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All About Cookies.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are usually small text files, given ID tags that are stored on your computer’s browser directory or program data subfolders. Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within the site, help you resume where you left off, remember your registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other customization functions.The website stores a corresponding file(with same ID tag)to the one they set in your browser and in this file they can track and keep information on your movements within the site and any information you may have voluntarily given while visiting the website, such as email address.

Cookies are often indispensable for websites that have huge databases, need logins, have customizable themes, other advanced features.

Cookies usually don’t contain much information except for the url of the website that created the cookie, the duration of the cookie’s abilities and effects, and a random number. Due to the little amount of information a cookie contains, it usually cannot be used to reveal your identity or personally identifying information.However, marketing is becoming increasingly sophisticated and cookies in some cases can be agressively used to create a profile of your surfing habits.

There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are created temporarily in your browser’s subfolder while you are visiting a website. Once you leave the site, the session cookie is deleted. On the other hand, persistent cookie files remain in your browser’s subfolder and are activated again once you visit the website that created that particular cookie. A persistent cookie remains in the browser’s subfolder for the duration period set within the cookie’s file.

More on Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to your computer when you access certain websites. Like virtual door keys, cookies unlock a computer’s memory and allow a website to recognise users when they return to a site by opening doors to different content or services. Like a key, a cookie itself does not contain information, but when it is read by a browser it can help a website improve the service delivered.

Cookie files are automatically lodged into the cookie file – the memory of your browser – and each one typically contains:

The name of the server the cookie was sent from
The lifetime of the cookie
A value – usually a randomly generated unique number
The website server which sent the cookie uses this number to recognise you when you return to a site or browse from page to page. Only the server that sent a cookie can read, and therefore use, that cookie.

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on the hard disk of computers so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two common types of cookies are used on most websites-session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. We only store access data, such as the name of the requested file, the date and time of call-up, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider in so-called server log files. This data is used solely to ensure the smooth operation of the website and to improve our offering and does not allow us to deduce any information concerning your person.

Data Collection and Use for Contract Execution and to Open a Customer Account

We collect personal information when you voluntarily provide such information in the course of placing your order or contacting us. The information collected in each case is evident in the respective input fields. The information you provide is used to execute the contract and process your inquiries. Upon completion of the contract your information is blocked from further use. Once fiscal and commercial periods have elapsed, your information is deleted unless you have explicitly consented to the further use of the information or we have reserved the right to use the information for other purposes permitted by law, which you will be informed of below.

Data Sharing for Contract Execution

For the purpose of executing the order, we provide your information to the shipping company responsible for delivery to the extent necessary to effect delivery. Depending on which payment service provider you chose during the ordering process, we will share the necessary payment information with the credit institute commissioned with the payment and possibly with the payment service provider commissioned by us and/or the selected payment service. Sometimes the chosen payment service providers collect this information themselves if you open an account with them. In this case, you must sign in with your payment service provider using your access data during the ordering process. Here, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.

Use of Data when Subscribing to Email Newsletter

Should you subscribe to our newsletter, we use the required data or the data you provide us separately to regularly send you our email-newsletter with your consent. You can unsubscribe form the newsletter at any time by clicking on the link provided in the newsletter.

Use of Data for Email Advertising without Newsletter Registration and Your Right to Object

If we received your email address in connection with the sale of an article or service and you have not indicated otherwise, we reserve the right to regularly send you offers on similar products in our range via email. You may object to such use of your email address at any time by sending a message using the contact information provided below without incurring any costs other than the basic cost of transmitting this message.

Use of Cookies

To enhance the user’s experience with our website and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted upon ending the browser session, in other words, when you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can change your browser settings so that you will be informed about the use of cookies and can decide on the individual acceptance of cookies or exclude them in specific cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for Web Analysis

This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (www.google.com). Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow your use of the website to be analyzed, e.g. through the use of so-called cookies, which are text files that are saved on your computer. In general, the information collected about your use of this website is transferred to and stored on one of Google’s servers in the United States. Google (Universal) Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google (Universal) Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.

YouTube Video Plugins

Third-party content is embedded in this website. This content is provided by Google Inc. (“provider”). YouTube is operated by Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). In the case of YouTube videos embedded in our site, the extended privacy settings are activated. This means that no data from website-visitors is collected or saved by YouTube, unless they play the video. For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collected and its further processing and use by the provider as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Google’s privacy policy.

Vimeo Video Plugins

Third-party content is embedded in this website. This content is provided by Vimeo LLC (“provider”). Vimeo is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York 10011, USA (“Vimeo”). In the case of videos from Vimeo embedded in our site, the tracking tool Google Analytics is automatically integrated. We have no influence over the tracking settings or the analysis results collected in this manner nor can we view them. Additionally, through the embedding of videos from Vimeo, web beacons are placed in the browsers of website visitors.You will find information on the prevention of the placement of Google Analytics tracking cookies above in the paragraph “Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for Web Analysis.” For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collected and its further processing and use by the provider as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Vimeo’s privacy policy.

Right to Information and Contact Details

You are entitled to request information on any of your personal data stored on our systems. Furthermore, you have the right to correct, block, and delete this data. If you have questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal information, or wish to request information, correct, block, or delete data, as well as to revoke expressed permission or object to a specific use of data, please contact us directly by using the contact information provided in our imprint.