By acceptance of this policy, you acknowledge that you have read and accept our Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.
In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, Stone2Cap hereby informs you that when using the Website, mobile sites, or mobile apps of Stone2Cap, we may collect information by using ‘cookies’. By using our Website, you agree to our use of cookies for the purposes listed below in accordance with this Cookie Policy. You may refuse at any time the use of cookies by adapting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note that this may affect your experience and limit your access to the full functionality of the Website. This is further explained below.
What are cookies and how do they work?
Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded to your computer or other internet enabled devices when you visit a website. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognise its users on subsequent visits, or to authorise other designated websites to recognise these users for a particular purpose. We collect a number of cookies from you for various reasons, not least to track our own performance – but also to let us serve you content tailored to your own specifications, hopefully improving your overall experience of the Website. Amongst other things, the cookies we use allow us to calculate how many visitors we have and how long they stay on our site.
Cookies are an important part of the internet. They make using websites smoother and affect lots of the useful features of websites. In general, the reasons why websites use cookies are: [1] to recognize users, [2] to recall their preferences and [3] to assist users in a multitude of ways such as remembering data that was inputted before. Cookies are also employed for targeted advertising and to show relevant content based on user’s past searches.
Below you find a number of examples of how our Website uses cookies to improve your user experience:
- Recalling if you visited the site before. If you are a first-time user, you might see different content compared to a regular user.
- Remembering your preferences and settings, including marketing preferences.
- Remembering your specific preferences, such as if you filled in a survey, so you are not asked to do it again.
- Enabling social media components, like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Analytics Cookies
We like to keep track of what pages and links are popular to help us keep our Websites relevant and up to date. It is also very useful to be able to identify trends of how people navigate (find their way through) our sites and if they get ‘error messages’ from web pages.
This group of cookies often called ‘analytics cookies’ is used to gather this information. Analytics cookies only record activity on the site you are on and they are only used to improve how a website works.
How to manage cookies
As per European legislation, Stone2Cap requires prior consent of the user to store or access data in the form of cookies on the user’s terminal device. By using our Website, you agree to our use and storage of cookies on your terminal device when visiting the Website.
In general browsers are configured to automatically accept cookies from any website. However, your browser’s settings offer the possibility to manage cookies. You can block them, or choose to receive a notification when a cookie is being stored on your terminal device.
In this respect it is also possible to disable the cookies used by our Website so that no cookie will be stored and used. Note that this may reduce the Website’s functionality and have an impact on the overall user experience. We therefore recommend adjusting your browser settings in a manner that the Website’s cookies are accepted.
A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for many of the services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Additionally, you can visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en to download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by deactivating them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case not all functions of our online offer can be used.