Website Cookie Policy V 1.2 2023-04-27
1 Purpose and scope
This Policy explains how we (“SONECT, “us”, “we”, or “our”) use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website (‘Website”), what information is collected whilst using cookies as well as how it is used.
2 General information about cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our Website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. With the help of cookies, the Website recognizes the user’s device (e.g., the next time the user visits the same website) and can be used to determine the user’s behaviour and habits on the Internet.
3 Purposes
There are different types of cookies. Some cookies are used directly on our website, other cookies may be used by third-parties, which store cookies in our website. Cookies set by our website are called «First-party cookies». Data collected by first-party cookies can be accessed only by us. “Third-party cookies” are cookies that are placed on our Website by us when we use external services.
Some of the cookies we use are installed on your device only during the browsing session of the Website. These cookies are called «session cookies». Session cookies expire automatically when the visitor’s session ends and the browser is closed.
Another type of cookie, known as a «persistent cookie» is a text file that a web server sends to your web browser that is stored by your web browser until it expires (unless you delete it before it expires).
4 The cookies we use
Our Website uses 4 types of cookies:
Necessary Cookies – these cookies are essential to ensure proper functioning of our Website. Without them, our Website may not be able to provide services to our users standards. Because necessary cookies are needed to provide our services, you cannot turn them off. However, if you decide that you do not wish to receive cookies from us, you may block or delete them by changing your browser settings.
Performance Cookies – these cookies analyse the availability, use or operation of our Website in order to provide you with a better user experience as well as manage, administer and continuously improve our Website. Performance cookies allow us to better understand the visitors of our Website, while at the same time giving us the opportunity to improve the way the content is presented or to improve the performance of the Website by managing potential errors on the Website. We use “Google Analytics“, a website analytics service that allows us to analyse usage of our Website. Data collected through “Google Analytics“ is known as «site metric» or «analytics». “Google Analytics“ is a website analytics service provided by „Google Inc.“ («Google»). “Google Analytics“ uses cookies to determine the behaviour of visitors to the Website. „Google Analytics“ collects statistics that allow us to form an opinion about the use of the Site by its visitors.
Marketing Cookies – these cookies are used to display advertising messages that we believe are relevant to you.
Functionality cookies – these cookies allow us to personalise how the Website looks for you: these cookies remember preferences and choices you make on our Website including username, region, and language settings. The functionality cookies we use allow the Website to remember your choices in the past, for example, which language you prefer.
More information about the cookies we use is provided in the table below:
Cookie name | Expiry | Type | Function | ||||||||
cf_bm | 1 day | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | ||||||||
CONSENT | 2 years | Necessary | This cookie is used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR- compliance of the website. | ||||||||
cookielawinfo-checkbox- necessary | 1 year | Necessary | This cookie determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | ||||||||
cookielawinfo-checkbox- non-necessary | 1 year | Necessary | This cookie determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | ||||||||
pll_language | 1 year | Functional | This cookie is used to determine the preferred language of the visitor and sets the language accordingly on the website, if possible. | ||||||||
_gid _ga |
Persistent | Performance | Google Analytics cookies to track users as they navigate the Website and help improve the Website’s usability. These allow us to recognize and count the number of users of our Website and understand how such users navigate through our Website. This helps to improve how our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics and Google |
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Tag Manager (for more information see Section 2 Tracking System below). | |||||||||||
_gat | Session | Performance | This is a Google Analytics cookie, used to throttle request rate. | ||||||||
_ga_# | 2 years | Performance | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | ||||||||
_tt_enable_cookie | 1 year | Performance | Used by the social networking service, TikTok, for tracking the use of embedded services. | ||||||||
object(quot;#-#- #T#:#:#.#Zquot;) | Session | Performance | Unclassified. | ||||||||
_fbp | 3 months | Marketing | This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | ||||||||
_fw_crm_v | 1 year | Marketing | This cookie registers collects information on user preferences and/or interaction with web- campaign content – This is used on CRM- campaign – platform used by website owners for promoting events or products. | ||||||||
_ttp | 1 year | Marketing | This cookie is used by the social networking service, TikTok, for tracking the use of embedded services. | ||||||||
_ttp | Session | Marketing | This cookie is used by the social networking service, TikTok, for tracking the use of embedded services. | ||||||||
LAST_RESULT_ENTR Y_KEY | Session | Marketing | Unclassified. | ||||||||
LogsDatabaseV2:V9e20e 79c||#LogsRequestsStore | Persistent | Marketing | Unclassified. | ||||||||
nextId | Session | Marketing | Unclassified. | ||||||||
remote_sid | Session | Marketing | This cookie is necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-con ten t on the website. | ||||||||
requests | Session | Marketing | Unclassified. | ||||||||
TESTCOOKIESENABL ED | 1 day | Marketing | Unclassified. | ||||||||
tt_appInfo | Session | Marketing | This cookie is used by the social networking service, TikTok, for tracking the use of embedded services. | ||||||||
tt_pageId | Session | Marketing | This cookie is used by the social networking service, TikTok, for tracking the use of embedded services. | ||||||||
tt_sessionId | Session | Marketing | This cookie is used by the social networking service, TikTok, for tracking the use of embedded services. | ||||||||
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 180 days | Marketing | This cookie tries to estimate the users› bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | ||||||||
YSC | Session | Marketing | This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | ||||||||
yt.innertube::nextId | Persistent | Marketing | This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | ||||||||
ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ ENTRY_KEY | Persistent | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
YtIdbMeta#databases | Persistent | Marketing | Unclassified. | ||||||||
yt-remote-cast-available | Session | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
yt-remote-cast-installed | Session | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
yt-remote-connected- devices | Persistent | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
yt-remote-device-id | Persistent | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
yt-remote-fast-check- period | Session | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
yt-remote-session-app | Session | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | ||||||||
yt-remote-session-name | Session | Marketing | This cookie stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
Unclassified cookies (4)
Some of the cookies we use are currently unclassified. This information may be amended later, once further information on the classification of the cookies is available.
