Cookie Statement

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies help us to make the website work properly, to analyze its use and to improve content or advertisements.

2. What types of cookies do we use?

Zentic uses the following categories of cookies:

• Functional cookies
• Analytical cookies
• Marketing and tracking cookies

On your first visit to our website, we ask for consent via a cookie banner for the placement of cookies that are not strictly necessary.

3. Functional cookies (necessary)

These cookies are necessary for the operation of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function correctly. No consent is required for these cookies.

Functional cookies used

Google

• __Secure-ENID
  Secures user authentication and helps to prevent fraud and abuse.
  Retention period: 11 months
• test_cookie
  Used to check whether the browser supports cookies.
  Retention period: 1 year

Consent Studio (Vallonic B.V.)

• consent-studio__consent-id
  Proof ID of the consent given.
  Retention period: 30 days
• consent-studio__storage
  Stores the user's cookie preferences.
  Retention period: 30 days
• consent-studio__seen
  Keeps track of whether the cookie banner has been shown.
  Retention period: 30 days
• consent-studio__implicit-consent-triggered
  Records whether implicit consent has been applied.
  Retention period: 30 days

Cloudflare

• __cf_bm
  Protects the website against automated abuse and bad bots.
  Retention period: session

4. Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies help us to gain insight into the use of the website so that we can improve it. These cookies are only placed after consent.

Analytical cookies used

Matomo (Piwik) Analytics – self-hosted

• _pk_id.*
  Recognizes visitors and stores statistical data.
  Retention period: 13 months
• _pk_ses.*
  Maintains an active visitor session.
  Retention period: 30 minutes

The data collected via Matomo:

• is stored within our own infrastructure;
• is not shared with third parties;
• is used for statistical analysis.

Google Analytics

• _ga
• _ga_*
  Used to identify users and to analyze website usage.
  Retention period: 2 years

Microsoft Clarity

• _clck
  Stores information about how visitors use the website.
  Retention period: 1 year
• _clsk
  Combines multiple page views into a single session recording.
  Retention period: session

Microsoft Clarity uses this data to gain insight into user behavior via heatmaps and session recordings. The data is processed in anonymized form.

5. Marketing and tracking cookies

Marketing cookies are used to make advertisements more relevant and to measure the effectiveness of campaigns. These cookies are only placed after explicit consent.

Marketing cookies used

Google / DoubleClick

• _gcl_au
  Used by Google AdSense to measure advertising efficiency.
  Retention period: 3 months

6. Third-party cookies

Some cookies are placed by third parties, such as Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare. These parties may process data outside the European Union. In such cases, appropriate safeguards are applied, such as standard contractual clauses.

7. Changing or withdrawing cookie settings

You can adjust or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time via the cookie banner on our website. In addition, you can delete or block cookies via your browser settings.

Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functioning of the website.

8. Changes to this cookie statement

Zentic reserves the right to amend this cookie statement. The most up-to-date version is always available on our website.