Cookie statement
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) via your browser primarily to enhance the convenience of using the site, enable certain functions, and make visiting our website attractive. They allow us to remember your actions and preferences (such as language, font size and other display preferences), so you don’t have to keep re-entering them when you return to our website or browse from one page to another.
Personal data may be collected using cookies; such information will only be processed per this Cookie Statement and our Privacy Policy.
How do we use cookies?
Oktopaz uses cookies to provide website functionality and to help us analyse how users use the site. The type of personal data collected due to a cookie is specific to your device and activity. It may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the date and time you access our website, what parts of the website you visited and your personal preferences.
Cookies can be placed directly by our website or by third parties with whom we cooperate. We will ask for your consent for some cookies before we put them. For ease, we group the cookies we use into three distinct categories listed below.
- Functional cookies
This category of cookies includes essential cookies to enable you to move around the website and use its features. It also encompasses cookies to allow the website to provide enhanced functionality, such as remembering choices you make like language, geography, etc. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages can set these cookies. We don’t have to ask your permission to place these cookies.
- Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from the website. These cookies also help us test various parts of the website and improve your browsing experience. The analytics cookies that we use include Google Analytics, provided by Google, Inc. Google will use this information solely to enable Oktopaz to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide Oktopaz with technical assistance. Oktopaz has disabled Google’s ability to use such information for its purposes or to provide such information to third parties, except to the extent required by law. We don’t have to ask your permission to place these Google Analytics cookies. For other analytics cookies, we do ask for your consent.
- Marketing cookies
We use these cookies to deliver targeting efforts and content relevant to you and your interests. These help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign. Networks with the website operator’s permission usually place them.
The information collected by the Google Analytics cookie tells us about your use of the website. Google will transmit and store the data on servers in the United States. The data transferred will include your IP address from which the last three digits have been removed to protect your privacy.
Google will use this information solely to enable Oktopaz to evaluate your website use, compile reports on website activity and provide Oktopaz with technical assistance. Oktopaz has disabled Google’s ability to use such information for its purposes or to provide such information to third parties, except to the extent required by law.
You may refuse cookies by using our Cookie Management Tool. However, please note that the website’s functionality may be affected if you choose to decline.
How to control cookies
You can adjust your browser settings to block cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent to your device. There are several ways to manage cookies. Please refer to your browser instructions to learn more about adjusting or modifying your browser settings. If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience on the Oktopaz site. For example, you may not be able to view embedded content.
If you use different devices to view and access the Oktopaz sites (e.g. your computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.), you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
Transfer, storage and processing of data
Your personal data collected through the website are treated strictly confidential, and Oktopaz has taken appropriate technical and organisational measures against loss or unlawful processing of this data. Oktopaz uses third parties for specific processing, such as the website’s hosting. As far as these third parties have access to personal data to execute this processing, Oktopaz has taken the required organisational and contractual measures to ensure that your personal data are processed exclusively for the purposes above. Oktopaz will not provide your personal data to any other third parties unless there is a legal obligation to do so.
Changes to the cookies statement
We may update the Cookie Statement at any time. You can see the date on which we made the last change below in this statement. We advise you to review our Cookie Statement regularly to be aware of any changes.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this statement or any privacy concerns or would like to exercise your rights or obtain further information about the safeguards we have in place so that your personal data is adequately protected, please contact us at office@oktopaz.com.
This statement was updated on: 22 February 2022
Cookie declaration
| Name | Category | Purpose | Retention period |
| rc::a | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Persistent |
| rc::c | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Session |
| rc::b | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Session |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | 179 days |
| _grecaptcha | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Persistent |
| CookieConsent | Necessary | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Necessary | Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | Necessary | Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Necessary | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Necessary | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the statistics category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Necessary | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Necessary | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
| pll_language | Preferences | This cookie is used to determine the preferred language of the visitor and sets the language accordingly on the website, if possible. | 1 year |