Within the above mentioned categories of cookies there are several types of cookies. Here are the most common types of cookies for your understanding:

1. Session Cookies: While you are active on a website, a session cookie is temporarily stored in the memory of your computer in which a session ID is stored, e.g. to store a session cookie. For example, to avoid having to log in every time you switch pages. Session cookies are deleted at logoff or lose their validity as soon as their session expires automatically.

2. Persistent or Protocol Cookies: A persistent or history cookie stores a file on your computer for the period of time specified in the expiration date. Through these cookies, websites remember your information and settings on your next visit. This leads to a faster and more convenient access. For example, you will not have to change your language setting for our portal again. When the expiration date expires, the cookie is automatically deleted when you visit the website that created it.

3. Third Party Cookies: Third-party cookies come from providers other than the operator of the website. For example, they can be used to collect information for advertising, custom content, and web statistics.

4. Flash Cookies: Flash cookies are stored as data elements of web pages on your computer when they are operated with Adobe Flash. Flash cookies have no time limit.

II. Adobe Analytics

• This website uses the web analysis tool Adobe Analytics to evaluate user access to this website. Data processing is in so far based on your consent (Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a GDPR).

• For evaluation purposes, cookies are stored on your terminal device and information about them is collected, which is also stored on servers of our data processor Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited ("Adobe"). Access to the information by Adobe Systems Incorporated, a U.S.-based company, cannot be excluded. EU standard contractual clauses have been concluded, to offer adequate safeguards on data protection for the processing in non-European countries. You have the right to be informed about these standard contractual clauses as part of the information provided. A direct personal reference of the information stored on the Adobe servers is excluded, because Adobe Analytics is used with the settings "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" and "Obfuscate IP-Removed". The setting "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" ensures that the IP address is anonymized by replacing the last octet of the IP address with zeros before this so-called geolocalization. The approximate location of the user is added to the tracking packet for statistical evaluation, which still contains the full IP address. Before the tracking packet is saved, the IP address is replaced by a single fixed IP address - this is called a generic IP address - if the setting "Obfuscate IP -Removed" is configured. This means that the IP address is no longer contained in a stored data record.

Use of cookies on this website

1. Below please find a list of all cookies used on this website and the Data Hub:

2. Cookies necessary for the functioning of this website are based on § 25(2) Nr. 2 TDDDG and our legitimate interest as in Art. 6(1) lit. f GDPR to offer you a comfortable and individual use of our website. If in certain cases a tool is necessary for the performance of a contract, the legal base for the processing is § 25(2) Nr. 2 TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6(1) lit. b GDPR.

3. We reserve the right to amend or modify this Cookie Policy at any time to ensure compliance with applicable laws. Please check regularly whether this Cookie Policy has been updated. This Cookie Policy has been updated last in November 2024.