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The cookies serve to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change. In particular, information on language settings or log-in information may be stored in these cookies.
In addition, we also use cookies on our website that enable an analysis of your visit to our website. In particular, these cookies may store information on search terms entered, frequency of page views or the use of website functions. These cookies allow us to track how often and in what way the website and its functions are used. They thus serve to improve the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular the content and functions. This enables us to continuously optimize our offer. The data collected in this way is pseudonymized by technical precautions. Therefore, an assignment of the data to your person is not possible. The data is not stored together with other personal data concerning you.
Our legitimate interest in data processing lies in the aforementioned purposes. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
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