Legal notice

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device as you are browsing. They are processed and stored by your web browser. In and of themselves, cookies are harmless and serve crucial functions for websites. Cookies can also generally be easily viewed and deleted.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

What type of cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary Cookies: These Cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these Cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These Cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Functional Cookies: These Cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these Cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Performance Cookies: These Cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these Cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these Cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Social media Cookies: These Cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these Cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

Use of social plugins

We also use certain social media plugins on our websites which place Social Media Cookies, for example, to enable you to “Like” something on Facebook, or play Instagram or YouTube videos directly on our websites.

Please note that some of these third-party services place Cookies that are also used for aspects such as behavioral advertising, analytics or market research, and that your data may be transferred to these third-party providers.

We would like to point out that by logging out of the relevant social networks beforehand and deleting cookies that have been set, you can prevent social networks from assigning the information collected about you during your visit to our website to your user account with the respective social network.

Please note that certain third parties, such as Facebook, may use another third party to track activity on our websites and offer targeted advertising on this basis.

  • Meta’s Data Policy: http://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
  • Google’s Data Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • Pinterest’s Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the toughest privacy and security law in the world. Though it was drafted and passed by the European Union (EU), it imposes obligations onto organizations anywhere, so long as they target or collect data related to people in the EU. The regulation was put into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR will levy harsh fines against those who violate its privacy and security standards, with penalties reaching into the tens of millions of euros.

GDPR.eu is provided to you as helpful resource to quickly find all 99 Articles and 173 Recitals of the Regulation, as well as helpful guides and checklists that walk you through how the Regulation may apply to you. Here you can find the official PDF of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) in the current version.