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.

Own cookies

We use our own necessary cookies in particular

• “silktideCookieBanner_InitialChoice” We use this cookie to stores the selection made on the cookie popup.
• “silktideCookieChoice_analytics” We use this cookie to stores the selection made concerning analytics on the cookie popup.
• "silktideCookieChoice_necessary" We use this cookie to stores the necessary attirbute of the cookie popup.
• "hcp_status" We use this cookie to stores the HCP confirmation status.

Analytical 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.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our website uses Google Analytics, which is offered to users from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, and to all other users by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (collectively “Google”).

Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze and improve our website based on your user behavior. Google will process the information obtained to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. The data collected in this context may be transferred by Google to a server in the USA for evaluation and stored there.

We have configured the following privacy settings for Google Analytics:

• IP anonymization (shortening the IP address before evaluation so that no conclusions can be drawn about your identity)
• Automatic deletion of old logs / Storage period limited to 26 months
• No personalized ads
• No Measurement Protocol
• Data sharing with other Google products and services is disabled.
• The following data is processed by Google Analytics:
  • Anonymized IP address;
  • Referrer URL (previously visited page);
  • Pages visited (date, time, URL, title, duration of visit);
  • Downloaded files;
  • Clicked links to other websites;
  • Technical information: Operating system; browser type, version and language; device type, brand, model and resolution;
  • Approximate location (country and, if applicable, city, based on an anonymized IP address).

Google Analytics sets the following cookies for the stated purpose with the respective storage duration:

• “_ga” for 2 years and “_gid” for 24 hours (both for identifying and differentiating website visitors through a user ID);
• “_gat” for 1 minute (to reduce requests to Google servers);

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google for the use of Google Analytics, as well as standard contractual clauses in the event that personal data is transferred to the USA or other third countries.

You can find more information about this in Google's privacy policy.