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Google Privacy Policy

In collaboration with the data protection experts at AdSimple

1. Google Maps Privacy Policy

We use Google Maps from Google Inc. on our website. For the European Economic Area, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Maps allows us to show you locations more effectively and thus better tailor our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transferred to Google and stored on Google's servers. Here, we would like to explain in more detail what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored, and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Maps?

Google Maps is an online mapping service from Google. With Google Maps, you can search for the exact locations of cities, landmarks, accommodations, or businesses online using a PC, tablet, or app. If businesses are listed on Google My Business, additional information about the company is displayed alongside the location. To show directions, map snippets of a location can be embedded into a website using HTML code. Google Maps displays the Earth's surface as a road map or as aerial/satellite imagery. Thanks to Street View and high-quality satellite imagery, very detailed representations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

All our efforts on this page aim to provide you with a useful and meaningful experience on our website. By integrating Google Maps, we can provide you with essential information about our various locations. You can see at a glance where our company headquarters are located. The directions always show you the best and fastest way to reach us. You can access directions for routes by car, public transport, on foot, or by bicycle. For us, providing Google Maps is part of our customer service.

What data does Google Maps store?

In order for Google Maps to fully offer its service, the company needs to collect and store your data. This includes, among other things, the search terms you enter, your IP address, and your latitude and longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the starting address you enter will also be saved. This data storage, however, takes place on Google Maps' websites. We can only inform you about this, but we have no control over it. Because we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google places at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behavior. Google primarily uses this data to optimize its own services and to provide you with personalized advertising.

The following cookie will be set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps:

Name: NID
Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ311246121-5
Purpose: NID is used by Google to personalize ads based on your Google searches. This cookie helps Google "remember" your most frequent search queries or your previous interactions with ads, ensuring you always receive tailored advertising. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal preferences for advertising purposes.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Note: We cannot guarantee the completeness of the stored data. Changes are always possible, especially when using cookies. To identify the NID cookie, a separate test page was created that only included Google Maps.

How long and where will the data be stored?

Google's servers are located in data centers around the world. However, most servers are in the United States. Therefore, your data is also primarily stored in the USA. You can find detailed information about the locations of Google's data centers here: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Google distributes the data across various storage devices. This makes the data faster to access and better protected against potential manipulation attempts. Each data center also has specific emergency programs. For example, if there are problems with Google hardware or a natural disaster cripples the servers, the data remains quite secure.

Google stores some data for a set period. For other data, Google only offers the option to delete it manually. Furthermore, the company also anonymizes information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 or 18 months.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

With the automatic deletion feature for location and activity data introduced in 2019, information about your location and web/app activity is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your choice, and then deleted. You can also manually delete this data from your history at any time via your Google account. If you want to completely prevent location tracking, you need to pause the "Web & App Activity" section in your Google account. Click on "Data & Personalization" and then on the "Activity controls" option. Here you can turn activity tracking on or off.

In your browser, you can also disable, delete, or manage individual cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this process varies slightly. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Clear cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies

Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies

If you generally do not want to allow cookies, you can configure your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This allows you to decide whether to allow each individual cookie or not.

Google actively participates in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. If you would like to learn more about Google's data processing practices, we recommend reviewing the company's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

2. Google Fonts Privacy Policy

We use Google Fonts on our website. These are the “Google fonts” from Google Inc. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services.

You don't need to register or provide a password to use Google Fonts. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google account, you don't need to worry about your Google account data being transmitted to Google while using Google Fonts. Google collects data on the usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used, and stores this data securely. We will examine the specifics of this data storage in more detail later.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google provides to its users free of charge.

Many of these fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, while others are released under the Apache License. Both are free software licenses.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

With Google Fonts, we can use fonts on our own website without having to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component for maintaining the high quality of our website. All Google fonts are automatically optimized for the web, which saves data volume and is a major advantage, especially for use with mobile devices. When you visit our site, the small file size ensures fast loading times. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different rendering systems in various browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices can lead to errors. Such errors can sometimes distort text or even entire web pages. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all common browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). We use Google Fonts so that we can present our entire online service as beautifully and consistently as possible.

What data does Google store?

When you visit our website, the fonts are loaded from a Google server. This external request transmits data to Google's servers. This allows Google to recognize that you, or rather your IP address, are visiting our website. The Google Fonts API was developed to minimize the use, storage, and collection of end-user data to only what is necessary for the proper delivery of fonts. API stands for "Application Programming Interface" and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software field.

