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We differentiate between strictly necessary cookies, functional cookies, targeting cookies and performance cookies.
You many configure the handling of cookies yourself. By adjusting your browser settings, you are able to deactivate or restrict the transfer of cookies. Previously saved cookies can be deleted at any time. This can also happen automatically. When deactivating cookies on our website, this may result in you not being able to fully utilize all of our website’s features. Additional information can be found on the website of your respective browser’s provider:
Strictly necessary cookies are technically required in order for our websites to function normally. Some of them ensure the technical stability of our website whereas others enable safety relevant functionalities. The usage of certain functions, such as our shopping carts and contact forms, is only made possible through the use of these cookies.
We use this kind of cookie to improve the safety and functionality of our website and web applications. Necessary cookies do not include personal data, meaning we don’t collect any IP-addresses or other information, that may be traced back to your person. We utilize the following necessary cookies:
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Expiration time |
| _dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx | Google (Tag Manager) | Loads other scripts and code unto a page. | Session |
| __cf_bm | Hubspot | Identifies bot traffic. | 1 day |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | igus | Maintain any anonymous user session of the server. | Session |
| AuthToken | igus | Used to keep you logged in with your myigus account. | Session |
| CookiesInfo | igus | Used to operate the cookie banner. | 180 days |
| Global_SessionId | igus | Holds a collective session-ID for all webserver applications. | Session |
| iglidur_cookie | igus | Enables the functionality of the iglidur product finder | 1 day |
| server | igus | Identifies the web server for the load balancer. | Session |
| token | igus | Includes various session information, such as session ID, language, and the number of items in the shopping cart. | Session |
| force-proxy-stream | Salesforce | Makes sure that client requests reach the same proxy host and are more likely to receive contents of the cache. (livechat-feature) | 1 hour |
| force-stream | Salesforce | Is used to forward server requests. (livechat-feature) | 1 hour |
| language | Salesforce | Identifies the user language. This is necessary to esure that translations of custom features function properly. (livechat-feature) | Session |
| sfdc-stream | Salesforce | Is used for routing server requests within the Salesforce-infrastructure. (livechat-feature) | 3 hours |
We will not use any data collected through strictly necessary cookies for the creation of user profiles.Through the use of strictly necessary cookies, we intend to simplify the use of our website to you. Some functions on our website can not function without these cookies. These cookies require us to be able to identify your browser even when switching sites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Google Tag Manager by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Google Tag Manager implements tags on our website and triggers other tags. When triggering tags, Google may process your personal data in the process. Particularly the following personal data is processed by Google Tag Manager:
The purpose of Google Tag Manager is to easily and simply implement various sets of code and services on our website as well as to optimize loading times of various services.Should you have disabled individual tracking services, that will also apply to all applicable tracking tags implemented through Google Tag Manager.
Further information regarding data processing by Google as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Google's privacy policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Further information on your privacy settings can be found under: https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/. You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites. Due to the tags set by Google Tag Manager it is possible that, as a result of your user behavior prior to visiting our website, such as setting your Google cookie preferences or clicking on an ad, additional cookies will be set that persist as you visit our website. These cookies will not be listed within this cookie policy.
Our website utilizes cookies by Hubspot by provider HubSpot, Inc., 25 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02141 USA ("Hubspot"). Hubspot is a CRM- and marketing platform which we use for managing contacts as well as to create newsletters, landing pages and forms on our website. The largest portion of the cookies set by Hubspot is used to analyse website activity with the goal of being able to assign each contact a product interest. Hubspot also sets cookies for security purposes, such as for identifying bot traffic.
Further information regarding data processing by Hubspot as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Hubspot's privacy policy under: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Salesforce Live Agent by salesforce.com, inc., Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. („Salesforce“). Salesforce uses cookies to enable a direct conversation via real-time chat on our website. The contents of the chat are processed for the purpose of responding to your request.
