Cookies

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device via your browser when you use our website. These text files contain information to enable provision of user-friendly services and are read by web browsers. Cookies enable our website to recognise you so that our web server can present you with a more individual, better, faster, and more customised website.
 

Please note that if you block cookies you may not be able to access some web content.

There are basically three types of cookies:

  • Session cookies: these are stored on your computer or device while you are surfing our web pages and are then deleted.
  • Permanent cookies: these cookies remain on your computer for a long time.
  • Third-party cookies: these cookies are created by partner websites and embedded in our site. They are used to deliver personalised advertising, for example.

 

2. How we use cookies

In general, we use Internet technologies (e.g. cookies, JavaScript) only to facilitate the operation of our website and to optimize our offer 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 how our forms are accepted, how many visitors use our pages and which are the most frequently visited pages.
  • We use third party cookies to improve your experience with our content and advertisements. This website also uses web analysis services from Google. Further information can be found under "Data protection"


3. Third-party cookies

Some third party providers set cookies on your computer in particular to register visitor behaviour and personalise offers (including advertising). Depending on the platform, several cookies are set by third parties. You can read how the third party provider handles cookies on the corresponding pages of the network. The notes on the networks can be found in the table below. We have no control over third party cookies. We therefore recommend that you check the websites of third parties to determine 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 an opportunity to carry out a collective opt-out of all DAA companies. Further information can be found in points 4 and 5.

 

4. We currently use the following cookies:

Cookiename / Company / Duration / Application:

  • NID / Google / 182 days / This cookie stores the preferences and other information of the user. These include 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.
  • IDE / AdWords Remarketing / 2 years / Used for advertising that Google displays in various places on the web.
  • 1P_JAR / Google Analytics / 1 month / Gather website statistics and tracked conversion rates.
  • CONSENT / Youtube & Google / 20 years / This cookie stores the preferences and other information of the user. These include 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.
  • DV / Google / 7 minutes / This cookie stores the preferences and other information of the user. These include 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.
  • IDE / AdWords Remarketing / 2 years / Used for advertising that Google displays in various places on the web.
  • ga / Google Analytics / 2 years / Allows to record visits and visitors.
  • _ga_UA-43414963-9 / Google Analytics / 1 minute / Cookie prevents the call to Google Analytics (Opt-Out).
  • _gid / Google Analytics / 1 day / Allows to record visits and visitors.
  • cookie-consent / self set / 1 year / cookie notice viewed and accepted.
  • fr / Facebook / 3 months / Cookie for Facebook pixels

 

5. Management of cookies / objection

You will find setting options for the use of cookies in your browser menu. Usually a browser has the following settings options:

  • View cookies
  • Allow Cookies
  • Disable all or specific cookies
  • Disable all cookies when closing your browser
  • Block cookies
  • Notify me when a cookie should be set
  • Contradiction to tracking web analysis

For the following browsers you will find instructions for deactivating cookies on the manufacturer pages. If you block our cookies in your browser, you will not be able to use some areas of our website.