Cookie policy

1. What are cookies?

During your visit to our website, cookies may be used. Cookies are small pieces of text that are sent by our servers to your computer or device when you access our services. They are stored in your browser and later sent back to our servers, allowing us to provide contextual content. Without cookies, using the internet would be a much more frustrating experience (trust us 😉). We use them to support your activities on our website. A cookie is therefore completely passive and does not contain any software programs, viruses or spyware.

2. Which cookies does SPARQ use?

SPARQ uses different types of cookies, both files that automatically disappear after the browser is closed and files that are also used during a later visit. SPARQ itself sends a number of cookies (“first-party cookies”), which SPARQ itself manages, including the processing of the collected data. In this way, SPARQ can improve your user experience of its website, for example by saving the selected language settings or preventing you from repeatedly seeing the same advertisements. Handy, right?!

SPARQ’s partners also place cookies (“third-party cookies”), which were developed by or for them and to which only these partners have access, as well as to the information collected by them. SPARQ therefore has no control over and/or knowledge of the content and functioning of these cookies. Advertisers can, for example, add cookies to their advertisements on the SPARQ website in order to gain insight into your areas of interest, so they can show you only relevant advertisements.

In addition, SPARQ uses third parties, such as Google Analytics, to analyze the use of the website. These services also place cookies on your computer to find out how visitors use the website. This analysis is necessary for SPARQ to adapt its website to the preferences of visitors, again in order to increase its ease of use. Other third parties that may place cookies on your computer via our website are social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. This happens via the buttons of these services that you see on the website to promote (“like”) or share (“tweet”) the content. This includes Facebook’s famous “Like button” and “Like box” (Friend 1, friend 2 and x people like this), which allow Facebook to recognize visitors on the basis of cookies.

3. Rejecting or deleting cookies?

If you want to continue visiting the SPARQ website without adjusting the cookie settings and you click the “continue” link, the installation of cookies is accepted. It is possible to refuse the installation of cookies via the browser settings on your computer. However, some parts of our websites may then not work or may not work optimally and/or access to them may not be possible, which is of course not the intention.

You can also delete the cookies already installed on your computer or mobile device at any time. After disabling and/or deleting cookies, you will still see advertisements, but they will no longer be tailored to your previous use of the SPARQ website.