Cookie Policy

Welcome to District - Connecting Arts and our website at www.the-district.de. This Cookie Policy will provide more information about the cookies and similar technologies we, District - Connecting Arts, represented by

Frank Berleth | Im Forst 1 | 51105 Cologne, Germany
Daniel Osthues | Habichtstraße 30 | 45665 Recklinghausen, Germany

(“District - Connecting Arts”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), use, as well as information on how to refuse and disable/delete cookies.

If you have any questions about this policy or our data protection practices, please contact us using legal@the-district.de.

This Cookie Policy sits in line with the German Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia Act (“TTDSG”)and the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”). In accordance with them, we need to inform you about the cookies we use and obtain your consent when using certain types of cookies namely Functional, Performance, Analytical and Advertising Cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files with configuration information that are stored on your device. Cookies can be divided into the following two broad categories:

Technically necessary cookies (Essential)

Technically necessary cookies are required for our website to function properly; they enable you to navigate our website efficiently and use its functional features. An example of this is, the reminder of recently performed actions (e.g., entered text) when you return to a page within the same session.

Technically non-essential cookies (Performance, Functional, Analytical, Advertising )

Technically non-essential cookies are not necessary for the proper functioning of our website, but they enable us to improve the content of our website, compile statistics for internal market analysis purposes, provide you with a more personalized online experience or provide additional features.

Performance cookies allow us to count visits and entry pages, which is an important source of information for improving our website. They help us to know which pages are most and least popular and to see how visitors move around the site. All the information these cookies collect is aggregated and is anonymous. If you do not agree to these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our website and will not be able to monitor the performance of our website.

Functional cookies enable the website to offer improved functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third parties whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not work properly. Third party service providers may process your information, including personal data, when these cookies are enabled.

Analytical cookies are used by third parties. These cookies allow third parties to recognize that you have visited our website. We and our third-party providers may also combine information obtained from these cookies with Personal Data available from other sources, including data collected about you when you use other websites and data collected about you when you are offline, whether on our website or data maintained by the third-party provider.

Advertising cookies may be set through our website by our advertising partners. They may be used by these companies to profile your interests and show you relevant advertising on other websites. They are based on the unique identification of your browser type and the type of internet device you are using. If you do not allow these cookies, you will receive less targeted advertising.

Within the described categories, different types of cookies are used and these can be subdivided into:

Session cookies

While you are active on a website, a session cookie is temporarily stored in your computer's memory, which stores a session identifier, for example, to prevent you from having to log in again each time you change pages. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or lose their validity once their session has automatically expired.

Permanent or persistent cookies

A persistent or protocol cookie stores a file on your computer for the period of time specified in the expiration date. These cookies allow websites to remember your information and settings the next time you visit. This results in faster and more convenient access, as you do not have to set your language preferences for our portal again, for example. When the expiration date passes, the cookie is automatically deleted when you visit the website that generated it.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies come from providers other than the website operator. For example, they may be used to collect information for advertising, custom content, and web statistics.

We have integrated the consent management tool "Cookiebot" from Usercentrics (Usercentrics A/S
Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, Denmark) on our website in order to request consent for data processing or the use of cookies or comparable functions. With the help of "Cookiebot" you have the possibility to give or refuse your consent for certain functionalities of our website.You can use "Cookiebot" to give or refuse your consent for all functions or to give your consent for individual purposes or individual functions. The settings you have made can also be changed by you afterwards. The purpose of integrating "Cookiebot" is to allow the users of our website to decide on the aforementioned matters and, in the course of further use of our website, to offer them the opportunity to change settings they have already made. In the course of using "Cookiebot", personal data as well as information of the end devices used, such as the IP address, are processed. The legal basis for the processing is your consent in conjunction with our legitimate interest.

Pixel Cookies and Tags

We use so-called Pixel Cookies and Tags (“Pixel Cookies”). A Pixel Cookie is an advertising tool and typically consists of a JavaScript code snippet that allows us to understand and track visitors' activity on our website. For this purpose, Pixel Cookies collect and process information about visitors of our website and the device used (so-called event data).

Event data collected through Pixel Cookies is used for targeting our advertisements and improving ad delivery and personalized advertising. For this purpose, the event data collected on our website by means of Pixel Cookies is transmitted to the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie and in part, also stored on your device. However, this only happens with your consent, and we and the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie are considered joint controllers. Nonetheless, for the subsequent processing of the transmitted Event Data, the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie is the sole controller.

For more information about how the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie processes personal data, including the legal basis on which they rely on and how you can exercise your rights against, please refer to the following Privacy Policies: Facebook, and Instagram (both by Meta Platforms Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are a resident of the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland).

YouTube Videos

We have integrated components from YouTube (Google LLC of 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA and Google Ireland Ltd of Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) The integration requires that YouTube can perceive the IP address of the user. The IP address is required in order to send the video content to the user's browser. If you click on a YouTube component (video) on our website, your internet browser will be prompted by the component to download a corresponding representation of the component as well as places certain cookies. In this way, YouTube knows which specific sub-pages you have visited. The legal basis for the data processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.

The cookies we use

Below you can find the cookies we use listed in accordance with their Name, Description, Lifespan, and Type. Please keep in mind that this list may be updated from time to time.

CookieConsent

Set by the Cookiebot plugin. This cookie is used to store the user's consent for cookies selected.
1 year
Necessary

_fbp

This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements either on Facebook or Instagram or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.
3 months
Advertisement

YSC

.youtube.com
Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
session
Advertisement

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

.youtube.com
YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
5 months 27 days
Advertisement

.youtube.com
YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data.
2 years
Analytics

yt-remote-device-id

youtube.com
YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.
never
Advertisement

yt.innertube::requests

youtube.com
YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
never
Advertisement

yt-remote-connected-devices

youtube.com
YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.
never
Advertisement

yt.innertube::nextId

youtube.com
YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
never
Advertisement

For a more in-depth overview as well as viewing and changing your consent details, please visit your Cookie Settings page.

Opting Out

If you do not wish to participate in our advertising personalization or retargeting/tracking you can object to behavioral advertising at the following websites: Your Online Choices, Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada, Network Advertising Initiative, AdChoices and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (Europe only).

If you do not wish to participate in usage-based advertising through Facebook you can object here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads

How can I delete or block cookies?

Since cookies are not stored on our system, but locally on your computer/phone/tablet, we cannot retrieve or delete cookies. However, you can delete existing cookies and disable the use of cookies in general using the following instructions Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari.

Please note that when you use a link from our website to a third-party website, such third-party websites may also set new cookies that are not subject to this policy. In such cases, we recommend that you refer to the cookie policy on the relevant third-party website itself.

Validity and questions

This Cookie Policy was last updated on Wednesday, 23rd of August, 2023, and is the current and valid version. However, we want to point out that from time to time due to actual or legal changes a revision to this policy may be necessary.

If you have any questions about this policy or our data protection practices, please contact us using legal@the-district.de or write to us at the above address.