Cookie Policy

Scope

This website is brought to you by Bike Mobility Services GmbH (“BMS”). BMS aims to make your online experience and interaction with our websites as informative, relevant and user-friendly as possible. One way of achieving this is through the use of cookies, web beacons or similar techniques to store information about your visit to our website from your computer. It is important to us that you know which cookies are used on our website and for what purpose. This helps to protect your privacy and ensures that our website is as user-friendly as possible. Below you can find out more about the techniques used by and through our website and their respective purposes. This is only a statement on data protection and the use of website technologies, not a contract or agreement.

What are cookies, web beacons and similar technologies?

A cookie is a small data file that is stored on your computer in your web browser when you visit certain websites. A cookie does not contain or collect individual information, but when read by a server through a web browser, it can provide information that enables a more user-friendly service, such as identifying errors. We do not keep cookies longer than necessary.

Web beacons are small graphic images (also called “pixel tags” or “clear POISONs”) that may be installed on or in our websites, communication services, apps and other tools. Web beacons are used for various purposes, including measuring the performance of our websites, visitor traffic to our websites and their navigation.

By similar information storage technologies, we mean other technologies that store information on your browser or device and use local shared objects or local storage. Examples include Flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software.

For the sake of simplicity, we use the term cookie in our policy to cover the total amount of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies.

In order to make full use of our website, cookies must be enabled. If you do not wish to enable cookies, you will still be able to browse our website, but certain features of the website may be limited in this case.

This information is provided as part of our efforts to comply with recent legislation and to ensure that we are open, honest and clear about cookies and privacy. For more information about privacy, please refer to Lease a Bike's privacy policy.

How do we use cookies?

You may have noticed the different types of cookies that are generated when you visit this website. We use the following types of cookies:

Functional cookies

These cookies enable you to browse the BMS website(s) and use the website functions, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, such functions, including shopping baskets and electronic payment, are not possible.

We may use these cookies for the following purposes:

Analytical cookies

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
__hssc HubSpot This cookie is linked to websites based on the HubSpot platform and tracks sessions. It is used to determine whether the HubSpot software needs to increment the session count and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, the number of page views (viewCount, increases with each page view [pageView] in a session) and the session start timestamp. one day Cookie
__hssrc HubSpot This cookie is linked to websites that are based on the HubSpot platform. Whenever the HubSpot software changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. This is used to determine whether the visitor has restarted the browser. If this cookie is not present when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. Session Cookie
__hstc HubSpot This cookie is linked to websites that are based on the HubSpot platform. Whenever the HubSpot software changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. This is used to determine whether the visitor has restarted the browser. If this cookie is not present when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. 30 years Cookie
__hstc HubSpot This cookie is linked to websites that are based on the HubSpot platform. This is the main cookie for visitor tracking. It contains the domain, the user token (utk), the first timestamp (of the first visit), the last timestamp (of the last visit), the current timestamp (for this visit) and the session number (increases with each subsequent session). 30 years Cookie
_ga Google LLC Registers a unique ID for a website visitor and tracks how the visitor uses the website. This cookie is a persistent Google Analytics cookie that is used to distinguish between individual users and to count page views. The data is used for statistics. 120 years Cookie
_ga_******** Google LLC This cookie stores a unique ID for a website visitor and tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Data transfer to third countries: USA. Google LLC. is certified under the Data Privacy Framework, which means that your rights as a data subject can be guaranteed. 2 years Cookie
_hjSession_****** Hotjar Ltd A cookie that contains the current session data. As a result, subsequent requests within the session window are assigned to the same Hotjar session. 30 minutes Cookie
_hjSessionUser_****** Hotjar Ltd This Hotjar cookie is set when a user lands on a website with the Hotjar script for the first time. It is used to retain the Hotjar user ID, which is unique to that website, in the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same website is attributed to the same user ID. 60 years Cookie
tADe Collects data about the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, the average time spent on the website and which pages were loaded in order to create reports to optimize the website content. ongoing Local Storage

Advertising cookies

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
_gcl_au Google LLC This cookie is set by Google Adsense for the placement of cross-site advertising. 15 years Cookie
_uetsid Microsoft This contains the session ID for a unique session on the website. This is used by Microsoft Advertising. ongoing Local Storage
_uetsid Bing (Microsoft) This cookie is used by Bing to determine which ads to display that may be relevant to the end user browsing the website. one day Cookie
_uetsid_exp Microsoft Contains the expiration date for the local storage and cookie with the corresponding name. ongoing Local Storage
_uetvid Microsoft UET assigns this unique, anonymized visitor ID, which represents a unique visitor. UET stores this data in a first-party cookie and local storage. ongoing Local Storage
_uetvid Bing (Microsoft) This cookie is used by Bing to determine which ads are displayed that may be relevant to the end user visiting the website. one year Cookie
_uetvid_exp Microsoft Contains the expiration date for the cookie or local storage element with the corresponding name. ongoing Local Storage
FPAU Google This cookie is used for tracking purposes and is set by Google. It is used by Campaign Manager, Display & Video 360, Google Ads, Search Ads 360 3 months Cookie
gtmBrowserId Google Is stored in local memory to determine whether the user has already visited the website with the current browser. ongoing Local Storage
IDE Google This cookie from Double Click (Google) is used to analyze and optimize advertising campaigns. 64 years Cookie
lastExternalReferrer This element is used to determine the origin of your visit. ongoing Local Storage
lastExternalReferrerTime This element is used for visitor evaluation ongoing Local Storage
MR Microsoft This is a Microsoft MSN first-party cookie that we use to measure website usage for internal analytics. 7 days Cookie
MUID Microsoft This cookie is often used by Microsoft as a unique user ID. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. It is generally assumed that synchronization takes place between many different Microsoft domains so that users can be tracked. one days Cookie
NID Google This cookie is set by Double Click (Google) to create a profile of your interests and serve relevant ads for remarketing purposes. 30 years Cookie
UserMatchHistory This cookie is used to track visitor behavior and provide better personalized advertising. 5 years Cookie

Social media cookies

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
_fbp [2x] Meta Inc This cookie is used by Facebook for advertising purposes and for conversion tracking. 15 years Cookie
bcookie [2x] LinkedIn This cookie from LinkedIn is used by share buttons and advertising tags. It is used to store browser details. 120 years Cookie
bscookie LinkedIn Cookie from LinkedIn used by share buttons and advertising tags. 120 years Cookie
fr Facebook Cookie set by Facebook. The information collected is used in their advertising products, e.g. real-time bids from third-party advertisers. 15 years Cookie
li_sugr LinkedIn This cookie from LinkedIn is used by share buttons and advertising tags. 14 years Cookie
lidc [2x] LinkedIn This cookie from LinkedIn is used by share buttons and advertising tags. It is used to store actions performed on the website. 2 months Cookie

These options are available to you

BMS places and uses functional cookies when you explore our website to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Only if you have given your consent, BMS places analytical, advertising and social media cookies. We offer you the option to set your preference regarding the use of cookies when you first visit the website. We will save your preference for your next visit, but you can always adjust it.

How you can control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies according to your wishes; more information can be found at aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent their use. However, if you do this, you may need to manually adjust some preferences each time you visit a website, and some services and features may no longer be available.

Cookie settings

Changes to the policy

We may change this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will inform you when the cookie policy is updated, but we would also ask you to read this privacy policy regularly. This policy was last modified on November 01, 2024.

Questions and feedback

Please send us your questions and comments about cookies or privacy to [email protected].