COOKIE POLICY
(version December 2024)
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 proper 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. by examining whether and how visitors use the features of our website to enhance its overall performance). 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. |
maps/gen_204 | Third Party | Session | This cookie from Google Maps is used in context with the website's map integration. The cookie stores user interaction with the map in order to optimize its functionality. |
| 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. |
| MARKETING COOKIES | |||
#-# | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube is used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Third Party | 180 days | This cookie from YouTube is used to manage the phased rollout of new features and updates. This cookie helps assign users to specific test groups for experimental features, such as changes to the user interface or video player. |
iU5q-!O9@$ | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | Third Party | Permanent | This cookie from YouTube is used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
nextId | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube is used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
remote_sid | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube is necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. |
| requests | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube is used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Third Party | 1 day | This cookie from YouTube is used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Third Party | 180 days | This cookie from YouTube is used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor's identity, Store and track interaction. |
| YSC | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube is used to store and track interaction. |
YtIdbMeta#databases | Third Party | Persistent | This cookie from YouTube is used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
yt-remote-cast-available | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
yt-remote-cast-installed | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
yt-remote-connected-devices | Third Party | Persistent | This cookie from YouTube stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
yt-remote-fast-check-period | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
yt-remote-session-app | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
yt-remote-session-name | Third Party | Session | This cookie from YouTube stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
NID | Third Party | 6 months | This cookie from Google is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. |
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 round icon located at the bottom left corner of each 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:
- Firefox
- Firefox (mobile)
- Chrome
- Chrome (mobile)
- Safari
- Safari (mobile)
- Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Edge
Please note that you will need to change the settings individually on each device and for each browser you use.
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
In case you have any questions about the use of cookies on the website, you can always contact us via e-mail (privacy@faros.eu).