What Are Cookies?
Our website, operated by RDB Worldwide A.G., a B2B platform based in Switzerland, uses cookies. Cookies are small files sent to your browser by a web server that record your activities on our website. The primary purpose of cookies is to provide faster access to selected services and to personalize the services we offer, making information more relevant to your interests based on your use of our services.
Cookies help us enhance your browsing experience by personalizing and facilitating navigation. Cookies are associated with an anonymous user and their computer and do not provide any personal data about you. You can configure your browser to notify you and reject cookies sent by our website without affecting your ability to access the content. However, please note that disabling cookies may reduce the functionality of the website.
Registered users who log in can benefit from more personalized services tailored to their profile by combining cookie data with the personal data provided during registration. Users consent to the use of this information for the specified purpose, though they retain the right to refuse or disable cookies.
Types of Cookies
Cookies can be classified based on their duration and purpose:
- Session Cookies: These cookies expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device until their purpose is fulfilled or until you manually delete them.
Purpose-Based Cookie Classification:
- Performance Cookies: These cookies remember your preferences for tools within the services, such as:
- Volume settings for media players.
- Video streaming speeds compatible with your browser.
- Geo-Location Cookies: Used to determine your location when requesting a service, helping tailor content to your location. These cookies are completely anonymous.
- Registration Cookies: Generated when you register or log in, these cookies:
- Keep you identified across sessions, making navigation easier without needing to re-identify yourself each time. You can delete these cookies by using the "log out" functionality.
- Verify your authorization to access certain services, such as participating in a contest.
- Analytical Cookies: These cookies, created by external analytics tools, serve to:
- Anonymously identify visitors (by browser and device) and track their behavior over time.
- Identify the most popular content and distinguish between new and returning visitors.
- These cookies are used only for statistical purposes and do not link to personal data.
- Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These cookies expand information about advertisements displayed to anonymous users. They track ad display duration, interaction, browsing patterns, and interests to offer more relevant advertising.
- Third-Party Advertising Cookies: These are served by third parties (AdServers) and can be used to store cookies and access data on users’ devices.
Cookies We Use
- Own Cookies: Sent from our domain and used to provide the requested service.
- Third-Party Cookies: Sent from a domain not managed by us but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
Managing and Disabling Cookies
You can prevent your browser from accepting cookies or disable cookies from specific services. Modern browsers offer options to modify cookie settings, typically found in the "options" or "preferences" menu. Additionally, you can configure your browser or email client to avoid downloading web bugs. Here’s how to adjust settings for major browsers:
- Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Settings.
- Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Custom settings.
- Chrome: Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Site Settings -> Cookies.
- Safari: Preferences -> Privacy.
Changes to the Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy to comply with legal requirements or to adapt to changes in regulations. Users are encouraged to review this policy periodically. Significant changes will be communicated via the website or email to registered users.