Cookie statement
Mifa Aluminum uses cookies (and similar techniques). Because we want to guarantee your privacy and improve the user-friendliness of your visit(s) to our website, we think it is important that you are aware of how and why we use cookies. Below we provide as much information as possible about the use of these techniques.
What are cookies and what do we use them for?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, tablet or telephone. We use the term “cookies” for convenience as an umbrella term; this includes cookies, web beacons and javascripts. Cookies are automatically deleted from your device. For some cookies, this means at the end of the internet session, while for others, they are stored for a short or longer period of time.
Which cookies do we use?
Below is a brief overview of the types of cookies we use on our website.
Cookies without permission
- Functional cookies
Cookies that ensure that our website functions properly. - Analytical cookies
These are intended to facilitate the use of the website. With these cookies we collect information about which pages are visited the most, which pages work effectively or produce error messages. Visitors are tracked anonymously.
Cookies that require permission
- Performance cookies
These cookies make it possible to collect information about the use of the website. This gives us more insight into how you use the site so that we can improve the user experience, for example by increasing the performance of our website or testing different website design ideas. Performance cookies are only used if permission has been given. - Tracking, advertising and social media cookies
Advertising cookies ensure that information, promotions and advertisements are relevant to you, on our website and beyond. For example, they keep track of how often you see something and which advertisements you have already seen. Even if these cookies are not accepted, you may still encounter advertisements from us online. Not all our advertisements use cookies. Cookies do make it possible to show you more relevant advertisements and no unnecessary advertisements.
Necessary cookies
| Cookies used | Purpose of the cookie | Type | Retention period | More info / provider |
| __cfduid | Used to override IP security restrictions. | HTTP | 1 year | CloudFlare |
Performance cookies
| Cookies used | Purpose of the cookie | Type | Retention period | More info / provider |
| player | These cookies are placed by vimeo.com. They ensure that the playback of the videos can take place. | HTTP | 1 year | Vimeo |
| sync_active | Contains data about visitors’ preferences for videos – Allows the website to remember parameters such as desired volume or video quality. The service is provided by Vimeo.com. | HTML | Persistent | Vimeo |
Analytical cookies
| Cookies used | Purpose of the cookie | Type | retention period | More info / provider |
| _dc_gtm_UA-#
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Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.
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HTTP | 1 day | |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data about how the visitor uses the website. | HTTP | 2 years | |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data about how the visitor uses the website. | HTTP | 1 day | |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Pixel | Session | Google Analytics |
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Collects data about the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. | HTTP | 2 years | Vimeo |
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors as they visit different websites. Their goal is to display ads that are tailored and relevant to the individual user. These ads become more valuable to publishers and third-party advertisers.
| Cookies used | Purpose of the cookie | Type | retention period | More info / provider |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a range of advertising products, such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. | HTTP | 3 months | |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors who are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behavior across different websites.
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Pixel | Session | |
| fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a range of advertising products, such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. | HTTP | 3 months | |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographic GPS location.
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HTTP | 1 day | YouTube |
| GOES | Used by Google DoubleClick to record and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking on one of the advertiser’s ads for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of an ad and presenting targeted ads to the user. | HTTP | 1 year | DoubleClick |
| NOT | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted advertising. | HTTP | 6 months | |
| PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics on how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | HTTP | 8 months | YouTube |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | HTTP | 1 day | DoubleClick |
| tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a range of advertising products, such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. | Pixel | Session | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate users’ bandwidth on pages with embedded YouTube videos. | HTTP | 179 days | YouTube |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of which YouTube videos the user has seen. | HTTP | Session | YouTube |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user’s video player preferences with embedded YouTube video. | HTML | Session | YouTube |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences with embedded YouTube video. | HTML | Persistent | YouTube |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences with embedded YouTube video. | HTML | Persistent | YouTube |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user’s video player preferences with embedded YouTube video. | HTML | Session | YouTube |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user’s video player preferences with embedded YouTube video. | HTML | Session | YouTube |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user’s video player preferences with embedded YouTube video | HTML | Session | YouTube |
Not classified
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are still classifying together with the providers of individual cookies.
| Cookies used | Purpose of the cookie | Type | retention period | More info |
| UUID#[abcdef0123456789] | Pending | HTTP | Session | Webserver |
Remove and refuse cookies
Via the browser settings on your computer you can delete cookies that have already been placed and refuse the placement of new cookies. The way differs per browser. Removing or refusing cookies has no harmful consequences for the functioning of the website. However, the result may be that certain parts only work to a limited extent or not at all. Disabling cookies only affects the computer and browser on which this action is performed. If multiple computers and/or browsers are used, this operation must be repeated as often as necessary.
Delete cookies in Internet Explorer
Go to Tools menu > Internet Options > General tab. Under Browsing history, click Delete. You may not want to delete everything. In any case, make sure that ‘Cookies’ is checked and click on ‘Delete’.
Delete cookies in Firefox
Click the orange Firefox bar at the top and go to History > Clear Recent History. Click on “Clear your recent history”. Under ‘Details’ you can indicate what exactly you want to delete. In any case, check ‘Cookies’. You can also indicate how old the cookies should be. Choose “All” here.
Delete cookies in Chrome
Click on the block with 3 lines, top right. Click History > Clear browsing history. Under “Privacy,” click “Clear browsing data.”
In any case, make sure that ‘Cookies and other site and plug-in data’ is checked when deleting.
Delete cookies in Edge
Click on the three dots icon and go to settings. Under “Clear browsing data,” click “Choose what to clear.” By default, some options are checked. In any case, leave the checkbox for Cookies and saved website data.
Subject to changes Cookie statement
Mifa reserves the right to make changes to this Cookie Statement. Any adjustment will be published on this page. We recommend that you consult this Cookie Statement regularly, so that you are always aware of the content of the applicable Cookie Statement. For more information about how Mifa handles your data, we refer to our privacy statement.