Further information regarding data processing by Salesforce as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Salesforce's privacy policy under: https://www.salesforce.com/uk/company/privacy/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Functional cookies, similarly to strictly necessary cookies, serve the operation of the website. What differentiates them from strictly necessary cookies is that they aren’t a requirement for the use of the website. These cookies are used to offer additional functionality and personalization. They can be set by us as well as third parties whose services we use on our website. They often save user preferences to improve the overall user experience on the website. We utilize the following functional cookies:
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Expiration time |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Google (Youtube) | Set by Youtube to calculate user bandwidth. | 180 days |
| _sl_ping_marker | igus | Supports site functionality | 1 day |
| bcookie | Identifies user browser. Meant to prevent abuse of LinkedIn systems. | 2 years | |
| bscookie | Marks logged in users verified by two factor authentification. | 2 years | |
| lang | Saves language settings for LinkedIn services. | Session | |
| li_gc | Saves cookie settings for LinkedIn services. | 2 years | |
| lidc | Facilitates the selection of a data centre. | 1 day | |
| liveagent_invite_rejected_5732X000000Gr8i | Salesforce | Manages the users livechat-preferences. | Session |
| personalization_id | Enables Twitter integration and sharing capabilities. | 2 years |
We have embedded content on our websites via the video platform service YouTube. Youtube is a service of and provided by Youtube LLC ("YouTube"), 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. Youtube LLC is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
The implementation of YouTube is achieved by embedding so-called "iframes" on our websites.
Further information regarding data processing by Google as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Google's privacy policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Further information on your privacy settings can be found under: https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by LinkedIn by provider LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn"). Cookies set by LinkedIn serve the purpose of allowing us retrace when users arrive on our website through an ad set by LinkedIn.
Further information regarding data processing by LinkedIn as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within LinkedIn's privacy policy under: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Twitter by Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA („Twitter“). Twitter is a social media platform. We operate a social media presence on Twitter for the purpose of communicating information and updates on our products and services. Twitter is integrated into our websites through a social media icon, linking to our Twitter account.
Further information regarding data processing by Twitter as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Twitter's privacy policy under: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Targeting cookies allow for targeted ads. They can be set through our website through our advertising partners. They may be used to create a profile of your interests and display ads that are relevant to these interests. They don’t save personal information but are based on unique identifiers of your web browser as well as your device. Disabling these cookies will result in you seeing fewer targeted ads.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Expiration time |
| 1P_JAR | Shows users relevant advertisements and prevents the same ads from being shown too many times. | 1 month | |
| GPS | Displays relevant advertisement for users. | Session | |
| IDE | Displays Google ads outside of Google services | 1 year | |
| NID | Displays Google Ads within Google services for logged out users. | 6 months | |
| _uetsid | Microsoft (Bing Ads) | Displays relevant advertisement for users. | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Microsoft (Bing Ads) | Saves and tracks user sessions across multiple websites. | 16 days |
| MUID | Microsoft (Bing Ads) | Microsoft user identification cookie for Bing Ads. | 1 year |
The legal basis for the processing of your data through targeting cookies is your consent as of article 6 (1) a GDPR.
Our website utilizes cookies by Google Ads by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Google Ads displays online advertisements on our behalf. When analysing your user behaviour, Google may process your personal data. Particularly the following personal data is processed by Google Ads:
The purpose of Google Ads is to advertise towards users for which our products are deemed potentially relevant, based on a number of criteria set prior. User behavior is tracked to evaluate the effectiveness of these ad campaigns.
Further information regarding data processing by Google as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Google's privacy policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Further information on your privacy settings can be found under: https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Bing Ads by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA ("Microsoft"). Bing Ads displays online advertisements on our behalf.
The purpose of Bing Ads is to advertise towards users for which our products are deemed potentially relevant, based on a number of criteria set prior. User behavior is tracked to evaluate the effectiveness of these ad campaigns.
