Cookie policy
Here you can learn everything about the cookies used and how they are used.
Functional cookies
Some cookies – so-called function cookies – are essential for the functionality of our website. The processing of the function cookies is necessary to enable you to visit the website (cf. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO). The following function cookies are used on our website.| Cookie name | Category / Service | Description / Usage | Validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Necessary | Saves the current session related to PHP applications, ensuring that all features of this website based on the PHP programming language can be fully displayed. | Session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Necessary | Checks if the browser accepts cookies. | Session |
| wordpress_logged_in_{HASH} | Necessary | Cookie for logged in users to save the user session. | Session |
| wordpress_sec | Necessary | Cookie for logged in users to save the user session. | Session |
| wp-postpass_{HASH} | Necessary | Used to maintain the session when a post is password protected. | 10 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_cookies_allowed | Necessary | Saves whether additional cookies were accepted besides the necessary ones. | 180 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_allowed_services | Necessary | Saves which additional cookie services were accepted. | 180 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_cookies_declined | Necessary | Saves which additional cookie services were not accepted. | 180 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_terms_conditions_accepted | Necessary | Saves whether the terms and conditions were accepted. | 180 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_privacy_policy_accepted | Necessary | Saves whether the privacy policy has been accepted. | 180 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_first_time | Necessary | If the user does not make a decision but continues to navigate the site, all cookies are enabled and the cookie stores whether the current page matches the first page visited. | 180 days |
| wordpress_gdpr_first_time_url | Necessary | Saves, the URL of the first visit to the website. | 180 days |
| wfwaf-authcookie-{hash} | Notwendig | Dieses Cookie wird von der Wordfence-Firewall verwendet, um eine Überprüfung der Fähigkeiten des aktuellen Benutzers durchzuführen, bevor WordPress geladen wird. Diese Einstellung gilt nur für Benutzer, die sich bei WordPress anmelden können. | 12 Stunden |
| wf_loginalerted_{hash} | Notwendig | Dieses Cookie wird verwendet, um den Wordfence-Administrator zu benachrichtigen, wenn sich ein Administrator von einem neuen Gerät aus anmeldet. Dies gilt nur für Benutzer, die sich anmelden, und nur dann, wenn der Website-Administrator die Option “Ich werde nur benachrichtigt, wenn sich dieser Administrator von einem neuen Gerät aus anmeldet” oder eine ähnliche Option für Nicht-Administratoren aktiviert hat. Auf dieser Webseite ist diese Funktion in der Art und Weise aktiviert, dass das Cookie nur bei Anmeldung eines Administrators gesetzt wird. | 1 Jahr |
| wfCBLBypass | Notwendig | Wordfence bietet eine Funktion, mit der ein Website-Besucher die Ländersperre umgehen kann, indem er eine versteckte URL aufruft. Mit diesem Cookie lässt sich verfolgen, wer die Ländersperre umgehen darf. Wenn eine vom Webseiten-Administrator definierte versteckte URL besucht wird, wird dieses Cookie gesetzt, um zu überprüfen, ob der Benutzer von einem Land aus auf die Webseite zugreifen kann, das durch die Ländersperre eingeschränkt ist. Dieses Cookie wird für jeden gesetzt, der die URL kennt, die eine Umgehung der Standard-Ländersperre ermöglicht. Dieses Cookie wird nicht für Personen gesetzt, die die versteckte URL zur Umgehung der Ländersperre nicht kennen. Auf dieser Webseite ist die Funktion der Ländersperre nicht aktiviert, sodass dieses Cookie nicht gesetzt wird. | 1 Jahr |
| ga-disable-{ID} | Necessary | Saves whether the collection of Google Analytics data has been disabled. | 10 years |
| wp-wpml_current_language | Necessary | Used to maintain the user\'s chosen language for navigating the website. | 24 hours |
| _icl_current_language | Necessary | Used to maintain the user\'s chosen language for navigating the website. | 24 hours |
| _icl_visitor_lang_js | Necessary | Used to preserve the user\'s chosen language for navigating the website. | 24 hours |
| wpml_browser_redirect_test | Necessary | Checks if the browser accepts cookies. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
Analytical cookies
Analytics or statistics cookies collect information about visitors\' behavior on our website. This information helps us understand how our visitors use and navigate our website. The following analytics/statistics cookies are used on our website.| Cookie name | Category / Service | Description / Usage | Validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics 4 | Contains a randomly generated user ID. This ID allows Google Analytics to recognize returning users to this site and merge data from previous visits. | 2 years |
| _ga_{ID} | Google Analytics 4 | Contains a randomly generated user ID. This ID allows Google Analytics to recognize returning users to this site and merge data from previous visits. | 2 years |
| IDE | Google Analytics 4 | Contains a randomly generated user ID. Using this ID, Google can recognize the user across different websites across domains and serve personalized ads. | 1 year |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | Hotjar | Hotjar cookie set when a visitor interacts with a survey invitation modal via an external link. It is used to ensure that the same invitation is not displayed again if it has already been displayed. | 1 year |
| _hjDonePolls | Hotjar | Hotjar cookie set once a visitor completes a survey via the on-site survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey is not displayed again if it has already been completed. | 1 year |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | Hotjar | Hotjar cookie set when a visitor minimizes an on-site survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget remains minimized as the visitor navigates through your site. | 1 year |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | Hotjar | Hotjar cookie that is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Inbound Feedback. This is done so that Incoming Feedback is immediately loaded as minimized when the visitor navigates to another page where it is set to display. | 1 year |
