To utilise the functionality of our website to the most productive level we use “cookies”, in order to recognise you during your next visit. Your browser saves the cookie on the hard drive on your computer. To protect your privacy our cookies do not contain any personal information. This ensures that the data does not give any information about your person and that it is anonymous. Most of the browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can certainly visit our website without cookies. If you do not wish the saving of cookies on your hard drive, you can select “no acceptance of cookies” in your browser. Please note browser setting vary from application to application. Please refer to your help notes within your browser settings.
Cookies are small files which are stored on a user’s computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the server to deliver a web page tailored to a particular user, or the page itself can contain some script which is aware of the data in the cookie and so is able to carry information from one visit to the website (or related site) to the next.
To check whether your browser is configured to allow cookies, visit the cookie checker at https://www. cookieserve.com/. This page will attempt to create a cookie and report on whether or not it succeeded. For information on how to enable or disable cookies, see ‘enabling cookies‘. For information on how to delete cookies, see ‘deleting cookies‘.
Most modern browsers will allow you to:
You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies. This also includes where you have opted out from cookies, as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set. Also, if you block cookies completely many websites will not work properly and some functionality on these websites will not work at all.
If your web-browser automatically sends data like time and datum of access, URL of the referring site, recalled data, amount of data sent, type and version of the browser, system software as well as your IP-address, the data will be analysed for statistical purposes in order to improve the website. We do this purely as a marketing functionality regardless of our role as a data controller or processor of your information. Any additional data will only be collected if the information is optional, for example during an enquiry or registration. For further information on how and why we collect this information, please refer to our Data Protection Policy.