What are Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your
device when you visit one of our Sites, to the extent you agree. The other
tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files
on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect
information about how you use our Sites. This allows our Sites to recognize
your device from those of other users of the Sites. The information
provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking
technologies. You can find more information at
www.allaboutcookies.org
and
www.youronlinechoices.eu
.
How do our Sites Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
TheMagnet® uses Cookies to identify you and your interests, to remember
your preferences, and to track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies
to control access to certain content on our Sites, protect the Sites,
better interact with you, and to process any requests that you make of us.
To administer our Sites and for research purposes, TheMagnet® also has
contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze
statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These
third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve
the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyze how users
navigate and utilize the Sites.
First and Third-Party Cookies
“First-party Cookies”
are cookies that belong to TheMagnet® and that TheMagnet® places on your
device.
“Third-party Cookies”
are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site.
TheMagnet® may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails
to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help
measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or
to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the
third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these
users. We use the following types of cookies:
Persistent Cookies.
We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Sites.
This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the
cookie message which first appears when you use the Sites.
Session Cookies.
Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web
browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as
described above. You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the
appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting
you may be unable to access certain parts of the Sites. Unless you have
adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system
will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites. The data
collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your
computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the
purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept
for longer than a year. The cookies used on our Site are categorized as
follows:
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Strictly necessary
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Performance
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Functionality
“Strictly Necessary”
cookies let you move around the Site and use essential features like secure
areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services. We
use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
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Identify you as being logged in to our Site and to authenticate
you.
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Make sure you connect to the right service on our Site when we make
any changes to the way the Site works.
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For security purposes.
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Make sure you connect to the right service on our Site when we make
any changes to the way the Site works Accepting these cookies is a
condition of using the Site, so if you prevent these cookies, we
can’t guarantee how the Site or the security on our Site will
perform during your visit.
“Performance”
cookies collect information about how you use our Site e.g., which pages
you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect
any information that could identify you and are only used to help us
improve how our Site works, understand what interests our users and measure
the effectiveness of our advertising. We use performance cookies to:
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Carry out web analytics: Provide statistics on how our Site is
used.
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Perform affiliate tracking: Provide feedback to affiliated entities
that one of our visitors also visited their Site.
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Obtain data on the number of users of the Site that have viewed a
particular page.
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Help us improve the Site by measuring any errors that occur.
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Test different designs for the Site. Some of our performance
cookies are managed for us by third parties. We do not allow the
third-party to use the cookies for any purpose other than those
listed above.
‘Functionality’
cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve
your visit. We use ‘Functionality’ cookies for such purposes as:
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Remember settings you have applied such as layout, text size, and
language preferences.
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Show you when you are logged in to the Site.
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To provide and show embedded video content.
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To enable our chat function Some of these cookies are managed for
us by third parties. We do not allow the third-party to use the
cookies for any purpose other than those listed above.
How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of Cookies?
If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the
setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some
Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For
further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser
‘help’, ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see
www.allaboutcookies.org
. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies
(including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use
all or parts or functionalities of our Sites. If you want to remove
previously stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time.
However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on
your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as
described above.
For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of
targeting/advertising Cookies, please see
www.youronlinechoices.eu
if you are located in Europe or
www.aboutads.info/choices
if in the United States.
Contact us:
TheMagnet®
1 Ilektras street
2450 Kato Deftera
Nicosia, Cyprus
Phone: +357 22279730
Fax: +357 22279739
Email:
[email protected]