| _hjid | Hotjar | Hotjar cookie set when the client first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to store the Hotjar user ID, unique to that page, in the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same page can be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 year |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | Hotjar | This should reside in session memory (as opposed to cookies). This is updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent over the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records). | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| _hjTLDTest | Hotjar | When the Hotjar script is run, we try to determine the most general cookie path that we should use instead of the hostname of the page. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (if applicable). To determine this, we attempt to save the _hjTLDTest cookie for various URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this test, the cookie is removed. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | Hotjar | User attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. | Deletes automatically with browser exit |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | Hotjar | This cookie stores user attributes sent via the Hotjar Identify API when the user is not in the sample. These attributes are only stored when the user interacts with a Hotjar feedback tool. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | Hotjar | This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar tracking script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but will be deleted almost immediately after it is created. | < 100ms |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar | This cookie is set to tell Hotjar whether this visitor is included in the data sample defined by your site’s pageview limit. | 30 minutes |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar | This cookie is set to tell Hotjar whether this visitor is included in the data sample defined by your site’s daily session limit. | 30 minutes |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a true/false flag set by the cookie. | 30 minutes |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar | This is set to identify the first session of a new user. It stores a true/false value indicating whether this is the first time Hotjar has seen this user. It is used by record filters to identify new user sessions. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| hjViewportId | Hotjar | This stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions. | Deletes automatically with browser exit |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | Hotjar | Added when a recording is started and read when the recording module is initialized to determine if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. | Deletes automatically with browser exit |
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used by third parties or publishers to display personalized advertising on our website or, for example, to track the behavior of website visitors who have accessed it via an advertising link/ad. They do this by tracking visitors across different websites (e.g. via cookies). After the visitor has consented to the use of the corresponding service, the following marketing cookies are used.| cookie name | category / service | description / use | validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | Google Ads | Set as a test to check if the browser allows cookies to be set. Does not contain any identifiers. | 15 minutes |
| IDE | Google Ads | Contains a randomly generated user ID. Using this ID, Google can recognize the user across different websites across domains and serve personalized ads. | 1 year |
| DSID | Google Ads | Used to link user activity across devices if they have previously logged into their Google account on another device. This is used to coordinate ads served to the user on different devices and measure conversion events. | 2 years |
| AID | Google Ads | Used to link user activity on different devices if they have previously logged into their Google account on another device. This is used to coordinate ads served to the user on different devices and measure conversion events. | 2 years |
| TAID | Google Ads | Used to link user activity on different devices if they have previously logged into their Google account on another device. This is used to coordinate ads served to the user on different devices and measure conversion events. | 2 years |
YouTube cookies
YouTube content is embedded at various points on our website. These videos are loaded and played only after explicit consent of the user by click. Before that, no connection to the YouTube servers is established and neither a data exchange nor the setting of cookies takes place. If the user agrees to play the embedded video and thereby accepts the linked Google terms of use (YouTube is a video service of Google), the following cookies may be used.| Cookie name | Category / Service | Description / Usage | Validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | Tries to estimate user bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos | 8 months |
| GPS | YouTube | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographic GPS location. | Deletes automatically when browser is closed |
| PREF | YouTube | Registers a unique ID used by Google to keep statistics on how the visitor uses YouTube videos on different websites. | 8 months |
| YSC | YouTube | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of videos from YouTube that the user has watched. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube | Saves user preferences when retrieving a YouTube video embedded on other websites. | 1 tag |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube | Saves the user settings when retrieving a Youtube video integrated on other websites. | 1 year |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | YouTube | Saves the user settings when retrieving a Youtube video integrated on other web pages. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| yt-remote-session-app | YouTube | Saves user settings when retrieving a Youtube video integrated on other web pages. | Deletes automatically with browser exit |
| yt-remote-session-name | YouTube | Saves user settings when retrieving a Youtube video integrated on other web pages. | Deletes automatically with browser exit |
| CONSENT | YouTube | This cookie is used to support Google’s advertising services. | 20 years |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | YouTube | Used by for targeting purposes to profile site visitor interests and display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 2 years |
| SIDCC | YouTube | Security cookie to protect user data from unauthorized access. | 1 year |
| __Secure-APISID | YouTube | Used for targeting purposes to profile site visitors’ interests in order to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 3 months |
| SAPISID | YouTube | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of site visitors’ interests in order to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID | YouTube | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of site visitors’ interests in order to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 2 years |
| APISID | YouTube | Used for targeting purposes to profile site visitors’ interests in order to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 2 years |
| HSID | YouTube | Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and last login time that enable Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. This may also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content. | 2 years |
