VTCS web pages use cookies.

Cookies are text files stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string that allows Internet pages and servers to be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie is stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to distinguish the individual’s browser from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified by its unique cookie ID.

By using cookies, VTCS can provide users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

To facilitate your use of our website, both technical and session cookies are used. Thus, these cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website. Cookies allow the information and offers on our website to be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies, as mentioned earlier, allow us to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. For example, the website user who uses cookies does not have to enter access information each time he or she visits the website, because it is adopted by the website and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system.

All other cookies are installed/activated only after your explicit and prior consent upon your first visit to the website. This consent can be expressed generally, such as in response to the cookie banner. Your consent is tracked for other and future visits to the website. As a user, you always have the right to withdraw your express consent in whole or in part.

Since cookies are personal data, their processing is covered by our Privacy Statement. By agreeing to our cookie policy, you give us permission to process your personal data (in particular cookies) in accordance with our privacy statement.

For more information about cookies, see www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.

The use of “cookies”.

During a visit to the site, “cookies” may be placed on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie is a text file placed by a website’s server in your computer’s browser or on your mobile device when you access a website. Cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; a cookie can only identify a machine.

VTCS uses the following cookies:

‘First party cookies’ are technical cookies used by the site visited itself and whose purpose is to make the site function optimally. Example: settings the user made during previous visits to the site, or also: a pre-filled form with data the user made during previous visits.
‘Third Party cookies’ are cookies that do not come from the website itself, but from third parties, for example an existing marketing or advertising plug-in. For example, cookies from Facebook or Google Analytics. For such cookies, the site visitor must first consent – this can be done via a bar at the bottom or top of the website, referring to this policy, which does not prevent further browsing of the website).

You can set your Internet browser to not accept cookies, to alert you when a cookie is installed, or to delete cookies from your hard drive afterwards. You can do this through your browser’s settings (via the help function). However, keep in mind that certain graphics may not appear correctly, or you will not be able to use certain applications.

By using our website, you agree to our use of cookies.

Google Adwords – if this has been used by you.

VTCS has integrated Google Adwords on its website. Google AdWords is an Internet advertising service that allows VTCS to place ads in the search results of the Google search engine and in the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows us to define predefined keywords that allow an ad to appear in Google’s search results only when the user uses the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.
The purpose of Google AdWords is to promote our website by including relevant ads on third-party websites and in the search results of the Google search engine and inserting third-party ads on our website.

If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is stored on the data subject’s information technology system via Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain subpages, for example the shopping cart of an online shopping system, have been called up on our website.

The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie are used by Google to compile visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used to determine the total number of users served by AdWords ads to determine the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.

The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in Dublin, Ireland. This personal data is stored by Google in Ireland. 

Google may transfer this personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.