Cookie policy
We use cookies to provide you with a great user experience
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently by reading and writing files that later enables them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient.
2. What type cookies do we use?
Below we list the different types of cookies we may use on our website:
Necessary
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. If you have a blocker plugin set-up on your browser, some parts of our website may not be displayed. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.`
Functional
In some circumstances, we may use functionality cookies. Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on our Site and to provide enhanced and more personalized features, such as customising a certain webpage, remembering services you requested, like watching a video. All of these features help us to improve your visit to the site.
Performance
Performance cookies, or also known as analytical cookies, collect information about your use of this site and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, allow us to see the overall patterns of usage on the site, help us record any difficulties you have with the site and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.
Targeting
We and our service providers may use targeting or advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our Site and to help measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. These cookies remember what you have looked at on the Site and we may share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.
3. Who do we work with?
Provider: CookieControl
Purpose: CookieControl helps us to manage your cookie preferences on alpadia.com. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in a cookie.
Duration: 180 days
Provider: Cloudflare
Purpose: We use Cloudflare to improve loading times for our users. They may place necessary cookies used to identify malicious visitors to our websites, to assist with web-traffic filtration, and to reduce the chance of blocking legitimate users.
Duration: 1 month
Provider: DoubleClick.net / Google
Purpose: Cookies used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
Duration: Up to 1 year
Provider: Facebook
Purpose: Cookies by Facebook are used to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
Duration: 3 months
Provider: Google
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Duration: Up to 1 year
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Provider: Kaplan International Languages
Purpose: Cookies are used by Kaplan to enable us to measure, optimize and build audiences when interacting with forms on our website.
Duration: 1 day
Provider: Tawk.to
Purpose: Tawk.to provides the live chat service on our website. Some of these cookies are used to identify past chat conversations and to improve the service.
Duration: Up to 10 years
Provider: Youtube
Purpose: We embed videos from our YouTube channel. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Duration: Up to 2 years
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
4. How do third parties use cookies on the site?
In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on our website. Third-party advertisers and other organizations may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our site and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on the content you have viewed. Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements. We do not control these cookies and to disable or reject third-party cookies, please refer to the relevant third party's website.
5. How to prevent the collection of cookies & disabling them
If you would like to prevent ALPADIA from collecting cookies when you visit our site, please update the privacy setting in your chosen web browser. You can directly control cookie acceptance from there:
Google Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/
Mozilla Firefox: www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy
To opt-out of Double Click / IDE, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing
Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
Facebook and Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacyshield
Please also see our Privacy Policy to understand the other ways in which we use the information we collect. If you have any further queries, please contact us.