Cookies Policy

Introduction to Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on your device when you visit that site. They help the website remember information about your preferences, settings, and even your login details.

Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several reasons:

• To improve the user experience by saving your language choices and other settings.
• To authenticate your account and ensure secure access to our platform.
• To enable analytics that help us understand how users interact with our site.
• To provide personalized recommendations based on your interests.
• To facilitate social sharing and other interactions with external services.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These are the essential cookies we need to run our platform securely. They include cookies that remember youre logged in, help us validate forms and queries, and provide access controls.

Example:

• session_id: a unique identifier for each session.
• login_token: a token used for authentication.

Session Cookies

These are temporary cookies that are deleted when your browser closes. We use them to keep track of the actions you take on our site, such as what pages youve visited and any items in your shopping cart.

Example:

• session_hash: a random identifier generated for each session.
• last_visit: the timestamp of your last visit.

Persistent Cookies

These are cookies that remain stored even when you close your browser. We use them to save preferences, settings, and other information that should persist between sessions.

Example:

• remember_me: a preference setting for login persistence.
• currency: the currency selected for our platform.

Functional Cookies

These cookies help us improve performance by optimizing resource usage and reducing page loads. They also enable features like caching, lazy loading, or other efficiency enhancements.

Example:

• page_load_time: a measure of how long it takes to load a specific page.
• resource_usage: monitoring data for resource-intensive tasks.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use third-party services to collect analytics data about our users. This information helps us understand behavior patterns, identify areas for improvement, and inform product development decisions.

Example:

• google_analytics_id: a unique identifier assigned by Google.
• matomo_visit: timestamp tracking your last visit.

Cookie Consent Management

We aim to be transparent about our cookie usage. When you first access our platform or visit a new page, well ask if you consent to cookies being placed on your device.

Cookie categories:

1. Essential.
2. Analytics/Performance.
3. Functional.

Clearing Cookies

You can manage cookie settings through most browsers built-in controls or third-party extensions. Please note that disabling all cookies may impact the usability of some features.

Clearing and managing cookies:

1. Use your browsers built-in history cleaner.
2. Install a dedicated extension.
3. Manually delete stored data.

Security-Related Cookies

Some security measures we employ might be misunderstood as cookies but are actually more advanced mechanisms for protecting user sessions or securing sensitive areas of the site.

Example:

• CSRF_token: a unique token generated on each request.
• hashing_key: secure key used to protect stored data.