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Cookie settings

Without your consent no analytics tool is loaded on this website — not even in the background.

This is a courtesy translation. ALPS.Robotics operates from Germany; in the event of any discrepancy, the German version prevails.

Your choice

Current status

Necessary
Technically required. Cannot be switched off.
Always active
Analytics
Google Analytics 4 — audience measurement.
✗ Declined

You can change your decision at any time — without giving reasons and without any disadvantage in using this website.

Principle

What happens if you decline

Nothing. As long as you do not consent to analytics, the Google Analytics script is not loaded. No connection to Google is established either — it is not merely that no cookies are set, no request is sent in the first place.

That is a deliberate choice. It would be technically permissible to load the script in advance with storage denied. We do not, because connection data would still be transmitted.

We currently set no technically necessary cookies. This website is static; the server sends no cookies. Your choice on this page is stored in your browser’s local storage, not in a cookie — it does not leave your device.

Overview

What is stored

Name Type Provider Purpose Duration
alps_cookie_consent Local storage ALPS.Robotics Stores your choice so the prompt does not appear on every page view. Not a cookie, not transmitted. Until withdrawn; we ask again after 12 months
_ga Cookie Google Distinguishes visitors from one another (client ID). 2 years*
_ga_DFXVXD0235 Cookie Google Holds the session state for this property. 2 years*

Both Google cookies are set only after your consent. They are first-party cookies, set by this domain rather than by google.com.

* Google states two years as the default lifetime. Most browsers now cap script-set first-party cookies at around 400 days, so in practice the lifetime is shorter.

Analytics

Google Analytics 4 in detail

The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We operate the property with the measurement ID G-DFXVXD0235 and evaluate which pages are viewed, how visitors reach the site and on what devices — in order to improve the website.

  • IP addresses. In Google Analytics 4, IP anonymisation is built in and permanently active; it can be neither switched on nor off. The IP address is used only for coarse location and is discarded before data is logged. For access from the EU, Google collects the data via domains and servers in the EU before forwarding it to the Analytics servers.
  • Transfer to the United States. A transfer to Google in the United States cannot be ruled out. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, for which the European Commission established an adequate level of protection by adequacy decision of 10 July 2023.
  • No advertising features. Advertising-related consent settings remain permanently set to “denied” in our configuration — we use neither Google Ads nor remarketing or personalised advertising.

Further information: Google’s privacy policy and how Google uses data from partner sites.

Legal

Legal basis and withdrawal

Storing information on your device and accessing it require your consent under § 25(1) TDDDG, the German act implementing the ePrivacy rules. The subsequent processing of the data is based on Article 6(1)(a) GDPR — likewise your consent.

Consent is only valid if it is given freely, on an informed basis and actively. Pre-ticked boxes do not suffice — the Court of Justice of the European Union so held in 2019 in Planet49 (C-673/17), and the German Federal Court of Justice adopted this for Germany in 2020 (“Cookie-Einwilligung II”, I ZR 7/16). In our prompt, analytics is therefore not pre-selected, and declining is just as easy to reach as accepting.

Withdrawal: using the button at the top of this page you can change your choice at any time with effect for the future. Google cookies already set can be deleted in your browser settings. The lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal remains unaffected.

How we process your data otherwise is set out in our privacy policy. The controller and contact details are in the imprint.