How does tracking work?

In the so-called "back end", at our web server level, we collect the data of logged-in users and other visitors, which we use first and foremost for the provision and preservation of the security of the service XING. In the "front end", on your end device, we, or third parties we use, use cookies, pixels, local storage and similar tracking technologies to collect data about logged-in users and other visitors to enable the provision of our service and the analysis of user behaviour, and for the measurement and optimisation of advertising. In addition, we record your usage behaviour in connection with e-mails we send you, e.g. whether and when you have opened an e-mail, and which links you clicked on. Tracking involves the processing of login data (e.g. date and time of the visit, referrer, IP address, cookie ID, location data, product and version information about the browser or app used, device ID or data) and interaction data (e.g. pages viewed, searches carried out, changes to job application status). In order to be able to identify you as a user during your visit to XING, we use so-called session cookies. These session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of a session. These cookies are required to be able to use XING. When you register you can choose to remain logged in. If you do, a cookie is then saved in the browser of your end device that means that you don’t need to log in again for as long as the cookie remains saved. We also conduct a very approximate geo-localisation that informs us of the towns/cities you have been to. In order to do this we use your shorted and anonymised IP address, and your geo-coordinates if you have agreed to this on your mobile end device. We do not save your precise location. We only store information about which cities you are in on a regular basis. Specific addresses or geo-coordinates are not saved.