Cookie Policy
By visiting Magnasense (former Aegirbio) website, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth herein. Therefore, you should read this Cookie Notice and our entire Privacy Notice carefully before you begin using Magnasense website.
1. What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to your computer when you access certain websites.
- Cookies are NOT viruses,
- Cookies are NOT codes or programs that can run on your computer,
- Cookies use a plain text format and cannot make copies of themselves and spread to other networks to execute and replicate again.
Cookies do not contain information, but when cookies are stored on devices and read by a browser it can help a website improve the service delivered. For example, opening "virtual" doors to different content or services such as remember users and login, theme selection, preferences, and other customization functions.
The objective is often to unlock a computer's memory and keep track of your movement within the site in order to propose then a better user experience.
Cookies usually do not contain much information except for the URL of the website that created the cookie so due to the little amount of information a cookie contains, it usually cannot be used to reveal your identity or personally identifying information.
However, in some cases sophisticated cookies can be aggressively used to create a profile of your surfing habits.
2. What are cookies used for?
When you visit Magnasense website, the site ask your browser to store cookies on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference, country, user notice interactions or acknowledgements.
Magnasense uses also third party persistent cookies from Google Analytics to analyze how our visitors use our website and to monitor website performance.
For information about Google’s privacy policy and use of cookies for its analytics service, you can find out more by visiting https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy.
Comprehensive information on how organizations use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
3. Cookie Categories
Strictly Necessary means the cookies are essential for the provision of the site and any requested services, but do not perform any additional or secondary function.
Statistics and analytics Cookies are those that provide statistical information on site usage, i.e. web analytics. They are used to collect information about how you use the website, for instance which pages you go to most often, and if you get error messages from the website. These cookies however do not collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the website works.
Marketing Cookies are used to deliver adverts 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 campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
Google Analytics Cookies uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your settings and), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Google Analytics uses a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics.
4. Legal ground for using cookies
Since the website would not work without the strictly necessary cookies, this category of cookies is always on when you visit our website. The legal ground for using strictly necessary cookies is our legitimate interest in providing you with a functioning website.
However, when statistics, analytics and marketing cookies are used, we rely on your consent. Upon entering the website the first time, you will see a banner with information about our use of cookies and be requested to consent to the use of cookies. You are not required to consent to statistics, analytics and marketing cookies to access the website, however, some services and functions require the use of cookies and may be limited or inaccessible without your consent. Information on how to withdraw consent to cookies is included in the below.
5. First Party and Third Party Cookies
First-party Cookies are directly stored by the Magnasense website you visit.
Third Party Cookies is a cookie stored by a website from a domain other than a Magnasense domain. Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube and Linkedin. To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.
6. How to block and/or delete cookies
Most browsers have standard settings that accept the use of cookies. If you do not wish to accept cookies, your browser can be set to automatically deny the storage of cookies or that you should be informed each time a website requests to store cookies.
You may also use our consent tool, as described below to change your cookie preferences for our websites. If you use different devices to access the website (for example your computer, smart phone, tablet etc.), you must ensure to adjust the settings of each device.
For more information, please review your browser’s help pages. If you choose not to accept cookies, the website can still be used, but possibly with limited functionality.
7. Consent Tool
The Magnasense Cookie Consent tool can be utilized to customize your cookie preferences within the Magnasense Cookie banner and by using its “Privacy Preference Center”.
When you access the first time the Magnasense website, the Cookie banner will propose to “Allow All” Cookies or to customize your choice by clicking on “Customize”.
When you click “Customize” you have access to the “Cookie Settings” where you can then adjust your choice for all categories of cookies. You can therefore decide to activate one category and deactivate another. Cookies related to a disabled category will not be stored on your computer.
The tool will record when you have consented to our cookie policy and will ask for consent once a year to ensure users stay up to date with changes to our cookie and privacy policies. The consent tool specifically controls the statistics and analytics cookies, marketing cookies and Google Analytics cookies set by using our primary public website (magnasense.com). Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third party websites linked from our website.
This policy was last updated effective: July 25, 2024
