Necessary cookies help to make our website usable in the first place. They store basic functions that enable the website to function properly. We use the following necessary cookies on our website:

(1) Cookie banner

The cookie banner stores the user's settings selected in the cookie banner. The provider of this cookie is MEO Vertriebs GmbH as the operator of the website. The respective cookie has a lifespan of 30 days.

(2) Cookies for the structure of the website

We use cookies that enable the website to be set up. The cookies are used to display the most up-to-date content on the website.

The provider of these cookies is MEO Vertriebs GmbH as the operator of the website. These are session cookies, i.e. the cookies only have a lifespan of 24 hours.

We also use statistics cookies on our website. These give us information about the behavior of users on our website and how users interact with our website.

We use the following statistics cookies on our website:

(1) Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand, so that a clear assignment of the IP address is no longer possible. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The cookie is only set with your consent, which is obtained via the cookie banner on our website. The legal basis is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

The cookies that are set via this service have a duration of 2 years.

Further information on the terms of use and data protection can be found at www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html

A contract has been concluded with Google in accordance with the EU standard contractual clauses to ensure an adequate level of data protection when transferring personal data to third countries. Further information can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu_de.

(2) YouTube

We use YouTube videos, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. ("Google"), in our online offering, which are stored on http://youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, access data and log files are transmitted.

This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Y-ouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button.

YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

By clicking on the play button of a YouTube video embedded on our website, you consent to the one-time data processing for playing the corresponding video. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. Consent is also obtained in the cookie banner for the setting of cookies on the website. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Corresponding cookies have a maximum lifespan of 10 years.

A contract has been concluded with Google in accordance with the EU standard contractual clauses to ensure an adequate level of data protection when transferring personal data to third countries. Further information and Google's privacy policy can be found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the provider as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the provider's data protection information: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

(3) Vimeo

Our website uses a tool from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

By integrating videos via the provider Vimeo, the provider's servers are called up. This is due to technical reasons and cannot be prevented by us.

The Vimeo server is informed which of our pages you have visited. Vimeo also obtains your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo or do not have a Vimeo account. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the Vimeo server in the USA.

If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you enable Vimeo to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

Vimeo can collect the corresponding data with the help of cookies and similar technologies.

The cookie is only set with your consent, which is obtained via the cookie banner on our website. The legal basis is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

The cookies that are set via this service have a duration of 2 years.

A contract has been concluded with Vimeo in accordance with the EU standard contractual clauses to ensure an adequate level of data protection when transferring personal data to third countries.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Vimeo's privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

We also use marketing cookies on our website. These enable us to improve the user-friendliness of our site and offer various functions.

We use the following marketing cookies on our website:

(1) Our store system

With your consent, we use some data from our store system cookies for marketing purposes. This relates in particular to the recording of the categories and articles accessed in order to be able to make you more relevant article suggestions in the store based on this data.

The cookie content is only set with your consent, which is obtained via the cookie banner on our website. The legal basis is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

The cookies that are set via this store have a duration of 30 days.

We also refer to our privacy policy: https: //www.meo.de/de/content/18-datenschutz.