Cookie Statement Cerba Research
Last modified: 12-December-2024
This is the cookie statement of Cerba Research NV (hereinafter “Cerba Research”, “we” or “us”). In this cookie notice, we explain which cookies and similar techniques such as Tags we use on www.cerbaresearch.com and https://cerbaresearch.recruitee.com/ and why. For convenience, cookies and similar techniques are referred to collectively below as “cookies”.
European laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), as well as the General Data Protection Regulation as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (hereinafter the “UK GDPR”) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (amended 2020) (hereinafter the “Data Protection Act”), the e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC and the Federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act S.C. 2000 (“PIPEDA”), c. 5 as last amended on 2019, June 21 and any applicable provincial laws (altogether referred as “Canadian Privacy Laws”), create obligations for digital publishers such as Cerba Research to give visitors of their sites and apps information about how they will use and share their personal data, as well as about the use of cookies, mobile ad IDs, and other forms of local storage.
Since Cerba Research uses cookies on its website, this cookie notice must include clear and mandatory information, as set out below.
Information about cookies
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a text file, normally consisting of letters and numbers, sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser on the user’s device (e.g., computer, telephone, tablet). These cookies can be used to identify or to collect information about you.
2. What type of cookies are there?
Cookies can be classified as follows, depending on the owner:
- First-party cookies: They are created, sent to your device and stored by the website you are visiting directly. They allow Cerba Research to collect customer analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.
- Third-party cookies: They are created and placed by third parties other than the website you are visiting directly. They are not managed by Cerba Research, but by the third party that processes the data obtained from the cookies.
Cookies can also be classified depending on the purpose of their placement. Main categories are:
- Necessary cookies (also called “technical cookies”): they allow you to browse a website, a platform or an app, and to use the various options or services on it (e.g., control traffic, identify data or session, access to restricted access sections or content, etc.).
- Functional cookies/ Preferences: they help Cerba Research to make the website usable by providing you some basic features and by remembering your preferences and choices of using Cerba Research’s website (e.g., language, the region from where the service is accessed, etc.). Not accepting cookies may cause slow website performance or poorly adapted recommendations.
- Statistics cookies: they allow Cerba Research to have a better understanding of how you interact with the website (e.g., which pages are visited the most) in order to optimize the functioning of the website.
- Marketing cookies: they enable Cerba Research to monitor your behaviour on the website. The aim is to display advertisements that are meaningful and attractive to you and therefore more useful to third party publishers and advertisers, as well as to make promotional and specific information available to you on the website.
Cookies may also be divided into two types depending on the period for which they are stored:
- Session cookies: they allow Cerba Research to recognize and link your actions during a browsing session. When you go to the login page, these temporary cookies will be created to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies.
- Persistent cookies: they are placed on your device between sessions. They can be used to remember your preferences or actions on Cerba Research’s website.
3. What cookies do we use and why?
Cookies in no way give Cerba Research access to your device or any information other than the data you choose to share with Cerba Research.
Concretely, these cookies help to improve the functioning of the website of Cerba Research and can be used for several purposes:
- Help you connect to a website;
- Analyze traffic to a website;
- Monitor your browsing behavior;
- Recognize your device;
- Make the website more efficient;