5.1 Data processed

When you visit our website, cookies are installed, for example, to optimise response times or for the anonymous and statistical evaluation of the use of our websites and social media pages. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the users’ computers when they visit a website. They can be automatically recognised and read during the current visit or during the next visit. 

If you leave our websites and social media pages and access third-party pages, the home page of these third-party sites may also set cookies. We are not legally liable for third party cookies. For the use of these cookies by third parties and the information stored therein, please compare the data protection provisions put in place by these third parties and the following provisions. 

Among other things, cookies, analytics tools and plug-ins are used, and collect the following data: the name of the Internet service provider, the files requested, the IP address, access to individual pages, browser type, screen resolution, colour depth, operating system, search terms and reference pages from which you visited our web pages. 

Our websites and social media pages may use the following categories of cookies: 

• Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that allow the proper functioning of the website visited, such as browsing the website and accessing the secure areas of our website.
• Performance cookies: These cookies make it possible to track the actions of an internet user on a website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. When the statistics are anonymous, the consent of the user is not required. 
• Functional cookies: These cookies are necessary to provide you with our content or externals’ content or functionalities, such as sharing on social media or external platforms that provides video services. Be aware that not allowing such cookies might disable some functionalities. 
• Targeting cookies: Most of these cookies are owned by third parties, are installed on your computer during browsing to collect information that can identify you as a consumer, which then allows to set up more accurate and targeted marketing during your future web browsing and optimise the use of advertising space by adapting content displayed to the profile of each user. 

The first two categories are necessary for the operation of the features of our websites and optimise your user experience. Cookies that are not strictly necessary or performance related will only be installed after your explicit consent. Some cookies may transmit data to third parties who may be within or outside the EU or the EEA. 

5.2 Legal basis

The cookies, plugins and tracking measures indicated give rise to processing justified by our legitimate interest when they are strictly necessary or for performance measurement. 

For cookies, plugins and tracking measures related to Functional or targeting cookies, the legal basis is your consent. 

5.3 Purposes of processing

We process and use the resulting data to improve the performance of our websites and our social media pages, to increase the usability of websites and for other optimisation purposes. 

The analysis necessary for marketing and optimisation purposes generally does not allow us to identify your personal information, except when you have given your consent. 

Cookies allow us, among other things, to tailor our websites and social media pages to your wishes, to establish connections between different visits to our websites and our social media pages or to keep your password in the browser so that you do not have to enter it again each time.

We also use cookies for advertising to target groups. We also allow data providers or other automatic data collection tools to use our cookies to help us deliver our own content and ads, as well as to measure the effectiveness of our advertising efforts. 

For strictly Technical cookies, the storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to allow the website to be made available to the user’s computer. To this end, the user’s IP address must be kept for the entire duration of the session. Retention in log files is used to ensure the functionality of the website. 

5.4 Storage and sharing of your data

Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browsing session, i.e. when your browser is closed (Session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit (Persistent cookies). The retention period is shown in the overview of the cookie configuration of your web browser and in the description below. In any case, cookies are deleted within a maximum period of two years from their installation on your browser. In the alternative, the general principles of retention described above apply. 

When you first log into our websites and social media pages, you will be expressly asked to accept the website cookies. Your consent is valid for a maximum period of 13 months. You can reconsider your decision to accept the deposit of cookies on your device at any time by changing the settings of your internet browser. 

If you do not want us to use cookies, you can configure your Internet browser to delete cookies from your hard drive, block all cookies or be notified before a cookie is stored, so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether you accept this cookie. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. However, we draw your attention to the fact that, in this case, the features of this website may not function properly or not be fully available or exploited.