Areté Medical Community Cookie Policy
Areté Medical Community (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance user experience, provide insights into website usage, and ensure that our research participants receive relevant content. By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your device by a website to store information. Cookies can be either:
- Session cookies: These are temporary and deleted once your browser is closed.
- Persistent cookies: These remain on your device until they expire or are manually deleted.
Cookies can also be categorized as:
- First-party cookies: Set directly by our website.
- Third-party cookies: Set by third-party providers, such as Google Analytics, to track browsing behavior across websites.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential (Technical/Functional) Cookies: These are necessary for the functioning of our website, such as managing logins or security features. By placing these cookies, we make it easier for you to navigate our website. These cookies are placed without requiring your consent.
- Performance Cookies: Used to analyze how visitors use our site and improve the functionality.
- Targeting (Marketing/Tracking) Cookies: These track your browsing habits and help serve ads that are relevant to you. They create user profiles and track activity across websites for marketing purposes.
3.Web Beacons
We may use web beacons (small graphic images or tracking pixels) in emails or on the website to understand how users interact with our content. These pieces of code are invisible on the page and collect data for analyzing website traffic.
4.How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to:
- Analyze site usage and improve the user experience.
- Identify and authenticate users across sessions.
- Track participant behavior to deliver relevant research opportunities.
- Process honoraria for completed research activities.
5.Placed Cookies
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 2024-10-19 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, a pop-up will explain our use of cookies. By clicking “Save preferences,” you agree to the use of cookies according to your selected settings. You can modify your consent settings at any time.
7. Manage your consent settings
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
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8. Enabling/Disabling and Deleting Cookies
You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings:
- Google Chrome: Instructions
- Mozilla Firefox:Instructions
- Microsoft Edge:Instructions
- Safari:Instructions
9. Your Rights with Respect to Personal Data
You have the following rights concerning your personal data:
- Right to know:Why your data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained.
- Right of access:You can request access to your personal data.
- Right to rectification:You can correct or request deletion of your data.
- Right to withdraw consent:If you provided consent, you may revoke it and request your data be deleted.
- Right to transfer:You can request the transfer of your personal data to another controller.
- Right to object:You may object to the processing of your data unless there are legitimate reasons for doing so.
10. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this cookie policy, please contact us at privacy@aretemedicalcommunity.com.