Use of cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
General information about the cookies used
This Website uses cookies to store your language preferences, to analyse your use of the Website via Google Analytics, to enable social interaction features with supported external social networking websites. When you visit our Website for the first time, the entry page will show information on privacy and respective wording regarding the consent to the use of cookies through a “cookie banner”. If you continue to actively use the Website and do not actively object to the use of cookies, you agree to our use of cookies and such consent will be stored in your browser, so that the information does not have to be repeated on every page of the Website. Should the consent be missing in your browser (e.g. if you deleted your cookies), the “cookie banner” with privacy information will appear again the next time you visit the Website. We may install and use certain technically required cookies which therefore do not require your prior consent. We may also use session cookies which are automatically deleted at the end of your session and which also do not require your prior consent. Other cookies (such as cookies to improve the navigational experience by keeping record of certain data – this avoids you having to reintroduce such data at each connection – and by tailoring the content of the Website to your preferences) may be installed and used on the basis of your consent.
Additional information about specific cookies
Google Analytics: This Website uses Google Analytics, which is a web data analysis tool of Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies to help Us analyze how users use the Website.
Since we have activated the anonymization of IP-addresses transferred[1], Google will prior to such transfer truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address within Member States of the EEA. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity for Us and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage to Us. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html. Please note that on this Website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
How to prevent cookies to be set
You may prevent cookies to be set by adjusting your browser accordingly. Indeed, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about how to prevent cookies to be set, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
However, in such case, certain features of the Website may not work properly and some functionalities of the Website might no longer be available to you.
How to delete/deactivate cookies
In order to delete/deactivate all cookies set on your computer, the majority of web browsers allow you to disable completely the use of cookies, or to delete cookies created by specific domains/websites. To find out how to do it, please refer to your browser’s help page:
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11-win-7
- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
- Safari on IOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
- Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies
You can specifically prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) for any website you visit by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
You may [also] specifically refuse the use of Google Analytics on this Website by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this Website: