cookie – Investates

This Cookie Policy was last updated on January 2, 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://investates.de (hereinafter: "The Website") uses cookies and similar technologies (for simplicity, all these are grouped under "Cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are Cookies?

A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are Scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a Web Beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or Functional Cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Marketing / Tracking Cookies

Marketing / Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

6. Placed Cookies

Elementor Statistics (Anonymous)

We use Elementor for content creation.

Name	Expiration	Function
elementor	Persistent	Stores user actions on the website

WordPress Functional

We use WordPress for website development.

Name	Expiration	Function
wpEmojiSettingsSupports	Session	Stores browser details
wp-settings-*	Persistent	Stores user preferences
wp-settings-time-*	1 Year	Stores user preferences
wordpress_test_cookie	Session	Checks if cookies can be placed
wp_lang	Session	Stores language settings
wordpress_logged_in_*	Persistent	Keeps user logged in

Google reCAPTCHA Functional

We use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention.

Name	Expiration	Function
_grecaptcha	6 Months	Provides spam protection
rc::c, rc::b, rc::a	Session	Spam analysis

Complianz Functional

We use Complianz for cookie consent management.

Name	Expiration	Function
cmplz_banner-status	365 Days	Stores if the banner has been dismissed
cmplz_functional, cmplz_preferences, cmplz_marketing	365 Days	Stores consent preferences
cmplz_consented_services	365 Days	Stores consented services
cmplz_policy_id	365 Days	Stores policy ID
cmplz_statistics	365 Days	Stores statistics consent

Google Fonts Marketing / Functional

We use Google Fonts for display of web fonts.

Name	Expiration	Function
Google Fonts API	None	Requests user IP for font delivery

Miscellaneous Pending Investigation

Data sharing is being investigated.

Name	Function
e_kit-elements-defaults	Pending
mp_*_mixpanel	Pending (Analytics)
acf	Pending
litespeed_qc_hide_banner	Pending
_lscache_vary	Caching functionality

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save Preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

Functional (Always Active): Technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Marketing: Technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

8. Enabling/Disabling and Deleting Cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your Rights with Respect to Personal Data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained.
Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
Right to rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
Right to transfer your data: You have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
Right to object: You may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).