Cookie policy

1. Cookie Policy

In providing its services and making its content available to users of the https://www.forclassmates.com/ website (hereinafter referred to as the "Website"), ForClassmates s.r.o., ID No.: 056 25 351, with its registered office at Evropská 516/10, Dejvice, 160 00 Prague 6, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague under file No. C 297922 (hereinafter referred to as the "Company"), various network identifiers, so-called cookies, for the purpose of enabling and streamlining the use of the website.

For more information on the protection of personal data by the Company, please refer to the principles of personal data processing published on the website.

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are stored on your device by the internet browser you are using. Without these files, the use of the website would be more complicated and less user-friendly. With the help of cookies, the website you visit remembers settings related to the website you are visiting (e.g. the selected language, login information or the preferred preference within the website you are visiting). When you return to it, the browser will return the identifiers associated with the page for you. This will keep your settings. Thanks to cookies, repeated visits to the website are more user-friendly. You give your consent to the use of cookies for a period of 6 months, if you want to continue using cookies, the consent must be renewed after the specified period.

3. Types of cookies

Cookies are classified according to their duration of use, their necessity and the entity that places them on your device.

a. According to the duration of use, cookies are divided into the following two categories:

· Short-term (session cookies), which are automatically deleted from your computer as soon as you close your browser. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.

· Long-term (persistent cookies), which remain stored on your computer for a longer period of time depending on the settings of your internet browser. You can manually delete persistent cookies at any time. These cookies are useful for your easier orientation on the website.

b. According to necessity, cookies are divided into the following categories:

· Necessary information, without which the website would not be able to function, are necessary for the transmission of information, e.g. to preserve the contents of the shopping cart or to remember the user's consent to the (non)use of cookies.

· Others, which are used in particular to facilitate the transmission of information, measure traffic or analyze the behavior of website users. These are further divided into marketing, analytical and preference cookies.

· Marketing – these are used to better target ads and personalize them. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information in order to provide customized ads.

· Analytical/Statistical – allow you to track the interactions of website visitors with its content and provide data on the number of visitors, the length of time spent on the website, etc.

· Functional/Preferential – used to improve the functionality of the website, to make it easier to use, it is possible for the website to remember the user's preferences and adapt to them (language settings, currency, etc.)

· Performance – they allow the key performance indexes of a website to be understood and analyzed, which helps in providing a better user experience for visitors.

c. Depending on which entity creates cookies and stores them on your device, we divide cookies into two categories:

· First-party cookies are created directly by the data controller that operates the website visited. They are most often used to ensure the basic functions of a website.

· Third-party cookies are created by data controllers other than the operator of the website visited. Most often, these are cookies of advertising service providers or cookies for website traffic analysis.

4. What do we use cookies for?

The Company uses cookies when you visit our website, in particular for the following purposes:

• Website security. Cookies help us authenticate users and are used to prevent fraud and protect user data.

• Analysing user behaviour on the website in order to propose better layouts, functionalities and further improvements to the website.

• Analysis of user behavior on the website in order to better target advertising campaigns.

• To ensure the functioning of the website. Cookies help us maintain the proper functioning of chat windows and other functionalities of the website.

• Remembering the user's language preference for the wording of the website.

5. Third-party cookies

Our website also contains cookies from our contractual partners. These cookies are managed by third parties and the Company does not have access to read or write this data. These are, in particular, advertising or website traffic analyses.

These partners are:

· Google Analytics – an analytical and marketing tool for determining user behavior on the website, in order to design better layout, functionalities and other improvements of the website, user profiling and targeting of personalized advertising. Information on the processing of personal data and data security can be found here: www.google.com;

· Clarity – a tool used to track user interactions with a website in order to improve user interface and functionality. Information on personal data processing and data security can be found here: www.clarity.microsoft.com.

· Mixpanel – an analytical tool designed to analyze user behavior and their user habits in order to optimize the user-friendliness of a website and provide relevant content. Information on the processing of personal data and data security can be found here: www.mixpanel.com;

· PostHog – an analytics tool used to understand how users interact with a website in order to improve the performance of the website and provide a better user experience. Information on the processing of personal data and data security can be found here: www.posthog.com/;

· Sentry – A tool designed to collect and analyze error and performance information on a website in order to improve stability and performance. Information on the processing of personal data and data security can be found here: www.sentry.io/;

· Fingerprint – a tool designed to identify and track a user's device based on unique identifiers or technical characteristics of the device in order to personalize content. Information on the processing of personal data and data security can be found here: www.fingerprint.com/;

· Facebook Pixel - A tool used to measure, optimize and build audiences for Facebook advertising campaigns. Information on personal data processing and data security can be found here: www.facebook.com;

· Hotjar - a tool used to analyze traffic and improve the usability of the website and to optimize the offer on the website. Information on the processing of personal data and data security can be found here: www.hotjar.com.

6. How to adjust cookie settings?

In connection with the change in legislation, websites can no longer use cookies without your active consent, as there has been a change from the opt-out principle (your consent was assumed and had to be withdrawn) to the opt-in principle (you need to actively give your consent). However, this does not apply to necessary cookies, which still work on the opt-out principle, so you can withdraw your consent to them in the settings of your internet browser. As stated above in this document, consent or disagreement with the use of cookies is granted for a period of 6 months, after which the website will ask you to grant/not grant it again.

For the purpose of obtaining consent to the use of cookies, a so-called cookie banner or cookie bar has been added to the website. This bar is divided into two layers. In the first layer, it is possible to give consent to the use of all types of cookies, to express disagreement with the use of all types of cookies working on the opt-in principle, or to click on the "settings" hypertext field and get to the second layer of the cookie banner, where you can express your consent to the use of individual types of cookies.

In the second layer of the cookie banner you will find a link to this Cookie Policy for the collection of personal data. Below you will find a list of cookies used by the website, which is divided by type of cookie, and the list of relevant cookies belonging to a certain type of cookie can be expanded by clicking on the name of the given type of cookie. Next to the names of the types of cookies, you will find a switch that is set by default so that you do not agree to the use of this type. If you want to allow a website to use a certain type of cookie, you need to click on the switch and actively give your consent.

You can change your mind at any time during the use of the website by clicking on the link in the footer of the web application called "Edit cookies" and you will be able to bring up the cookie banner again and you will be able to decide again which type of cookies you will or will not agree to. This consent/disagreement will again be valid for a period of 6 months.

We hereby warn you that failure to give consent to the use of certain types of cookies may result in a deterioration in the user quality of the website and limit the ability to use the services provided by our website. These are features related to certain types of cookies described above. It is possible to change the granting or non-granting of consent in the settings of your internet browser.

If you block the possibility of collecting and storing cookies in your internet browser, we will no longer process any of your network identifiers or other information that can be obtained through cookies.

Detailed information on how to set cookies in your browser can be found on the websites of the providers of specific internet browsers.

7. What are your rights in relation to the use of cookies?

In connection with the use of cookies, you also have the following rights:

• request information from us about what personal data we process about you;

• request an explanation from us regarding the processing of personal data;

• request access to this data from us and have it updated or corrected;

• request us to erase such personal data – we will delete it if it is not in conflict with applicable law or our legitimate interests;

• If you have any doubts about compliance with the obligations related to the processing of personal data, please contact us or the Office for Personal Data Protection, which has its registered office at Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Prague 7. Authority's website: www.uoou.cz.

The Company, as the personal data controller, can be contacted directly at:

ForClassmates s.r.o.

Evropská 516/10

160 00 Praha 6 - Dejvice

Alternatively, at the e-mail address: info@forclassmates.com