Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored on the device you use to visit our web shop or any third party website, such as your smartphone, computer or tablet. When a cookie is stored on your device, your device can be recognised by the website you are visiting. In addition to cookies, we also make use of technologies which are similar to cookies and which can also help to recognise your device and gather information about your website visit, such as JavaScript and beacons.

Cookies generally have a limited validity from the time they are placed on your device. After the period of validity has expired, the cookie is automatically deleted by your browser. We use cookies with different periods of validity. Firstly, we may use cookies which are valid only for the duration of your browser session. These cookies are deleted immediately after you have closed the session. Secondly, we also use cookies which are stored longer, so that they can be read on your next visit to our website or the website of a third party.

To the extent that we collect your personal data using cookies, we will process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Statement.

In addition to our own cookies, we also use third-party cookies in our web shop. We have no control over the privacy and cookie policies of these third parties and are not responsible for them. These third parties use your information for their own purposes, such as tracking your internet behaviour and monitoring your interests. 


Accepting or declining cookies

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies automatically. You can adjust this. You can set your browser so that no cookies are stored on your device, so that you can accept or decline every cookie – according to your preference – or so that all cookies are deleted when you shut down your browser.

If you no longer want cookies or if you want to delete cookies already placed, you can adjust your browser settings. If you do decide to block all or some of the cookies, you may experience reduced functionality of our web shop.


Cookies in our web shop

Different kinds of cookies may be placed through our web shop, which can be divided into three categories: (1) functional cookies and (2) analytical cookies and (3) advertising cookies, including tracking and social media cookies. In accordance with the law, we will only place analytical and advertising cookies if you have given your consent by clicking on the cookie banner or, without your consent, if the analytical cookies have little or no impact on your privacy. Functional cookies can also be placed without your permission.

  1. Functional cookies are cookies that enable you to use our web shop and its functionality. These cookies are necessary for the functioning of our web shop and are placed when you open our web shop or click on a relevant feature. For example, cookies which are necessary in order to remain logged into our web shop while shopping.
  2. Analytical cookies. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, which are text files stored on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website (including the shortened IP address) is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

    This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp()", which ensures an anonymization of the IP address by shortening it and excludes a direct personal relationship. As a result of the extension, your IP address will previously be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. 
    On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.
    You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, we should point out that in that case you might not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You may permanently refuse Google to collect data generated by cookies regarding the use of the website (including your IP address) and to process them. You can download and install the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
    Google LLC, based in the United States, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU.
    More information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's

  3. The uses of third-party advertising cookies (including tracking and social media cookies) including keeping track of ads displayed to for our brand and/or third parties through our web shop or third-party websites and, for example, whether you clicked on them. If you have given your consent, we (and the relevant third parties) can track your internet behaviour on our website and on third-party websites using the information obtained from the tracking and advertising cookies. This allows us to show you relevant ads and products and make you personal offers in our web shop and on the websites of third parties based on your interests and to keep track of via which third party websites you reached our web shop. This website uses the "Facebook Pixel" of Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Facebook"). This process is designed to evaluate the impact of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and may help to optimize future advertising efforts. Data collected shall remain anonymous and cannot be used to draw any conclusion about the identity of the user. However, those data are stored and processed by Facebook to enable a connection to the respective user profile and to allow Facebook to use those data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Privacy Policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). You may allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and outside of Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes. Facebook Inc., based in the United States, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. If you want to disable the use of cookies on your computer, you can set your Internet browser so that cookies can no longer be stored on your computer in the future and/or cookies that have already been stored will be deleted. However, when disabling all cookies, some functions of our internet pages may no longer be able to be executed. You can also disable the use of cookies by third parties such as Facebook on the following Digital Advertising Alliance website: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

 

Please note that you can set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies and you can decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You will find these for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/#cookies
Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/opera-tutorials/turn-on-operas-ad-blocker/

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

 

 

         

Viola Sky
Smallegade 43B
2000 Frederiksberg
Danmark

E-mail: kontakt@violasky.dk