Cookie name |
Expiry |
Type |
Function |
pl-anon-u |
5 years |
Unclassified |
Unclassified. |
lrsid |
Session |
Unclassified |
Unclassified. |
lrpid |
Session |
Unclassified |
Unclassified. |
hop-b3699077-84fc-42bc-a0cc-418c5cecfa4d |
Persistent |
Unclassified |
Unclassified. |
5 Tracking Systems
We may employ a tracking system such as Google Analytics (including Universal Analytics), Facebook Pixel or similar services on our Website. These are services provided by third parties, which may be located in any country worldwide (in the case of Google Analytics, Google LLC is in the U.S., www.google.com) and which allow us to measure and evaluate the use of our Website (on an anonymized basis). For this purpose, permanent cookies are used, which are set by the service provider.
The service provider does not receive (and does not retain) any Personal Data from us, but the service provider may track your use of the Website.
The information generated through the cookies about the utilization of this website (including your IP address) is transferred to and stored on a central server. If appropriate, this information will be passed on to third parties to the extent this is prescribed by law or to the extent that third parties process the data under contract.
We reserve the right, if required, to employ other tracking systems than those named in the section on tracking data for the specified purpose.
6 Third party website cookies
Our website may display links to sites used by external service providers such as “Facebook”, “Instagram”, “LinkedIn”, etc. These third-party cookie policies will apply when you view the content by clicking the button or link provided. You can find more information about the cookie policies of these third parties here:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
https://www.migrosbank.ch/ueber-uns/datenschutzerklaerung.html
https://www.volg.ch/datenschutz/
https://www.hbl.ch/de/ueber-uns/rechtliches/rechtliches/
https://www.neon-free.ch/de/privacy/website
https://www.kkiosk.ch/de/datenschutz/#cookies
Our Website may contain links to other third party websites. We do not control how cookies are placed on third party websites, even if you are directed to them from our Website. If clicking on a link from our Website takes you to other websites, it is advised to pay special attention to the cookies the third parties use.
The cookies used on our Website may transfer the collected data to third countries, including the United States Of America. To find out how we handle your data and on what basis we may transfer your data, we suggest you read our Privacy Policy.
7 Blocking and rejecting cookies
There are several ways how you can manage cookies:
1. Cookie settings in our Website.
In order to control the cookies we use, you can select the cookie settings in the notification line before browsing our Website.
In the notification line, you can manage all cookies stored on our Website, with the exception of necessary cookies.
2. Your browser settings
Majority of browsers allow users to change the used cookies settings. In order to help you understand how to use these settings, the following links may be helpful. you can use the help feature in your browser for more information:
3. Cookie settings in „Internet Explorer“ browser – https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
4. Cookie settings in „Firefox“ browser – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences;
5. Cookie settings in „Chrome“ browser – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en;
6. Cookie settings in “Safari” browser – https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac.
If you delete your cookies, all settings controlled by these cookies will be deleted and you will need to re-create them when you visit our Website later. Without necessary cookies, our Website may not function properly.
8 Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
SONECT AG
Dufourstrasse 47
8008 Zurich
Switzerland
[email protected]
In European Union:
SONECT Europe UAB
Goštauto g. 8-227
LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
[email protected]
9 Modifications and Additions to this Cookie Policy
We reserve the right to update and change this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your Personal Data or changing legal requirements. The effective date of our Cookie Policy is posted
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