1. What is a cookie?
To make it easier for you to use our website and make it more enjoyable, we use »cookies«. Cookies are small data units that allow us to compare new and previous visitors, understand how they use our site. They provide us with data that we can use to make future visits to the website more pleasant and efficient. If you do not want to use cookies, set your computer to delete all website cookies and/or warn you before a cookie is saved to disk. If you do not want to change the use of cookies, simply continue to the website.
2. Setting and storing cookies
Cookies can be set by the website you are visiting (“own cookies”), or by a third-party website that manages the content on the website you are viewing (“cookies from elsewhere”).
Cookies can be stored for different lengths of time, only for the duration of the browsing session or much longer.
Temporary or session cookie (session cookies): A cookie that allows us to link your actions during a browser session. A browser session starts when you open a browser window and ends when you close it. Session cookies are created temporarily and are deleted when your browser window is closed.
Persistent cookie: A cookie that remains on your device. The time that is specified in the cookie and is activated every time you visit the website that created that particular cookie.
3. Different types of cookies
There are four main types of cookies:
Necessary cookies: These cookies are essential as they enable you to move around the website and use website functions or to provide the services you have requested. For example, to save the products you have added to the online shopping cart. We do not need your permission to use these cookies.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember your choices (such as your username, language or region in which you are located) and provide you with improved and more personal features. For example, the site may provide you with local weather forecasts or traffic news by using a cookie to store information about the region in which you are currently located, remember your changes in text size, font and other parts of the website that are customizable and provide you with the requested services such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymized and these cookies cannot track your browser activity on other websites.
Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the website. For example, which pages you visit most often and if you receive an error message from them. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. This information is used only to improve the functioning of the website.
Targeting cookies or third-party advertising cookies: These cookies are used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of impressions of a single ad, as well as to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the permission of the website operator. They remember that you have visited the website and this information is passed on to other organizations such as advertisers. Targeting or advertising cookies may often be related to website functionality provided by another organization.
For more information about advertising cookies and online privacy, see the guide produced by the Internet Advertising Industry at www.youronlinechoices.com.
4. Which cookies do we use?
The website uses certain strictly necessary cookies for the online store. We also use Google Analytics cookies. We do not use the data for any other purpose and do not share it with anyone.