Cookie policy

With this coo­kie poli­cy, we would like to explain what coo­kies and coo­kie-like tech­no­lo­gies are, how we and other ser­vice pro­vi­der use them on this web­site, what infor­ma­ti­on they coll­ect, for how long and for what pur­po­ses we use them.

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Addition to the privacy policy

This coo­kie poli­cy is a sup­ple­ment to this web­site’s pri­va­cy poli­cy. The coo­kie poli­cy spe­ci­fies how a web­site uses coo­kies and what data it coll­ects through them, while the pri­va­cy poli­cy is a more com­pre­hen­si­ve over­view of all data pro­ces­sing acti­vi­ties on the web­site and bey­ond.

Coo­kies are small pie­ces of infor­ma­ti­on simi­lar to text files that can be stored and read on the end device. They ser­ve various pur­po­ses, inclu­ding main­tai­ning basic func­tion­a­li­ties of the web­site, secu­ri­ty and pri­va­cy, pro­vi­ding optio­nal func­tions of the web­site, coll­ec­ting sta­tis­tic data on visi­tor flows and pro­vi­ding mar­ke­ting sys­tems. Prac­ti­cal examp­les of what can be stored in coo­kies are the sto­rage of log­in sta­tus in user accounts, the con­tent of shop­ping bas­kets in e‑commerce plat­forms, or a user ID for track­ing beha­vi­or on the web­site.

The infor­ma­ti­on can tech­ni­cal­ly be stored in various ways. The best-known examp­les of this are HTTP coo­kies and coo­kie-like tech­no­lo­gies like local sto­rage, ses­si­on sto­rage or Inde­xedDB. Each type of sto­rage has dif­fe­rent pro­per­ties, which deter­mi­ne the tech­ni­cal hand­ling, acces­si­bi­li­ty and con­trol­lers aut­ho­ri­zed to access the infor­ma­ti­on. All the­se types of sto­rage are usual­ly sum­ma­ri­zed under the term „coo­kies” and are the­r­e­fo­re cal­led as such in this coo­kie poli­cy.

The set­ting and rea­ding of coo­kies in the Euro­pean Uni­on (EU) and the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area (EEA) is in accordance with Art. 5 (3) ePri­va­cy Direc­ti­ve and Reci­tal 66 ePri­va­cy Direc­ti­ve only per­mit­ted if a user has given his con­sent on the basis of com­pre­hen­si­ve infor­ma­ti­on about the pur­po­ses of the pro­ces­sing. The web­site ope­ra­tor may also set coo­kies if they are strict­ly neces­sa­ry to pro­vi­de you as a user with the express­ly reques­ted ser­vice, e.g. the basic con­tent of this web­site or other strict­ly neces­sa­ry coo­kies for basic func­tion­a­li­ty of the web­site to be dis­play­ed to you wit­hout your con­sent.

What rights does the website visitor have?

Ser­vices and their coo­kies can be set and read on the legal basis of your con­sent or a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest. When you first visi­ted this web­site, you were asked for your con­sent and you had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to object to the use of cer­tain ser­vices. We explai­ned which legal basis is used for which ser­vice in our con­sent dia­log.

You have the right to view the histo­ry of your decis­i­ons, chan­ge your pri­va­cy set­tings, object to the use of ser­vices and revo­ke your con­sent at any time. Below you find pos­si­bi­li­ties to exer­cise your rights:

How to manage cookies in a browser?

  • How to remo­ve coo­kies in a brow­ser: To remo­ve coo­kies from your device, you can clear the brow­sing data in the set­tings of your brow­ser. This action will remo­ve all coo­kies from all web­sites you’­ve visi­ted, poten­ti­al­ly inclu­ding saved log­in details and site pre­fe­ren­ces. In some brow­sers, you can just dele­te the coo­kies and simi­lar data wit­hout dele­ting the who­le brow­sing histo­ry.
  • How to con­trol coo­kies in a brow­ser: For more gra­nu­lar con­trol over coo­kies spe­ci­fic to cer­tain web­sites, navi­ga­te to the pri­va­cy and coo­kie set­tings within your used brow­ser. Here, you can adjust pre­fe­ren­ces rela­ted to indi­vi­du­al sites’ coo­kie usa­ge.
  • How to block coo­kies in a brow­ser: It’s pos­si­ble to con­fi­gu­re most modern brow­sers in their set­tings to block all coo­kies from being pla­ced on your device. But blo­cking coo­kies could lead to cer­tain ser­vices and func­tion­a­li­ties not func­tio­ning cor­rect­ly, e.g. log­ins as a user. You can also use exten­si­ons for many brow­sers which can block the set­ting of coo­kies on web­sites.
  • How to mana­ge coo­kies on this web­site: To tail­or your pre­fe­ren­ces regar­ding coo­kies on this web­site, you can chan­ge your pre­fe­ren­ces at any time by cli­cking on the link in the sec­tion „Rights of the web­site visi­tor”.

You can find more infor­ma­ti­on on the hand­ling of coo­kies devowl.io/rcb/cookie-handling/.

What types of cookies exist?

  • Essen­ti­al coo­kies are indis­pensable for the basic func­tion­a­li­ty of a web­site and enable func­tions such as saving log­in infor­ma­ti­on or access to secu­re are­as of the site. The­se include, for exam­p­le, secu­ri­ty coo­kies, which can iden­ti­fy a bot that is not wan­ted on the web­site by sto­ring an authen­ti­ca­ti­on key in a coo­kie.
  • Func­tion­al coo­kies impro­ve the user expe­ri­ence by sto­ring infor­ma­ti­on and pre­fe­ren­ces such as lan­guage set­tings or appearance set­tings of the web­site to pro­vi­de per­so­na­li­zed. This includes, for exam­p­le, pre­fe­rence coo­kies that store the user’s pre­fer­red video qua­li­ty on a web­site.
  • Sta­tis­tics coo­kies coll­ect data about the use of a web­site to gain insights into user beha­vi­or and opti­mi­ze the per­for­mance of the site. This includes, for exam­p­le, a ran­dom­ly assi­gned user ID that makes it pos­si­ble to attri­bu­te whe­ther you have visi­ted a sub­page of the web­site.
  • Mar­ke­ting coo­kies are used to track user beha­vi­or across dif­fe­rent web­sites and to dis­play per­so­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing based on the inte­rests and sur­fing beha­vi­or of users. This includes, for exam­p­le, adver­ti­sing coo­kies that store an inter­ac­tion with an adver­ti­se­ment on the web­site and pass it on to adver­ti­sers or a chat sys­tem for pre-sale ques­ti­ons and cus­to­mer sup­port.

Who can set cookies on this website?

On this web­site, both the ope­ra­tor of the web­site and third-par­ty ser­vices which are used on this web­site may set coo­kies and access its con­tent. Who can access which coo­kies and their con­tent dif­fers bet­ween first-par­ty and third-par­ty coo­kies. First-par­ty coo­kies are crea­ted by the visi­ted web­site and can only be read by the web­site ope­ra­tor and inte­gra­ted third-par­ty ser­vices on this web­site. Third-par­ty coo­kies are set by usual­ly third-par­ty ser­vices on other domains, can be read on all web­sites on which the ser­vice that con­trols the domain is embedded and, for exam­p­le, used by adver­ti­sing net­works to track user beha­vi­or across dif­fe­rent web­sites and offer per­so­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing.

Which cookies are used on this website?

The coo­kie poli­cy was last updated on 01.06.2025.