Cookie-Settings

What are Cookies?

Translated directly from English, „cookie“ means „biscuit“. Cookies are small text files or data packets that are created by browsers and websites. Almost all websites use cookies. These are designed to help companies recognize their users and make browsing a website easier, for example by ensuring that users do not have to re-enter their login credentials with each visit or by recognizing what the website visitor has already purchased.

Cookies can originate from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Consent Requirement

Not all cookies require consent in the form of user approval on a website.

According to TDDDG (formerly TTDSG), consent is not required if the service cannot otherwise be provided to the user. In other words: no consent is required for technically necessary cookies.

(Source: https://www.e-recht24.de/tracking-cookies/8451-hinweispflicht-fuer-cookies.html#toc_6-ben0etigen-alle-cookies-eine-einwilligung)

Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Information on managing cookies for the most common browsers can be found here:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
• Safari
• Opera
• Brave

WordPress Cookies

This website is operated using the CMS (Content Management System) WordPress. WordPress uses certain standard cookies (Source: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/wordpress/cookies/ ).

By default, WordPress primarily uses two types of cookies: session cookies, which are required for login and session management, and comment cookies, which store user data such as name and email address to avoid re-entering them. These cookies are considered functionally necessary and are essential for the smooth operation of a WordPress website, even though they may collect personal data.

User Cookies

Users are individuals who have registered an account with the WordPress site.

When logging in, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication credentials. Its use is restricted to the „administration screen“ area /wp-admin/.

After logging in, WordPress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie for most interface applications, which indicates when you are logged in and who you are.

WordPress also sets some wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number at the end is your individual user ID from the user database. This is used to customize your view of the admin interface and possibly also the main site interface.

Commenter Cookies

When visitors comment on the blog, cookies are also stored on their computers. This is purely for user convenience, so that visitors do not have to re-enter their data when leaving another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:

• comment_author_{HASH}
• comment_author_email_{HASH}
• comment_author_url_{HASH}

Commenter cookies expire slightly less than one year after they are set.

WordPress Test Cookie

WordPress sets a temporary cookie named
wordpress_test_cookie to test WordPress’s ability to set cookies. If setting this cookie fails, you will receive the error message „Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser.“

Language Cookie

WordPress allows you to change the language of all translatable strings at login. For this purpose, WordPress sets a cookie called wp_lang „session cookie“ that stores the language key of the selected language.

The wp_lang cookie, which is set together with the wordpress_test_cookie, is used to store the user’s language setting in WordPress and checks whether the browser accepts cookies. Since these cookies are technically necessary for the functioning of the website, no active consent is required under GDPR, but can be used on the basis of the legitimate interest of the website operator (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Information on cookies used can also be found in our Privacy Policy.