Cookie Policy

Cookie policy

Last updated on Janaury 1, 2025

Welcome to our Cookie Policy!

We use cookies and similar technologies on the Website. The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to address the most common questions regarding the concept and types of cookies, as well as how you can control or adjust them.

Terms capitalized in this Cookie Policy have the meanings defined in the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

What are the cookies?

A cookie is a text file containing information that is downloaded to your device when you visit a certain website. Once downloaded to a particular device, cookies are sent back to the website they originated from, or to another site that recognizes the cookie, on each subsequent visit.

The primary purpose of cookies is to make our Service more efficient, secure, and user-friendly. Cookies also allow us to recognize your device through the systems we use, providing you with the best possible configuration.

Cookies enable us to distinguish between visitors to the Website. In addition to cookies, there are other similar technologies with similar functions, such as “pixels” and “web beacons,” and the term “cookie” in this Cookie Policy will include such technologies.

We use cookies to collect information about how the Website and Services are used.

We regularly update the lists of cookies featured on the Website. However, given that cookies are a highly variable category, changes may occasionally occur in the lists that follow.

Types of cookies

Cookies can be classified in three different ways:

Duration of cookies

In general, cookies may last a certain period of time (such as 179 days, 1 year, 2 years, etc.), or only while the website visit session lasts.

So, session cookies are temporary cookies that expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends).

Persistent cookies are cookies that remain on your hard drive until you erase them, or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date. All persistent cookies have an expiration date written into their code, but their duration can vary.

Provenance (origin)

First-party cookies – cookies that are put on your device directly by us, i.e., the website that you have visited.

Third-party cookies - cookies placed on your device, not by us, but by a third party. Third-party cookies are usually related to an advertiser or an analytic system.

Whether a certain cookie falls into the category of first-party or third-party, you can check in the category ‘provider’ in the table below.

Purpose

Our Website includes several types of cookies, which all have different purposes - the necessary ones, statistical, functionality, and marketing cookies. In addition, from time to time unclassified cookies may appear.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies make the Website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the Website. In other words, the Website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name	Purpose	Provider	Expiry	Type
1.gif	Used to count the number of sessions to the website, necessary for optimizing CMP product delivery.	Cookiebot	Session	Pixel Tracker
CookieConsent	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain	Cookiebot	1 year	HTTP
test_cookie	Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.	Google	1 day	HTTP
rc::a	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.	Google	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
rc::c	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.	Google	Session	HTML Local Storage
li_gc	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain	LinkedIn	180 days	HTTP
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.#	Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.	www.vegaitglobal.com	Session	HTTP
.AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTempDataProvider	Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.	www.vegaitglobal.com	Session	HTTP
darkTheme	Stores the user's setting for the website display mode.	www.vegaitglobal.com	Session	HTTP

Statistic cookies

Statistic cookies enable us to understand how visitors interact with the Website, as they collect and report traffic information anonymously. Due to the implementation of these cookies, we can measure and improve the performance of our Website.

This way, we know which pages are the most and the least popular with our users, and we can also have an insight into how our visitors move around the Website.

All information collected by these cookies is collected anonymously and cannot be reasonably used to identify any particular individual.

Name	Purpose	Provider	Expiry	Type
_ga	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	Google	2 years	HTTP
_ga_#	Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.	Google	2 years	HTTP
_pk_id#	Collects statistics on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.	Matomo	1 year	HTTP
_pk_ses#	Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session.	Matomo	1 day	HTTP

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies allow websites to remember the user’s site preferences and choices they make on the site in order to provide personalized features, increase the level of the Websites’ functionality, and boost the user experience on a Website.

If you do not allow these cookies, some of the services won’t function properly.

Name	Purpose	Provider	Expiry	Type
lidc	Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.	LinkedIn	1 day	HTTP

Marketing cookies

We have implemented marketing cookies in order to improve our Website and its performance. So, marketing cookies help us provide you with a good user experience and tailored content.

These cookies are set up through our Website by our advertising partners, who may use marketing cookies to create a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements in other locations.

Please note that marketing cookies uniquely identify your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted ads on other websites.

