Cookie policy
1. Introduction
Our website, https://softchains.io (hereinafter: ‘the website’) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as ‘cookies’). Cookies are also placed by third parties with whom we have contracted. In the following document we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file that is sent along with the pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or other device. The stored information may be sent back to our servers or to appropriate third party servers during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website work correctly and interactively. This code runs on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored by these web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences are remembered. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when you visit our website and, for example, items remain in your shopping basket until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistical cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we obtain information about the use of our website. We ask your permission to place statistical cookies.
6. Types of Cookies we use
The types of cookies we use are described below:
3.1. Essential Cookies:
These cookies are necessary for the basic operation of our website and cannot be disabled. They include cookies that allow you to log in to secure areas of our site.
3.2. Functionality Cookies:
These cookies allow our website to remember your preferences, such as language and region, to provide you with a more personalised experience.
3.3. Performance and Analytics Cookies:
We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website, such as the pages they visit and the time they spend on the site. This information helps us to improve the quality and performance of our site.
3.4. Advertising Cookies:
We use third party cookies to display personalised advertisements based on your interests and browsing behaviour on our website.
7. Consent
7.1 Manage your consent settings
Functional
Storage or technical access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Statistics
Storage or technical access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your Internet browser to delete cookies automatically or manually. You can also specify that certain cookies cannot be placed. Alternatively, you can change your Internet browser settings so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information on these options, please refer to the instructions in the ‘Help’ section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not function properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete cookies from your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you revisit our websites.
9. Your rights with regard to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it and how long it will be kept.
- Right of access: you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you.
- Right of rectification: You have the right to supplement, rectify, erase or block your personal data at any time.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke this consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and to transfer it in full to another controller.
- Right to object: you can object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for the processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please see the contact details at the bottom of this cookie policy. If you have any complaints about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to send a complaint to the supervisory authority (the data protection authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement, please contact us using the contact details below:
SOFTCHAINS DEVELOPMENT LTD
The Core, Valey Road, Msida MSD 9021, Malta
Malta
Web: https://softchains.io
Email: it@softchains.io