Use of Cookies on our website

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer or mobile devices when you start using them. For example, pages will remember your preferences and actions you’ve done (such as logins, language, font size, and other display preferences) so that you do not always have to re-enter them and can browse more easily and comfortably.

Our website, as well as almost every other big website in the world, uses cookies to provide you with the best user experience. Specifically, our cookies help:

• our website to work the way you would expect;
• speed up and better secure our website;
• allow you to share social media posts;
• continually improve our website;
• making our marketing more efficient.

We do not use cookies to:

• collect special categories of personal data;
• transfer personal information to third parties; nor
• get commissions from sales.

Below you can learn more about all the cookies we use.

Cookies used to make the website work properly

We use some cookies to make our website work properly, for example:

• determining if you are logged in or not;
• remembering your search settings;
• remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions;
• allowing you to add comments to our website;
• remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey).

Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent using these cookies other than to stop using our website or completely disabling cookies in your web browser.

Third party functionalities

Our website, like most other websites, also includes third-party functionalities. A common example is incorporating a third-party video service onto our website. Deleting these cookies is likely to disable the functionality provided by these third parties. If you do not wish to use these third-party services or do not want us to store third-party cookies on your device, you can opt-out by changing the settings in your web browser.

Our websites include these third-party cookies:

Social site cookies

Allows you to share the content of our websites on social networks or to log in to Alfred System via Facebook, Google or Twitter or to contact someone directly from our website by writing via Messenger.

We use:

• Facebook More information
• Google More information
• Twitter More information

The privacy implications in this area will differ from social network to social network and will depend on the privacy settings you have selected on these networks.

Visitor statistics cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our website isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the website, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached our website and whether they have been here before.

We use:

• Google Analytics More information

You can usually turn off cookies by modifying browser settings to prevent them from receiving cookies. If you do, you are likely to limit the functionality of our and a large number of other websites, because cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. Maybe your worries about cookies are related to so-called “spyware.” Please know that rather than turning off cookies in your browser, you can achieve the same goal by installing anti-spyware software that automatically removes cookies that are considered invasive.

Below you will find a link to the cookie settings in each browser:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Microsoft Edge