COOKIES POLICY
Last Reviewed: March 2019
The protection of your personal data is important to us, therefore we pay particular attention to the protection of the personal data of everyone with whom we conduct business, as well as the privacy of visitors who access the CONVEX NETWORK website, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, in relation to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (“GDPR”).
What are Cookies?
The CONVEX NETWORK website uses Cookie identifiers. Cookies are text files that are stored on a computer via your Internet browser. Many websites and web servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a code – so-called cookie identifier (ID). A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie and consists of a string of characters. The cookie ID can be used to personalize Internet pages and servers for the Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows the websites and servers visited to differentiate the individual browser from other Internet browsers, which contain other cookies. A particular Internet browser can be recognized and identified using a unique cookie code.
What are Cookies used for?
Through the use of Cookies, CONVEX NETWORK can provide those who use the website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the setting of Cookies. With the help of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us to recognise users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to facilitate visitors’ use of our website. The website visitor who uses cookies does not have to enter access data every time the website is accessed, as it is taken over by the website and the cookie is thus stored in the user’s computer system.
What Cookies do we use?
Depending on the duration of their use, Cookies can be classified as “sessional” or “persistent”:
- Session cookies – they only last as long as your online session lasts and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies – remain on your computer or device even after the browser is closed, for a period of time set by the cookie.
Cookies used by the partners of the operator of a website, including without limitation the users of the website, are subject to the respective Privacy Policy.
How cookies are used on the CONVEX NETWORK website
The main purposes for which cookies are used are the following:
- Strictly necessary cookies
- These cookies are essential for the operation of the website.
- These cookies do not collect information about you. which could be used for marketing or analytics (see below).
- Performance Cookies / Analytics
- These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors access and use our website, for example – which of the CONVEX NETWORK pages are accessed most often by visitors. They are used to monitor performance, report and provide data that will influence improvements to the site.
- They can also show us if you have opened an email that we have sent you and which visitors have clicked on the email to visit our website.
- Cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of people visiting the site, their likely gender and age, the number of pages they have analyzed, which pages they have visited, and how long they have visited each page.
- Functional cookies
- These cookies allow our website to store the choices you have made about how you want to interact with the website. Examples would be to remember if you have recognized the cookie policy notice or if you have already participated in a study, so that we know that we do not show you these messages again.
- Cookies for marketing, advertising and remarketing
CONVEX NETWORK works with third parties who deliver advertisements or present offers on our behalf and personalize the content you see. Cookies may be used by those third parties to create a profile of your interests. and show you relevant ads on other sites. No personal information is stored directly, but a unique identifier is used in your browser. or on your internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted/personalized content.
The CONVEX NETWORK website uses:
Strictly necessary cookies:
- CookieConsent – stores the user’s choices regarding the consent to the use of cookies on the website.
Statistics cookies from Google Analytics, used to measure information on the use of the website by users – identification of unique users and details about each page visited:
- _ga – valid for 2 years, used to distinguish individual users,
- _gat – valid for 1 minute, does not store information about individual users,
- _gid – valid for 24 hours, used to distinguish individual users.
What kind of personal data is accessed through cookies?
The personal data accessed through the use of Cookies are collected only to facilitate certain functionalities for the user. This data is encrypted in a way that makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to access it. A cookie contains information that links a web browser
(the user) and a specific web-server (the website). If a browser accesses that web-server again, the server can read the information already stored and react accordingly.
Cookies provide visitors to the CONVEX NETWORK website with a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of many websites to provide comfortable services to users: e.g. online privacy preferences, website language choices, shopping carts, etc.
Controlling, disabling and deleting cookies
Most cookies can be controlled from your browser settings. You can:
- View individual cookies along with their expiration date and delete them.
- Block third-party cookies (or ask them not to be tracked).
- Block all cookies.
- Delete all cookies when you close your browser.
If you choose to block all cookies, the functionality of many websites may suffer.
For this reason, we do not recommend disabling cookies when using our website.
The links below will direct you to instructions for changing cookie settings in the most popular browsers:
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Safari for Mac: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Safari for iPhone, iPad, iPod: https://support.apple.com/en-qa/HT201265
This is not an exhaustive list of all browsers – see the “settings” or “support” section for your browser.
Changes to this Cookie Notice
You can find out when this Cookie Policy was last modified by checking the date mentioned under “LAST REVISED” at the top of this page.