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 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? In the business sector additionally: From which company is our site accessed?
Can you prevent this data processing? Yes, you can. You can prevent these sorts of analysis by changing your data protection settings.
Manage your cookie settings
If you would like to change your cookie settings you can do it here:
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 a self developed Consent Management platform to obtain, manage and document cookie consent.
Web analysis
Our web analysis provider:
- Adobe Systems Software Ireland
Data collection and storage by Adobe takes place if you consent to web analysis. You can subsequently deactivate your consent in your data protection settings.
List of cookies
Essential
Cookie Name: area ID
Category: Integral
Active for: 1 year
Information stored: Saves the ID of the content page for the internal search function.
Cookie Name: renderId
Category: Integral
Active for: Session
Information stored: Application load balancing
Cookie Name: GCMP
Category: Integral
Active for: 1 month
Information stored: Users selection for the privacy banner and categories
Cookie Name: GCMPID
Category: Integral
Active for: 1 month
Information stored: ID for the visitor
Adobe Systems Software Ireland
Cookie Name: s_ecid
Category: Web analysis
Active for: 2 years
Information stored: Contains a copy of the Experience Cloud ID (ECID) or MID. The MID is stored in a key-value pair that follows this syntax, s_ecid=MCMID
Cookie Name: s_cc
Category: Web analysis
Active for: Session
Information stored: This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (simply set to “True”)
Cookie Name: s_sq
Category: Web analysis
Active for: Session
Information stored: This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality or the Activity Map functionality are enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user
Cookie Name: s_vi
Category: Web analysis
Active for: 2 years
Information stored: Unique visitor ID time/date stamp
Cookie Name: s_fid
Category: Web analysis
Active for: 2 years
Information stored: Fallback unique visitor ID time/date stamp