Further information regarding data processing by LinkedIn as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Microsoft's privacy policy under: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
These cookies allow us to count website visits and user sources for the purpose of measuring and improving the performance of our website. They allow us to determine which specific pages are more and less popular than others and help understand the flow of user traffic. Any data collected through these cookies is anonymised. If you disable these cookies, we will be unable to determine when or how you used our website. We utilize the following performance cookies:
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Expiration time |
| loc | AddThis | Stores location data. | 13 months |
| uvc | AddThis | Tracks usage of addthis.com services. | 1 day |
| _fbp | Tracks and records user sessions across multiple websites. | 3 months | |
| _ga | Distinguishes separate users. | 2 years | |
| _ga_<container-id> | Maintains measurable sessions. | 2 years | |
| _gali | Documents, which links are clicked on a site. | 30 seconds | |
| _gcl_au | Includes a randomly generated user ID. | 90 days | |
| _gid | see "_ga" | 1 day | |
| IDE | Includes a randomly generated user ID for user identification. | 1 year | |
| rollupga | Assigns users a randomly generated number as a client identificator. This is included in every site request and is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for analytics reports. | 2 years | |
| rollupga_gid | See "rollupga" | 1 day | |
| specificga | See "rollupga" | 2 years | |
| specificga_gid | See "rollupga" | 1 day | |
| _gaexp | Google (Optimize) | Saves IDs for experiments and sessions for A/B tests. | 86 days |
| YSC | Google (Youtube) | Registers a unique ID to create statistics on which videos on Youtube the user has seen. | Session |
| __hssc | Hubspot | Tracks sessions. This is used to determine if Hubspot needs to increment the session number and timestamp in the __htsc cookie. | Session |
| __hssrc | Hubspot | This cookie is set when the session cookie is changed to determine if the user has reset their browser. | Session |
| __hstc | Hubspot | Main cookie for user tracking. Includes domain, UTK, time of first, last and current visit and session number. | 1 year |
| hubspotutk | Hubspot | Tracks the users identity. This is used when forwarding the contents of a form to Hubspot to prevent the creation of duplicate contact profiles. | 390 days |
| lfuuid | LeadForensics | Tracks individual session on the website to create statistical data across multiple visits. | 10 years |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Saves the timestamp for the identification of a LinkedIn member. | 30 days | |
| UserMatchHistory | Synchronizes the LinkedIn Ads ID. | 30 days | |
| mf_[session] | Mouseflow | Identifies browser session | Session |
| mf_user | Mouseflow | Identifies returning users | 90 days |
| BrowserId_sec | Salesforce | Identifies the user browser. | 1 year |
| _MGZ_ | Uberflip Analytics | Distinguishes sessions of separate users | Session |
| _ufas | Uberflip Analytics | Sets a randomized ID for user identification | 1 hour |
| _ufav | Uberflip Analytics | See "_ufas" | 1 year |
| pdf_event | Uberflip Analytics | Distinguishes users for legacy metrics. | 1 year |
| ufentry | Uberflip Analytics | Used to determine a user's entry time to the Uberflip platform, to calculate various data points in legacy metrics. | 30 minutes |
Our website utilizes cookies by AddThis by AddThis Services, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA („AddThis“). AddThis is a social bookmarking service. It is integrated into our websites to simplify the sharing of our content through social media. We also use it to track any content shared through AddThis for the purpose of analytics.
Further information regarding data processing by AddThis as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within AddThis's privacy policy under: https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Facebook by provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025 ("Facebook"). Cookies set by Facebook serve the purpose of allowing us to track if a user arrived on our websites through clicking an ad set by Facebook.
The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 (1) a GDPR.
Further information regarding data processing by Facebook as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Facebook's privacy policy under https://www.facebook.com/policy.php?ref=pf.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Google Analytics by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google").
Google Analytics is an analytics tool that allows as to track user behaviour, such as how much time users are spending on which pages or through which sources they arrived on our website. We use this data in order to improve the user experience, optimize advertising campaigns and identify technical issues with the website.
Google Optimize is a tool for A/B tests. It allows us to display different versions of the same content to different users and then evaluate how the content changes affect user behaviour. This is used to improve the user experience.
The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 (1) a GDPR.
Further information regarding data processing by Google as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Google's privacy policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Further information on your privacy settings can be found under: https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Lead Forensics by provider Lead Forensics, 4 Old Park Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 1QW ("Lead Forensics"). Lead Forensics is used to track user behavior on our website, similarly to other analytics software such as Google Analytics. It is additionally used to retrieve company information. This is done through the process of reverse-business-IP-tracking. This process includes implementing a small tracking code on our website which enables us to identify the (strictly corporate) static IP-addresses of users on our website.
The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 (1) a GDPR.
Further information regarding data processing by Hubspot as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Lead Forensics's privacy policy under: https://www.leadforensics.com/privacy-policy/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Mouseflow by provider Mouseflow ApS, Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark ("Mouseflow"). Cookies set by Mouseflow serve the purpose of allowing us track mouse/scroll movement and clicks on our website. We use this data to optimize our user experience.
Further information regarding data processing by Mouseflow as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Mouseflow's privacy policy under: https://mouseflow.com/privacy/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
Our website utilizes cookies by Uberflip Analytics by provider Flyp Technologies Inc., d/b/a Uberflip with offices at 370 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON M6K 1Z8 ("Uberflip").Uberflip is an analytics tool that allows as to track user behavior, such as how much time users are spending on which pages or through which sources they arrived on our website. We use this data in order to improve the user experience, optimize advertising campaigns and identify technical issues with the website.
Further information regarding data processing by Uberflip as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found within Uberflip's privacy policy under: https://www.uberflip.com/gdpr/.
You are under no obligation to provide your personal data, neither legally nor contractually. However, you choosing not to provide us with your personal data may inhibit the functionality of our websites.
