Lotus Bakeries International und Schweiz AG (‘Lotus Bakeries’) collects data to provide you a better browsing experience, to optimize our services and to offer you relevant products and/or services that connect to your interests. This data may come in the form of cookies of pixels. Below we will explain how these cookies work and how you can configure them.

Every time you visit the  website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer through a website. Cookies typically contain information about your actions on the website: preferences you may have selected, pages you have visited…

Lotus Bakeries uses cookies primarily to optimise your user experience and to improve the performance of our website. We also use cookies to tailor our website content to your personal needs and preferences. The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.  That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.

In addition, we use cookies to map your browsing behaviour (e.g. how you found our website or your browsing time on our website). Statistical data allow us to make improvements to our website if necessary and to meet your needs and preferences and those of other website users.

  • Temporary cookies or session cookies are saved to your browser temporarily. This means that this type of cookies will be deleted once you exit your browser session.
  • Permanent cookies will remain stored on your computer or mobile device, even if you close your browser. Permanent cookies allow us to recognise you when you revisit our website in the future. Permanent cookies will remain stored on your device until they expire, until a new cookie is installed, or until you remove them via the settings of your browser or mobile device.

The cookies on our website are categorized according to their use (functional cookies, statistics cookies). Generally speaking, we distinguish between the following types of cookies:

  • First party cookies are cookies that are stored by the website you are visiting, while third party cookies are stored by a website other than the one you are visiting.
  • Necessary cookies enable you to move around on a website and to use its features.
  • Performance cookies collect data on the performance of a website such as the number of visitors, the time spent on the website and error messages.
  • Functionality cookies increase the usability of a website by remembering the choices you made (e.g. language, region, login, dietary choices).
  • Targeting/advertising cookies enable a website to send you personalized advertising

 

 

 

 

NECESSARY COOKIES

Cookie name Purpose expiration
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. 11 months
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. 11 months
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. 11 months
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other. 11 months
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. 11 months
viewed_cookie_policy The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. 12 months
cc_cookie_accept This cookie is essential for the website to save your cookie preferences and display the EU cookie warning on your first visit
has_js This cookie is essential for the website to store information about your preferences

 

ANALYTICS COOKIES

Cookie name Despriptions expiration
_ga The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 2 years
_gcl_au Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. 3 months
_gid Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 1 day
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. 30 minutes
_hjFirstSeen Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. 30 minutes
_hjid This is a Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page using the Hotjar script. 1 year
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s pageview limit. 2 minutes
CONSENT YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. 2 years

 

TARGETING/ADVERTISING COOKIES

Cookie name Purpose expiration
_fbp This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. 3 months
fr Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. 3 months
IDE Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. 1 year 24 days
test_cookie The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. 15 minutes
_uid This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. The data includes the number of visits, average duration of the visit on the website, pages visited, etc. for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisments. 68 years 18 days 3 hours 14 minutes
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. 5 months 27 days
YSC YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. 2 years
yt-remote-connected-devices YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. never
yt-remote-device-id YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. never
yt.innertube::nextId This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. never
yt.innertube::requests This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. never
_pinterest_ct_ua Pinterest pixel to allow advertising 1 year

We use these cookies to collect information about the use of our website. They are used to record the performance and loading times of the website and specific pages.

This cookie policy supersedes all previous versions and is valid from October 2022. We reserve the right to make changes to and/or update this policy.

If you have any questions on our use of cookies,  you can contact Lotus Bakeries via the information below: