Cookies policy

We are using the web analytics service Google Analytics on our website. The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyse the traffic on our website and to use this information for improving the usability of our website. Legal basis for using Google Analytics is Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a GDPR. The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States of America (USA). Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us. This includes, inter alia, data about the website from which a visitor has come, which sub-pages of our website are visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page is viewed. Google Analytics is using a cookie that enables Google to analyse the use of our website. The cookie is used to store personal information, such as your access time and the frequency of your visits to our website. With each visit to our Internet site, such data will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America where they are stored by Google. Google may pass these personal data collected to third parties.

You may prevent the setting of the Google Analytics cookie by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting in your Internet browser and, thus, permanently deny the setting of this cookie. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

In addition, you have the possibility of objecting to the collection of data generated by Google Analytics in relation to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google. For this purpose, you would have to download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be found at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained here:
https://www.google.com/analytics/.