Cookies
This cookie policy was last updated on September 5, 2025 and applies to citizens and residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://elhks.de (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and similar technologies (for simplicity, all are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies may also be 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 an Internet address and can be stored by the web browser on your PC or other device. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers or to the servers of relevant third parties during subsequent visits.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code used to enable functionality and interactivity on our website. This code is executed on our servers or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (also called a pixel tag) is a small, invisible text fragment or image on a website that is used to monitor website traffic. To enable this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that parts of our website function properly and your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. For example, this means you don’t have to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website, or your entries remain saved as long as you keep the site open. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Analytical cookies
We use analytical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. These analytical cookies allow us to gain insights into the usage of our website. We ask for your permission to set analytical cookies.
5.3 Marketing / tracking cookies
Marketing / tracking cookies are cookies or another form of local storage that are used to create user profiles, display advertising, or track the user on this website or across multiple websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. Placed cookies
Click here to manage your cookie settings
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we display a popup with a statement about cookies. As soon as you click “Save settings”, you give us your consent to use all categories of cookies and plugins you have selected as described in this cookie statement. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note our website may not function correctly as a result.
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 should not be placed. Another option is to set up your internet browser so that you are notified each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to your browser’s help section.
Please note, our website may not function properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete cookies in your browser, they will be placed again when you revisit our website.
9. Your rights regarding personal data
With regard to your personal data, you have the following rights:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what happens to it and how long it will be kept.
- Right of access: You have the right to access the personal data known to us about you.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to add to, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you have given us consent to process your data, you have the right to withdraw this consent and have your personal data deleted.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to request all your personal data from one controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: You may object to the processing of your data. We will comply with this, unless there are legitimate grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the end of this cookie statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear about it, but you also have the right to submit it to the supervisory authority (data protection authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our cookie policies and this statement, please contact us using the following contact details:
Eva Luise und Horst Köhler Foundation for People with Rare Diseases
Simrockstraße 4
53113 Bonn
Germany
Website: https://elhks.de
E-mail: info@www.elhks.de
Telephone number: +49 (0)228 617 796 73