| SID | YouTube | Google uses cookies such as the NID and SID cookies to customize advertising in Google products such as Google Search. Using such cookies, Google records, for example, your most recent search queries, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. In this way, Google can display customized advertisements on Google. Other Google products such as YouTube or Doubleclick also use these cookies to select more relevant ads. | 2 years |
| __Secure-SSID | YouTube | Used to store information about how you use the site and what advertisements you may have seen before visiting this site. Also used to customize advertising on Google websites by tracking your recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads, or your search results and visits to an advertiser’s website. | 3 months |
| SSID | YouTube | Used to store information about how you use the site and what ads you saw before visiting this site, and to customize advertising on Google resources by remembering your recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. | 2 years |
| __Secure-HSID | YouTube | Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and last login time that allow Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user information from unauthorized parties. This may also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content. | 3 months |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | YouTube | Used by Google for targeting purposes to profile site visitor interests and display relevant and personalized Google advertising. | 1 year |
| s_gl | YouTube | This cookie contains information about how the end user uses the website, as well as advertisements the end user may have seen before visiting this website. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| LOGIN_INFO | YouTube | YouTube is a video sharing and publishing platform owned by Google. YouTube collects user data about videos embedded in websites, which is merged with profile data from other Google services. This allows targeted advertising to be displayed to website visitors across a wide range of its own and third-party websites. | 2 years |
Unclassified cookies
In addition to the cookies mentioned above, other cookies are used on our website that cannot be classified more precisely. In order to display maps from the Google Maps service on our website and to protect our contact forms from bot attacks, the following cookies are used.| Cookie name | Category / Service | Description / Usage | Validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| NID | Google Maps | This cookie is used by Google in the context of using Google Maps. The NID cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to store your preferred settings and other information. | 6 months |
| 1P_JAR | Google Maps | This cookie is used to support Google’s advertising services. | 1 month |
| CONSENT | Google Maps | Contains information about how the end user uses the website and what advertisements the end user may have seen before visiting this website. | 20 years |
| DV | Google Maps | Used to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google Maps on them. | Deletes automatically when the browser is closed |
| CGIC | Google Maps | Used to store user preferences and information when pages with Google Maps are displayed on them. | 6 months |
| __Secure-3PSID | Google Maps | Used for targeting purposes to profile the interests of website visitors in order to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 2 years |
| SID | Google Maps | Google uses cookies such as the NID and SID cookies to customize advertising in Google products such as Google Search. Using such cookies, Google records, for example, your most recent search queries, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. In this way, Google can display customized advertisements on Google. Other Google products such as YouTube or Doubleclick also use these cookies to select more relevant ads. | 2 years |
| SIDCC | Google Maps | Security cookie to protect user data from unauthorized access. | 1 year |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Google Maps | Used by for targeting purposes to profile site visitor interests and display relevant and personalized Google advertising. | 1 year |
| __Secure-APISID | Google Maps | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the site visitor’s interests to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 3 months |
| __Secure-SSID | Google Maps | Used to store information about how you use the website and what advertisements you may have seen before visiting this website. Also used to customize advertising on Google websites by tracking your recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads, or your search results and visits to an advertiser’s website. | 3 months |
| HSID | Google Maps | Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and last login time that enable Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. This may also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content. | 2 years |
| APISID | Google Maps | Used for targeting purposes to profile site visitors’ interests in order to display relevant and personalized Google advertising. | 2 years |
| __Secure-HSID | Google Maps | Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and last login time that enable Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. This may also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content. | 3 months |
| SSID | Google Maps | Used to store information about how you use the site and what advertisements you saw before visiting this site, and to customize advertising on Google resources by remembering your recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s site. | 2 years |
| SAPISID | Google Maps | Used for targeting purposes to profile the interests of website visitors in order to display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 2 years |
| ANID | Google Maps | ANID means “anonymous ID”. This cookie is used for advertising on google.com. Data is collected anonymously and automatically. Collected data includes browser type, referring/exit page, content viewed on website, operating system, clickstream data to analyze trends and optimization services. | 9 months |
| OTZ | Google Maps | Used to store user preferences and information when pages with Google Maps are displayed on them. | 2 weeks |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Google Maps | SameSite prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is to reduce the risk of information leakage between origins. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. | 6 months |
| SNID | Google Maps | Installed by the Google Maps module, which is used to insert maps into the page. | 6 months |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Google Maps | Used by Google for targeting purposes to profile the site visitor’s interests and display relevant and personalized Google ads. | 1 year |
| OGPC | Google Maps | Google uses this cookie on pages for Google Translate or Google Maps activities. | 2 months |
Deactivate cookies
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find this for each browser at the following links:
Alternatively, you can find out more about setting cookies and make settings for this at the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info.
