Cookie file usage note
The purpose of this cookie usage policy is to provide you with information about the characteristics and purpose of the cookies we use, as well as how you can restrict them during browsing, if you wish. We also invite you to read the legal notices.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your device by the websites you visit.
Cookies are most often used to allow websites to function or be more efficient, as well as to provide information to the owners of those websites.
Furthermore, cookies allow your device to be identified.
Cookie Usage
Our site uses cookies for several reasons. In general, there are two categories of cookies:
• Functional
• Performance
Functional cookies meet technical requirements. They are necessary to ensure an effective and secure connection to a website.
Performance cookies improve browsing by recording your preferences, thus ensuring simpler, faster, and more interactive browsing. This type of cookie is also used to obtain statistical data.
These cookies can have different sources, functions, and lifespans.
Direct cookies: refer to cookies placed by our site when you visit it and which can only be read by this site.
Indirect cookies: refer to cookies placed by third parties when you visit our site, for example, cookies placed by social networks.
Functional cookies: ensure the correct functioning of the website (e.g., authentication, registration, and language preference cookies) or allow the provision of services explicitly requested by web users. Functional cookies are direct.
Performance cookies: are placed on the website for the purpose of collecting statistical data, for social and commercial purposes, or to create a general user profile. Performance cookies can be direct or indirect. Cookies placed for obtaining statistical data provide information about the pages visited on the website and the location of the computer (Google Analytics, etc.) Cookies placed for social purposes allow users to share content from the website on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
Permanent cookies: remain on your hard drive for a pre-determined period or until you delete them.
Session cookies (or temporal cookies): simplify your actions within a browsing session. All session cookies are deleted after you leave the respective website or when you close the browser window. These are generally functional.
What types of cookies does our site use?
We constantly strive to identify new methods to improve its website and the services it offers you. Cookies are used to optimize the usability and functionality of our website, as well as to gain a better understanding of how you use the site.
- Functional cookies
Functional cookies are used to ensure the proper functioning of the website and do not identify you personally.
Cookies make the site's operation more interactive and provide you with a more personalized online experience.
Below, you can find a general overview and more information about the functional cookies we use.
- Performance cookies
Performance cookies are used to collect information about how you used the site to improve content and facilitate its use.
Below, you can find a general overview and more information about the functional and performance cookies we use:
Social media cookies allow you to share content from our site and your opinions about it with other people, e.g., the "Share" and "Like" application buttons of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Viadeo, etc. The social network that provides these application buttons can identify you when you use these buttons, even if you haven't clicked on them when browsing our site. This happens because certain cookies allow the social networks in question to track your browsing on our site, if the respective network is activated on the device used for browsing the site. We do not control the processes used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our site. Please check the personal data protection policies of the relevant social networks. These offer you certain privacy options regarding social networks, especially by configuring your account settings on each network.
The period of time during which cookies belonging to third parties, such as these social network cookies, can be stored may be subject to change at any time before we are informed in this regard. Once Holcim has been informed, changes regarding their lifespan will be indicated in this policy.
Configuring your browser parameters
All web browsers allow you to restrict the behavior of cookies or disable them. The steps to follow are different for each browser. You can also view which cookies are present on your computer and delete them individually or all at the same time using your browser. Below we provide a series of instructions on how you can block and/or delete cookies for the most commonly used browsers:
Microsoft Edge
Chrome
Firefox
Safari
If you have blocked all or certain cookies, the website may no longer function correctly or you may no longer have access to certain components of the site, actions for which we are not responsible.
Updating the cookie policy
We reserve the right to make any changes to this policy, in particular to comply with legal requirements.
Personal data protection rights
For more details about the data protection policy, please access the dedicated page here.