Michels and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (“Company” “Michels” or “we”) take your privacy seriously. We want you to know how we collect and use your Personal Information via cookies. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with an enhanced web-browsing experience and allows us to improve our site. Further information regarding how Michels protects your privacy can be found in our Privacy Policy.
“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly with a particular Data Subject.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers stored on your browser or device that enable the cookie owner to recognize the device when it visits websites or uses online services. The cookie contains a unique code that allows us to recognize your browser during your visit to our website (called a “session” cookie) or later at repeated visits (called “persistent” cookie). Each cookie is unique to your web browser. The website you visit may set cookies directly known as first-party cookies or may trigger cookies set by other domain names known as third-party cookies. While we may automatically use some cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the services you request or enable communications, we request your consent for all our other cookie uses.
Types of Cookies We Use
We may use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Our website requires the use of these cookies to properly operate or provide necessary functions relating to the services you request. They include, for example, cookies enabling you to securely log into our website or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information. These are persistent cookies that generally last one (1) year.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable helpful but non-essential website functions that improve your website experience. By recognizing you when you return to our website, they may, for example, allow us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, or remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies may enable visitor identification over time but not across different websites. These are persistent cookies that generally last up to one (1) year.
- Analytical Cookies: These cookies allow us and our third-party service providers to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that users can easily find what they need on our website. These cookies may generate aggregate statistics that are not associated with an individualized profile and are persistent cookies that generally last up to two (2) years.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us and our third-party service providers to understand and analyze key performance indexes of the website. This helps us deliver a better experience for users on the website. These cookies may generate aggregate statistics that are not associated with an individualized profile and are persistent cookies that generally last up to two (2) years.
- Advertisement Cookies: These cookies enable different advertising-related functions. They may allow us or our third-party service providers to record information about your visit to our website, such as pages visited, links followed, and videos viewed so we can make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. These cookies may also allow us and our third-party service providers to analyze the effectiveness of ad campaigns. Finally, these cookies may enable visitor identification across websites and over time. We may also share the information with third parties for similar purposes. These are persistent cookies that generally last three (3) months.
Except for strictly necessary cookies, all first-party cookies set by this site will expire no later than two (2) years after your last website visit. Third-party cookie expiration periods are set by their respective owners.
Please see our Cookie Table for a list of the individual first party and third-party cookies potentially used on this site and their specific purposes.
Your Cookie Choices
Please visit our consent manager tool to make or manage your cookie use preferences. You may withdraw your consent for our cookie uses that are not strictly necessary at any time by re-engaging the consent manager tool.
Most web browsers allow you to directly block all cookies or just third-party cookies through your browser settings. Using your browser settings to block all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, may interfere with proper site operation.
Legal Basis for Processing
We use cookies in accordance with the purposes described in our Cookie Policy.
The use of essential or necessary cookies ensures data security on our website and that you can use the website without technical problems. Essential or necessary cookies are used on the basis of our legitimate interest Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with paragraph 25 (2) no. 2 German Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act (“TTDSG”).
In addition, we use non-essential cookies which are placed by us or third-party providers. Such non-essential cookies are only used with your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with paragraph 25 (1) TTDSG as they are not absolutely necessary for the provision of the website. For example, non-essential cookies are used by us to access, analyze, and store information such as the properties of your terminal device as well as certain personal data (IP address, usage behavior). The use of non-essential cookies relates in particular to marketing and analytics cookies which allow us to understand user behavior in order to provide you with a relevant user experience or to personalize the content on our website.
You can withdraw your consent according to Art. 7 (3) GDPR regarding data processing by non-essential cookies at any time by changing your preferences in the cookie settings of the consent tool we use and rejecting non-essential cookies. We store Personal Information for the periods stated in our Cookie Policy which in no case exceed two (2) years.
We use a consent management service on our website. As part of this, we store date and time of the visit, browser information, consent information, information about the terminal device, and the IP address of the requesting end device. The processing of the above data is based on Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR in conjunction with paragraph 25 (1) TTDSG. The data processing serves the purpose of offering website visitors the option to confirm or decline the use of non-essential cookies. The documentation of such consent is necessary and required in accordance with the accountability obligation from Art. 5 (2) GDPR to ensure the withdrawal of consent and to control the setting of cookies. We delete your personal data when they are no longer required to achieve the purpose of their processing. This is usually the case after three (3) years starting with the end of the year in which the data was collected.
Cross-Border Data Transfers
The cookies we use may process, store, or transfer personal data in and to a country outside your own with privacy laws that provide different, possibly lower, protections. You consent to processing, storing, or transfer when you consent to our cookie use. We are based in United States. Please review our Privacy Policy and each third-party cookie provider’s policy to learn more about its location.
Changes to the Policy
If we change this Cookie Policy, we will post those changes on this page and update the Cookie Policy modification date below. If we materially change this Cookie Policy in a way that affects how we use or disclose your Personal Information, we will provide a prominent notice of such changes and the effective date of the changes before making them.
For More Information
For questions or concerns about Michels’ Cookie Policy or any of our privacy policies or practices, please contact us at HR@michels.us.
Last modified: June 3, 2024
Cookies Used on Michels Website
The following table lists all cookies potentially in use on the Michels.us website. We will update this table as our website changes and evolves, so please check back frequently to review any new cookie uses. Visit our Cookie Policy for more information about our cookie use, including our contact information.