Cookies

1. What are "cookies"?

"Cookies" are small data files used as unique identifiers. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. A cookie contains anonymous information and is sent from the server of the website you are viewing to your computer or mobile phone. It will be stored on your device and only this server will be able to search or retrieve the content of this cookie. Submitted cookies may be sent back to website servers with updated data during your browsing of the website. The vast majority of websites use cookies for their activities.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting ("our cookies") or may be set by an organization that does not own the website you are viewing ("third-party cookies"). For example, they may be set by other websites that run the content on the page you are viewing or by an independent analytics company. The websites you visit may also include content embedded from other websites, and those websites may also set their own cookies. The Website may use third-party advertising networks to provide targeted advertising. These cookies may be able to track your browsing of various pages.

2. How cookies are divided

Cookies can be divided according to who places them on the website, i.e. into:

First party cookie - these are limited to the domain of the website you are viewing. These cookies are considered more secure.
Third party cookie - these are placed by a script from another domain. This allows users to be tracked across domains. They are often used to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising channels.

3. This website uses two types of cookies:

Short-term, session cookies - Session cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from your device when you close your browser.

Long-term, persistent cookies - This type of cookie is stored on your computer for a fixed period of time, which depends on your browser and cookie settings (usually a month, a year or longer) and these cookies are not deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are used to identify you from one browsing session to the next, for example to store your preferences so they will be remembered for your next visit. You can also manually remove them.

4. How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to improve your user experience by allowing websites to identify you, either for the duration of your visit (using session cookies) or for repeat visits (using persistent cookies). The cookies we use may:

be strictly necessary for you to navigate the site or to provide certain essential functions; or
improve the functionality of our website, for example by saving your preferences. Recording your choices (such as your username or language preference) and enabling us to provide a personalized experience; or
help us improve the performance of our website to offer you a better user experience. The information provided by these cookies is anonymous and helps us understand how our visitors use our website so that we can improve the presentation of our content. These services are generally provided by independent measurement and research companies, so in the case of these cookies they may be third party cookies.

If we did not use cookies, our website would treat you as a new visitor every time you go to a new page on our website - for example, if you enter your login details and go to another page, it would not recognise you and you would not be able to stay logged in.

We need to use cookies to maintain the effectiveness of our website and to provide you with a user-friendly environment. Therefore, cookies cannot be blocked individually and by continuing to browse our website and use our online services, you agree that we may place these cookies on your device.

5. What we use cookies for

We use the following cookies on our website:

Technical - first parties, short term. They ensure the basic technical functionality of the website, i.e. logging in, remembering settings, using services, etc.
Statistical and diagnostic (e.g. Google Analytics) - first-party, long-term. They are used to generate anonymous statistics about web usage.

Important: We never place sensitive or personal data in cookies. None of the cookies we create lead to individual identification of the user/reader, the data collected is anonymous.

6. What to do if you don't want to use cookies

Consent to the placement of cookies is voluntary. If you wish, you can block some or all cookies or delete cookies that have already been set. Full details on how to manage cookies and how to block them in different types of web browsers can be found at www.aboutcookies.org, or

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d (for Internet Explorer)
https://support.mozilla.org/cs/kb/povoleni-zakazani-cookies (for Mozzilla/Firefox)
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?visit_id=0-636535873837482984-3731587686&hl=en-GB&rd=1 (for Chrome)
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/ (for Opera)
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac (for Safari)

However, you should be aware that if you block or delete cookies sent from our website that are strictly necessary or ensure functionality and performance, you may not be able to use the site.

You can view the types of cookies used on our website to find out how to change your cookie settings or block cookies used on our website.

7. Third party websites

If you use our partners' websites, a cookie may be set by the websites you visit. We do not operate these sites and therefore have no control over the distribution of these cookies. For more information about these cookies, please visit the relevant third party website.

What cookies do we use?

Title	Validity	Published by	Content	Description
_fbp	3 months	facebook.com	To identify users of the website.	https://developers.facebook.com/docs/privacy/
_ga	2 years	google-analytics.com	To identify users of the website.	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
_gid	1 day	google-analytics.com	To identify users of the website.	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
_gat*	1 minute	google-analytics.com	To limit the number of requests per minute.	https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
_ym_d	1 year	yandex.com	Stores the date of the user's first session.	https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/cookie-usage.html
_ym_isad	2 days	yandex.com	Verifies that the user has an adblocker installed.	https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/cookie-usage.html
_ym_uid	1 year	yandex.com	To identify users of the website.	https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/cookie-usage.html
_ym_visorc_*	30 minutes	yandex.com	For Session Replay to work properly.	https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/cookie-usage.html

All of the above cookies are used only for the purposes listed in this table.

8. This website uses Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies. Information about your use of the site, together with the contents of the cookie, will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purposes of evaluating the use of the site and compiling reports on its activity for the site operator and providing other services relating to the activities on the site and the use of the internet in general. Google may also provide this information to third parties if required to do so by law or if such third parties process this information for Google.

Google Analytics is enhanced with related advertising features provided by Google, namely:

reports on impressions in the Google ad network,
Enhanced demographic reports (reporting of anonymous demographic data). For more information on processing and use of data, see Google's Terms and Conditions

How to disable Google Analytics tracking

If you do not want to provide anonymous data about your web usage to Google Analytics, you can use a plugin provided by Google. Once installed in your browser and activated, no further data will be sent.

9. The server uses cookies from Advertising Partners

Facebook

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising and participates in programs that offer the opportunity to opt-out of these types of ads. You can opt-out of the use of cookies for all participating companies through these sites:

Turn off interest-based ads on desktop devices

The level of protection against cookies can be set in the browser, up to blocking all cookies from the entire Internet. This increases the level of security, but it can also make it more difficult to browse websites or make it impossible to log into certain sites and services.

The settings for accepting cookies can usually be found in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. You may find the links below useful to better understand these settings. You can also use the minority browser help, which we do not link to directly here.

Turning off interest-based ads on mobile devices

On your iPhone, iPad or Android, you can change your device settings and specify whether you want to see interest-based online ads.

On your iPhone or iPad:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap Privacy.
3. Tap Ads and turn on Limit ad tracking.

On Android (version 2.2 and later) and Google Play (version 4.0 and later):

1. Go to Google Settings.
2. Click on Ads.
3. Click Unsubscribe from interest-based advertising and select OK.

10. Contact

If you have any questions or comments, please send them to us electronically by email: dpo@akesoholding.cz

Further contacts can be found in the section Contacts