Our cookie policy
Our website uses two types of cookies: functional cookies and analytical cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information that, depending on the type of cookie, are stored on your own computer or on an external computer. Please note: we do not use cookies for marketing purposes!
Legislation and regulations
The law stipulates that an information and consent obligation (opt-in) applies to certain cookies. An opt-in means that we ask the site user for permission in advance to use cookies. However, this does not apply to all types of cookies.
Cookies that are essential for the optimization of the website do not require consent, as they enhance the usability of the website if they are stored exclusively on the user's/visitor's computer, inaccessible to the publisher/owner of the site.
For our use of statistical cookies, we are required to explicitly ask for your consent at all times. We do this via the banner at the bottom of the page and the cookies pop-up screen. You can uncheck the blue check mark in the pop-up screen if you do not consent to analytical cookies, and give us consent by leaving the blue check mark checked. Until that moment, the analytical cookies will be enabled regardless. disabled.
You can change your preferences at any time and delete the cookies placed on your computer. How this works varies depending on the browser. The Consumers' Association has drawn up a simple step-by-step plan for each browser.
Which cookies did we place?
In the cookie overview below, you can read which cookies we use, who places them (we or a third party), the purpose of the respective cookie, the retention period, whether a cookie is necessary or not, and the consequences of not accepting the relevant cookie.
PHP customer session ID (PHPSESSID)
The PHPSESSID cookie enables the website to store serialized status data. It is a temporary cookie used during a visit to the site and is deleted when the visitor ends their visit. This cookie is used primarily for security reasons.
Cookieconsent_status and cookieconsent_preferences_disabled
With these two cookies, your preferences for the use of cookies on our site are kept on your computer (2 years)
Language and currency
With these two cookies, your preferences for language (semi-automatically) and currency (automatically) are kept on your computer.
Google Analytics
The cookies listed below are placed on our site by Google Analytics for analytical purposes. The data collected by Google Analytics is used solely to analyze how often a visitor revisits the website, how the website is found (from advertisements or other websites), and which pages are viewed most frequently. For more information about these cookies, we refer to the website of Google Analytics. The data collected by GA is stored anonymously on Google's server(s). The duration for which the respective cookie is retained is indicated in parentheses.
_ga (2 years) , _gid (24 hours), _hole (1 minute)
onwebchatf
Onwebchat stores the global location data that the browser has stored in the http_referer (10 days)
webmail
When permission has been granted by checking "keep me sign in" (onWebchat) the user's email address (60 days)
updated on 2 February 2022