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We use various cookies from the selection below. Essential cookies are necessary to operate our website and are therefore pre-set. All other cookies help us to design our online offering to be needs-appropriate and to constantly improve it. The statistics cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting information anonymously. The marketing cookies allow us to improve the product suggestions on our website. You can manage these cookies using the button below. You can call up the settings at any time and change them accordingly.

Further information is available in our Privacy Policy.

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Statistics cookies

We also use statistics cookies on our website. These provide us with information on user behaviour on our website and how users interact with our website. We use the following statistics cookies on our website:

(1) Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of you use of the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will, however, first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, so unambiguous assignment of the IP address is no longer possible. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide the website operator with further services relating to website usage and Internet usage. The IP address transmitted from your browser within the context of Google will not be combined with other data by Google.

The cookie is only set with your consent, which is collected via the cookie banner on our website. The legal basis therefore is Article 6(1) lit. a) GDPR.

The cookies set by this service expire after two years.

Further information on terms of use and data privacy can be found at www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html

An agreement has been concluded with Google according to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure an appropriate level of data protection in the transmission of personal data to third countries. Further information on this is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu_de.

(2) YouTube

We use YouTube videos, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. (“Google”), in our online offering, which are stored at http://youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. By visiting the website, YouTube is informed that you have accessed the corresponding subpage on our website. Access data and log files are also transmitted.

This depends on whether YouTube provides a user account you are logged into or whether there is no user account. If you are logged into Google, your data are attributed directly to your account. If you do not want it to be attributed to your YouTube profile, you have to log out before activating the button.

YouTube stores your data as a user profile and uses them for the purpose of advertising, market research and/or needs-appropriate design of its website. Such analysis is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to deliver needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have a right to object to the development of this user profile, whereby you have to contact YouTube to exercise this right.

By clicking on the play button of a YouTube video linked to our website, you consent to one-time data processing to play the respective video. The legal basis is Article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR Consent to the setting of cookies on the website is collected in the contest of the cookie banner. The legal basis is Article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR

Corresponding cookies expire after a maximum lifespan of ten years.

An agreement has been concluded with Google according to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure an appropriate level of data protection in the transmission of personal data to third countries. Further information and the Google Privacy Policy are available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

The purpose and extent of the data collection and further processing and use of the data by the provider along with your rights and settings options in this regard for the protection of your private sphere can be found in the provider’s privacy policies: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

(3) Vimeo

This website uses as tool from the Vimeo video portal. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

By linking videos via the provider Vimeo, the provider’s server is called up. This is a technical condition and cannot be prevented by us.

In doing so, the Vimeo servers are informed as to which of our pages you visited. Vimeo also obtains your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have a Vimeo account. The information obtained by Vimeo is forwarded to the Vimeo servers in the US.

If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you allow Vimeo to attribute your surfing activity directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

The corresponding data can be collected by Vimeo with the aid of cookies and similar technologies.

The cookie is only set with your consent, which is collected via the cookie banner on our website. The legal basis is therefore Article 6(1) lit. a) GDPR.

The cookies set by this service expire after two years.

An agreement has been concluded with Vimeo according to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure an appropriate level of data protection in the transmission of personal data to third countries.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in the Vimeo Privacy Policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.