Cookie Policy
V. 2.0
17 May 2024
1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to FYST! Like many other companies, we use cookies on our website to enhance your browsing experience and improve our services. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can control them. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our practices and let us know if you have any questions.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or other electronic device) when you visit most websites. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners.
3. UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF COOKIES
When you browse websites, you may encounter various types of cookies, each serving different purposes. Here is an overview to help you understand what these might include:
a. Session Cookies
These are temporary cookies that exist only while your browser session lasts. They help websites link your actions during a single browser session, assisting with tasks like navigating between pages and secure logins. When you close your browser, these cookies are deleted.
b. Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain on your device between sessions. They are used to remember your preferences and actions over time, making the site more responsive to your needs. For example, they can keep your login details or language preferences, saving you from re-entering information on every visit. Persistent cookies have a set expiry date and will remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.
c. First-party Cookies
These cookies are set directly by the website you are visiting. They enable website owners to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and perform other useful functions that provide a good user experience.
d. Third-party Cookies
These are set by domains other than the one you are currently visiting. They are often used for online advertising and can be set through site elements such as advertisements or images that are not hosted by the site you are directly visiting. Third-party cookies enable external services like advertising networks to track your browsing activities across various websites.
Understanding these types of cookies can help you better manage your online preferences and privacy. Most modern browsers allow you to see and manage cookies to ensure your browsing experience aligns with your privacy expectations. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
4. OUR USE OF COOKIE AND THEIR PURPOSES
At FYST, we employ various types of cookies to ensure our website functions optimally, to enhance user experience, and to provide targeted advertising. Here is a breakdown of the cookies we use and the purposes they serve:
a. Essential Cookies (also “Necessary Cookies”)
These cookies are crucial for the basic operations of our website. They do not require your consent to be placed on your device, as they are necessary for our website's functionality. Essential cookies help with secure logins, maintaining sessions, ensuring the security of our website, and detecting fraud and other threats. They enable core functionalities such as access to secure areas and e-commerce transactions.
b. Non-Essential Cookies (also “Optional Cookies”)
Optional cookies differ significantly from essential cookies in that they are not necessary for the basic functioning of the website. While essential cookies are required to perform fundamental tasks, such as enabling secure logins and maintaining your session on the website, optional cookies serve supplementary purposes. These include enhancing site functionality, personalizing user experiences, gathering analytics data to improve site performance, and delivering targeted advertising based on user preferences and behaviours. Unlike essential cookies, which are automatically set when you visit a website, optional cookies are set only with your explicit consent. This allows you to control whether or not these cookies are used, giving you the ability to customize your browsing experience based on your personal preferences. Optional Cookies include such subcategories as:
b.1. Preferences Cookies – these cookies enhance your experience by personalizing features and remembering your preferences. For example, they can remember your settings and preferences (like your language choice or region) and provide more personal features. These cookies are not strictly necessary for the website's operation, but they enable additional functionality that can improve your browsing experience
b.2. Statistics/Analytics Cookies - these cookies are used to collect information about how you interact with our website, including which pages you visit most often and if you receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies help us improve the functionality of our website by enabling us to monitor its performance and optimize it accordingly.
b.3. Marketing Cookies - These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. These cookies remember that you have visited a website, and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
The table below provides more detailed information on the cookies we use and why.
| Name of the Cookie | Category | Description | Duration |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Optional (Statistics/Analytics) | Used by LinkedIn to manage data synchronization for analytics and advertising services. | up to 2 months |
| CookieConsent | Essential | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain to ensure compliance with privacy regulations. | up to 12 months |
| UserMatchHistory | Optional (Marketing) | Used by LinkedIn for ad targeting and performance analysis to enhance user engagement and ad effectiveness. | up to 2 months |
| _fbp | Optional (Marketing) | Used by Facebook to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads. | up to 4 months |
| _ga | Optional (Statistics/Analytics) | Used by Google Analytics to identify unique users, track user interactions, and gather statistics for analytical reports. | up to 24 months |
| _ga_4ZGJYCB80N | Optional (Statistics/Analytics) | Used by Google Analytics to track user interactions and collect data for analytics reports, distinguishing unique users. | up to 24 months |
| bcookie | Optional (Marketing) | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | up to 24 months |
| bscookie | Optional (Preferences) | This cookie is used to identify the visitor through an application. This allows the visitor to login to a website through their LinkedIn application for example. | up to 24 months |
| li_gc | Optional (Preferences) | Stores user consent for LinkedIn services on websites with integrated LinkedIn features. | up to 12 months |
| li_sugr | Optional (Marketing) | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. | up to 12 months |
| lidc | Optional (Preferences) | Used by LinkedIn to manage server request routing and optimize network efficiency. | up to 2 days |
5. HOW DO I CHANGE MY COOKIE SETTINGS?
a. Managing Cookies via Our Consent Management Tool
At FYST, we provide you with direct control over the cookies we use through our Consent Management Tool. This tool is accessible via a special banner that appears when you first visit our website. You can also always access it from the bottom left corner of the screen. This tool allows you to review and adjust your cookie preferences at any time to suit your privacy needs.
Through the Consent Management Tool, you can decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You have the flexibility to tailor which categories of cookies you allow. Your initial choices will be remembered, but you can revisit and change your preferences at any time by accessing the tool again.
b. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser Settings
You have the ability to manage the cookies stored on your device directly through your browser settings. This includes deleting cookies that have already been set or adjusting your preferences to block certain types of cookies in the future. While this gives you greater control over your privacy, it is important to note that restricting the use of essential cookies might affect the functionality of our website. Certain features and parts of our website may not operate correctly without these cookies.
It is important to remember that if you choose to disable a category of cookies that you had previously accepted, this will prevent future cookies of that type from being stored to your browser; however, it will not automatically remove existing cookies of that type. To remove these, you will need to manually clear your browser data. Doing so will delete all cookies and site data stored on your browser, and if you use a different device or browser, you will need to specify your preferences again during your next visit to our website.
Discover how to control cookies on commonly used browsers below:
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
Apple Safari
For information about other browsers, please visit the website of the respective browser developer.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
By managing your cookie settings, you ensure that your browsing experience and data privacy are aligned with your personal preferences.
6. COOKIE STORAGE DURATION
The duration for which cookies remain on your device can vary. Some cookies are designed to expire and automatically delete themselves at the end of your browsing session. These are typically session cookies, which are intended to manage your current visit to our website. On the other hand, persistent cookies, which are used for functions like remembering your preferences or tracking visitor behavior over time, may stay on your device for a longer period.
At FYST, our policy is to set the lifespan of our cookies to ensure they remain active only as long as necessary to fulfill their purpose. Typically, we aim to keep cookies active no longer than 24 months. We continually review and update our practices in collaboration with our trusted partners to ensure the cookies are set for appropriate durations, balancing functionality and privacy considerations.
7. COOKIES AND YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data collected through cookies on our website can sometimes include personal information. Personal data gathered by cookies may encompass identifiers such as your IP address, device ID, and browsing behaviour on our site. This information is essential for certain functionalities, such as improving your user experience by personalizing content and ads, analysing site traffic and usage patterns, and maintaining the security of your sessions. At FYST, we treat this information with a high level of care and in accordance with applicable data protection laws and our Privacy Policy.
8. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. If we make significant updates to this Cookie Policy, we may provide a prominent notice on our website or send you a notification using contact details at our disposal, depending on the nature of the changes.
9. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us using the following contact details:
SIA Fyst Tech
Registration No. 40203434698
Legal address: Dzirnavu iela 42, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
Email: dpo@fyst.com