Our site uses cookies to store user-related information on your computer.
Cookies are files stored by client software (the browser) on a user’s computer. They contain small amounts of data that are specific to a particular client and a particular Web service (the server). Usually, only the server that set the cookie or the client computer itself can access the data stored in a cookie.
Among other things, a server can use cookies to provide a client with information about Web page styles, customized content, and so on. A web page can also contain special code (a script, a plug-in) that generates cookies on a client computer to store or read information about a user’s visit to an Internet domain (the server’s first-level domain name, e.g. gesn.info, ges-net.org …) and any site or page in that domain. Thus, if the user revisits a particular site or page using the same client, the site’s server can detect this using information stored in cookies and thus carry user-specific information from a previous visit into the current user session. A common purpose of such information exchange is to track access times, individual interests, etc. in order to create personalized user profiles for targeted advertising and the like.
Our sites use cookies only to ensure the functionality of our online services and to improve your user experience. We do not currently use cookies to track individual interests or personal information about our users for commercial purposes. However, we do use cookies for the data access and login procedures of registered users.
In addition, our site may use code implementations of third-party services, such as plug-ins for automated spell-checking, comments, email forms, social networking access, etc. These services may send data from our pages to their own domains/servers. They may also set cookies on your computer from their own domains/servers while you’re browsing our pages. Very often, the purpose of this is to obtain analytical data to create individual user profiles for advertising and similar purposes.
In addition, such plug-ins may not only set, read, and update cookies on your computer, but may also transmit other data to and from other servers in the background – even if you haven’t specifically chosen to use a third-party service during your visit to our site. This happens, for example, when you access our pages while actively logged in to networks such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or similar. This is “almost always” the case if you are using the apps of such services on a smartphone or tablet with default privacy settings.
Because our pages may use code plug-ins from third-party online services, we cannot and do not guarantee that no one other than ourselves is collecting information about you by setting and reading cookies on your computer when you visit our pages.
If you continue to use this site, we will assume that you consent to all of this.
However, you can choose which type of cookies are actually enabled when you use our site. This is checked frequently when you load one of our pages and you will receive a message to make your choice. Please note that these settings are stored in … a cookie. If you delete this cookie in your browser, you will have to select again the next time you load the page.
Otherwise, you can try to block unwanted (third-party) cookies in the privacy and/or security settings of your browser/smartphone/tablet. However, doing so for cookies set by our own servers (gesn.info, ges-net.org, ges-net.com) may limit your experience with our sites and may prevent you from using some or most of the interactive features of our sites.
Please note that registered users who want to log in to our site MUST allow cookies from this site in order to do so. … Sorry.
Last modified: 2024-12-24