Merz Aesthetics GmbH, Eckenheimer Landstraße 100, 60318 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (“Merz”, “we”, “us”) operates this website. We respect your privacy and want you to understand what cookies are placed when using this website. This Cookie Policy covers the use of the website www.merzmedicalforum.com (the “website”). Merz Aesthetics GmbH is part of a global network of Merz affiliates that operate in multiple nations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin and North America.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your devices when you visit our website via internet browsers. Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and improve the efficiency of our website. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
What cookies do we use?
a) “Necessary/functional cookies”
Necessary cookies make a website work by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. This website cannot function properly without these cookies.
b) “Statistic/analytics cookies”
Statistic/analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously, in some cases this may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the machine accessing the website.
c) “Targeting/advertising cookies”
We use these types of cookies and similar technologies to provide adverts that we think may be more relevant to your interests. This can be based on your browsing activity and is known as Online Behavioural Advertising or OBA. Cookies are placed on your browser, which remembers what websites you’ve been to. Advertising based on what you have been viewing is then displayed.
How long do cookies last?
Different cookies can last for different lengths of time.
- Persistent cookies consist of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). Persistent or tracking cookies are employed to store user preferences and allow to customize how we present information through site layouts or themes.
- Session cookies are used by the server to store information about user page activities only during a session and will expire when the web browser is closed.
The table below explains what cookies we use on this website and why.Table of cookies we use and why:
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Consent to use cookies and managing cookies settings
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are necessary to the operation of the Site. Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. To set all other cookies, we need your permission. Consent for non-essential cookies is sought when you first access the website and can be managed via the Cookie Banner. You can follow that link to turn these cookies off. You can also manage which cookies you receive via your web browser. Most browsers have built in privacy settings that provide differing levels of cookie acceptance, expiration time, and disposal. You can set your browser settings not to accept cookies - please follow your browser provider’s instructions to do so.