing you to navigate between pages without losing your previous actions from the same browsing session
- Providing multimedia content that meets your technical requirements
- Remembering your past actions, such as your previous cookie consent choice
- Ensuring no errors occur on our site and continuing to improve it
- Ensuring optimal load distribution when our sites load
- Storing your data for authentication purposes

Cookies and Changes

In the following paragraph, we will explain the reasons for our use of cookies and similar technologies on our sites. We will also give you the opportunity to modify or withdraw your consent at any time.

What are cookies?

Cookies and web storage technologies, such as local and session storage, or "cookies," facilitate your interaction with our websites. When you visit our sites, cookies are downloaded by the web browser to your device, typically as a small text file. Third-party technologies, such as scripts, pixels, and tags, embedded in our sites for advertising purposes, also place cookies on your device. In the following paragraphs, we will explain why we use these technologies and how to adjust settings according to your needs.

Purpose of Cookies

Cookies handle several different tasks that contribute to a smooth and interactive online experience. For this, you must use the same device and browser. Some cookies are essential for the operation and maintenance of our sites as they allow us to:

- Provide the services of your choice at any time
- Present you with specific and relevant information
- Offer you a smooth and enjoyable online experience

Recognition and Response

Cookies tell us how you use and interact with our sites, for example, when you save your user settings and login details. This helps us to:

- Provide a more personalized experience by delivering the most important pages efficiently
- Remember some of your personal preferences

- Guide you to useful content or pages

Continuous Improvements

Cookies help us understand how visitors use our sites and allow us to make necessary improvements. For example, cookies allow us to analyze which content is popular and create similar topics that might also be relevant to our visitors. In turn, this helps us to:

- Improve the design of our sites and provide you with a better online experience
- Try different approaches and present relevant content

Advertising and Retargeting

Our sites may use cookies for retargeting. This means that cookies store information from your browsing history to track your interests and activity on our sites. As a result, we or our advertising partners can present you with:

- Relevant ads for our products on other sites, based on your visits to ours
- A combination of relevant and specific information so that displayed advertising matches your interests

Cookie Categories

Data processing and associated cookies may be deployed on our sites. Depending on the function and purpose, we have divided data processing into two different categories. The expected purpose of each respective category is described on this page, and your consent to these categories can also be modified here. Each category lists any associated data processing, if applicable, as well as the cookies normally used for that data processing.

What should you know about cookies?

Cookies enable an enhanced and faster online experience. A cookie is a small text file that stores internet settings. Almost all websites use cookies. When you visit a website for the first time, cookies are downloaded by your web browser. When you visit that website again using the same device, the website recognizes you and displays personalized content according to your personal needs and interests. The cookies listed below correspond to HTML5 session web storage and HTML5 local web storage.

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are cookies placed by us or contractual service providers on the website with which you interact if you continue using our website.

Third-Party Cookies

Our websites may also include content from other providers (third-party providers) who may use their own cookies. When you visit our websites, third-party providers may place cookies that require information such as whether you loaded one of our websites. Please visit the third-party providers’ websites to learn more about their use of cookies. In "Modifications and Details," you will find information regarding third-party providers and a reference to their data privacy statements. You can refuse third-party cookies at any time via the corresponding function on our websites. If you refuse all third-party cookies, we can only provide the functionalities of our websites that do not rely on these cookies. In this case, you will not be able to access sections of our websites that include third-party content requiring third-party cookies. A notification will inform you. If you still wish to access unavailable website content, you must accept the use of analytical and marketing cookies. Please use the corresponding function on our websites to give or withdraw your consent. Refer to the cookie list for more information on the processing of integrated third-party data (e.g., tags, scripts, pixels).

Refusing Cookies

If you refuse cookies requiring your consent, we will duly respect your decision and will not place the corresponding cookies. If you withdraw your consent, we will stop placing cookies requiring your consent from your next page visit. We will remove any first-party cookie where technically possible. You can, of course, refuse the use of analytical and marketing cookies. However, this will prevent us from understanding what you like or dislike on our websites and making necessary improvements. Please note that we cannot delete third-party cookies. If you wish to delete third-party cookies, please go to your browser settings. We also want to inform you that revoking your cookie consent will not reduce advertisements. However, displayed ads will not be personalized based on your personal needs.

Managing Cookies in Your Browser

You can manage cookie settings via the aforementioned functions on our website and by modifying your browser settings (enable, disable, and delete). Most browsers allow managing cookies by accepting or refusing them all. Go to your browser’s help section to learn more about how to manage and delete cookies. If you modify cookie settings, some cookies will be blocked. In this case, you will not be able to use all features of our website. It is also possible that we cannot provide some content you have previously viewed or used.

Where is the information collected by cookies processed?

Information collected by cookies is primarily processed within the expanded European Union (expanded EU)*. In some cases, cookie information may be processed by our contractual service providers or third-party cookie providers in countries outside the expanded EU*, which do not offer an equivalent level of data protection as the EU. In some countries, for example the United States, there is a significant risk that local authorities may access cookie information processed there for surveillance purposes. There is no legal remedy to prevent this. We have implemented additional and appropriate security measures, such as contracts based on standard EU contractual clauses, in addition to complementary technical measures, to ensure that information collected by cookies is adequately protected. To the extent that you have given your consent for the category of "Analytical and Marketing Cookies," you also agree to the transfer and advanced processing of information collected by cookies to countries outside the expanded EU*.

* Expanded EU: countries of the European Union (EU) + Switzerland (CH), Iceland (IS), Liechtenstein (LI), Norway (NO), United Kingdom (UK)