Cookie policy
I. General
Our website, thetechwitch.eu (hereinafter: “website”), uses cookies and other related techniques. (Hereinafter, for convenience, all techniques are referred to as “cookies”.) Cookies are also placed by third parties engaged by us. Below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
II. Cookies – Script – Web Beacon
A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or other device. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers or those of the relevant third parties on a subsequent visit.
A script is a piece of program code used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
A web beacon (also pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to map traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
III. Cookies on this website
1. Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the site work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, for example, you do not have to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website, and it is possible, among other things, for the items in your shopping cart to be retained until you have checked out. We are allowed to place these cookies without your consent.
2. Statistics cookies
Because statistics are collected anonymously, no consent is requested for the placement of statistics cookies.
3. Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage used to create user profiles for the purpose of displaying advertising or to track the user across this or various websites for similar marketing purposes.
4. Social media buttons
Our website includes buttons from Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share them (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. These buttons work by means of pieces of code that come from Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram themselves. Cookies are placed by means of this code. The social media buttons may also store and process certain data, so that personalised advertisements can be shown to you.
Read the privacy statements of these parties (which may change regularly) to find out what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies. The information they collect is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are based in the United States.
Name | Provider | Cookie type | Description | Retention period |
crumb | First-party | This cookie supports a secure, session-specific interaction with the website, thereby improving the site’s navigation and functionality. | Session | |
XSRF-TOKEN | TidyCal | Third-party | This cookie helps to ensure the security of the site by preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. | 1 year |
IV. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we show a pop-up explaining cookies. As soon as you click ‘Save preferences’, you give us permission to use the categories of cookies and plugins you selected in the pop-up and which are described in the Cookie Policy. You can disable the placement of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may then no longer work optimally.
V. Enabling, disabling and deleting cookies
You can delete cookies automatically or manually via your internet browser. You can also indicate that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to set your internet browser so that you receive a message when a cookie is placed. You can find more information about these options in the instructions of your browser’s Help function. We would like to point out that our website may not work optimally if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent on a new visit to our website.
VI. Data retention period
On our website, personal data is only retained for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes.
If a longer retention period is justified by law or by compliance with another legal obligation, the data may be retained on the website for longer.
VII. Privacy
We refer to our privacy policy on our website for more information regarding the processing of your data.
VIII. Contact
For questions and/or comments regarding our Cookie Policy and this statement, you can contact us via email at the following email address: sabrina@thetechwitch.eu