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Cookie Privacy Notice

What are cookies and other tracking tools?

Cookies are small files stored by most internet browsers to track visitor information and enable Sonova to make its web-offering more relevant to you. During your visit to our website, Sonova uses four categories of cookies. Their retention period depends on each country and the relevant applicable law. 

Tracking tools and libraries, such as gtm.js from Google Tag Manager, are scripts integrated into websites to collect and manage visitor interaction data. They enable site owners to implement analytics, marketing, and personalization features by triggering tags or storing relevant information about user behavior. The scope and retention of collected data depend on the specific tool configuration, its purpose, and applicable legal requirements in each jurisdiction.

Other tracking tools are any ‘passive’ tracking tool, for example: fingerprinting, web beacons (or invisible pixels or web bugs), cookie "flash" (or shared objects), or any technology that helps to identify the user’s device, or operating system, by collecting all or part of the information on the specific user-selected configuration of that device.

What cookie categories do we use, and why?

  • Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are necessary for us to provide you with the basics functionalities of our website and cannot be switched off in our systems.
  • Performance and analytical cookies: these cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources in order to measure and improve the performance of our website.
  • Functional cookies: these cookies are used to provide enhanced functionality and personalization during your visit.
  • Targeting or advertising cookies: these cookies may be set on our website by third-party services embedded in our pages, such as YouTube video players. Although Sonova does not use any targeting tools itself, such third-party elements may place cookies that are widely recognized as targeting cookies to build a profile of your interests and display relevant advertising elsewhere.

Please find below a list of all cookies and other tracking tools used by this website:
 

Cookies or other tracking tools

Category

Lifespan

Cookie Type

OptanonConsentStrictly necessary cookie1 yearFirst Party Cookie
PHPSESSIDStrictly necessary cookie1 session

Third Party Cookie

Equity Story

Privacy Policy

OptanonAlertBoxClosedStrictly necessary cookie1 yearFirst Party Cookie
Google Tag Manager (gtm.js)Performance and analytical cookie / Targeting or advertising cookies1 sessionNo cookie, Javascript
Youtube Iframe API (iframe_api.js)Targeting or advertising cookies1 sessionNo cookie, Javascript
_gaPerformance and analytical cookie1 yearsFirst Party Cookie
_ga_xxxxxxxxxxPerformance and analytical cookie1 yearFirst Party Cookie
_hjSessionUser_xxxxxxxPerformance and analytical cookie1 yearFirst Party Cookie
_hjSession_xxxxxxPerformance and analytical cookie1 sessionFirst Party Cookie
_hjTLDTestPerformance and analytical cookie1 sessionFirst Party Cookie
__cf_bmFunctional cookie1 session

Third Party Cookie

CloudFlare

Privacy Policy

YSCStrictly necessary cookie1 session

Third Party Cookie

YouTube

Privacy Policy

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVEStrictly necessary cookie6 months

Third Party Cookie

YouTube

Privacy Policy

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKENStrictly necessary cookie6 months

Third Party Cookie

YouTube

Privacy Policy

__Secure-YECTargeting or advertising cookies1 session

Third Party Cookie

YouTube

Privacy Policy

            

__Secure-YNID

Targeting or advertising cookies1 session

Third Party Cookie

YouTube

Privacy Policy

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATAStrictly necessary cookie6 months

Third Party Cookie

YouTube

Privacy Policy

How to manage cookies?

Each type of cookies reflects a specific purpose, on our website you can easily consent specifically to each purpose. By accepting all cookies, you will have a fully personalized web experience. We allow you to choose which types of cookies you accept or block, but it may impact your experience on the website and the services we offer. Nevertheless, you can use the service even in case of refusal to consent to some cookies, except for strictly necessary cookies.

To withdraw or modify your consent, you can click the small Icon on the bottom left side of the Website.

If you are not interested in the advantages of our Cookies, the “Help “function of your browser can provide instructions on how to prevent Cookies or delete existing Cookies. Also, you can learn how to block all new Cookies on your browser and which configuration steps are required to receive a notification about new Cookies. 

In any case, your choice (consent/refusal) will be kept for a period of 12 months.

Very helpful information on Cookies in general can be accessed on these websites: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://cookiepedia.co.uk

How to contact us?

For any questions, comments, or concerns about this Policy, or in order to exercise your privacy rights permitted by applicable law related to Personal Data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at the following e-mail address: privacy@sonova.com.

For further information please consult our Web and Cookie Policy.