Information about our use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By clicking the ‘I’m Ok with this’ button and continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. If you no longer consent to us using non-essential cookies click here to find out how to manage/turn off your cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer.
Our legal grounds for using cookies:
Some cookies Essential Cookies we have to use in order to provide the site and the services we offer. These cookies are used on the basis that their use is in our legitimate interest bearing in mind your own interests. We do not need your consent to use these cookies although you can object to their use, HERE our site will not work if you do.
Other Cookies such as functionality cookies are used to remember information you give us such as your name. The cookies are retained on the basis that they are necessary for the purpose of us entering into an agreement with you. We will delete the cookies when it is no longer necessary for us to keep them. This is usually done after two years. We do not need your consent to use these cookies although you can object to their use HERE.
Other cookies such as targeting cookies and analytical and performance cookies are used for analytical and marketing purposes. These cookies are used with our consent. If you no longer consent to us using these cookies you can withdraw your consent using your browser settings.
If you agree to us using cookies they will contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use cookies for the following reasons:
Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties, such as Google, for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
|
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Analytical |
_ga |
Generates data in relation to visitors to the web site |
2 Years |
|
Analytical |
_gat |
Used by Google analytics to throttle request rate |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Analytical |
_gid |
Generates data in relation to visitors to the web site |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Marketing |
Collect |
Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Marketing |
NID |
Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads through Google. |
6 Months |
|
Vimeo |
vuid |
Vimeo-generated ID used for generating analytics information for the video owner. |
2 years |
|
Vimeo |
player |
Stores preferences for player controls (i.e. volume, stream quality, captions). |
1 year |
|
Vimeo |
flags |
Specifies feature flags enabled by the video owner. |
1 year |
|
Vimeo |
[clip_id]_password |
Stores an encoded password entered to authenticate a password-protected clip. |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Vimeo |
[webinar_uuid]_webinar_registrant |
Stores the ID of a user who has registered for a webinar. |
7 days |
|
Vimeo |
lc_[hash] |
Stores the ID of a user who has submitted information through a video registration form. |
7 days |
|
Vimeo |
player_clearance |
Vimeo cookie used for bot prevention |
7 days |
|
Vimeo |
_cf_bm |
Cloudflare bot manager, manages incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. |
30 minutes |
|
Vimeo |
_cfuvid |
Cloudflare cookie used to enforce rate limiting rules. |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Vimeo |
cf_clearance |
Cloudflare cookie used for bot prevention. |
1 year |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, your IP address is shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thus anonymized. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent cookies from being saved by setting your browser software accordingly, or by rejecting them or using a privacy plug-in. In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link ( http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de ).
Further information on data protection at Google Analytics can be found at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/
How to Control Cookies
You can block non essential cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
What happens if I say ‘no’ to allowing non essential cookies in my browser?
The website will still work and you will be able to get the information you need from the site but some functions may not work or work as well as they would with cookies.
What is the impact for us ?
We use Analytical Cookies to count the number of people who use the site and to analyse how they use it. We do this to make sure that our sites are as good as they can be and this is the primary evidence we use when trying to improve what we offer to users.
If you decline cookies then your site usage won’t be counted and measured in this way so we won’t be able to take your actions into account when analyse data and seeking to improve our service based on that analysis.
For further details, see aboutcookies.org