What is a cookie and what do we use them for?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your device or the browser cache when you visit our website. The text file contains a small amount of information that the Internet server can read the next time you visit the same website. Cookies are useful to you for several reasons. They, for example, help us remember your username or the language settings you have chosen.
Our websites and social media channels utilize cookies and other similar technologies to manage and develop the website, improve and analyze user experience and target advertisement in our and our partners’ services. Cookies allow us to collect information such as from which website users arrive to our website, which of our websites are browsed and when, which browser is used and the IP address of the device.
What types of cookies do we use?
Necessary Cookies: these cookies are essential for our website to function, and they enable good user experience and thus they cannot be disabled.
Analytical Cookies: by following the use of these cookies, we can improve the functioning of our website. We receive information about e.g., the number of visitors on our websites, which parts of our website are most popular, to which sites do you move on from our website, from which site did you come from and for how long do you stay on our website.
Marketing Cookies: these cookies help us make the content of the website as personalized as possible, and thereby e.g., target advertisement and content based on your prior online behavior.
How can you affect the use of cookies?
You may give or withdraw your consent for the analytical and marketing cookies on our website.
You can also review the available cookie settings on your web browser. If you wish, you can prevent the use of cookies by changing your browser’s settings not to allow the storing of cookies on your device. In some cases, this may lead to slower browsing of our websites or the access to some sites to be denied altogether.
A part of the cookies on our website are managed by third parties and you may alternatively use the tools of these third parties to decline the use of these cookies.
How long do we store the cookies?
The retention period of the cookies varies by the type of the cookie. Session cookies expire when you close the browser. Permanent cookies usually have a validity period, which varies from two months to a couple of years.
Use of cookies and other similar technologies on Fondia.com and in MyFondia
