Use of cookies

To make visiting our website(s) attractive and to enable the use of particular features, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files which are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies used by us are then deleted once your browser session has ended, i.e. after your browser has been closed (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognise your browser upon your next visit (persistent cookies).

You can configure your browser so that you are notified about the use of cookies and can make case-by-case decisions to accept them or can exclude the acceptance of cookies in specific cases or in general. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted. The help function in the menu bar of most web browsers explains how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how you can get your browser to inform you when you receive new cookies, and how you can delete all cookies that have already been received as well as blocking all additional ones.

In Internet Explorer:

• In the “Extras” menu, select “Internet Options”.
• Click on the “Privacy” tab.

• Now you can adjust the security settings for the Internet zone. Here, you can regulate whether cookies should be accepted or rejected in general and define which cookies should be accepted or rejected.

• You can confirm your settings by clicking “OK”.

In Firefox:

• In the “Extras” menu, select “Options”.

• Click on “Privacy & Security”.

• Choose the “Custom” radio button.

• Now you can regulate whether cookies should be accepted or rejected, define how long you would like to keep these cookies, and add exceptions regarding which websites you want to allow to use cookies always or never.

• You can confirm your settings by clicking “OK”.

In Google Chrome:

• Click on the Chrome menu in the toolbar of your browser.

• Now select “Settings”.

• Click on “Advanced”.

• Under “Privacy and security”, click on “Site settings”.

• Under “Cookies and site data”, the following settings can be adjusted for cookies: Clear cookies, block cookies by default, allow cookies by default, clear cookies and website data after closing the browser, and allow exceptions for cookies from specific websites or domains.