Please read the following carefully to understand how Equinox Capitol uses Cookies when you visit our website (“Site”).
About Cookies
From 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force saying that consent for data processing has to be given by users through a “clear affirmative action” and it must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous. The GDPR says that consent is “any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which you by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signify agreement to the processing of personal data relating to you”.
It is important that “we need to be confident that you fully understand that your actions will result in specific cookies being set and have taken a clear and deliberate action to give consent. This must be more than simply continuing to use our website. To ensure that consent is freely given, you should be able to disable cookies, and you should make this easy to do.”
Whenever you find yourselves in our website, it may retrieve and store information on your browser. The information about you won’t occasionally directly identify you, but it can give you a different dedicated web experience.
As a result, several companies like us have been developing cookie tools and privacy management software which allows you to set your cookies preferences by enabling them, for example, to reject the use of analytical, marketing or advertising cookies. Such tools are also a mechanism through we can seek to obtain and record your consent so that you can evidence such consent at a later date. These tools also allow you to change your preferences. This is important as you have the right to withdraw your consent as easily as you have given it.
What do Cookies mean?
Cookies, pixel tags and similar technologies are files consisting of tiny amounts of information that are stored by visitor’s browser on any Internet-enabled device – such as visitor’s laptop, smart phone, or tablet – when you visit a website. Most of the web portals consisting of elements from multiple web domains so when you visit our Site, your browser can receive Cookies from several sources. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on the CCS Websites. Afterwards, Cookies are delivered back to the originating webpage on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognises that cookie. Cookies do lots of different and useful tasks, such as remembering visitor’s actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size etc.) The data processed by cookies are for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests as well as third parties pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR required.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer, or a note always appears before a new cookie is created. However, disabling cookies completely may mean that you cannot use all features of our website.
You can delete or block the Cookies, but if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our site, and some features of our site may not work as intended. For example, you may not be able to visit certain areas of our site, or you may not receive personalized information when you visit our Site.
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept Cookies. If you do not want our website to store Cookies on your computer or device, you can change or adjust your browser or device settings to block Cookies or to alert visitor when Cookies are being sent to your device.
If you use different devices to view and access our Sites (e.g. visitor’s computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your Cookie preferences.
Cookie Types
There are 2 main cookie types: First party cookies & 3rd party cookies
If the owner of website defines the cookies, then cookies are called “first party cookies”.
If third parties define the cookies, then they are called “3rd party cookies“.
Benefit of hosting third party cookies is to make 3rd party features and functionality enabled through the website. Examples: Advertising, analytics, and interactive contents.
Segmented Cookie Types
Strictly Necessary Cookies are necessary for the operation of Websites. These Cookies are essential in helping visitor to move around the websites and use the features, such as accessing secure areas of the websites. These cookies cannot be switched off in our systems. Such as Identifying you as being logged into the websites & providing access to protected areas of websites & setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms, for security purposes and making sure you connect to the right service on the website when we make any changes to the way it works. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the website will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Functional Cookies make the website enabled to provide strengthened functionality and personalisation. They may be called as first party cookies or third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If the you make these cookies inactive, then some of these services might not be functioning properly and efficiently. ‘Functionality’ cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.
‘Functionality’ cookies used for such purposes as:
Remember settings you’ve applied such as layout, text size, preferences and colours
Remember if we’ve already asked you if you want to fill in a survey
Remember if you have engaged with a specific component or list on the website so that it won’t repeat
Show you when you’re logged in to the website
To provide and show embedded video content
Some of these cookies are managed for websites owners by third parties
With performance Cookies, Websites count number of visits & traffic of different time intervals so the performance of the websites can be easily considered. It is so beneficial that the owner easily recognizes Which landing pages are the most and least strong in terms of number of visitors. So, the information gathered because of this may be called omittable and not valuable info let’s say “anonymous”.
‘Performance’ cookies collect information about how you use the website, e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how the website works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
Performance cookies used because of that:
Carry out web analytics: Provide statistics on how the website is used
Perform affiliate tracking: Provide feedback to affiliated entities that one of our visitors also visited their site
Obtain data on the number of users of the website that have viewed a product or service
Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur
Test different designs for the website
Some of the performance cookies are managed for websites by third parties.
