Cookie Policy
Last updated: 25. July 2022
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Those cookies are set by us and called first party cookies. We also use third party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our functional/performance, marketing, statistical purposes.
How do we use cookies?
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
- to enable certain functions of the website,
- to provide analytics,
- to store your preferences ad, personalize the content,
- to improve the user experience
- to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising
- to share on social networks
You will find below a list as accurate as possible of the cookies we use on our website. The cookies may be classified in the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies;
- Preferences cookies;
- Analytical cookies;
- Targeting cookies;
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to determine the number of unique users of the site or provide certain features.
Name | Function | Expiry |
viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category . | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Performance”. | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category . | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category . | 1 year |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Others”. | 1 year |
_abck | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie.This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. | 1 year |
ak_bmsc | This cookie is used by Akamai to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots | 2 hours |
bm_sz | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions | 4 hours |
Preferences Cookies
These cookies enables our website to remember information to customize how the website looks or behaves for each user. This may include storing selected currency, region, language, or coloc them. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all these functionalities may not function properly.
Name | Function | Expiry |
mail_session | Used when subscribing to our newsletter. | 7 days |
_mcid | This is a Mailchimp functionality cookie used to evaluate the UI/UX interaction with its platform | 1 year |
__cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 30 minutes |
_gat | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute |
Analytical Cookies
We use analytical cookies across the mci group website for internal purposes to help us to provide you with a better user experience by collecting and reporting information on your usage. Information supplied by cookies helps us to understand how our visitors use the mci group website so that we can improve how we present our content to you. We generally contract with independent measurement and research companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third-party company (third party cookies).
Name | Function | Expiry |
_ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 years |
_gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 days |
_gat_gtag_UA_107987355_1 | Set by Google to distinguish users. | 1 minute |
_gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
_hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | 30 minutes |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s daily session limit. | 2 minutes |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s pageview limit. | 2 minutes |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 30 minutes |
CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | 2 years |
vuid | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. | 2 years |
Targeting and Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted advertising across different websites.
Name | Function | Expiry |
_fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. | 3 months |
IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days |
test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
fr | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months |
YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | Session |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 5 months 27 days |
yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
yt.innertube::requests | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
yt.innertube::nextId | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
What are your choices regarding cookies?
When you visit MCI website for the first time, you will be asked to set your cookies preferences. You can modify your preferences at any time on our website.
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser:
- For Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- For Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
- For Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- For Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
- For Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
- etc…
However please note that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, some features of the MCI website may not work properly, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Where can you find more information about cookies?
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
- AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
- Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
Contact
For more information regarding processing of your data, please consult our OVATION GLOBAL DMC Privacy Notice. If you need further assistance or if you have any kind of question regarding cookies or concerns about your Personal Data, please contact us at: privacy@mci-group.com or OVATION GLOBAL DMC, Data Protection Officer, 9 rue du Pré-Bouvier, 1242 Satigny, Switzerland.