We use cookies on our website in order to make it more user-friendly and to ensure that certain functions will work, e.g. the shopping cart feature. These are small text files which are saved on your computer or mobile device. If a cookie is activated, then your browser can be identified by the cookie ID and the information that is contained in the cookie can be used. No personal data is stored during this process, which could be matched to a particular individual.

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

• Session cookies, which are deleted automatically after the end of the browser session in order to, for example, save the default language settings or the shopping cart making them available throughout various pages during the web session.
   
• Temporary or permanent cookies which remain saved on the computer or mobile device when the browser is shut down until you delete them or which are deactivated after you log off (login cookies). In the case of saved cookies, your browser is recognized at the time of later visits to the website and the saved settings are then activated again.
   
• Performance cookies from third-party providers for web analysis which are used to optimize our website and its contents (see Google Analytics).

Common browsers offer optional settings for refusing to accept cookies, either all of them or just certain ones, or you can delete the cookies on your computer by using the corresponding browser function.
Some of the functions on our website will not be fully available for use if you make these kinds of adaptations to your settings.

On our website, we use the "Google Analytics" service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) for evaluating your use of the website. The information collected by the cookies is generally sent to a Google server in the US and saved there. The IP address of users within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area will be shortened. This shortening of the address eliminates the personal reference to your IP address. Under the Order Data Agreement, which we have concluded with Google Inc., Google uses the information collected to evaluate website usage and activity and to provide services related to internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

Here you will find additional information on the use of data by Google Inc. here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

You can prevent the data which is created by the cookie and which is in reference to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being sent to Google and from being processed by Google by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add on.