Google Fonts securely stores CSS and font requests with Google, thus protecting them. The collected usage statistics allow Google to determine the popularity of individual fonts. Google publishes these results on internal analytics pages, such as Google Analytics. Additionally, Google uses data from its own web crawler to identify which websites use Google Fonts. This data is published in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. Businesses and developers utilize the Google web service BigQuery to analyze and manipulate large datasets.

It should be noted, however, that every Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution, and browser name to Google servers. Whether this data is also stored is unclear and not explicitly communicated by Google.

How long and where will the data be stored?

Google stores requests for CSS assets on its servers, which are primarily located outside the EU, for one day. This allows us to use the fonts with a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a formatting template that allows you to easily and quickly change, for example, the design or font of a website.

The font files are stored at Google for one year. Google's goal is to improve website loading times in general. When millions of websites reference the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and appear instantly on all subsequent visits. Google sometimes updates font files to reduce file size, increase language coverage, and improve design.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The data that Google stores for a day or a year cannot be easily deleted. This data is automatically transmitted to Google when you visit our website. To delete this data prematurely, you must contact Google Support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=311246121 . In this case, you can only prevent data storage by not visiting our website.

Unlike other web fonts, Google Fonts grants us unrestricted access to all its fonts. This means we can access a vast array of fonts and choose the perfect one for our website. You can find more information about Google Fonts and answers to frequently asked questions at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=311246121. While Google addresses data privacy issues there, truly detailed information about data storage is not included. Obtaining precise information from Google about the data they store is relatively difficult.

You can also read about what data Google collects and what this data is used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .

3. Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy

Our website uses Google Fonts from Google Inc. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible. We have integrated the Google fonts locally, i.e., on our web server – not on Google's servers. Therefore, there is no connection to Google servers and consequently no data transfer or storage.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts, formerly known as Google Web Fonts, is an interactive directory of over 800 fonts by Google . Google Fonts allows users to utilize fonts without uploading them to their own servers. However, to prevent any data transfer to Google servers, we have downloaded the fonts to our own server. This ensures our compliance with data protection regulations and prevents us from sending any data to Google Fonts.

Unlike other web fonts, Google Fonts grants us unrestricted access to all its fonts. This means we can access a vast array of fonts and choose the perfect one for our website. You can find more information about Google Fonts and answers to frequently asked questions at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=311246121.

4. Google Analytics Privacy Policy

We use the Google Analytics (GA) tracking tool from the American company Google Inc. on our website. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Analytics collects data about your actions on our website. For example, if you click on a link, this action is stored in a cookie and sent to Google Analytics. The reports we receive from Google Analytics help us to better tailor our website and services to your needs. Below, we explain the tracking tool in more detail, focusing on what data is stored and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a tracking tool used to analyze website traffic. For Google Analytics to function, a tracking code is embedded in our website's code. When you visit our website, this code records various actions you perform. Once you leave our website, this data is sent to and stored on Google Analytics servers.

Google processes the data and we receive reports about your user behavior. These may include, among other things, the following reports:

Why do we use Google Analytics on our website?

Our goal with this website is clear: We want to offer you the best possible service. The statistics and data from Google Analytics help us achieve this goal.

The statistically analyzed data gives us a clear picture of our website's strengths and weaknesses. On the one hand, we can optimize our site so that it's easier for interested people to find it on Google. On the other hand, the data helps us understand you, our visitors, better. We therefore know exactly what we need to improve on our website to offer you the best possible service. The data also helps us to make our advertising and marketing efforts more targeted and cost-effective. After all, it only makes sense to show our products and services to people who are interested in them.

What data does Google Analytics store?

Google Analytics uses a tracking code to create a random, unique ID that is linked to your browser cookie. This allows Google Analytics to recognize you as a new user. The next time you visit our site, you will be recognized as a returning user. All collected data is stored along with this user ID. This is what makes it possible to analyze pseudonymous user profiles.

Your interactions on our website are measured using identifiers such as cookies and app instance IDs. Interactions are all types of actions you perform on our website. If you also use other Google systems (such as a Google account), data generated via Google Analytics may be linked to third-party cookies. Google does not share Google Analytics data unless we, as the website operator, authorize it. Exceptions may occur if required by law.

