Information on the Use of Cookies

What is a cookie?
During visits to the website, the Data Controller uses so-called cookies. A cookie is a package of information consisting of letters and numbers that our website sends to your browser in order to save certain settings, make the use of our website easier, and help collect certain relevant statistical information about our visitors.

Some cookies do not contain personal information and are not suitable for identifying individual users; however, some contain a unique identifier – a secret, randomly generated sequence of numbers – that is stored on your device and ensures that you can be identified. The duration of operation of each cookie is specified in the relevant description of the given cookie.

Legal background and legal basis for cookies

Basically, three types of cookies are distinguished: cookies that are essential for operation and ensure the proper functioning of the website, statistical cookies, and marketing cookies.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the Regulation in the case of statistical and marketing cookies, and the legitimate interest necessary to ensure the functioning of the website pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the Regulation in the case of cookies required for operation.

Main characteristics of the cookies used by the website

Google Consent Mode v2
The Data Controller has integrated Google Consent Mode version v2 into the website and ensures the management of consents and refusals through the cookie panel according to the new version. Under Google Consent Mode v2, Google uses two additional flags in addition to the previous two (analytics_storage, ad_storage), which are used for storing and reading cookies for statistical and advertising purposes:

• ad_user_data: Any user data that may be sent to Google for advertising purposes.

• ad_personalization: User data may be used for personalized advertising purposes, for example for remarketing.

The purpose of these two switches is to determine whether the storage and reading of cookies used for statistical and advertising purposes are permitted.