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G+D Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy complements the Giesecke+Devrient, Prinzregentenstr. 161, 81677 Munich, Germany (“G+D”) Privacy Policy for the websites located at www.gi-de.com (“Website”). Your privacy and the protection of your personal data are of utmost importance to G+D. Therefore, this Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and other related technologies on our Website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites save onto your computer via your web browser. Cookies cannot execute programs or place viruses on your computer. Cookies may serve different purposes: Some cookies are required to remember your preferences when using our Website and last only for the duration of your session on our Website and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies gather information that help us to customize our Website to your preferences and make it more interesting to you.

Which cookies are used?

G+D uses “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. A “session cookie” is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes his browser, while a “persistent cookie” is a cookie that remains stored in the user’s terminal device until it reaches a defined expiration date.

The cookies used on our Website are named

DisplayDivasCookiesBanner: This cookie is set to "yes" once the user has acknowledged the "Cookie-Notice".

Hubspot:
_hssc: This cookie is used to keep track of sessions. It is used to determine if the session number and timestamps should be incremented in _hstc cookie. Values contained: the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), session start timestamp.
_hssrc: This cookie helps to identify new user sessions. It is set to 1 once a user session is started. If the cookie is not set, it is assumed, that this is a new session.
_hstc: This is the main cookie to track visitors. Values contained: domain, hubspot utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
hubspotutk: This cookie helps to keep track of visitors and is passed on to Hubspot on form submission.

Google Analytics
_gid: This cookie is used to distinguish users and expires after 24h.
_ga: This cookie is used to distinguish users and expires after 2 years.
_gat: This cookie is used to throttle the request rate and expires after 10 minutes.

(Re)Marketing Services by Google:
These cookies (“_gads”   and  “_gac”) are created and set by various websites, including google.com, doubleclick.net, invitemedia.com, admeld.com, googlesyndication.com and googleadservices.com.
These cookies store information on the webpages you visit, the content you view and the content you click on. The cookies also contain technical information about your browser and operating system, referring websites, length of visit and other details on how you use our online content. Your IP address will also be stored, but it will be anonymized by Google Services and will only be transmitted to Google in the USA in exceptional cases and in truncated form. 


Conversion cookies by Google Ads:
The information stored by the cookie (“conversion”) can be used to create conversion statistics for Google Ads customers wishing to use conversion tracking. This allows Ads customers to access information on the total number of users who have clicked on specific advertisements and who have been forwarded to a page equipped with a conversion tracking tag. However, Ads customers will not receive any information in respect of the user’s personal data. Users are not identifiable.
 

How can I opt out from the use of session cookies?

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to block cookies completely or notify you each time a cookie is set so that you can decide to block it on the spot. However, refusing all cookies could restrict the use of certain functions of our Website. For information on how to change the settings in your computer or mobile device browser to block cookies, please refer to the relevant help menu of your browser or the website of the software manufacturer. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

How can I opt out from a use of persistent cookies?

This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), which uses cookies to analyse how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. At the request of G+D, Google will use this information for the purpose of measuring your activity on the Website, compiling statistical reports on overall website activity for G+D and providing other services relating to Site activity and internet usage. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website. In addition, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available from the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. G+D has activated the IP anonymization; in consequence, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Further information can be found under www.google.com/analytics/terms/ (Google Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy).

Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking
Click here to opt-out of Hubspot tracking