Our website uses cookies to help analyse how users use the site and to help us improve our service.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are sent to your device (computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet) by our website when you visit. Cookies are stored on your device in your browser’s file directory. Your browser sends these cookies back to our website each time you revisit it so it can recognize your device and improve your experience on each subsequent visit. Cookies allow us e.g. to tailor a website to better match your interests or to store your password so that you do not need to re-enter it every time.
Please note that certain functions of our website may no longer work or provide limited functionality without cookies.
If you want to learn more about cookies and how they work, and how to disable them please visit:
Types of cookies
Depending on their function and their intended purpose, cookies can be assigned to the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies are required to navigate our websites and operate basic website functions. Examples for strictly necessary cookies are login cookies, shopping cart cookies or cookies to remember your cookie settings. Without these cookies certain basic functionalities cannot be offered. Strictly necessary cookies are always active and will be placed without your consent.
- Performance cookies – aka analytics cookies - collect information on your usage of our websites. They identify e.g. your internet browser, operating system, visited websites, duration and number of website visits, previously visited website, most commonly visited websites and errors you experienced. The information collected is aggregated and anonymous. It does not allow a personal identification. It only serves the purpose of evaluating and enhancing the user experience of our websites.
- Functional cookies enable a website to store information and options you have already previously entered (e.g. username, language settings, layout settings, contact preferences or your location) in order to offer you improved personalized functions. They are also used to enable requested functions, like playing videos.
- Targeting cookies – aka cookies for marketing purposes - are used to offer more relevant and interest-specific content to you, to limit the display frequency of ads and to measure the efficiency of an advertising campaign. They register if you have visited a promoted website or not, and which content you used. Such information may be shared with third parties, e.g. advertisers.
To the extent that information processed in connection with strictly necessary cookies should qualify as personal data, the legal basis for that processing is Eqlaim’s legitimate interest to operate the website (Art. 6 (1) lit. (f) GDPR).
To the extent that information processed in connection with performance, functional and targeting cookies should qualify as personal data, the legal basis for that processing is your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. (a) GDPR).
Eqlaim and Cookies
How we use cookies
We use cookies to:
- recognise you whenever you come back to Eqlaim (this avoids you needing to login on every visit);
- obtain information about your preferences and use of our website;
- make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
The cookies Eqlaim uses
The website uses Google Analytics, which allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website, including IP address, is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate your use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Eqlaim. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
If you would like to know exactly what cookies are being used by Google Analytics and how they operate, or if you would like to find out more about the EU Cookie Law, you can do so via the links below.
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| eqlaim-gdpr | Persistent | If a site visitor has accepted the Privacy and Cookies policy they wont be shown the notification bar. |
| _ga & _ga_XX | Persistent | _ga keeps track of where visitors came from, what they searched and where, what link was clicked on, what keyword used, and where geographical location when accessing the website. These cookies are how Google Analytics tracks site visits. |
Cookie consent
In all circumstances We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device(s).
There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and requests your consent to place cookies on your device when you first visit our website.
Can I get rid of cookies?
You can restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device through your browser settings. You can be notified when cookies are sent to your browser, or you can refuse cookies completely. You can also delete existing cookies. The Help function of your browser will tell you how to do this.
Cookie Policy update
We may update our cookie policy from time to time in accordance to evolving business needs. This policy was published on June 20, 2021 and last updated on July 14, 2022.