Name	Purpose	Provider	Expiry	Type
lastExternalReferrer	Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.	Meta Platfroms, Inc.	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
lastExternalReferrerTime	Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.	Meta Platfroms, Inc.	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
_fbp	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.	Meta Platfroms, Inc.	3 months	HTTP
IDE	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.	Google	400 days	HTTP
NID	NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.	Google	6 months	HTTP
pagead/1p-user-list/#	Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites.	Google	Session	Pixel Tracker
_gcl_au	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.	Google	3 months	HTTP
bcookie	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.	LinkedIn	1 year	HTTP
#-#	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage
iU5q-!O9@$	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	Session	HTTP
LogsDatabaseV2:V#\|\|LogsRequestsStore	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	Persistent	IndexedDB
nextId	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	Session	HTTP
remote_sid	Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website.	YouTube	Session	HTTP
requests	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	Session	HTTP
TESTCOOKIESENABLED	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	1 day	HTTP
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.	YouTube	180 days	HTTP
YSC	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.	YouTube	Session	HTTP
yt.innertube::nextId	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.	YouTube	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
YtIdbMeta#databases	Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.	YouTube	Persistent	IndexedDB
yt-remote-cast-available	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-cast-installed	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-connected-devices	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-device-id	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-fast-check-period	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-session-app	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-session-name	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	YouTube	Session	HTML Local Storage

Unclassified cookies

Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

Name	Purpose	Provider	Expiry	Type

Use of external tools on our website

Google Analytics

On this Website, we have integrated a special analysis service - Google Analytics.

Website analysis refers to the collection, recording and analysis of data regarding the behaviour of Website visitors. In other words, Google Analytics uses cookies to remember a visitor’s behaviour and provide us with reports on the Website visits and the visitors’ activity.

The operator of the Google Analytics tool is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies, as described in the table above. The information about your use of our Website generated by the Google Analytics cookies is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might disclose these personal data collected via the technical procedure to third parties.

We have activated IP anonymization, which means that Google shortens the IP addresses of our visitors within the Member States of the European Union or in other countries that are parties to the European Marketing Area Treaty. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Google uses this information to analyze your use of the Website to compile a report about your Website activities and provide us with other services associated with the Website and Service.

In addition to the instructions in Section 5. of this Cookie Policy, you may prevent the disclosure of the data generated by the cookie to Google, as well as the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link.

This browser add-on notifies Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data or information about website visitors may be transmitted to Google Analytics. Apart from that, a cookie left behind by Google Analytics may be erased at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.

Google Analytics is explained in more detail here, while information on how Google processes data you may find on this link.

Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a tool that enables us to manage so-called tags centrally, using an appropriate interface. This tool does not use cookies and does not collect personal data; it merely implements tags on the Website.

Google has a specific policy that governs this method of personal data collection by third-party providers, which you can read at https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/. However, Google Tag Manager does not have access to such data. In the event of the deactivation of a specific domain/site or cookies, Google Tag Manager remains active as a tag management tool, but tags that depend on deactivated cookies may not function fully or at all.

Matomo

Our Website uses Matomo, an open-source web analytics platform provided by InnoCraft Ltd., headquartered in New Zealand. Matomo helps us analyze and improve the performance and usability of our Website by collecting data such as: pages visited, time spent on the Website, referring websites, browser type and operating system.

We prioritize your privacy and have configured Matomo analytics to ensure it operates in a privacy-friendly manner. All data collected is anonymized (e.g., IP addresses are truncated) and cannot be linked to individual users and the collected data is not shared with any third parties.

You can learn more about this data processing on the official Matomo website at https://matomo.org/100-data-ownership/ and https://matomo.org/gdpr-analytics/. Additionally, you can always disable tracking via Matomo by adjusting your Cookie Settings on our Website.

Legal basis for the use of cookies

We use cookies only if we have obtained your consent for that (through the cookie settings). In general, the legal basis for the use of cookies on the Website is the consent of the visitor, given in accordance with the Privacy Policy. The only exception is necessary cookies because the legal basis for their implementation is the performance of the agreement concluded with the data subject.

Please note that it is assumed that the device you use to access the Website is yours. If you access the Website from a device that you do not own, it will still be assumed that you have the authority to consent to the use of cookies on that device, in accordance with the Cookie Policy.

How to block cookies?

You can disable any type of cookies, except for the necessary ones. To block the cookies, you can:

Refuse cookies via the cookie banner and general cookie settings, or
Adjust your browser settings.

By selecting the “Cookie Settings” option, you can set or change your cookie preferences at any time. Each individual category can be enabled or disabled by selecting the “On / Off” button on the Website. After changing the cookie settings, you need to save the changes and refresh the page, after which the new settings will take effect.

You can also set cookies through your browser, keeping in mind that browsers are typically set to accept all cookies by default. If you wish to change your cookie settings, refer to the help center of the browser you are using. Some links that may help you include:

Browsers may have different procedures for managing and configuring cookies. But, if you decide to use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies), please keep in mind that you may not be able to access all or some parts of our Website.

For more information on cookies, i.e., instructions on how to delete or block them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

Changes to our Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time, and we will notify you through the Website within a reasonable period before the change takes effect, as well as after it has come into effect.