Cookie information
Please note the following information: You can make sure yourself that no cookies are stored on your computer at all, or that storage is only permitted for certain cookies. You can select this in your Internet browser settings. You can also view and delete the stored cookies there.
If you block all cookies, it is possible that not all functions of our website will be available to you.
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are text files that are sent to your browser by our web server when you visit our website and are stored on your computer for later retrieval. A cookie can therefore identify your internet browser when you visit the website again. There are session cookies, i.e. those that are deleted when you close your browser, and there are persistent cookies that are stored on your hard drive until their pre-set expiry date is reached or until they are actively removed by you.
1. Own cookies (first-party)
We use our own cookies to ensure the functionality of our website. Some elements of our website require that your internet browser is recognized after a page change.
In the overview you can see for which purposes your data is collected and for how long it is stored:
Name, purpose, and storage period of the cookie:
Borlabs Cookie, stores the cookie selection, duration: 1 year
For the processing of personal data in cookies that we set on our website to ensure the functionality of our website and our offer, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO, if personal data is contained in the cookies.
Possibility of objection and removal
As stated in the introduction to this section, you can enable or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your Internet browser. You can delete cookies that have already been saved by your Internet browser at any time. If cookies for our website are restricted or deactivated, it is possible that not all functionalities can be used.
2. Foreign cookies (third-party-cookies)
We use cookies from so-called “third party providers” on our website. This means that when you visit our website, data is transferred from your web browser to the web server of the third party and stored there. The processing procedure that is triggered on our website is therefore a transmission. We do not receive your personal data.
Google Analytics
The analysis service Google Analytics of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter: “Google Analytics“) is implemented on our website.
Google Analytics sets cookies that store the following information:
- Type of the Internet browser used
- Internet browser version
- The operating system you use
- Referrer (previously visited website)
- Your shortened IP address
- Time of the server request
Name, purpose, and storage duration of the cookie
_ga; serves to distinguish users to generate statistical data on the use of the website; duration: 2 years
Name, purpose, and storage period of the cookie:
_gat, limits the request rate for Google Analytics; duration: until the end of the browser session
Name, purpose, and storage period of the cookie:
_gid, used to distinguish users to generate statistical data on the use of the website; duration: 24 hours
We use a function of Google Analytics with which your IP address is anonymised before being saved or processed. Your IP address is usually shortened within the European Union/EEA and only then transmitted to Google servers in the USA, for example. Your information is processed pseudonymously, and we will not merge it with other personal data about you.
The tool only shows us statistics, which we can use to optimize our website and offers.
Before we set the cookies, we obtain your consent for this (Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO).
You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your (anonymised) IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB)
You will find the Google privacy policy under the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.
Google is certified under the Privacy Shield, so when you submit personal information to Google (and its subsidiary YouTube), we provide appropriate safeguards to protect your privacy. For more information, please visit:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI and
https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=en-GB&gl=de.
3. Status and topicality of this cookie information
Status: May 2020