We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience.

Cookies are small pieces of information saved on your computer by your browser when visiting our website. We use cookies on this website.

What is the purpose of these cookies?

We use cookies to remember your settings and preferences. You can stop your computer from saving cookies in your browser. Instructions for changing browser settings are found under “help” in the toolbar in most browsers. Although you can then still visit the site, it is possible that if cookies are not accepted certain services or parts of the site will not work optimally. Not accepting cookies limits the use of our site and its services. With your permission we save tracking cookies on your computer.
We use these cookies to remember which pages you visited to build a profile of your online behavior. This profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address or suchlike.

Do cookies know who I am?

No. A cookie does not record your name, address, age or other personal details. They only remember your preferences and interest(s) from your surfing behavior.

Functional and non-functional cookies

There are functional and non-functional cookies. Functional cookies are needed for the website to work properly or to make sure that the desired information is shown quickly and accurately each time you visit our website. For example, you do not have to enter your details, mention your preferences or change your settings again upon your next visit. Non-functional cookies tell us about the number of visitors to the website and how these visitors use the site. We can use this information to improve the website. These files automatically disappear as soon as you close your internet browser or stay saved on your computer for up to 12 months after your last visit.

Functional cookies have uses including:

  • remembering your login details
  • guaranteeing the security of your login details
  • guaranteeing the uniformity of the appearance of the website

Non-functional (analysis) cookies have uses including:

  • counting the numbers of visitors to the website
  • recording how visitors use the website
  • improving the performance of the website
  • improving your user experience on the website

You can find more information about cookies and cookie law at www.youronlinechoices.com.

List of cookies

The table below is a list of cookies used by this website. This website also works together with a number of third parties who also save cookies on your PC through our website to allow proper use of the services they offer. If you want more information about the cookies from these suppliers, or information about how you can refuse them, see the individual privacy policies of these parties in the summary below.

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Analytics cookies on this website

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law or insofar as third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will never associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however please note that if you do so you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website you consent to the processing by Google of data relating to you in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above.

For more info about the Google Analytics cookies, click here.

Another alternative to deactivate Google Analytics is to install a small plugin proposed by Google for the major browsers.