This Cookie Policy was last updated on June 24, 2025, and applies to citizens and permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://christian-hardinghaus.de (hereinafter: “The Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies (for simplicity, all of these are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are Cookies?
A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages from an Internet address and can be stored by the web browser on your PC or other device. The information stored within may be returned to our servers or to the servers of relevant third parties during subsequent visits.
3. What are Scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our servers or on your device.
4. What is a Web Beacon?
A web beacon (also called a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on the website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or Functional Cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website, or your items remain in your shopping cart until you pay, for example. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Analytical Cookies
We use analytical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies, we get insights into the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.
5.3 Advertising Cookies
On this website, we use advertising cookies to gain insights into campaign results. This is based on a profile we create based on your behavior on https://christian-hardinghaus.de. With these cookies, you as a website visitor are linked to a unique ID. However, these cookies do not create a profile of your behavior and interests to serve personalized ads.
5.4 Marketing/Tracking Cookies
Marketing/tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. As these are marked as tracking cookies, we need your consent to place these.
5.5 Social Media
We have embedded content from Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn on our website to promote web pages (e.g., “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g., “tweet”) on social networks like Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. This content is embedded with code that comes from Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn are located in the United States.
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