Cookies

We may use cookies for our website. Cookies – both our own (first-party cookies) and such from third parties whose services we use (third-party cookies) – are data that are stored in your browser. This may not only be customary cookies in text form. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit malware such as Trojans and viruses.

Cookies can be stored temporarily in your browser as “session cookies” when you visit our website or for a certain period of time as so-called permanent cookies. “Session cookies” will be automatically deleted when you close your browser. Permanent cookies have a specified storage period. They enable us in particular to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website and thus, for example, to measure the reach of our website. Permanent cookies can also be used for online marketing, for example.

You can disable cookies in your browser settings at any time in whole or in part, as well as delete them. In absence of some cookies, our website may no longer be fully available. We ask you – if and to the extent necessary – actively for your express consent for the use of cookies.

In the case of cookies used for performance and reach measurement or for advertising, a general objection (“opt-out”) is possible for numerous services via the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), YourAdChoices (Digital Advertising Alliance) or Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, EDAA).