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If you do not wish to accept cookies you can change the settings of your browser in order to prevent the saving of cookies or to get a notification anytime cookies are used, so you will be able to allow cookies in individual cases. The European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance also offers the possibility to block the use of non-technical third party cookies on its website: www.youronlinechoices.eu. Without cookies certain sections of our website might not work properly.
Newsletter
On our website you have the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter. For the subscription we need your email address and your consent to receive our newsletter. To provide you with relevant information we also gather and process voluntary information concerning interests, name, date of birth and country/region of origin. After signing up for our newsletter you will receive an email containing a link to confirm the subscription. Your subscription can be cancelled any time by clicking on the cancellation link in the respective newsletter.
Web-Analysis
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). For this functions cookies are used to analyse the use of the website. The information generated through the use of these cookies are transmitted to and stored by Google on its servers. Your IP address is collected but immediately anonymised (for example by deleting the last 8 bits). As a result the geolocation data is less accurate. The connection to the web analytics service provider Google is based on an adequacy decision taken by the European Commission (“Privacy Shield”). You can prevent the saving of cookies by changing the respective settings of your browser software. You can also prevent data collection connected to your use of our online services through cookies and the processing of this data by google, by installing the browser-plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Our service providers, have an insight into data gathered through Google Analytics. This data will be used only to analyse the use of our websites and to evaluate our marketing and distribution strategies. The data processing takes place in accordance with the requirements of art. 6 para. 1 lit f (legitimate interests) of the GDPR. Our objective in accordance with the GDPR (legitimate interests) is the improvement of our products and services and our web presence through the analysis of the use of our website as well as marketing and distribution strategies.
Online Marketing and Remarketing
Our website uses remarketing functions provided by Google Inc. (“Google”) and by Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”). Therefore, Facebook and Google will know that you have visited our website. This way visitors of our website and of our landingpages will find ads adapted to their interests on Google’s advertising platforms and on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. The data processing takes place in accordance with the requirements of art. 6 para. 1 lit a (consent) of the GDPR.
When you visit our website a banner will inform you about the use of cookies for remarketing functions. If you continue using the website or click on the respective button you consent to the use of cookies. You can deny your consent anytime, by visiting the page containing the cookie information and denying the use in the banner that will be displayed.
Facebook Remarketing
This website uses the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” Facebook. Through this function users will be shown relevant ads (“Facebook Ads”) concerning this website when they visit the social network Facebook. To this purpose the Facebook remarketing pixel was implemented on this website. Because of this pixel a direct connection to the Facebook servers is established when you visit this website. The information that you have visited this website is then conveyed to the Facebook server and associated with your personal account. More detailed information about how Facebook gathers and processes data, your rights concerning this matter and the possibilities to protect your privacy can be found in Facebook’s data privacy notice: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Alternatively you can disable the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” following this link: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/. For this purpose you have to be registered on Facebook.
Google Remarketing
This website uses the remarketing function provided by Google. Through this function users will be shown relevant ads on Google’s advertising platform. For this purpose your browser saves cookies, small text files which are saved on your computer and that help recognise you when you visualise websites belonging to Google’s advertising platform. On this websites visitors will find ads adapted to their interests and related to the content of websites that they visited before and that use Google’s remarketing function. According to information provided by Google, no personal data is gathered during this process.
If you want to prevent the use of Google’s remarketing function, you can disable it following this link: http://www.google.com/settings/ads.
Alternatively you can disable the use of cookies for personalised ads following the instructions on the website of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and the right to object. If you object, the legitimacy of consented data processing until the moment of your objection will remain intact. If you want make use of one of these rights, please contact us using the contact details stated below. If you believe that the processing of your data violates the data protection law or that your privacy rights are violated otherwise, you can contact the supervisory authority.