Cookie notice
What are cookies:
A cookie is a small text file that websites store on your personal computer, phone, or other device, containing information about your activity on that website. Cookies enable and facilitate browsing.
The purpose of this notice is to provide you with information about what personal data in the form of cookies we process, how we handle them, for what purposes we use them, to whom we may disclose them, where you can obtain information about your personal data, and how you can exercise your rights regarding the processing of personal data.
Identification and contact details:
The Controller processing cookies is msg life Slovakia s. r. o., Hraničná 18, 821 05 Bratislava, Company ID: 35800780, gdpr.sk@msg.group (hereinafter referred to as the “Controller”).
1. Use of cookies
- How we use cookies:
The Controller processes all cookies based on Article 6(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulation”).
The Controller uses several types of cookies and groups them on its website into the following categories (for the following purposes):
- Essential cookies (required for the proper functioning of the website)
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website and for storing your consent preferences. Without them, it would practically be impossible to load the website correctly.
Scope of processed essential cookies: unique consent identifier, consent status, date and time of consent.
| Cookie name | Description | Provider | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|
| consent | Stores information about the user’s consent to the processing of cookies. | Consent | during the session |
| functionality_storage | Stores the consent status for functional cookies. | Google Consent | during the session |
| personalization_storage | Enables storage related to personalization, such as video recommendations. | Google Consent | during the session |
| analytics_storage | Stores the consent status for analytical cookies. | Google Consent | during the session |
| ad_storage | Stores the consent status for marketing cookies. | Google Consent | during the session |
| ad_personalization | Stores the consent status for personalized advertising. | Google Consent | during the session |
| ad_user_data | Stores the consent status for providing user data for online advertising purposes. | Google Consent | during the session |
| wp-wpml_current_language | This name refers to a cookie that stores information about the user’s currently selected language on the website. | during the session |
- Functional Cookies
These cookies enable additional functions for website visitors. They may be set by the Controller or by third parties.
Scope of processed functional cookies: unique identifier, language code, page settings, timestamp of modal (pop-up) display, video personalization.
| Cookie name | Description | Provider | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|
| bonus-popup-time | These records are used solely for displaying the modal; they are not sent to GA and are not used for tracking, only to evaluate whether the modal should be shown. | Custom | during the session |
| bonus-popup-new-time | These records are used solely for displaying the modal; they are not sent to GA and are not used for tracking, only to evaluate whether the modal should be shown. | Custom | during the session |
| ip_group | These records are used solely for displaying the modal; they are not sent to GA and are not used for tracking, only to evaluate whether the modal should be shown. | Custom | during the session |
- Analytical or statistical cookies
These cookies allow the analysis of general website usage by users to evaluate and improve performance. For example, they provide information on how the website is used and help facilitate any promotions or surveys offered by the Controller.
Scope of processed analytical cookies: unique identifier; location – country (geolocation); distinction between returning and new users; average time spent browsing the website; user device screen resolution; user device operating system; type of user device; type of user device web browser; language of the visited page.
These specific details (your geolocation, your device type, etc.) are processed privately, in the background of analytical tools (e.g., Google Analytics), and are used by the website operator to generate anonymous statistics. They are not intended for public display.
| Cookie name | Description | Provider | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|
| _clck | Analysis of user behavior using Microsoft Clarity (e.g., clicks, mouse movements, navigation). | Microsoft Clarity | 1 year |
| _clsk | Analysis of user behavior using Microsoft Clarity (e.g., clicks, mouse movements, navigation). | Microsoft Clarity | 24 hours |
| _ga | Google Analytics cookies. They track user traffic and behavior on the website. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_JR9SBDSG4Y | Google Analytics cookies. They track user traffic and behavior on the website. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_PSW1MY7HB4 | Google Analytics cookies. They track user traffic and behavior on the website. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _gtmeec | Google Tag Manager. | GTM | 3 months |
- Marketing cookies
These cookies collect information for marketing purposes. They help better target marketing campaigns based on granted preferences. They also store data on the number of visitors who viewed or clicked on ads and campaigns published by the Controller, allowing the Controller to optimize their advertising campaigns as needed.
Scope of processed marketing cookies: unique identifier; information required for personalized advertising.
| Cookie name | Description | Provider | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|
| FPAU | They identify a specific user or device. | Google Ads | 3 months |
| FPGSID | They identify a specific user or device. | Google Ads | 30 minutes |
| FPID | They identify a specific user or device. | Google Ads | 2 years |
| FPLC | They identify a specific user or device. | Google Ads | 20 hours |
| _fbp | Facebook Pixel cookie. | 3 months |
Identification of data subjects in cookie processing:
The data subjects whose personal data in the form of cookies are processed are: users browsing the Controller’s website.
Identification of recipients, categories of recipients:
The Controller may provide personal data to authorized entities such as institutions and organizations permitted to process them under specific legal regulations, or to contractual partners (especially processors) who have contractually committed to implement appropriate safeguards to protect the processed personal data, as follows:
- Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (for services Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Consent Mode).
- Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland (for services Microsoft Clarity).
- Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (for services Facebook Pixel).
With your consent or at your instruction, the Controller may provide personal data to additional recipients.
Transfer of cookies to a third country/international organization:
The transfer of personal data from cookies may be carried out to third countries, such as the United States of America, in connection with the use of services from companies Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation a Meta Platforms, Inc. the transfer is ensured in accordance with Art. 45 (1) based on a decision of adequacy EU – U. S. Data Privacy Framework of which these companies are members Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA and Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
Identification of the source from which the cookies were obtained:
Directly from the data subject (by giving consent when visiting the website).
What is the retention period:
The Controller processes personal data from cookies for a maximum period of 24 months from the date consent is given. Depending on the type of cookie, the duration of processing may vary, as specified in the tables above.
Profiling:
Based on your consent to marketing cookies, the Controller may use tools that process data (such as information about your activity on the website) to create user profiles. The purpose of this profiling is to better target advertising campaigns and display relevant content and offers to you. This processing does not constitute automated individual decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects on you.
Obligation to provide personal data in the form of cookies:
A website visitor, as the data subject, provides their personal data voluntarily, based on consent (provision is not a legal or contractual requirement). If such data is not provided, the Controller will not process any type of cookies for the purpose of providing, improving, or developing new services, except for strictly necessary cookies.
2. Management of your cookie preferences
Avoiding the use of cookies on this website:
By default, the Controller does NOT track the experiences of visitors to these websites. The data subject may choose to give consent for the processing of any personal data collected during website browsing. The data subject also has the option to disable the processing of any cookies directly in their web browser.
Disabling and preventing the use of cookies:
The data subject may at any time restrict, block, or delete cookies from these websites by changing their browser settings at the following links:
If the data subject disables all cookies, a cookie banner will be displayed on each visit to these websites. As a visitor to these websites, the data subject has the option to change their decision regarding granting or withdrawing consent for cookie processing at any time.
3. Rights of the data subject
As a data subject, a website visitor has the right under the regulation to request from the Controller access to the personal data being processed about them, the right to rectification of personal data, the right to erasure or restriction of the processing of personal data, the right to object to the processing of personal data, the right to object to automated individual decision-making, including profiling, the right to data portability, as well as the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority.
If the Controller processes personal data based on the consent of the data subject, the data subject has the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of personal data based on consent before its withdrawal.
The data subject may exercise their rights by sending an email to: gdpr.sk@msg.group or in writing to the Controller at: msg life Slovakia s. r. o., Hraničná 18, 821 05 Bratislava.
