Cookies are small, erasable text files stored on the User’s computer, and they permit personalisation of the content provided on our website. They are downloaded by the User’s browser during his or her first visit to our website. When our website is accessed again using the same terminal, device or browser, the cookie and the information stored in it will either be sent back to the website that generated it (first party cookie) or sent to another website to which it belongs (third party cookie). This is how the cookie detects that the browser in question was used to access the website and through this status it changes the way in which content is displayed. Cookies “remember”, for example, the preferences of Users, and they indicate how a User uses a page, and partially tailor the displayed content to the User’s individual preferences.

For purposes of performing transmission of messages and providing the services requested by the User, we use the cookies referenced below. Our data processing activities carried out through the use of cookies are based on our legitimate interests in providing a fully functional website and the services requested by Users, as well as our legitimate interest in constantly improving the content of our website and adapting it to the need of Users (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, sec. 165 (3) Austrian Telecommunications Act [TKG]).

For purposes of improving our services and our website, to increase user-friendliness, to personalise our services for Users of the website by temporary storage of search parameters and for online marketing purposes, we use the cookies listed below. The data processing activities carried out through the use of the cookies are based on the explicit consent of Users (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, sec. 165 (3) TKG).

Website visitors under the age of 14 are requested to obtain the consent of a parent or a guardian before sending us data via our website. Without such consent, they are not permitted to provide any data. However, if we receive data from persons under the age of 14, we will stop processing such data as soon as we become aware of it.

The user can block or restrict cookies that are not necessary for the website to function by changing their cookie settings here.

The website uses Matomo, a web analysis service provided by InnoCraft Limited (“Matomo”).

Matomo uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed (see the previous section).

The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website is transmitted to a server of SPAR Business Services GmbH. The settings ensure that the IP address is anonymized before geolocalization and replaced by a generic IP address before storage.

Matomo will use this information on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Matomo is anonymized and not merged with other data of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of the website to their full extent.

You can also (de)activate Matomo by using the “Marketing cookies” or “Statistics cookies” sliders.