Our Cookies Policy
(last update: 17. 4. 2020)
The website www.altfins.com operated by the company altFINS, j. s. a., with its registered seat at Námestie slobody 13, 811 06 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, ID. No.: 51 781 646, registered in the Commercial Register of the District Court Bratislava I, Section: Sja, Entry No.: 50/B (“We“, “Us“, “Our“, the “Website“) uses cookies. By accessing and using the Website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies, you consent to the use of cookies, as you are informed when first accessing our Website.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how and why We use our Own and Third-party cookies on our Website, and what are your cookie options, i.e. what you can do if you do not wish to accept cookies from us.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored in your web browser by most websites you visit. They, for instance, allow the websites you visit (or third-parties) to recognize you as a visitor (but not as an individual), collect analytical data and improve their services and user experience.
Cookies can be divided into two groups: “persistent cookies” and “session cookies”. Persistent cookies are saved to the disk and kept there until they expire (depending on their predetermined duration) or until you manually delete them. Session cookies are stored only in memory for the duration of your visit and are therefore deleted as soon as you leave the website (close the browser) and therefore terminate your “session”.
Cookies can also be either “first-party” or “third-party”. First-party cookies are stored in your browser directly by the website you visit, while third-party cookies are stored by third-party subjects or services, such as advertising platforms, analytics solutions implemented by the website you visit etc.
How do We use Cookies?
Cookies can be used for a large number of purposes. In the context of what they are used for, cookies can be divided into four categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies – These are essential so that you can use the website, move around it and fully use its features. Without these, the websites wouldn’t be able to work properly.
- Performance cookies – These cookies are used to collect data about how visitors use the website, which gives website operators information about how visitors interact with the website. That enables them to improve the functionality of their website.
- Functionality cookies – These cookies allow websites to remember choices you make, such as your language preference. Thanks to them, you don’t have to change the settings every time you visit a website – the website will remember them for you.
- Targeting and/or advertising cookies – These cookies are used to show you advertisements more relevant to you.
You can see the cookies We use in the table below, together with their brief descriptions and categorization. Please note that this table contains both First-party and Third-party cookies.
| No. | Name | Description | First party or Third party | Session or Persistent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | IDE | DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. DoubleClick cookies contain no personally identifiable information. https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2839090?hl=it | Third party | Persistent |
| 2. | __cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third party | Persistent |
| 3. | _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | First party | Persistent |
| 4. | _gat | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. | First party | Session |
| 5. | _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | First party | Persistent |
Third-party cookies
As you can see from the table above, third-party cookies from various third-parties are used on our Website. These are in use because of the integration of the services of these third-parties with our Website, namely:
- Google Analytics
Google Analytics records analytical data about the visitors of this Website, their individual visits and interaction with the Website. You can read more about Google Analytics and related cookies at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. Also, feel free to read more about how Google Analytics safeguards your data at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You can opt-out from Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This will stop Google Analytics from tracking your visits not only on our Website, but globally.
We also embed videos from YouTube. These videos are placed on our website using the YouTube embed code and there are various cookies associated with functionality. These cookies are listed in the table above.
Cookies management
By accessing and using the Website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies, you consent to the use of cookies. If you don’t wish to accept cookies from our Website or other websites, use the instructions below to disable them in your browser.
Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings in their “Options” or “Preferences” menus. The manufacturers of browsers provide useful help pages related to cookie management, which you can use to learn more about how to manage cookies or turn them off entirely.