The following cookies are used by Google Analytics:

Name: _ga
Value: 2.1326744211.152311246121-5
Purpose: By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. It is primarily used to distinguish website visitors.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _gid
Value: 2.1687193234.152311246121-1
Purpose: This cookie is also used to distinguish website visitors.
Expiry date: after 24 hours

Name: _gat_gtag_UA_
Value: 1
Purpose: Used to reduce the request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie is named _dc_gtm_.
Expiry date: after 1 minute

Name: AMP_TOKEN
Value: Not specified
Purpose: This cookie contains a token used to retrieve a user ID from the AMP Client ID service. Other possible values ​​indicate a logout, a request, or an error.
Expiration date: After 30 seconds up to one year

Name: __utma
Value: 1564498958.1564498958.1564498958.1
Purpose: This cookie allows us to track your behavior on the website and measure performance. The cookie is updated every time information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: __utmt
Value: 1
Purpose: The cookie is used like _gat_gtag_UA_
Expiry date: after 10 minutes

Name: __utmb
Value: 3.10.1564498958
Purpose: This cookie is used to determine new sessions. It is updated each time new data or information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes

Name: __utmc
Value: 167421564
Purpose: This cookie is used to establish new sessions for returning visitors. It is a session cookie and is only stored until you close your browser.
Expiry date: After closing the browser

Name: __utmz
Value: m|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/
Purpose: This cookie is used to identify the source of visitor traffic to our website. In other words, the cookie stores where you came from. This could have been another website or an advertisement.
Expiry date: after 6 months

Name: __utmv
Value: Not specified
Purpose: This cookie is used to store user-defined data. It is updated whenever information is sent to Google Analytics.
Expiration date: After 2 years

Note: This list is not exhaustive, as Google constantly changes its choice of cookies.

Here we show you an overview of the most important data collected with Google Analytics:

Heatmaps: Google creates so-called heatmaps. These heatmaps show exactly which areas you click on. This gives us information about where you are on our website.

Session duration: Google defines session duration as the time you spend on our site without leaving the page. If you are inactive for 20 minutes, the session ends automatically.

rate : A bounce occurs when you view only one page on our website and then leave our website.

Account creation: When you create an account or place an order on our website, Google Analytics collects this data.

IP address: The IP address is only displayed in abbreviated form so that no unique identification is possible.

Location: Your country and approximate location can be determined via your IP address. This process is also known as IP geolocation.

Technical information: This includes, among other things, your browser type, your internet service provider, and your screen resolution.

Source of origin: Google Analytics, or rather, we are of course also interested in which website or advertisement you came to our site via.

Other data collected includes contact information, any ratings, media playback (e.g., when you play a video on our site), sharing content via social media, or adding items to your favorites. This list is not exhaustive and serves only as a general guide to data storage by Google Analytics.

How long and where will the data be stored?

Google has distributed its servers all over the world. Most of these servers are located in America, and consequently, your data is mostly stored on American servers. You can find detailed information about the locations of Google's data centers here: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Your data is distributed across various physical storage devices. This has the advantage of faster data retrieval and better protection against manipulation. Each Google data center has corresponding emergency backup programs for your data. Even if, for example, Google's hardware fails or natural disasters disable servers, the risk of a service interruption at Google remains low.

By default, Google Analytics sets a retention period of 26 months for your user data. After this period, your user data is deleted. However, we have the option to choose the retention period for user data ourselves. We have five options available for this:

Once the specified period has expired, the data is deleted once a month. This retention period applies to your data that is linked to cookies, user recognition, and advertising IDs (e.g., cookies from the DoubleClick domain). Report results are based on aggregated data and are stored separately from user data. Aggregated data is a combination of individual data points into a larger unit.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Under European Union data protection law, you have the right to access, update, delete, or restrict the processing of your data. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data by using the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js). You can download and install the browser add-on from https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de . Please note that this add-on only deactivates data collection by Google Analytics.

If you generally want to disable, delete or manage cookies (regardless of Google Analytics), there are separate instructions for each browser:

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Clear cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies

Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies

Google Analytics actively participates in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=311246121. We hope we have provided you with the most important information regarding data processing by Google Analytics. If you would like to learn more about the tracking service, we recommend these two links: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

5. Google Analytics IP anonymization

We have implemented IP address anonymization for Google Analytics on this website. This feature was developed by Google to ensure that this website complies with applicable data protection regulations and the recommendations of local data protection authorities, particularly where the storage of complete IP addresses is prohibited. The anonymization or masking of the IP address takes place as soon as the IP addresses arrive in the Google Analytics data collection network and before any data is stored or processed.

More information about IP anonymization can be found at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=de.

6. Google Tag Manager Privacy Policy

We use Google Tag Manager from Google Inc. on our website. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. This Tag Manager is one of many helpful marketing products from Google. Through Google Tag Manager, we can centrally integrate and manage code snippets from various tracking tools that we use on our website.

In this privacy policy, we want to explain in more detail what the Google Tag Manager does, why we use it, and in what form data is processed.

