This Cookie Policy explains how Qcare (“we “, “us”, and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Qcare) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics and other purposes.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our website or opened an e-mail including them.

Lifetime of Cookies

Cookies have a lifetime. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Others (for example, those with login details) can remain on your computer for years if you do not delete them. You can delete cookies at any time. Click on one of the links below to go to your browser’s user manual. After deleting cookies, you may need to log in again to some websites or specify your preferences. Cookie management in Google Chrome Cookie management in Firefox Cookie management in Internet Explorer Cookie management in Safari Cookie management in Opera

Different types of cookies

There are different types of cookies:

• Essential Cookies
  Essential cookies are cookies to provide a correct and user-friendly website. Some examples:
• Storing your language preferences;
• Detecting abuse or fraud;
• Storing browser settings to display the website according to the screen size.

Non-essential Cookies

Non-essential Cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyze your behavior on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies). These cookies are typical third-party cookies that we use to collect statistical data about how our website is used, including:

• Average page load time;
• Pages visited;
• Browser data;
• IP address;
• MAC address;
• Duration of a (page) visit;
• Data about the operating system;
• Data about the device used;
• Clicking behavior and other interactions on one or more pages.

The main purpose of these cookies and their statistical data is, after analysis, to optimize our performance, security, usability, content and services.

Online Privacy

We think it’s important that you have full control over your privacy online. That’s why we refrained from placing cookies that are non-essential such as Cookies.

Changes to our cookie policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. This might be for a number of reasons, such as to reflect a change in the law or to accommodate a change in our business practices and the way we use cookies. We recommend that you check here periodically for any changes to our Cookie Policy.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us.