Cookie policy

With this cookie policy, we would like to explain what cookies and cookie-like tech­no­lo­gies are, how we and other service provi­der use them on this website, what infor­ma­tion they coll­ect, for how long and for what purpo­ses we use them.

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Addition to the privacy policy

This cookie policy is a supple­ment to this website’s privacy policy. The cookie policy speci­fies how a website uses cookies and what data it coll­ects through them, while the privacy policy is a more compre­hen­sive over­view of all data proces­sing acti­vi­ties on the website and beyond.

Cookies are small pieces of infor­ma­tion simi­lar to text files that can be stored and read on the end device. They serve various purpo­ses, inclu­ding main­tai­ning basic func­tion­a­li­ties of the website, secu­rity and privacy, provi­ding optio­nal func­tions of the website, coll­ec­ting statis­tic data on visi­tor flows and provi­ding marke­ting systems. Practical examp­les of what can be stored in cookies are the storage of login status in user accounts, the content of shop­ping baskets in e‑commerce plat­forms, or a user ID for track­ing beha­vior on the website.

The infor­ma­tion can tech­ni­cally be stored in various ways. The best-known examp­les of this are HTTP cookies and cookie-like tech­no­lo­gies like local storage, session storage or IndexedDB. Each type of storage has diffe­rent proper­ties, which deter­mine the tech­ni­cal hand­ling, acces­si­bi­lity and control­lers autho­ri­zed to access the infor­ma­tion. All these types of storage are usually summa­ri­zed under the term „cookies“ and are ther­e­fore called as such in this cookie policy.

The setting and reading of cookies in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) is in accordance with Art. 5 (3) ePrivacy Directive and Recital 66 ePrivacy Directive only permit­ted if a user has given his consent on the basis of compre­hen­sive infor­ma­tion about the purpo­ses of the proces­sing. The website opera­tor may also set cookies if they are strictly neces­sary to provide you as a user with the expressly reques­ted service, e.g. the basic content of this website or other strictly neces­sary cookies for basic func­tion­a­lity of the website to be displayed to you without your consent.

What rights does the website visitor have?

Services and their cookies can be set and read on the legal basis of your consent or a legi­ti­mate inte­rest. When you first visi­ted this website, you were asked for your consent and you had the oppor­tu­nity to object to the use of certain services. We explai­ned which legal basis is used for which service in our consent dialog.

You have the right to view the history of your decis­i­ons, change your privacy settings, object to the use of services and revoke your consent at any time. Below you find possi­bi­li­ties to exer­cise your rights:

How to manage cookies in a browser?

  • How to remove cookies in a brow­ser: To remove cookies from your device, you can clear the brow­sing data in the settings of your brow­ser. This action will remove all cookies from all websites you’ve visi­ted, poten­ti­ally inclu­ding saved login details and site prefe­ren­ces. In some brow­sers, you can just delete the cookies and simi­lar data without dele­ting the whole brow­sing history.
  • How to control cookies in a brow­ser: For more granu­lar control over cookies speci­fic to certain websites, navi­gate to the privacy and cookie settings within your used brow­ser. Here, you can adjust prefe­ren­ces rela­ted to indi­vi­dual sites‘ cookie usage.
  • How to block cookies in a brow­ser: It’s possi­ble to confi­gure most modern brow­sers in their settings to block all cookies from being placed on your device. But blocking cookies could lead to certain services and func­tion­a­li­ties not func­tio­ning correctly, e.g. logins as a user. You can also use exten­si­ons for many brow­sers which can block the setting of cookies on websites.
  • How to manage cookies on this website: To tailor your prefe­ren­ces regar­ding cookies on this website, you can change your prefe­ren­ces at any time by clicking on the link in the section „Rights of the website visi­tor“.

You can find more infor­ma­tion on the hand­ling of cookies devowl.io/rcb/cookie-handling/.

What types of cookies exist?

  • Essential cookies are indis­pensable for the basic func­tion­a­lity of a website and enable func­tions such as saving login infor­ma­tion or access to secure areas of the site. These include, for exam­ple, secu­rity cookies, which can iden­tify a bot that is not wanted on the website by storing an authen­ti­ca­tion key in a cookie.
  • Functional cookies improve the user expe­ri­ence by storing infor­ma­tion and prefe­ren­ces such as language settings or appearance settings of the website to provide perso­na­li­zed. This includes, for exam­ple, prefe­rence cookies that store the user’s prefer­red video quality on a website.
  • Statistics cookies coll­ect data about the use of a website to gain insights into user beha­vior and opti­mize the perfor­mance of the site. This includes, for exam­ple, a randomly assi­gned user ID that makes it possi­ble to attri­bute whether you have visi­ted a subpage of the website.
  • Marketing cookies are used to track user beha­vior across diffe­rent websites and to display perso­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing based on the inte­rests and surfing beha­vior of users. This includes, for exam­ple, adver­ti­sing cookies that store an inter­ac­tion with an adver­ti­se­ment on the website and pass it on to adver­ti­sers or a chat system for pre-sale ques­ti­ons and custo­mer support.

Who can set cookies on this website?

On this website, both the opera­tor of the website and third-party services which are used on this website may set cookies and access its content. Who can access which cookies and their content differs between first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are crea­ted by the visi­ted website and can only be read by the website opera­tor and inte­gra­ted third-party services on this website. Third-party cookies are set by usually third-party services on other domains, can be read on all websites on which the service that controls the domain is embedded and, for exam­ple, used by adver­ti­sing networks to track user beha­vior across diffe­rent websites and offer perso­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing.

Which cookies are used on this website?

The cookie policy was last updated on 18. January 2025.