What is the Google Tag Manager?

The Google Tag Manager is an organizational tool that allows us to centrally integrate and manage website tags via a single user interface. Tags are small snippets of code that, for example, record (track) your activity on our website. This is achieved by inserting JavaScript code snippets into our website's source code. These tags often originate from Google products like Google Ads or Google Analytics, but tags from other companies can also be integrated and managed through the manager. Such tags perform various functions. They can collect browser data, feed data into marketing tools, integrate buttons, set cookies, and even track users across multiple websites.

Why do we use Google Tag Manager for our website?

As they say, organization is half the battle! And that certainly applies to maintaining our website. To make our website as user-friendly as possible for you and everyone interested in our products and services, we need various tracking tools, such as Google Analytics. The data collected by these tools shows us what interests you most, where we can improve our services, and which people we should show our offers to. For this tracking to work, we need to integrate the corresponding JavaScript code into our website. We could, in principle, insert each code snippet for the individual tracking tools separately into our source code. However, this is quite time-consuming, and it's easy to lose track. That's why we use Google Tag Manager. We can easily integrate the necessary scripts and manage them from one central location. Furthermore, Google Tag Manager offers an easy-to-use interface, and no programming knowledge is required. This allows us to keep our tag jungle organized.

What data is stored by Google Tag Manager?

The Tag Manager itself is a domain that does not set cookies or store any data. It merely acts as a "manager" of the implemented tags. The data is collected by the individual tags of the various web analytics tools. The data is essentially routed through the Google Tag Manager to the individual tracking tools and is not stored there.

However, the situation is quite different with the embedded tags of various web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics. Depending on the analytics tool, various data about your web behavior are usually collected, stored, and processed using cookies. Please read our privacy policies for the individual analytics and tracking tools we use on our website.

In the Tag Manager account settings, we have allowed Google to receive anonymized data from us. This only pertains to the use of our Tag Manager and not to your data stored via the code snippets. We are allowing Google and others to receive selected data in anonymized form. We therefore consent to the anonymous sharing of our website data. Despite extensive research, we have not been able to determine exactly which aggregated and anonymized data is shared. In any case, Google deletes all information that could identify our website. Google aggregates this data with hundreds of other anonymous website data points and creates user trends as part of benchmarking. Benchmarking involves comparing your own results with those of your competitors. Processes can be optimized based on the collected information.

How long and where will the data be stored?

When Google stores data, this data is stored on Google's own servers. These servers are distributed around the world, with most located in the United States. You can find detailed information about the locations of Google's servers at https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

For information on how long the individual tracking tools store your data, please refer to our individual privacy policies for each tool.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The Google Tag Manager itself does not set cookies, but manages tags from various tracking websites. In our privacy policies for the individual tracking tools, you will find detailed information on how to delete or manage your data.

Google actively participates in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=311246121. If you would like to learn more about Google Tag Manager, we recommend the FAQs at https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html.

7. Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy

Our top priority is to ensure the best possible security and protection for our website, both for you and for us. To guarantee this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. For the European Economic Area, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. reCAPTCHA allows us to determine whether you are a real person and not a robot or other spam software. By spam, we mean any unsolicited information sent electronically. With traditional CAPTCHAs, you usually had to solve text or image puzzles for verification. With Google's reCAPTCHA, we usually don't need to bother you with such puzzles. In most cases, simply checking a box to confirm that you are not a bot is sufficient. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version, you don't even need to check a box. You can learn more about how this works and, above all, what data is used for this purpose later in this privacy policy.

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service from Google that protects websites from spam software and misuse by non-human visitors. It's most commonly used when filling out online forms. A CAPTCHA service is a type of automated Turing test designed to ensure that an action on the internet is performed by a human and not a bot. In the classic Turing test (named after the computer scientist Alan Turing), a human determines the difference between a bot and a human. With CAPTCHAs, this task is performed by a computer or software program. Classic CAPTCHAs use small tasks that are easy for humans to solve but pose significant challenges for machines. With reCAPTCHA, you no longer need to actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk assessment techniques to distinguish humans from bots. All you have to do is check the "I'm not a robot" box, or with Invisible reCAPTCHA, even that isn't necessary. With reCAPTCHA, a JavaScript element is embedded in the source code, and the tool then runs in the background, analyzing your user behavior. From these user actions, the software calculates a so-called CAPTCHA score. Using this score, Google calculates the probability that you are a human even before you enter the CAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA, or CAPTCHAs in general, are always used when bots could manipulate or abuse certain actions (such as registrations, surveys, etc.).

Why do we use reCAPTCHA on our website?

