We use so-called ‘cookies’. These are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system and internet connection. Cookies cannot be used to start programmes or transfer viruses to a computer. Using the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable our website to be displayed correctly.
Cookie Categories
- Essential cookies: These cookies are necessary for you to navigate our site and use its features. Without these cookies, services such as shopping carts and e-billing are not possible.
- Performance and analytics cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the site. We may use this information to improve our website and make it easier for you to navigate. These cookies are also used to enable affiliates to recognise whether you have come from another affiliate’s website and whether your visit has resulted in the use or purchase of a product or service (including information about the products or services purchased). Performance and analytics cookies on our website include Google Analytics and Vimeo.
- Functionality and targeting cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you have made while browsing. For example, we may store your geographic location in a cookie to ensure that we display the appropriate version of the website for your location. Cookies can also be used to keep track of which products or videos you have viewed so that you are not offered the same thing twice. They are also used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. The information collected by these cookies does not identify you. Functional and targeting cookies on our site include YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Third-party Cookies
In some cases, cookies are also loaded by third parties who also collect information about your online activities. These companies may also serve ads and track user behaviour in other ways.
Cookie Settings
You can disable the use of cookies at any time by changing your browser settings at www.youronlinechoice.eu. However, this may prevent you from using certain features of our website.
Especially: Google Analytics
The website uses Google Analytics. This is a web analysis service of Google Inc (‘Google’). The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated by Google within Switzerland, EU and EEA member states beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. The purpose of the data processing is to analyse the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further associated services are then to be provided. The processing is based on our legitimate interest in operating our website.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. However, this may mean that not all functions of the website can be used to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to the use of the website and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Contact
For more information on the use of cookies on our website, please contact us via Email at info@vals.ch.