1. What is a cookie and in what purpose can it be used?

Our website uses cookies technology to provide you with a better and more personalized web service. The data stored by cookies used on our website will never display personal details allowing to determine the identity of any individual.

A cookie means a small text file stored and/ or read by your browser on the hard disk of your final device (for example: computer, laptop or smartphone) depending on the websites you are visiting. Likewise, cookies make your interactions with websites safer and faster, as they can remember your preferences (for example login, language), sending the contained information back to the initial website (first-party cookie) or to another website to which they belong (third-party cookie), upon a new visit to the same website, when using the same final device.

2. How can you control cookies?

You may withdraw your consent with regards to cookies at any moment. For this purpose, you can block or remove cookies through the settings of your web browser or by means of software made available by third parties, or by following the specific instructions for cookie categories in the following sections. In any of these situations problems may occur regarding the use of certain parts of the website, when deactivating cookies.

In case you wish to remove cookies stored on your devices and to configure your web browser in such a way that it rejects cookies, you may use the settings of your web browser. Usually you will find the navigation settings relating to cookies in the “Options”, “Tools” or “Preferences” menus of the web browser you are using to access our websites. Depending on the existing browsers, different means are available to deactivate cookies. To obtain more information, please consult the website of your browsers:

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer – Internet Explorer;
• Cookie settings in Firefox – Firefox;
• Cookie settings in Chrome – Chrome;
• Cookie settings in Safari – Safari;
• Cookie settings in Edge – Edge;
• Cookie settings in Opera – Opera.

To learn more about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or check out www.youronlinechoices.eu, which contains additional information regarding behavioural advertising and privacy online.

3. Cookies used on the website

Based on the function and purpose for which they are used, cookies may be classified usually in the following categories used by SVT Electronics Ltd. on its Website:

• Absolutely necessary cookies allow you to navigate on the Website and to use its basic functions. Usually these are installed only as a reply to your actions, equivalent to a request for services. These cookies are indispensable for the use of the Websites.
• Cookies regarding functioning are used to recognise you when you are returning to our Website and allow us to provide you with enhanced and more personalised functions, such as remembering your preferences. These cookies collect anonymous information and are unable to monitor your navigation on other websites. The expiry period for these cookies is of maximum 2 years.
• Analytical cookies and cookies related to performance allow us to recognise and to count the users and to collect information on the use of the Website (for example the pages opened by the user and the frequency of their opening and whether the user receives error messages from certain pages). This helps us to improve the functioning of our Website, for example, by making sure that you can easily find what you are looking for. The expiry period of these cookies is of maximum 2 years. With regards to third party cookies, the expiry period may vary and in some cases exceed 2 years. For more details regarding this category, please consult Section 4, here below.
• Cookies regarding marketing and identification of target users record your visit on our Website, on the pages visited and the links accessed. We will use this information to provide you with advertising more relevant to your interests. Likewise, they are used for limiting the frequency of an ad display and to help measure the efficiency of advertising campaigns. To this end, we may also share this information with third parties (such as  advertising agencies). The expiry period of these cookies is of maximum 2 years. With regards to third party cookies, the expiry period may vary and in some cases exceed 2 years. For more details regarding this category of cookies please consult Section 5, here below.
• Cookies concerning social networks allow you to share on the website your activity on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not controlled by us. For more details on this category of cookies please consult Section 6, here below.
• Other types of cookies, which may be used subsequently. We will inform you through our updated policies in case any other types of cookies are used.

Please note that SVT Electronics Ltd. uses the services of third parties to obtain information on the way you use of our Websites, in order to optimise your user experience and to present you with ads beyond our Websites. These third parties (including, for example, advertising agencies and external service providers, such as web analytics services) may equally use cookies, which we are unable to control.

4. Cookies used with statistics and web traffic monitoring finality 

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a service for web analysis provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help a certain Website to analyse how you use that website. The information generated by the cookies concerning the your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transferred and stored by Google on servers which may be located in the UE, in the EEA and/ or the United States.  Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Website, building reports on the Website activity to its operators and providing them with other services relating to the activity on the Website and to the use of the internet. Moreover, Google may transfer this information to third parties in case it is obliged to do so by virtue of law or in case these third parties process information on behalf of Google. Google does not associate your IP address to other data held by Google.

You may renounce to Google Analytics without having an impact on the way you visit our website.

Detailed information on Google Analytics and on the protection of personal data (including ways to control information sent to Google) may be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners.

To prevent monitoring through this type of cookies, you may install an add-in to your web browser (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

4. Cookies used for direct trade purposes

Google Analytics

To receive ads and marketing content which is personalised according to your preferences, our Website uses the DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) technology and Google Ad Exchange, provided by Google. The information generated by the cookies concerning your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transferred and stored by Google to servers which may be located in the EU, in the EEA and/ or in the United States. Moreover, Google may transfer this information to third parties in case it is obliged to do so by virtue of law or in case these third parties process information on behalf of Google. Google does not associate your IP address to other data held by Google.

Detailed information on Google Analytics and on the protection of personal data (including ways to control information sent to Google) may be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners.

5. Cookies concerning social networks 

On our Website third parties providing applications by means of the website may place their own cookies to monitor the performance of their applications or to personalize their applications to your convenience. For example, when you share an article using a social network button (e.g. Facebook or Twitter), available on  a Website, the platform of the social network associated to that button will record this action. On some websites there may also be embedded content, for example video content of third parties such as YouTube, and in such cases, third parties may place, on their turn, their own cookies.

Such cookies cannot be accessed by SVT Electronics Ltd.