The present policy aims to inform you why we use "cookies", what they do, and what choices you have in connection with their use.
Cookies are small text files that are generated upon a request from your browser to our web server and are stored on your device. Usually, their purpose is for us to be able to identify your device and its behavior when visiting our sites.
There are two types of cookies – persistent and temporary (session cookies).
Session cookies are stored temporarily on your computer when you visit our Site, but are deleted the moment you close the page.
Persistent cookies are stored as a file on your computer or mobile device for a longer period of time.
With the exception of cookies necessary for the functioning of our site, we store cookies on your device solely with your consent. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can adjust your browser settings – you will find more information about this at the end of this document.
If you prefer not to receive "cookies" while browsing our website, you could refuse them by setting your internet browser to warn before accepting a cookie or to refuse cookies when your internet browser signals their presence to you. Also, you could refuse all cookies by turning them off through the settings of your internet browser. Keep in mind that disabling cookies will reflect on the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabled cookies will usually also lead to the disabling of certain functions of our website.
You know when and whether your browser receives cookies, as it notifies you upon the first visit about this. In this way, you have the opportunity to accept or refuse a given cookie.
Your browser can be set to reject all cookies. If you want to find out how to do this, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or the Microsoft Cookie Guide https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies.
Note that changes in your browser with which the cookie function is disabled may prevent the site from functioning correctly.
You can choose what cookies to allow or prohibit by visiting the respective sites for settings of your browsers:
Cookie settings for Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-10
Cookie settings for Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=bg&ref_topic=14666
Cookie settings for Safari web https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=en_US and iOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265 .
Certain "cookies" are necessary for us to be able to securely provide our services through the webpage. This category includes, e.g.:
– "Cookies" that identify or authenticate our users;
– "Cookies" that temporarily store certain user data (for example, content of an online form);
– "Cookies" that store certain user preferences (e.g. search settings or language settings);
– "Cookies" that store data to ensure unobstructed playback of video or audio content.
We use analytical "cookies" to register the behavior of users (e.g. clicking on advertisement banners, entered search queries) and to statistically evaluate these actions.
We also use "cookies" for advertising purposes. User behavior profiles created with the help of such "cookies" (e.g. clicking on advertising banners, visited subpages, entered search queries) are used by us to show you advertisements or offers that are tailored to your interests ("advertisement based on individual interest").
We also allow other companies to evaluate the data of our users through advertising "cookies". This allows us and third parties to show users of our webpage advertisements based on interests, which are based on an analysis of your usage behavior (e.g. clicks on advertising banners, visited subpages, entered queries), and this is not limited only to our online offers.
Our referral tracking partners set "cookies" on your computer ("referral cookie") in case you have reached our website through an advertisement of the respective partner. These "cookies" usually lose their validity after 30 days. In case you visit certain pages that we host, and the "cookie" has not yet expired, we and the respective conversion tracking partner can see that a specific user has clicked on the advertisement and has been referred to our page. The information collected through the referral "cookie" is used to create statistical data for referrals and to determine the total number of users who have clicked on the respective advertisement and have been referred to a page that is equipped with a referral tracking tag.
We need statistical information about the use of our webpage to make it more accessible, to perform reach measurements, and to do market research.
For this purpose, we use the web analysis tools described in this section.
The user profiles created by these tools, with the help of analytical cookies or through evaluation of log files, do not contain personal data. The tools either do not use the IP addresses of users at all, or shorten them immediately after their collection.
The providers of the tools process the data only as personal data processors according to our instructions, and not for their own purposes.
Below you will find information about each tool provider and how you can object to the collection and processing of personal data through the tool.
You should keep in mind that with tools that use opt-out cookies, the opt-out function is related to the device or browser and, therefore, is valid for the currently used terminal device or browser. If you use several terminal devices or browsers, you must select the opt-out function on each terminal device and in each used browser.
Furthermore, in general, you can prevent the creation of user profiles by disabling the use of cookies.
Google Analytics is offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). We use Google Analytics with the additional function offered by Google for anonymization of IP addresses. Google shortens the IP address even within the EU and only in exceptional cases in the USA, and in both cases records only shortened IP addresses.
You can object to the collection and processing of your data by downloading and installing a browser add-on from the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en