Data processing in connection with online services
Our online services use various methods to obtain information about you, your surfing patterns and your device. To do this we access your web browser memory and store "identifiers" (such as cookies) there. This allows us, for a specific length of time, to recognise you and your device. We differentiate between the following two processing purposes.
1. Integral to the use of our online services
What´s the point of this? These forms of data processing are integral to you being able to use our website.
Can you prevent this data processing? No. Without this data processing you will not be able to use our online services.
2. Web analysis
What´s the point of this? We use web analysis tools to collect statistical usage and user behaviour data in relation to our website so that we can optimise our online offerings: Which website has a person come from? Which sub-pages were visited? How often and for how long was the website visited? Where did the user click through to? How far down did the user scroll? How was the mouse moved?
Can you prevent this data processing? Yes, you can. You can prevent these sorts of analysis by changing your data protection settings.
Data processing in connection with online services
Our online services use various methods to obtain information about you, your surfing patterns and your device. To do this we access your web browser memory and store "identifiers" (such as cookies) there. This allows us, for a specific length of time, to recognise you and your device. We differentiate between the following two processing purposes.
1. Integral to the use of our online services
What´s the point of this? These forms of data processing are integral to you being able to use our website.
Can you prevent this data processing? No. Without this data processing you will not be able to use our online services.
2. Web analysis
What´s the point of this? We use web analysis tools to collect statistical usage and user behaviour data in relation to our website so that we can optimise our online offerings: Which website has a person come from? Which sub-pages were visited? How often and for how long was the website visited? Where did the user click through to? How far down did the user scroll? How was the mouse moved?
Can you prevent this data processing? Yes, you can. You can prevent these sorts of analysis by changing your data protection settings.
Services used by us
In order to perform the data processing described above, we use various service providers. You can read short descriptions of these services, and their processing purposes, here:
Consent Management Platform/"Cookie Banner" (integral)
We use "Commanders Act Consent Management Platform" to obtain, manage and document cookie consent. The operator of this platform is "Fjord Technologies" in France.
https://www.commandersact.com/de/loesungen/customer-data-platform/
Web analysis
Our web analysis providers:
- Adobe Systems Software Ireland (statistics)
You can opt out of your data being collected and stored by Adobe by deactivating the category "Web analysis" in your data protection settings.
Important: If you erase all cookies on your computer, you will also erase this opt-out cookie. If you still want to opt out of your data being collected by Adobe, you must reset the opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie is set per browser and computer.
Services used by us
In order to perform the data processing described above, we use various service providers. You can read short descriptions of these services, and their processing purposes, here:
Consent Management Platform/"Cookie Banner" (integral)
We use "Commanders Act Consent Management Platform" to obtain, manage and document cookie consent. The operator of this platform is "Fjord Technologies" in France.
https://www.commandersact.com/de/loesungen/customer-data-platform/
Web analysis
Our web analysis providers:
- Adobe Systems Software Ireland (statistics)
You can opt out of your data being collected and stored by Adobe by deactivating the category "Web analysis" in your data protection settings.
Important: If you erase all cookies on your computer, you will also erase this opt-out cookie. If you still want to opt out of your data being collected by Adobe, you must reset the opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie is set per browser and computer.
List of cookies
Essential
These cookies are essential and necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will then not work.
List of cookies
Essential
These cookies are essential and necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will then not work.
Cookie Name: JSESSIONID
Category: Essential
Storage period: Session (time range from opening to closing of the page)
Description of purpose: Prevention and defence against CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attacks on our domain.
Service provider: Erste Digital GmbH
Data sent to: Austria
Basis for transfer to third countries: not applicable
Cookie Name: TC_PRIVACY
Category: Essential
Storage period: 1 year (in order to have for returning visitors to the site their preferences remembered)
Description of purpose: Stores the visitor's consent information - acceptance or rejection of each cookie category with timestamp (date and time of accepting or recejting the cookie category).
Service provider: Fjord Technologies S.A.S.
Data sent to: France
Basis for transfer to third countries: not applicable
Cookie Name: TCPID
Category: Essential
Storage period: 1 year
Description of purpose: Stores a unique ID (unique identification number) of the visitor which is used for consent management metrics (e.g. acceptance of the cookies).
Service provider: Fjord Technologies S.A.S.
Data sent to: France
Basis for transfer to third countries: not applicable
Cookie Name: TC_PRIVACY_CENTER
Category: Essential
Storage period: 1 year
Description of purpose: Stores the visitor's consent information - acceptance or rejection of each cookie category. This cookie is used when the visitor re-opens the privacy settings.
Service provider: Fjord Technologies S.A.S.
Data sent to: France
Basis for transfer to third countries: not applicable
Adobe Systems Software Ireland
These cookies allow the pseudonymous analysis of the visitors of the website so we can measure and continously improve the performance of our site. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and cannot use this information for further improvements.
Cookie Name: s_ecid
Category: Web analysis
Storage period: 2 years
Description of purpose: Creates a unique ID assigned by vendor for the purpose of Web Analysis.
Cookie Name: s_cc
Category: Web analysis
Storage period: Session (time range from opening to closing of the page)
Description of purpose: This cookie determines if (and which categories of) cookies are enabled in the browser and is used to analyze site usage to measure and improve performance.
Cookie Name: s_sq
Category: Web analysis
Storage period: Session (time range from opening to closing of the page)
Description of purpose: This cookie stores information about the previous link that was clicked within the site by the visitor and is set to improve the website performance.
Cookie Name: s_vi
Category: Web analysis
Storage period: 2 years
Description of purpose: Creates a unique visitor ID assigned by vendor with a time stamp for the purpose of Web Analysis.
Cookie Name: s_fid
Category: Web analysis
Storage period: 2 years
Description of purpose: This cookie is assigned as a "fallback" visitor identifier when the s_vi Cookie cannot be set and is used to improve performance.