General information about cookies

User trust is important to us, and therefore at INDEPENDENT CAPITALS we care about protecting your privacy. An important aspect of this is providing as much information as possible about how we use your personal data, including how we use local data storage and similar technology.

Local data storage involves storing different types of data locally on your device through your web browser. Locally stored data may, for example, contain user settings, information about how you navigate our website, which web browser you use, which ads have been shown, and similar behavior on websites we partner with . Locally stored data may be used to customize content and features on our services so that your visits are more convenient and meaningful.

A local data storage method is cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the device (PC, mobile phone or tablet) that allow us to recognize your web browser. Cookies mainly contain information about your web browser and any activity that has taken place there. They help us guarantee the security and optimal functioning of our website, once you leave our website these are deleted (security cookies and session cookies) and collect information about the products that interest you during our internet visits and about how they navigate through our website to make our online offers more attractive to users (tracking cookies).

Additional information about cookies

We use local data storage for a number of purposes, including: enabling us to perform our services; provide you with relevant, personalized content when you visit our websites; measure and analyze traffic to our website; improve our services; and direct targeted advertising. More details on these topics are provided below:

• For our advertising: We use local data storage in connection with advertising activities. This lets us know if and how often the user has seen a particular ad or ad type, and how long ago they saw it.
  We also use local data storage to build target segments and groups for marketing purposes and to target specific advertisements.
• To analyze and improve our services. We use various measurement tools that provide us with statistics and analysis relating to our services. These tools allow us to recognize the web browser over time and find out if the user has visited the website before and if so how often. These tools give us the ability to get an overview of how many unique users we have and how they use our services. Likewise, we use the information we have collected and analyzed to develop and improve our services; for example, finding out which services generate a lot of traffic or seeing if a service is performing optimally.
• To deliver and adapt the services to your use. Local storage of data is required and necessary to enable you to use our services, such as configuration information, which tells us how the services should be presented to your web browser.
• We also use local data storage to adapt our services to your use as well as possible.

Management of cookies

You can disable cookies or set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent to you.

The settings in your web browser usually show a list of all cookies that have been stored to provide you with an overview and, if you wish, to delete unwanted cookies. You can usually indicate that you accept the storage of cookies by the websites you visit or by third parties affiliated with those websites. You can also choose to be notified each time a new cookie is stored. Guidance on how to do this in different web browsers is provided below. Your web browser usually stores cookies in a specific folder on your hard drive so that you can also examine the content in more detail.

However, the cookies that are present on the website change frequently, and not all cookies are equally important. Therefore, if INDEPENDENT CAPITALS changes the use of tracking cookies, you will be notified with a message.

Likewise, services are available that have been specially developed to provide users with an up-to-date list of cookies and other tracking mechanisms.

Please note that if you disable them, you may not be able to enjoy all the features of the nos web site.

Below is a summary of how locally stored data can be handled in different web browsers. Please note that this process may change and the descriptions given here may not be up to date.

Cookie management in Google Chrome

How to delete cookies:
1. Go to Settings in your browser menu.
2. Click Show advanced settings.
3. Click Delete Browsing Data.
4. Select the time period for which you want to delete the information from the menu at the top. If you want to delete all cookies in your browser, click From time source.
5. Mark cookies and other data from sites and plugins.
6. Click Delete Browsing Data.
7. Close the window.

How to prevent cookies from being stored in the web browser:
1. Go to Settings in your browser menu.
2. Click Show advanced settings, and then click Content settings.
3. Under Cookies, select your preferred option. If you want to prevent all cookies from being stored, click Do not allow site data to be stored.
4. Click Done.
5. Close the window.

Cookie management in Safari

How to delete cookies:
1. Go to Preferences in your browser menu.
2. Click on the Privacy tab.
3. Click Delete all website data and click Delete to delete all cookies.
4. Close the window.
How to prevent cookies from being stored in your web browser:
1. Go to Preferences in your browser menu
2. Click on the Privacy tab.
3. In Cookies and website data select your preferred option. If you want to prevent all cookies from being stored, click Always block.
4. Close the window.
Cookie management in Mozilla Firefox
How to delete cookies:
1. Go to Options in your browser menu.
2. Click on the Privacy tab.
3. Click Show Cookies.
4. Select the cookies you want to delete and click Delete Selected. Click Delete All if you want to delete all cookies in your web browser.
5. Close the window. Any changes you’ve made will be saved automatically.

How to prevent cookies from being stored in your web browser:
Go to Settings in your browser menu.
1. Select the Privacy tab.
2. Under History, click Use a custom setting for history.
3. Select your preferred options under Allow website cookies. If you want to prevent all cookies from being stored, uncheck the box Accept cookies from websites.
4. Close the window. Any changes you’ve made will be saved automatically.

How to prevent cookies from being stored in your web browser:
Go to Settings in your browser menu.
1. Select the Privacy tab.
2. Under History, click Use a custom setting for history.
3. Select your preferred options under Allow website cookies. If you want to prevent all cookies from being stored, uncheck the box Accept cookies from websites.
4. Close the window. Any changes you’ve made will be saved automatically.

Management of cookies in Internet Explorer

How to delete cookies:
1. Go to Tools (gear icon) in your browser menu.
2. Click Internet Properties.
3. On the General tab – Browsing history, click Delete.
4. Make sure to check the Cookies and website data option.
5. Click Delete.
6. Click OK.

How to prevent cookies from being stored in your web browser:
1. Go to Tools (gear icon) in your browser menu.
2. Click Internet Options and click the Privacy tab.
3. Move the slider to the desired level. If you want to prevent all cookies from being stored, select the level Block all cookies.
4. Click OK.

Management of cookies

How to delete cookies:
1. Go to Settings in your browser menu.
2. Select the Privacy and Security tab.
3. Click Cookies and then click All cookies and website data.
4. Select the cookies you want to delete and click Delete. Click Delete All if you want to delete all cookies in your web browser.
5. Click Done.
6. Close the window.

How to prevent cookies from being stored in your web browser:
• Go to Settings in your browser menu.
• Select the Privacy and Security tab.
Under Cookies, select your preferred option. If you want to prevent all cookies from being stored, click Do not allow site data to be stored.
• Close the window.

Contact information

For more transparency, if you have any questions regarding the use of local storage on our website, please contact us at [email protected] , indicating in the subject line “Cookie Policy”.