Cookies

What Are Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a particular website.

Cookies allow the website to remember your actions and settings over a certain period. Each time a user opens a page, the web server can read the values it previously saved in cookies.

There are various types of cookies, usually categorized by their duration, domain, and purpose:

  • Temporary (session) cookies are deleted after the user closes their browser. Persistent cookies remain stored on the user’s device for a specified period.

  • First-party cookies are set by the domain server of the website visited. Third-party cookies are set by a domain different from the one the user visited.

  • By purpose, cookies can be necessary if they support essential technical features of the website, functional for improving the user experience, analytical for analyzing site usage, and marketing for tracking individual user interests.

Which Cookies We Use and For What Purposes

On our website, we use necessary cookies to enable certain technical features and thus provide you with a positive user experience. We also use analytical cookies that allow us to perform web analytics, i.e., analyze the usage of our pages to improve the quality and content of the services offered.

We do not use cookies or similar technologies to track your interests or send marketing materials.

List of Cookies:

Webshop Cookies (Persistent Cookies of Our Store)
These cookies enable basic technical features of our pages, ensuring you a positive user experience.

Features include navigation, a list of recently viewed products, remembering products added to the cart, selected branches, and similar. Depending on which features you use, cookies are stored for periods ranging from one day to two years.

Google Analytics Cookies (Persistent Cookies)
To improve the quality and content of our pages, we use Google Analytics cloud software to analyze the traffic and usage of our website.

From data collected via analytical cookies, we create statistical reports about traffic sources (e.g., search engines used, browser versions, device types, screen resolutions, etc.) and page visits and product interest (e.g., total page views, average time spent, number of items added to cart, number of purchases, etc.).

Cookies are persistent (from one day to two years) and set from our domain, collect data in anonymized form, and are not used to identify individual users. Google does not use or link them with data on users’ activities on other websites.

Google Maps (Persistent Cookies)
To provide our users with a better experience and more information, on the individual store page we use an embedded Google Maps element.

On these pages, Google stores and uses cookies to remember user settings (e.g., language) and track activity. More information can be found on Google’s pages.

How You Can Manage Cookies

You can delete cookies and manage general cookie storage settings in your web browsers. Here are links to instructions for popular browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari.

If you want to manage cookies specifically on our website, you can disable analytical cookies, and if you do not want to accept third-party cookies set on some of our pages, you can use alternative options.

Deleting and Managing in Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to completely block cookies or block third-party cookies. If you block all cookies in your browser, many websites you visit may not function properly, including ours. Blocking third-party cookies increases protection against online tracking but may limit access to and quality of external content; however, this will not affect our website.

Store Location Overview (Google Maps) and .google.com Domain Cookies
To provide our users with a better experience and more information, on the individual store page we use an embedded Google Maps element. On these pages, Google uses cookies; more information is available on Google pages (Google Privacy Policy and Google Technologies).

External Links
By using external links on our website, e.g., social networks or YouTube, you will be redirected to external domains that may use cookies, over which we have no control. We do not receive data collected by cookies or similar technologies on those domains from their owners or administrators.

For more information about cookies used and management options, please check the cookie statements and policies on the visited domains.