How does the owner of this website use cookies?
The owner of this website uses various technologies to enhance the efficiency of its websites, including your experience when browsing these sites. These technologies include cookies.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file, usually made up of letters and numbers, that is installed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use it to visit a website. Website owners use cookies to make their sites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to report information.
What are cookies used for?
There are different types of cookies for different uses.
- Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are necessary for the functioning of our website, for example, to allow you to connect to secure areas of our website or to use a virtual shopping cart.
- Performance and analytics cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our website as well as to see how they move around the site while they use it. This helps us to improve the way our website works (for example, by ensuring that visitors can easily find what they are looking for).
- Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to the website. This allows us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences, for example, your language or region.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website and its content more in line with your interests. This information may also be shared with third parties for this purpose.
The owner of this website uses the following types of cookies:
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- Purpose: used to distinguish users. Statistical analysis.
- Expiration: 2 years
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- Purpose: used to distinguish users. Statistical analysis.
- Expiration: 24 hours
How long do cookies stay on my device?
Some cookies function from the moment you visit a website of the owner of this website until the end of that particular browsing session. These cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your Internet browser. These cookies are called temporary or “session” cookies.
Some cookies will stay on your device during browsing sessions, they do not expire when you close your browser. These cookies are called “permanent” cookies. The duration of time a permanent cookie stays on your device varies from one to another.
Who installs cookies on my device?
The owner of this website, as the website operator, installs cookies on your device. These cookies are called “first-party” cookies. It is possible that other providers different from the owner install cookies on your device. These cookies are called “third-party” cookies.
How do I control which cookies are installed on my device?
It is up to you whether you accept cookies or not. One way to do this is through the settings of your Internet browser. Most Internet browsers allow you to control almost all cookies through the settings of your browser. (Note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access certain parts of our website.) The following websites provide information to set cookies on some of the most popular browsers:
You can also use a browser plug-in, such as Ghostery by Evidon Inc. or Tracking Protection List by TRUSTe. (A browser plug-in is a piece of software that adds extra features to your browser, for example, to view a video or search for viruses.)
Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia on a computer. Websites that use Adobe Flash can store flash cookies on user devices to remember settings, preferences, and similar usage for other types of cookies. The owner of this website may use Flash to provide special content such as video clips or animations. You can access Flash management tools directly on the Adobe website.
To opt out of Google Analytics analytical cookies on the websites of the owner of this website, visit:
Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
If you would like more information about interest-based advertising and your choices, visit these sites: Digital Advertising Alliance, Network Advertising Initiative, and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe.
If you want more information about cookies in general, including how cookies have been installed and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.