Cookie Policy
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit my website. These files contain information that allows me to recognize you when you visit again or to provide certain functions. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They help me to make my website more user-friendly and effective.
2. What types of cookies do I use?
Various types of cookies are used on my website:
Technically necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable certain functions on my website (e.g. to manage your cookie settings or for secure login).
Functional cookies: These cookies allow me to save your personal settings (e.g. language settings) and offer extended functions to improve your user experience.
Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies collect anonymised information about how visitors use my website (e.g. which pages are visited most often). This information helps me to improve the performance of my website.
3. Cookie consent and management
When you visit my website for the first time, you will see a cookie banner. Here you can agree to the use of cookies or customize them. You can change your cookie settings or deactivate cookies completely at any time.
If you do not wish to accept cookies, you can prevent their storage by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, this may result in limited functionality on my website.
4. Google Analytics and tracking cookies
My website uses Google Analytics to analyze and improve the use of my site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your usage behavior on my website and to evaluate it anonymously. The information generated by the cookie about your use of my website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
You can prevent the storage of these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser or using the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
5. Third-party cookies
My website may contain embedded content from third parties, such as videos from YouTube or social media plug-ins (e.g. from Instagram or LinkedIn). These third parties may also set cookies that I do not directly control. Please contact the respective third parties directly for information about their cookie and privacy policies.
6. Duration of storage
The cookies I use remain stored on your device until you delete them or they are automatically removed after a certain period of time. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you actively delete them.
7. Your Rights
You have the right to receive information about the data I have stored at any time. You can also object to the processing or request that the data be deleted. You can also reject cookies or delete cookies that have already been stored. You can do this either in your browser or using the corresponding functions on my website.
8. Changes to the Cookie Policy
I reserve the right to update this cookie policy to adapt it to legal requirements or changes in functionality on my website. You can always find the latest version here on my site.