COOKIE POLICY

(version November 2023)

Faros, the administrator of this website, uses cookies to improve your browsing experience and to better tailor the website to your preferences. This cookie policy provides you with more information about the cookies used on the website and how you can change your cookie preferences.

1. About cookies

2. List of cookies used on this website

3. Your cookie preferences

4. Updates

5. Contact

1. ABOUT COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that can be placed on your computer or mobile device and store certain information when visiting websites. You can find more information about the different types of cookies below. For a complete list of the cookies used on this website, see List of cookies used on this website.

Cookies can serve different purposes:

Essential cookies are cookies that are necessary for the correct functioning of the website (e.g., to avoid overload on the website, keeping it functional and accessible). These cookies can be placed without your consent.
Functional cookies are cookies that are necessary to improve your browsing experience or to provide a functionality explicitly requested by you (e.g., remembering your settings). These cookies can also be placed without your consent.
Analytical cookies are cookies that collect information about how you use the website to improve search engine hits and the functioning of the website (e.g., see how visitors move around the website when they are using it to ensure that visitors find what they are looking for easily). These cookies are only placed if you have given your consent.
Marketing cookies are cookies that collect information about how you use the website to improve search engine hits and the functioning of the website (e.g. we see how visitors move around the website when they are using it to ensure that visitors easily find what they are looking for). These cookies are only placed if you have given your consent.
Social media cookies are cookies that make it possible to share certain features from the website on social media platforms (e.g. Facebook). Furthermore, these cookies collect information about your surf and search behavior on the website in order to offer you personalized promotions and advertising about our products on these social media platforms. These cookies are only placed if you have given your consent. Social media platforms may also use the information collected through these cookies for their own purposes. You can find more information in the privacy notices of the respective social media platforms.

Cookies may be placed by the website operator itself or by a third party:

First party cookies are cookies that are placed directly by the website operator and that can only be read by the website.
Third party cookies are cookies that are placed on the website by third parties and/or used to send certain information about your visit to a third party. his may, for example, occur because the website contains elements of other websites, such as images or social media plug-ins. When the browser or other software retrieves these elements from other websites, the cookies placed by those other websites are regarded as third-party cookies.

Cookies have an expiration date:

Temporary cookies, or session cookies, are cookies that are temporarily stored on your computer or mobile device during the browsing session and are deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device after you close your browser and will recognize you when you revisit the website. These cookies are deleted after a certain expiration date.

2. LIST OF COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

Below is the complete list of cookies used on the website:

Cookie	Source	Expiration date	Description
ESSENTIAL COOKIES
ASP.NET_SessionId	First party	Session	This cookie stores the visitor's session state across page requests.
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
CookieConsent	First party	1 year	This cookie stores the visitor’s cookie consent state for the current domain.
Consent	Third party	2 years	This cookie from Youtube is used to check whether or not the website visitor has given consent for marketing cookies.
ANALYTICAL COOKIES
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	Third party	1 day	This cookie from Hotjar is used to detect the first page view of the website visitor.
_hjFirstSeen	Third party	1 day	This cookie from Hotjar is used to determine if the website visitor has visited the website before.
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_#	Third party	1 day	This cookie from Hotjar is used to determine whether a website visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the website's daily session limit.
_hjRecordingEnabled	Third party	Session	This cookie from Hotjar is used to check if the user is already in a recording in a particular session when the recording module is initialized.
_hjSession_#	Third party	1 day	This cookie from Hotjar holds current session data and ensures that subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.
_hjSessionUser_#	Third party	1 year	This cookie from Hotjar stores a unique user ID ensuring that the website visitor can be recognized during subsequent visits to the website.
_hjTLDTest	Third party	Session	This cookie from Hotjar is used to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of the page hostname. As a result, cookies can be shared between subdomains.
hjActiveViewportlds	Third party	Permanent	This cookie from Hotjar stores the active viewport IDs and also contains an expiration time stamp used to validate active views.
hjViewportld	Third party	Session	This cookie from Hotjar stores userview details such as resolution and screen size, etc.

3. YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES

When you visit the website for the first time, your cookie preferences will be asked via a banner.

You cannot refuse the essential cookies and functional cookies when you want to visit / use our website. These cookies are set immediately upon your visit and certain use of the website. However, functional cookies are only placed after indicating your cookie preferences. Analytical cookies will only be placed if you agree to this via the cookie preferences. Rejecting certain analytical cookies may imply that certain functionalities of the website will not be available (e.g. remembering to where you watched a video).

You can revoke your consent at any time via the black circular symbol which can be found in the left lower corner of every page.

Furthermore, we use of Fathom Analytics for our website analytics. This software does not use cookies or similar technologies to store and/or gain access to information stored on your terminal equipment (e.g. computer or mobile phone). We only process your IP address which is provided by the internet service provider and User-Agent which is sent to us by your browser without accessing your terminal equipment. You can find more information about Fathom Analytics via their website.

You can consult your browser settings if you want to learn which cookies are placed by this website on your computer or mobile device or if you want to delete these cookies. Via the below links you can find more information about how to delete these cookies:

4. UPDATES

This cookie policy may be modified from time to time, within the limits of the applicable data protection regulations. You will always have access to the most current version via the website.

5. CONTACT