Last Updated: 7 June 2021
As we fully respect your right to privacy and to the control of your personal data, we would like to provide you with some information about the ways your personal data is or may be automatically collected and further processed when you visit our website. The information is normally collected, stored and transferred in the form of cookies. This document explains what the cookies are, which cookies are used by this website, what purposes they serve and how you may control their usage.
1. What are cookies
Cookies are small text files, which can be sent to and saved on your device (PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit a website. These files can contain information about you and your activities during internet browsing. This information may contain your location, identification of your device and internet browser (the application you use to view and interact with the website), addresses of web pages you visit, your entries in the web forms, time spent on specific pages, your website settings/preferences, identification of encountered errors, etc. Some of the information can be retained on your device for future use by the website but some may be retrieved and utilised by the third parties allowed to place cookies on your device and read their contents.
2. Types of cookies
Depending on various criteria, cookies may be categorised as follows:
- depending on the source of cookies
- First-party cookies – cookies belonging to and controlled by the website you are visiting
- Third-party cookies – cookies sent to your browser by other sources, usually business partners of the provider of the website you are visiting.
- depending on the period, for which the cookies exist and remain active (lifespan)
- Session cookies – remain on your device only during the current browning session. They are automatically erased once you terminate the session.
- Persistent cookies – remain available on your device for a specific period defined by the sender of the cookie. Once the validity period expires, the cookie will not be used anymore and will be deleted by the browser.
- depending on the purpose they serve, we categorise them as Essential, Functional, Performance, Social Media and Targeting cookies. In Section 3 below, you will find a more detailed description of each of the categories of cookies used by our website.
3. Our cookies
Our website uses the Borlabs consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser or for the use of certain technologies and for their data privacy protection compliant documentation. The provider of this technology is Borlabs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).
Whenever you visit our website, a Borlabs cookie will be stored in your browser, which archives any declarations or revocations of consent you have entered. These data are not shared with the provider of the Borlabs technology.
The recorded data shall remain archived until you ask us to eradicate them, delete the Borlabs cookie on your own or the purpose of storing the data no longer exists. This shall be without prejudice to any retention obligations mandated by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data processing policies, please visit Borlabs Support.
We use the Borlabs cookie consent technology to obtain the declarations of consent mandated by law for the use of cookies. The legal basis for the use of such cookies is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.
