Cookie policy

Definition and purpose of cookies

Cookies are small files that a website can store on your computer, phone or tablet through your browser. Depending on their purpose, they can maintain a session, remember preferences or provide information about how a service is used.

Session storage is different from cookies: it keeps temporary information in the browser for a particular tab. This policy also explains that feature where it affects browsing.

What types of cookies are there?

Cookies can be classified by who manages them, how long they last and what they do. These categories describe common technologies; the specific use on this website is explained below.

• First-party: managed by the website operator. Third-party: managed by another entity providing a service.
• Session: temporary during browsing. Persistent: remain for a defined period or until deleted.
• Technical: enable functions such as access, security or basic service operation.
• Preference: remember browsing choices. Analytics: help measure website usage. Advertising: enable ad personalisation or measurement.

What does this website use?

When you switch languages, the website temporarily saves your reading position, selected tab and open questions. This information restores the same position on the translated page and does not include contact form data.

The session key is called gestocks-language-position. It is removed when the position is restored; data older than two minutes is not used. Session storage ends when the tab is closed.

To prevent the news panel from appearing repeatedly, we remember in this browser whether you have completed a subscription and how many times it has opened automatically, up to a maximum of three. We do not store your email address in this preference. We also remember that it has already appeared during the tab’s session. You can delete these preferences by clearing the website’s data in your browser.

Providers and third-party services

We use a single Google tag, linked to Google Analytics and Google Ads, to measure website use and advertising results according to your chosen preferences. You can accept or reject analytics and advertising measurement options, and change them under “Cookie preferences”. If you reject all options, we do not load the Google tag.

Google Analytics may use cookies such as _ga and _ga_…; advertising measurement may use cookies such as _gcl_…, depending on consent. To identify qualified visits, with more than 60 seconds in the foreground and two different pages within the same session, we temporarily store the accumulated time, the pages and a flag to avoid counting the visit more than once. We do not store names, email addresses or form data in this record.

Your preferences are stored in this browser for six months. You can change them using the “Cookie preferences” button or by clearing the website’s data. If you withdraw analytics consent, we delete the locally stored qualified-visit state and stop sending this event.

The website is hosted on ChatGPT Sites. Provider technologies relating to hosting and private access are also subject to the provider’s privacy information. Links to external services, such as the customer area, take you to platforms with their own terms.

Managing cookies

You can view, block or delete cookies and website data in your browser’s privacy settings. If you block session storage, language switching will still work, but your reading position may not be retained.

You can find your browser’s official instructions using the links below. Deleting cookies may sign you out or reset preferences.

Consent and changes to technologies

Technologies requiring consent must be preceded by information about their purpose and the option to accept or reject them. Browsing or reading this policy does not, on its own, authorise optional uses.

If new services change this use, the information will be updated and any required consent options made available before activation.