What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.

That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymized statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

You can delete the cookies at any time. However, this can result in some functions no longer being available.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies:

• to make our websites work as you would expect
• to offer you the best browsing experience
• to provide us with anonymous aggregated information about how users interact with our websites
• to remember any preferences and settings you select when you visit our site again

Which cookies do we use?

Name(s) __utma (lifetime 2 years),__utmb  (expires with the session)__utmc (expires with the session), __utmz (lifetime 6 months)

Category Performance cookie.  Analytical.

Domain google.com/analytics

Purpose: Vulcanexus uses Google Analytics cookies embedded on the site to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visite

Name(s) Authentication - Cookie (lifetime 60 days)

Category Authentication cookie. Technical.

Domain joomla

Purpose Authentication - Cookie handles Joomla's cookie User authentication.

Name(s) affcd5bd0354885e9db081cf2842899d,  90cf7e8f4a97c193b3c4a88411a0497a - Cookies (expire with the session)

Category Session cookie.Technical.

Domain joomla

Purpose: Session cookie assigns the viewer - or rather his browser session - a unique - randomly generated value. These cookies are required for the operation of a function of the website.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

These providers may use cookies and active components. Vulcanexus has no influence on the processing of personal data by these providers. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

Please refer to the respective provider’s websites for information about the use of cookies and how your data is handled. 

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, and site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies from being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging in).