1. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

2. How and why we use 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.

3. The cookies we use

We use the following cookies on this site:

• Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytics cookies. These 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.
• Marketing cookies. Marketing cookies make it possible to show you more relevant social media content and advertisements on our website and other platforms.
• Personalization 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).

4. Individual cookies

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

5. Managing cookies / preferences

Please note that the above third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies or targeting cookies:

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the preference centre to manage the use of these types of cookies Cookie Settings.

You can block 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 website.

Cookies will be deleted automatically once they have reached their expiration date.

6. Legal Notice update

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and new additional information.