COOKIES POLICY

This Cookies Policy (“the Policy”) refers to the use of cookies and other similar technologies, which allow storage of information in your end-user device and access to it when you are visiting and navigating the website https://zapazi.me (the Website). This Policy explains what cookies are and how they are used. It also provides information regarding the types of cookies used on this Website, their functions, and the methods you can exercise control over their use.

Other than this Policy, we also advise you to become familiar with our Personal Data Protection Policy, published on the Website, to understand how we collect, store, and otherwise process your personal data in relation to your visit and use of the website and your rights in relation to this processing. This Cookies Policy is integral to the Personal Data Protection Policy regarding the use of this Website.

What are cookies?

 Cookies are small text files saves on your device (a computer, smartphone, any other mobile device), as you visit various websites. Cookies allow the website to recognize your device and preferences and help improve your online experience overall.

 

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to improve navigation between web pages on the Website, as well as for traffic reporting and analysis, advertising optimization and business planning.

 

Cookies storage

Cookies can be session or persistent. Session cookies are only stored for the duration of your stay on a website. Persistent cookies may remain stored on your device after the end of your stay and can be accessed each time you revisit the Website.

With the exception of cookies necessary for the operation of our websites, we only store cookies on your device with your consent. In certain cases, we request your consent for the Website to use cookies by displaying a special message.
If you do not want to accept cookies, and to remove cookies, you can adjust the settings of the browser you are using. More information on how you can do this is contained later in this Policy.

 

What cookies do we use?

  • Mandatory (essential) cookies:
    They are necessary for the normal provision of our services. They are used to identify you as a user of our services, to save part of the code of the visited site and for other similar purposes.
    Without them, the Website cannot recognize you, respectively – you will not be able to access our services. They help us to maintain the security of our services.
    They are used to allow you to move from one page of the Website to another without having to re-enter information. This is why cookies are often required to be persistent.
    Your consent is not required to use these cookies.
  • Performance and functionality cookies:
    These are mandatory to access and use the Website.
    They allow us to personalize your online experience while using our websites.
    Through them, we remember your preferences so that you do not have to enter information you have already provided each time, for example when you enter your details to access our services.
    We also use them to collect information about how users use our services so that we can improve our Website and services and to conduct market research.
    If you choose to delete these cookies, you may have limited functionality of our services.
  • Advertising cookies:
    These process information about how you use the Website – the pages you visit or the way you respond to advertisements – to provide you with ads that are tailored to your preferences, both on and off the Website.
    This is also how “interest-based advertising” is implemented. This analyses not only the behaviour of our websites and apps, but also of other websites and apps, building up your profile.
    It reports what and how many ads you have seen, on which sites/apps, what actions you have taken in relation to the ads.
    Many of these types of cookies belong to our third party service providers. For third party advertisers, see more information below. How do we use advertising cookies?
    We use these cookies to match and serve ads and personalized recommendations most relevant to your interests. We (and authorised third parties) may use non-personalised information from both persistent and session cookies for statistical purposes as follows:

         – To determine which are the most popular parts of the Website.

         – To monitor the use of our services and Website (frequency and time).
         – To provide anonymous information to third parties so that more relevant advertising can be targeted to you.
         – To monitor the success of particular products.
         – To determine how often you and other users visit the Website.
         – To conduct surveys so that we can improve your interaction with the Website.

 

Third party cookies

We use third party cookies as part of our services. These cookies are managed by the respective sites and are not controlled by us. We may also use certain authorised third parties to place cookies during your visits to the Website for the purposes of the services they provide to us.
Listed below are the third party services we use, some of which can be turned off using your browser’s general settings. For others you need to visit the relevant sites and follow the instructions provided. They all use different cookies.

  • Google Analytics
    A leading tool for collecting information about your behaviour for the purpose of measuring the Website. We consider its use to be in our legitimate interest, except as described below. For users who have not consented to the processing of their personal data, we disable advertising features, including Interest Based Advertising, and partially anonymize their IP address, according to the technical specifications provided by the service provider.
    Detailed technical information can be found here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
    Google’s privacy policy and terms and conditions, including Google Analytics, can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=bg
    If you want to disable Google Analytics from tracking your behaviour, you can use the following tool provided by the provider: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
  • Google Tag Manager
    This is a Google service that allows us to easily manage the scripts served on our website. The provider of the service declares that despite the use of cookies, it does not collect your personal data;
  • Facebook
    The social network presents a number of additional services related to the following purposes:
    – Measuring the actions of visitors to the Website;
    – Selecting, delivering and measuring ad serving on the Web;
    – Selecting, delivering and measuring the serving of content on the network;
    – Personalising users based on their behaviour for advertising purposes.
    Cookies used:
    Facebook does not provide detailed information about the cookies they use.
    More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
    You can find Facebook’s privacy policy at the following address: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics

Third Party Advertisers
We may use codes provided by third-party advertisers and/or ad networks and other advertising companies to optimize or measure the display of advertisements on the Website.
Through the codes, our partners may collect information about your visit and behavior on the Website, combine it with data from your behavior on other sites to advertise products or services to you, track which ads are shown to you through your browser, and which websites you viewed while those ads were served to you.
If you would like more information about third party advertisers, please click here: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/

 

Data retention periods

We do not use our own cookies, but we do use third party cookies. Therefore, the data retention periods coincide with the periods set out in the respective cookie policies of these third parties.

 

Managing cookies

You know when and if your browser receives cookies because it notifies you the first time you visit. This allows you to accept or decline a cookie.
Your browser can be set to reject all cookies. If you want to find out how to do this, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or the Microsoft Cookie Guide https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies
You can choose to remove cookies through the options of the browser you are using, but you should be aware that this is likely to affect your interaction with the Website.
You can choose what cookies to allow or disallow by visiting the relevant settings pages of your browsers:

  • Internet Explorer cookie settings: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-10
  • Firefox cookie settings: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Cookies
  • Chrome cookie settings: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&ref_topic=14666
  • Safari web cookie settings https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=en_US and iOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

Changes to the Cookie Policy

Any future changes to our Cookie Policy will be published on the Website.

All changes will be effective immediately, except where otherwise noted.

This policy is effective from 23 July 2024.