Coockie Policy
This page describes Acqiris SA (“we”, “our”, “us”) Cookie Policy for our website acqiris.com, how to switch cookies off on your browser and some useful links for further information on the topic.
What are Cookies?
Cookies (also called HTTP cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies) are a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet, …) while browsing online (e.g. using Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, …). Their purpose is to save information about your visit on the website with your preferences and to make your experience of the internet much smoother and interactive.
Cookies are designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information or to record the user's browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past).
What types of Cookies do we use, and how do we use them?
There are two types of cookie:
Persistent cookies remain on a user’s device until you suppress them or until they expire. They are used each time that the user visits the website.
Session cookies which are temporary and are suppressed when you close your browser. They allow to link the actions of a user during a browser session.
We use Cookies for different functions:
Performance and analytics cookies collect anonymous data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use our website, they don’t contain personal information, and are used to analyze how our visitors use the website. For example, we collect data about the number of visitors and visits our website have -anonymously-, how our visitors reach our site, how long they stay, or the pages/links clicked on. The collected data helps us to improve our website and our services and sometimes to measure the efficiency of an advertising.
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies (third party cookies) to perform these services for us. Google Analytics helps us to analyze how users use the site and reports website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.
Opting Out of Cookies
You are able to disable placement of Cookies by setting your browser to decline cookies, though this may worsen your user experience. Additionally, you can also control, manage and/or delete cookies via your browser settings. Use the “Help” section in your web browser to learn how to block new cookies, receive notification of new cookies or disable cookies.
To assist you in this process, we have provided links to the “Help” section of some of the most popular web browsers:
– Internet Explorer™ : http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies,
– Safari™ : http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042,
– Chrome™ : https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en,
– Firefox™ : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences,
– Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
For more information about how cookies, you can view the following websites: www.youronlinechoices.com and www.allaboutcookies.org.
Third Party Cookies
We work with Google Analytics to provide analytics services that use the Cookies set on your device to measure the performance of advertising and track traffic to Acqiris generally. This process doesn’t include any personal information. More information about Google Analytics data privacy and security can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631?hl=en&ref_topic=1008008
Finally, you can opt out of tracking by Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting services by visiting Google Ads Settings or by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact us here, or:
Acqiris SA
Attn: Legal Department
12 chemin des Aulx
1228 Plan-les-Ouates
Geneva, Switzerland
