Cookies Policy

The website www.digital-cuisine.ch (the “Website”) uses cookies, including third-party cookies. This policy will inform you how the cookies are placed, used on this website and how you can manage them.

We use cookies in order to provide you with an enhanced browsing experience and services better adapted to your particular needs and interests. Some of the cookies are necessary in order for you to log in, store your preferences and for the proper display of our web pages.

Other cookies offer valuable feedback on how the Website is used, enabling us to increase its efficiency and accessibility.

1. What is a "cookie"?

Cookies are small text files stored on the hard drive by your web browser when you use websites.

The cookie is installed after a request is issued by a web server to a browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome) and is completely “passive” (does not contain software, viruses or spyware and cannot access information stored on the user’s hard drive). The cookies enable a website to recognize a browser.

A cookie consists of two components: the name and the content or the value of the cookie.

The cookie itself does not in most cases identify you.

2. What is the lifecycle of a cookie?

Cookies are administered by web servers. The lifecycle of a cookie is limited. It can be removed manually when you delete it or it expires. From a technical perspective, only the web server sending the cookie may access it again when you return to the website associated to the web server.

The lifecycle of a cookie may vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which it was placed. As mentioned above, certain cookies are exclusively used during a single session (“session cookies”) and are not remembered after you leave the website. They are temporarily stored in the cookie folder of the web browser which remembers you until you exit the respective website or you close the browser window. Other cookies are remembered and reused each time you return on the respective website (“persistent cookies”). They are stored on the hard drive of a computer or other device (and depend, in general, on its preset lifecycle). Persistent cookies include cookies placed by a website different than our Website also known as “third party cookies”, which may be used anonymously to memorize your interests, so that it delivers relevant advertising content.

Nevertheless, cookies may be deleted by you at any moment by accessing the browser settings.

3. What cookies do we use?

We use session cookies and persistent cookies. Depending on the purposes for which they are used cookies can be:

Essential– used to efficiently and quickly load the pages and offer features by distributing the workload across several computers, to authenticate you and to ensure your secure connection and prevent fraudulent use of your account or detect other malicious activity on the website.

Functionality cookies– these cookies are used in order to enhance your user experience and to remember your preferences such as your language preference and cookies which are necessary for the playback of media content or which can autofill a form for you.

Analytical/Performance-used by us to count the number of users on our website, to recognize you when you visit the website again and to help us improve your experience on our website depending on how it is used. These cookies also help us understand how our services are doing and improve them by developing new features.

Targeting and advertising– these cookies are used to record your behavior online and can be used to provide you with offers and services you might be interested in.

4. What are third party cookies?

Depending on the website or domain placing the cookie, a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party. A first party cookie is set by a website visited by you directly. Third party cookies are set by third parties domains or websites which can place cookies through the website you visit, hence their name “third party cookies”. These third parties are other entities than Digital Cuisine and they can be session or persistent cookies.

5. What third party cookies do we use?

The Website uses also social media plug-ins such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter to allow you to register and login to your account or otherwise link content to your social media account and to personalize your advertising

6. The use of log files and web beacons

Web beacon is a technique used on web pages or email to show that a user has accessed a content, such as opened an e-mail or accessed a link. We gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This is mostly anonymous usage data such as browser, internet service provider, clickstream data, operating system or time stamp.

7. Personalize browser settings for cookies

If you are not bothered by the use of cookies and you are the only person using the computer, you may set longer expiration periods for the storage of the browsing history. In case you share access to a computer, you may want to take into consideration setting the browser to delete personal browsing data each time you close the browser.

8. Personalize browser settings for cookies

You can control the use of cookies by configuring your browser’s privacy settings (please refer to your browser’s help function to learn more about cookie controls). You may withdraw your consent for the use of cookies at any time by sending us an e-mail at office@digitalcuisine.ro or by configuring your browser settings. Disabling or not allowing cookies may affect your visit or use of our website. You can change cookie settings in the “Options” section or in the “Preferences” menu of your browser.