Cookies are small text files a server sends to the web browser of the visitor. Cookies are stored on your computer to optimize future visits of a particular website.
Cookies can be used for lots of different purposes.
This site uses cookies for different purposes. Some of them are language choice, security and user statistics. For the last one Google analytics is used. Permission is asked before this cookies are placed. Permission will be asked again every two weeks.
In case you didn't confirm your choice or you confirmed your choice longer than two weeks ago Google analytics will be blocked. If so a banner will appear at the top of the webpage asking you for permission to safe cookies for user statistics.
At any time you can change your choice to allow/deny cookies at the top of this page.
Other methods to discard are in your browser settings.
If you indicate in your browser settings to ask sites not to follow you. Google analytics will be blocked for this site, even if you grant permission for this website.
First of all, I want to explain the meaning of an IP address. An IP address is a combination of numbers that exist out of four or six blocks divorced by a dot (.). This is the identity of your computer on the web. By this, your computer nows with wich server it needs to connect and vice versa. In other words. without a IP address there is no internet.
Google analytics safes your IP address to make better statistics about your visit on this site. This will be blocked also if you don't grant permission to safe cookies for user statistics.
| type | description | removed |
| SESSION ID | Is used to start a browser session on the server. | closing browser |
| __utma, __utmb,..., __utmz | Is placed by google analytics . See below. | Browser session to for some longer than 5 years. |
| google analytics | google analytics safes cookies on your computer to optimize their service. Also it safes your IP address on their server. | see site of google analytics |
This description is here because European law obligates us to do this.