What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Integration of Video Content
For this purpose, we use the external provider VIMEO. External providers are so-called third party providers. To use the respective service, it is technically necessary to call up the server of the respective provider. To find out more about the associated use of your browser or terminal data, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective third party provider listed below.
Vimeo
(see also https://vimeo.com/privacy)
Our website uses plugins by the video portal Vimeo of Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. Every time that a page offering one or more Vimeo video clips is accessed, a direct connection is established between your browser and a Vimeo server in the United States. As part of the process, information regarding your visit and your IP address is stored there. Interacting with the Vimeo plugins (e.g. clicking the start button) causes this information to also be transmitted to Vimeo and stored there.
If you have a Vimeo user account and do not wish Vimeo to collect data on you via this website and associate it with your m