European laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the e-Privacy Directive, create obligations for digital publishers such MyData-TRUST SA (“MDT”) to give visitors to their sites and apps information about their use and sharing of personal data, as well as about the use of cookies, mobile ad IDs, and other forms of local storage.
Since we, MDT, are using cookies on our website, clear and mandatory information must be mentioned on this Cookies Notice, as set out below.
INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES
I. What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files, normally consisting of letters and numbers, that MDT places when you visit its website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. These cookies, placed on your device (computer, telephone, tablet), can be used to identify or to collect information about you.
II. What types of cookies are there?
Cookies can be classified as follows, depending on the owner:
- First-party cookies: They are created, sent to your computer and stored by the website you are visiting directly. They allow MDT to collect customer analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.
- Third-party cookies: They are created and placed by third parties other than the website you are visiting directly. They are not managed by MDT, but by the third party that processes data obtained from the cookies.
Cookies can also be classified depending on the purpose of their placement. Main categories are:
- Strictly necessary cookies (technical): The cookies that allow you to browse a website, platform or app, and use the various options or services on it (e.g., control traffic, identify data or session, access restricted access sections or content, etc.). These cookies are ‘strictly necessary’ to provide the service you request, so the cookies consent exemption applies as per Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, and no consent is required.
- Functional cookies: Functional cookies help MDT to make the website usable by providing you some basic features and remember your preferences and choices of using MDT’s website (e.g., language, the region from where the service is accessed, etc.). Not accepting cookies may cause slow website performance or poorly adapted recommendations.
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Statistics cookies: Statistics cookies allow MDT to provide a better understanding of how you interact with the website. As per Opinion 4/2012 WP29 (Criterion C), first-party analytics cookies are not likely to create a privacy risk when they are strictly limited to first party aggregated statistical purposes, anonymized and equipped with user-friendly opt-out mechanisms, thus creating a further exemption to the required informed consent. Hence, when we place first-party analytics cookies, we will not ask for your consent.
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Marketing cookies: Marketing cookies enable MDT to monitor you to the websites. The aim is to display advertisements that are meaningful and attractive to you and therefore more useful to third party publishers and advertisers, as well as to make promotional and specific information available to you on the website
Cookies may also be separate in two categories in relation to the period for which they are stored:
- Session cookies. Session cookies allow MDT to recognize and link your actions during a browsing session. When you go to the login page, these temporary cookies will be created to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies
- Persistent cookies. Persistent cookies are placed on your device between sessions. They can be used to remember your preferences or actions on MDT’s website.
III. How to use cookies?
Cookies in no way give MDT access to your computer or any information other than the data you choose to share with MDT.
Concretely, these cookies help us to improve the functioning of the website and can be used for several purposes:
- Help users connect to a website
- Recognize a user’s device
- Make the website more efficient
