COOKIE POLICY
Table of Contents:INFORMATION ON OUR USE OF COOKIES
WHAT ARE COOKIES
TYPES OF COOKIES
WHY WE USE COOKIES
WHAT COOKIES WE USE
USE OF THIRD-PARTYWEBANALYTICS SERVICES
THIRD PARTY SERVICES EMBEDDED CONTENT
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
HOW TO WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT
HOW TO MANAGE AND DELETE COOKIES
MOBILE APPLICATIONS
CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY
HOW TOCONTACT US
This Cookie Policy is effective as of January 7, 2019
INFORMATION ON OUR USE OF COOKIES
This policy explains what cookies are and provides information on our practices with respect to the placement of cookies, including the types of cookies we use and how you can manage them. We are obliged to ask for your permission in order to use or save certain types of cookies on your computer or mobile device. Please read ourPrivacy Policy in order to take note of the privacy rules applicable to our services. By continuing to use our website we assume you agree to the placement of cookies on your computer or mobile device as set out in this policy. If you do not wish to accept cookies from this site please either disable cookies by changing your browser settings or refrain from using this site. Cookies do not allow to systematically collect data that enable us to identify the users of our website. They only allow us to collect data regarding how our website is used in order to improve the website and provide a better user experience.WHAT ARE COOKIES
A cookie is a tiny text file containing information, generated by a web server when you visit a website or application and is placed by that web server on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device. Each time you access that same website or application your browser would automatically send back this cookie to the server supplying the web site. This enables the web server to recognize your browser or mobile device and remember your actions and preferences over a period of time. Cookies are tied to a domain that is specified in the cookie. The domain is the owner of the cookie, as the cookie’s content can only be retrieved, read and modified only by the domain that created it. At no time can the cookie collect any personal data or other information stored on your computer or mobile device. The use of cookies does not reveal your identity, but may lead to the identification of your device.TYPES OF COOKIES
Cookies can be stored for varying lengths of time on your browser or device. Depending on their lifespan cookies are either session or persistent. Session cookies are created temporarily and are deleted when the user closes the web browser. Basically these cookies allow the web server to link the actions of a user during a browser session. While Persistent cookies remain even after the session is closed. These cookies are stored on a user’s hard drive until they reach their expiry date specified in their parameters or until the user deletes them. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie. By means of permanent cookies, the website identifies you during a visit to apply your settings or identify you as a new user. As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either first-party or third-party cookies. First-party cookiesare set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one being visited by the user (i.e. different from the one shown on the browser’s address bar).WHY WE USE COOKIES
Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owner of the website. More specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:Optimize web site performance and improve the speed and security of our services;
Improve the website’s usability so our services will function as you’d expect;
Recognize your computer when you visit our website. This assists us to distinguish you from other users of our website and helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, so you could navigate between pages efficiently;
Enable the use of login (session management or authentication) functionality as well as remember your username, so you don’t have to login for future visits;
Personalize our website for you and save your preferences and settings for future visits; make certain features available;
Aggregate anonymous user information that helps us generate traffic statistics and analyze the use of our website, such as which links are used most frequently or which pages get fewest unique views;
Measuring visitor behavior so we can see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. We use these details to improve how our website functions and to understand how users interact with it.
Cookies or information retrieved from them will not be used for any purpose other than the one stated above. Although we don’t serve behavioral advertising on our website, we may still show you contextualized ads relevant to the content you’re viewing.
WHAT COOKIES WE USE
The cookies we use, perform up to three different functions:Essential cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service which you have requested. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you disable these cookies we can’t guarantee your security or predict how our website will perform during your visit. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information and do not remember where you have been on the internet. Some of the essential cookies we place on your browser ensure that our website delivers you information and services securely. Also we set a cookie to confirm that our Cookie Privacy Notice has been displayed to the user and another cookie to remember your cookie preferences. As the website is hosted on Microsoft Azure, the ARRAffinity cookie is used to control the effective loading of the website and to ensure that all user requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. This cookie will only be storedfor the duration of your browser session.
Functionality Cookies
We may use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your information and settings for any future visits. This results in faster and more convenient access. For instance, these cookies allow us to remember choices you make such as your user name, language or the region you are in. Also enable us to remember the last chosen hobby and content filters selection and to restore them when the page is re-visited. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you’ve made to text size, font and other parts of pages that you can customize. We also set cookies to remember if we asked you if you want to fill in a survey or if you have engaged with a particular component on our website so that it won’t repeat. If you disable these cookies we won’t be able to perform specific services or remember choices you have made.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They also help us to track how visitors move around the site, the pages they visited and the features they used as well as if they get error messages from it.All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous and is only used to improve how the website works. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties – in particular by Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Application Insights. We do not allow our third-party analytics services providers to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed above.
USE OF THIRD-PARTYWEBANALYTICS SERVICES
Our website uses cookies, provided by third-party analytics services providers such as “Google Analytics”, “Mixpanel” and “Microsoft Application Insights”. Through the web analytics information, we are able to obtain the number of users accessing to the web, also the number of page views, the frequent visits, the number of users that have visited repeated times, the duration of the visits, the browser and the terminal device used, the internet service provider, the language, or the physical location assigned to the IP address. These cookies allow us to collect information in an anonymous form about engagement with our website. Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Application Insights will use this information as our commissioned data processor to help us evaluate the use of our Website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other statistical and analytical services relating to usage of our Website. We collect and store this information on an individual basis and in aggregate, or combined, form. We use the information we get from these Analytics Tools only to maintain and improve the website and our services.If you wish to disable Google Analytics you can download and install the add-on for your web browser available on the Google Analytics opt-out page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You may opt out of Mixpanel tracking by visiting: https://mixpanel.com/optout/
For more information, including details of how to block Application Insights’ cookies, please see: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/monitor/