We only want to welcome real people to our site. Bots and spam software of any kind are not welcome. That's why we're doing everything we can to protect ourselves and offer you the best possible user experience. For this reason, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google. This allows us to be fairly certain that we remain a "bot-free" website. By using reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine whether you are indeed a human. reCAPTCHA thus serves the security of our website and, consequently, your security as well. For example, without reCAPTCHA, a bot could register as many email addresses as possible during the registration process in order to subsequently spam forums or blogs with unwanted advertising. With reCAPTCHA, we can prevent such bot attacks.

What data does reCAPTCHA store?

reCAPTCHA collects personal data from users to determine whether actions on our website are actually performed by humans. This means that the IP address and other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service may be sent to Google. Within the member states of the EU or other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, IP addresses are almost always shortened before the data is transferred to a server in the USA. The IP address is not combined with other Google data unless you are logged into your Google account while using reCAPTCHA. First, the reCAPTCHA algorithm checks whether Google cookies from other Google services (YouTube, Gmail, etc.) are already placed on your browser. Then, reCAPTCHA places an additional cookie in your browser and takes a snapshot of your browser window.

The following list of collected browser and user data is not exhaustive. Rather, it represents examples of data that, to our knowledge, is processed by Google.

It is undisputed that Google uses and analyzes this data even before you click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox. With the Invisible reCAPTCHA version, the checkbox is even omitted, and the entire recognition process runs in the background. Google does not provide detailed information on exactly how much and what kind of data it stores.

The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: This refers to the reCAPTCHA demo version from Google at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo. All these cookies require a unique identifier for tracking purposes. Here is a list of cookies that Google reCAPTCHA set in the demo version:

Name: IDE
Value: WqTUmlnmv_qXyi_DGNPLESKnRNrpgXoy1K-pAZtAkMbHI-311246121-8
Purpose: This cookie is set by DoubleClick (also owned by Google) to register and report a user's actions on the website in relation to advertisements. This allows advertising effectiveness to be measured and corresponding optimization measures to be taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: 1P_JAR
Value: 2019-5-14-12
Purpose: This cookie collects website usage statistics and measures conversions. A conversion occurs, for example, when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant advertisements to users. Furthermore, the cookie prevents a user from seeing the same ad more than once.
Expiry date: after one month

Name: ANID
Value: U7j1v3dZa3112461210xgZFmiqWppRWKOr
Purpose: We couldn't find much information about this cookie. Google's privacy policy mentions it in connection with "advertising cookies" such as "DSID", "FLC", "AID", and "TAID". ANID is stored under the domain google.com.
Expiry date: after 9 months

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0
Purpose: This cookie stores a user's consent status for using various Google services. CONSENT also serves a security purpose, verifying users, preventing login credential fraud, and protecting user data from unauthorized access.
Expiration date: after 19 years

Name: NID
Value: 0WmuWqy311246121zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q
Purpose: NID is used by Google to personalize ads based on your Google searches. This cookie helps Google "remember" your most frequent search queries or previous interactions with ads, ensuring you always receive tailored advertising. The cookie contains a unique ID to collect user preferences for advertising purposes.
Expiration date: after 6 months

Name: DV
Value: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc311246121-4
Purpose: This cookie is set once you have checked the "I'm not a robot" box. The cookie is used by Google Analytics for personalized advertising. DV collects information in anonymized form and is also used to distinguish users.
Expiry date: after 10 minutes

Note: This list is not exhaustive, as Google is known to frequently change its choice of cookies.

How long and where will the data be stored?

By integrating reCAPTCHA, your data is transferred to Google servers. Google does not clearly state where exactly this data is stored, even after repeated inquiries. Without confirmation from Google, it can be assumed that data such as mouse interactions, time spent on the website, and language settings are stored on Google's European or American servers. The IP address that your browser transmits to Google is generally not combined with other Google data from other Google services. However, if you are logged into your Google account while using the reCAPTCHA plugin, the data will be combined. In this case, Google's separate privacy policy applies.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you do not want any data about you and your behavior to be transmitted to Google, you must completely log out of your Google account and delete all Google cookies before visiting our website or using the reCAPTCHA software. Data is automatically transmitted to Google as soon as you access our site. To delete this data, you must contact Google Support at  https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=311246121 .

Therefore, by using our website, you agree that Google LLC and its representatives may automatically collect, process and use data.

You can learn more about reCAPTCHA on Google's web developer page at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/. While Google provides some details on the technical development of reCAPTCHA there, you won't find specific information about data storage and privacy-related issues. A good overview of how Google generally uses data can be found in their privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

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