Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things, such as remembering your preferences, and counting the number of people looking at a website.
Which cookies do we use?
Depending on their function and intended purpose, cookies can be divided into 4 categories: necessary cookies, analytical cookies, functional cookies and targeting cookies.
Please refer to the following list for the different types of cookies we can use within our online services:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Analytical or Performance Cookies
These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality Cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting Cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.
How to Manage Cookies?
To manage cookies, most browsers allow you to accept or reject all cookies or accept only certain types of cookies.
Insofar as the consent of the user is required for the use of certain cookies, we only use these cookies when you use the online service if you have previously given your consent. When you use our online service, we will include a “cookie banner”, in which you can confirm your consent to the use of cookies within this online service by clicking on a button. By clicking on the button provided, you enter into the use of all cookies mentioned in this Cookie Policy.
Your consent is also store in the form of a cookie (“opt-in cookie”) on your device to determine when you use the online service again, whether you have already given consent. The opt-in cookie has a limited validity period of 12 months.
You can manage, deactivate and delete cookies in your browser, but also permanently prevent the acceptance of cookies. To do this, you must enable the browser function, which prevents the storage of cookies, and/or browse in Privacy Mode, depending on the browser which you use.
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted.
If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.