Cookies Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device via your browser, e.g. to recognise whether you repeatedly visit websites from the same device or browser. In general, we use cookies to analyse interest in our website, as well as to improve the user-friendliness of our website. In principle, however, you can also visit our website without cookies.

Cookies can usually be deactivated or removed with the help of tools that are available in most commercial browsers. The settings must be defined separately and individually for each browser you use. Different browsers offer different functions and options for this purpose.

In order to be able to use our website fully and comfortably, you should accept those cookies that enable the use of certain functions or make the use more comfortable. You can see the purpose for which the cookies we use are used and for how long they are stored under the following overview: 

Cookie list 

This site itself only uses technically necessary cookies. 

Name: PHP_SESSIONID 

Function: This absolutely necessary cookie stores the session state. 
Category: Session cookie 
Validity: Until the end of the session 
Activation: with page call 

Name: AspNet.ApplicationCookie 

Function: Cookie for cookie authentication 
Category: Session cookie 
Validity: Until the end of the session 
Activation: with page call 

Name: ASP.NET_SessionId 

Function: Session-Cookie for the language display of the page 
Category: Session-Cookie 
Validity: until the end of the browser session 
Activation: with page call 

For additional services such as YouTube videos, Vimeo, Spotify or Google Maps, the visitor is informed before the services are loaded and must explicitly agree to this. If desired, the user can save this decision in a cookie.

Name: YouTubeVideosEnabled 

Function: Storage of consent to play Youtube videos. 
Category: Protocol cookie
Validity: 2 years
Activation: explicitly by the user 

Name: GoogleMapsEnabled

Cookie types

To help you understand the most common types of cookies a little better, we have explained them below:

1. Session cookies: 

Session cookies allow users and the changes they make within a website to be recognised. They allow the website to track their movements across individual pages so that information that has already been entered/saved does not have to be entered/saved again. An example of this is shopping baskets in web shops. The session cookie stores the selected products in the shopping basket so that it contains the correct items when payment is made at the checkout. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or lose their validity once the session has automatically expired. 

2. Permanente oder Protokoll-Cookies: 

A permanent or protocol cookie saves the user's information and settings on the user's computer for the period of time specified in the expiry date. This results in faster and more convenient access, as you do not have to re-enter language settings, for example, or login data. The cookie is automatically deleted at the end of the storage period. 

3. Third-party cookies: 

Third-party cookies generally have no influence on the use of the site, as they do not originate from the website operator. They serve the purpose, for example, of collecting information for advertising, customised content and web statistics and passing this on to the respective third-party provider. This type of cookie is only used on this website after consent by the user, for example when YouTube videos are requested.

4. Tracking cookies: 

Tracking cookies are special text files that open up the possibility of collecting data about the behaviour of the internet user. This is intended to obtain information about the user's main interests in order, for example, to be able to launch tailored advertising offers. Tracking cookies are therefore not only set during registration, but automatically when the website is visited. This type of cookie is only used on this website with the user's consent, for example when YouTube videos are requested. The site itself does not set any tracking cookies.