WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies. Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser. The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on websites.

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES ON THIS WEBSITE?

Cookies are necessary for this website to function. We use different kinds of cookies:
1) Essential cookies: These are cookies which are necessary to run this website, e.g. to offer you the cookie notice and settings option. These “first-party cookies” are cookies set and controlled by us, not by any external organisation.
2) Analytics cookies: we are constantly working on making this website a better experience for you. To do so, it is sometimes important to analyse, which content our visitors use, if we should offer different language versions etc. Therefore we use Google Analytics, which is a well known statistic tool used by millions of websites.
However, this service is offered by Google and it uses cookies as well ("third-party cookies"). Since we don't have any insight or info about their ways of processing the statistics from our website, there might be a possiblity that these statistics are to be used for their business as well. We cannot take responsibility for their actions so this service is turned off by default on our website. If you want to share your personal data (statistics) with us, please accept "Analaytics" in the Cookie Settings - Menu on our website.
3) Site Preferences Cookies: these are cookies that are related to your site preferences, e.g. remembering your username, site colours, etc.
If you want to use cookies for this service, please accept "Site preferences" in the cookie settings menu on our website.
4) Marketing Cookies: these cookies are related to marketing, e.g. newsletters, social media, etc. We are using Facebook Like & Share Buttons and Youtube Videoplayers on our website to offer you a more comfortable and faster way to support our facebook profile and to watch our videos directly on our website. These services are offered by Facebook and Youtube and they use "third-party cookies". There might be a possiblity that these Like and share buttons as well as the youtube videoplayers are using your personal data for their business models, just like their own statistics, customized advertisement etc. We cannot take responsibility for their actions so this services are turned off by default on our website. These third-party services are outside of our control. The Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc. If you want to activate these buttons and/or youtube videoplayers on our website, please accept "Marketing" in the Cookie Settings - Menu on our website.

THIS IS HOW YOU CAN REJECT OR DELETE YOUR COOKIES

As mentioned above, you may accept or reject cookies in the "Cookies Setting-Menu" on our website.
You can also always reject cookies on your computer, tablet or phone by changing your browser settings. Where these settings can be found depends on the type of browser you are using. If you do change the settings, please be aware that there will be some functions and services that you cannot use because they rely on the website being able to remember the choices you have made.