Cookie policy

Use of cookies and tracking tools

What are cookies?
A cookie is a small data record that is stored on your end device and contains data such as personal page settings and login information. This data record is generated by the web server with which you have established a connection via your web browser and sent to you. In general, we use cookies to analyze interest in our websites and to improve the user-friendliness of our websites.

How we use cookies
Our websites use cookies to provide full functionality, to offer you a customized browsing experience and to enable us to optimize the performance of the website.

Types of cookies
We use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies
These cookies help you to use our website, for example by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website or by saving the status of your cookie settings. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies.

You can find details of the necessary cookies we use in our Cookie Consent Manager, which is displayed when you visit our website or which you can access at the bottom of our website under "Cookie Consent Manager".

Functional cookies
These types of cookies allow a website, for example, to remember choices you make or information you input (such as the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be set by us or by third parties whose services we have added to our Sites. They are also used to enable requested functions such as playing movies or using maps.

You can find details of the functional cookies we use in our Cookie Consent Manager, which is displayed when you visit our website or which you can access at the bottom of our website under "Cookie Consent Manager", as well as in our Cookie Policy.

Third-party cookies for advertising purposes
Third-party cookies originate from other providers. They can be used, for example, to collect information for advertising, user-defined content and web statistics.

We use these third-party cookies to display advertising tailored to your interests by third parties on other websites (e.g. LinkedIn or Facebook). These third-party cookies are set by LinkedIn through our website and may be used to create a user profile based on your behavior on our website in order to show you relevant advertising on other websites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser or device.

Please note that if you deactivate these cookies, you may still see our advertising, but it will not be tailored to your interests.

These cookies are deactivated by default. You can find details on the cookies used for analysis purposes and cross-page functions and activate these cookies in our Cookie Consent Manager, which is displayed when you visit our website or which you can access at the bottom of our website under "Cookie Consent Manager", as well as in our Cookie Policy. Further information on other services or tools we use can be found in section 6.

Duration of the storage of cookies
The type of cookie can be identified by how long it remains. Details on the storage period can be found in our Cookie Consent Manager, which is displayed when you visit our website or which you can access at the bottom of our website under "Cookie Consent Manager", as well as in our Cookie Policy Session cookies - these cookies are only required for the duration of your session and are deleted or become invalid as soon as you close our website.

Persistent cookies - these cookies remain on your device for a predefined longer period of time. They enable you to access our websites more quickly without having to reconfigure certain settings, such as the language you have selected.

How to deactivate cookies
If you wish to restrict or block the cookies set by our websites, you can do so at any time with effect for the future by restricting or blocking cookies via your browser settings and in our Cookie Consent Manager.

Please note that restricting cookies may have a negative impact on your website experience. Following Cookies are used on this website: