Cookies and tracking technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by EDSX GmbH and our partners, including marketing partners affiliates, or analytics service providers and business process service providers.

Cookies can be stored for varying lengths of time on your browser or device. There are different types of cookies. An important classification of cookies (especially when it comes to consent) are the Essential and Non-Essential cookies

• Essential cookies: used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested. without these cookies, the interaction of your device with our Website could not take place. These cookies do not require approval.
• Performance cookies (Non-Essential). The placement of which on your device is possible only with the prior consent from you. You may express your consent by pressing the button “Accept” in the emergent cookie bar at the top/bottom of the web page of the Website. Our performance cookies collect anonymous information about how you use this website and its features. For instance, our performance cookies collect information about which pages on this website you visit most often, if you open or read the communications we send, which advertisements you view or interact with on this website or other websites on which our advertisements appear, and if you receive any error messages.
• Functional Cookies (Non-Essential): enable a website to store information already entered (such as username, language or current location) and offer the user improved, more personalized features. For example, a website can offer your local, price-relevant tax information if it uses a cookie to remember the region in which you are currently located. Functional cookies are also used to enable features you request such as playing videos. These cookies collect anonymous information and cannot track your movements on other websites.
• Marketing Cookies (Non-Essential): Are used to deliver adverts and other communications more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They remember whether you have visited a website or not, and this information can be shared with other organizations such as advertisers Cookies for improving group targeting and advertising will often be linked to site functionality provided by other organizations.
• Other tracking technology (Non-Essential): Some sites use things like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs to understand how people are using them and to target advertising to them. They usually take the form of a small, transparent image that is embedded in a web page or email. They work with cookies and capture data like your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, what device you were using and where you were. You can find out how to avoid them in section 4 of this cookie policy.

These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering Our Site, tracking users’ movements around Our Site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. We use cookies for to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customize Our Site according to your individual interests; to speed up your searches, and to recognize you when you return to Our Site. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use Our Site, but your ability to use some features or areas of Our Site may be limited. We partner with third-party ad networks to either display advertising on Our Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect non-personal data about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.

Additionally, we use an ad-publishing service to display 3rd party ads on Our Site. When you view or click on an ad a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other Web sites. You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting the above tracking preference managers. Local Storage Objects (Flash/HTML5): Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on Our Site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 or Flash to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. To manage Flash LSOs please click here.

Disabling/enabling cookies web beacons and other tracking technologies via your browser

You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete all cookies and many websites will not work properly or you will lose some functionality. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website for these reasons.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies from any website by modifying the settings in your browser. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, you can do this through your browser settings For information about how to manage and disable cookies you can use the ‘Help’ function within your browser or please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies that we collect on our website. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change default settings (On-off button). However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.

For directly disable the types of cookies and avoid web beacons and other tracking technology you can render them ineffective by switching off cookies in your browser.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

If you use a web browser that is not listed above, please refer to the documentation or online guide of your browser for further information.