What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer device when you visit the site.
First party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you do not have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on sites. It is important that the data is transferred only in relation to the relevant website / domain, it does not make the visitor’s other browsing habits and history known.
With your first visit this website, it is obligatory to accept the cookies we used.
How do we use cookies?
This website only use session cookies.
Session cookies are temporary cookies that are only stored on a user’s device for the duration of their stay on a given website, their session. The minute they click away, these cookies expire. These are typically used for functions like keeping the items in your shopping cart, while you click around on a website’s subpages.
How can you manage cookies:?
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in). It is important to emphasize that the protection of personal data can be increased by restricting or deleting cookies, however, these operations significantly affect the usability of the website and the operation of certain functions.
Third party web analytics services
We may use third party web analytics services on our websites, such as Google Analytics. The service providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to help us analyse how visitors use the site. The information collected through these means (including IP address) is disclosed to these service providers, who use the information to evaluate use of the website. To disable the Google Analytics cookie and any other third party web analytics service provider cookies, some browsers indicate when a cookie is being sent and allow you to decline cookies on a case-by-case basis.
Privacy information
The privacy information about the cookies used is summarized in the following table:
| Name of the cookie | Expiry | Data stored | Purpose |
| _ga | 2 years | Short randomly generated ID | Google Analytics: distinguishes between users |
| _gat | 1 day | Number | Google Analytics: used to throttle request rate |
| _gid | 1 day | Short randomly generated ID | Google Analytics: distinguishes between users |
| cc_cookie | 6 months | Selected cookie categories | The cookie is used to record the validity of consents to the use of cookies. |
