Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are either stored temporarily on your end device for the duration of a session ("session cookies") or permanently ("permanent cookies"). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit to the website. Permanent cookies shall remain stored on your end device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Third-party cookies may also be stored on your end device when you visit our website ("third-party cookies"). Such cookies allow you or us to use certain functions of the third-party provider and they cannot be read by us.

Cookies serve a variety of functions. Many of them are necessary for technical reasons, since certain website functions would not work without them. Other cookies are used to analyze user behavior or to display ads.

In so far as cookies are used and these do not guarantee basic functionalities of our pages or the optimized presentation of what we have to offer, cookies are placed and data processing is based on your consent.

As part of consent management ("cookie banner"), we offer you the option of making your own decision about whether or not cookies are set on our website. Consent may be revoked or changed at any time using the cookie banner via the "Change consent" link in the Cookie Policy.

We use the functions of the web analytics service Matomo for statistical analysis of the use of our website with your consent. The service provider is the New Zealand company InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, NZBN 6106769 ("Matomo").

Matomo places cookies on the end devices of visitors to the website, which retrieve information such as IP address, browser information, the website previously visited, as well as the date and time of the server request. A complete list of the data collected by Matomo can be found here: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_18254/.

Matomo only stores the data in the EU and is applied with the extension "anonymizeIp()", which means that the IP addresses are processed in shortened form immediately after collection. A list of the cookies used by Matomo can be found here: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_146/

We use the service of Google Ads. The service provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").

If you have accessed our website through a Google ad, a conversion cookie is set by Google subject to your consent to measure the success of our ad campaign. This cookie is used to retrieve information such as IP address, browser information, the website previously visited, as well as the date and time of the server request.

The conversion cookie expires on its own after 30 days. It is also possible to disable cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser so that cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com" are blocked.

The website uses the function of the web analytics service Google reCAPTCHA. We use this service to protect our website from spam software and abuse by visitors who are not human. The service provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google reCAPTCHA places cookies on the end devices of website visitors, with which information such as IP address, browser information, information about the operating system, mouse and keyboard behavior is retrieved.