Legal
Cookie Policy
How and why we use cookies and similar technologies, and how you can change your choice at any time.
What they are
About cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device to make it work, remember your preferences, and understand how it is used. Similar technologies, such as local storage, serve comparable purposes.
We distinguish between first-party cookies, which are set by this website, and third-party cookies, which are set by external providers. This website sets first-party cookies only. By duration, session cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain until they expire or you delete them.
Storing information on your device, or accessing information already stored on it, requires your consent under § 25(1) TDDDG, unless it is strictly necessary to provide a service you have expressly requested (§ 25(2) TDDDG).
Always active
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They are set in response to things you do, such as making your cookie choice or using the site.
Legal basis: § 25(2) TDDDG — no consent is required. The cookie forgecart-consent, which remembers your cookie choice, falls into this category, as does forgecart-session when a part of the site you use needs a session.
Optional
Analytics cookies
With your consent, we count visits and see which pages are used, so that we can improve the site. Until you allow analytics, this website records no analytics data about your visit.
Legal basis: analytics is used only with your prior consent under § 25(1) TDDDG, and any subsequent processing of personal data is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Your consent is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time.
Optional
Marketing cookies
If you reach this website from an advertisement or a campaign link, marketing consent lets us link your visit to that advertisement, so that we can tell which campaigns work. Without your consent we do not make that link.
Legal basis: this is done only with your prior consent under § 25(1) TDDDG, with any subsequent processing based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
Consent and withdrawal
Legal basis and your consent
When you first visit our website, we ask for your consent to non-essential cookies through our cookie banner. You may accept all, reject all non-essential cookies, or choose individual categories.
You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future, and doing so is as easy as giving it (Art. 7(3) GDPR). Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.
To be able to show that a choice was made, we keep a record of it: the anonymous visitor identifier, the categories chosen, the version of this policy, the language of the page, the time, and the browser’s user agent.
How long cookies last
Storage duration
Your cookie choice is kept for 180 days, after which we ask again. The session cookie lasts 30 days, and the visitor identifier up to 400 days. You can delete any of them earlier in your browser. We ask for your consent again whenever this policy is materially updated.
Your controls
Managing your preferences
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page, or by adjusting your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
Cookies we set
- forgecart-consent — stores your cookie choice so we do not ask again on every page (strictly necessary, 180 days).
- forgecart-session and forgecart-session-client — keep your session together while you use the site. They are set when you use a part of the site that needs a session, or once you allow analytics (30 days).
- forgecart-visitor and forgecart-visitor-client — a random identifier for this browser, set on your first visit. It links your consent record to this browser, and it is attached to analytics only if you allow analytics (up to 400 days).
- forgecart-exp-force — set only when you open a link that selects a particular version of a page; it remembers that version (30 days).
Contact
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, write to us through the Contact page of this website.