At QIMA, we believe in being transparent and open about how we collect and use data related to you -- it is after all your data. This policy contains full information about the cookies that we use on all QIMA web properties (hereinafter referred to as the "Site"). The full list of websites is listed below.1
We use different types of cookies to run our website and ads on third-party websites. These tables list some of our and third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are derived from other websites' for marketing purposes, such as analytics or retargeting.
We are continuously making further improvements and changes to the ways we use cookies and we will keep this page updated with the cookies we use. Please note that these tables are subject to change from time to time. The expiration dates for our cookies below generally apply on a rolling basis or from the last time that QIMA has interacted with the user.
Please refer also to our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that stored on your device that contain data about you and a specific website on your computer.
They are designed to hold that can be accessed by the web server or the client computer to offer a tailored and faster experience, for example knowing what your email address or country is.
Please note that cookies will not damage your device.
Below you can find a list of categories of cookies we use on this Site.
These cookies are essential for you to move around the Site, to use its features and provide the services you have requested, such as access to restricted areas of the website or your personal preferences. They can, for example, memorize previous actions such as text entered, your country, email, login, etc.
Without these cookies we may not be able provide the services or preferences you request (such as, login, e-billing, etc.).
We use the following necessary cookies:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration | Source and ownership | Access to more information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general-purpose identifier used to maintain user session status. | 1 year | QIMA | More information available at https://www.qima.com/privacy-policy |
| JSESSIONID | This is a general-purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. It is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Session | QIMA | More information available at https://www.qima.com/privacy-policy |
| ScustomPortal-Careers | This cookie sets an alphanumerical ID in order to recognize several associated requests of the same client and to assign them to one session. | Session | QIMA | More information available at https://www.qima.com/privacy-policy |
| showQimaBannerCookie | This cookie stores the user’s cookie consent state for the site | 1 year | QIMA | More information available at https://www.qima.com/privacy-policy |
| AWSALB AWSELB |
This cookie is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. | 7 days Session |
Amazon.com, Inc. | More information available at https://aws.amazon.com/it/privacy/ |
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These cookies are set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. | Session 1 year 1 year |
Cloudflare Inc. | More information available at https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ |
These cookies can be session based or persistent, and their use is limited to the performance and improvement of the Site features, such as collecting information on how a visitor uses the Site.
They can do, for example, web analytics, error handling, test different website page structures, etc. These cookies do not collect information that can identify you, as all information collected by them are aggregated in an anonymous form and are only used to improve the functionality of the Site.
We use the following performance cookies:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration | Source and ownership | Access to more information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| http_referer | This cookie is set to when user comes to the website from a link in an external website | 1 year | QIMA | More information available at https://www.qima.com/privacy-policy |
| _ga _gid |
These cookies set by Google Analytics are used for analytics purposes, including identifying each unique user and details of each page visited. | 2 year 1 day |
Google Inc. (Google Analytics) | For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the Google Inc's privacy policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can block the use of Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the relevant extra component for your browser from this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
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These cookies set by Adobe analytics software are used for analytics purposes, including: measuring the performance of page content using A/B split testing, identifying unique visitors with an ID and timestamp, storing information about the previous link clicked within the site, determining whether cookies are enabled in the browser, storing date of visit and if visitor is new or returning. | Session Session Session 2 weeks 2 years Session Session 5 years 1 month |
Adobe Inc. | More information available at https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/core-services/interface/ec-cookies/cookies-privacy.html |
| optimizelyEndUserId | This cookie is set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform to identify unique users. | 10 years | Optimizely Inc. | More information available at www.optimizely.com/privacy. Details on how to opt out of Optimizely tracking are available at www.optimizely.com/opt_out |
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These cookies are associated with web analytics services from Hot Jar. Such services include: uniquely identifying a visitor during a single browser session, counting how many people visit a certain site, etc. | Session 1 year 1 year 1 year 1 year |
Hotjar Ltd. | More information available at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| __hssrc __hstc |
These cookies are associated with web analytics services from HubSpot platform. | Session 2 years |
HubSpot, Inc. | More information available at https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy |
| amplitude_id_[hash] | These cookies are set by Amplitude analytics, which helps to better understand how the website is used. | 10 years | Amplitude Inc. | More information available at https://amplitude.com/privacy |
| ADRUM | This cookie is set to collect web performance data and IP addresses. | Session | Cisco Systems Inc. (AppDynamics) | More information available at https://www.appdynamics.com/privacy-policy |
These cookies can be session or persistent, and are usually the result of a user action, but they can also be implemented when providing a service not specifically requested but simply offered to users.
They can, for example, remember the settings that a user has applied to a website (such as layout, font size, preferences, if you have placed an order before, what company you are an employee of or partner with, your language preferences, etc.), remember a choice so that users are no longer requested to fill out a questionnaire, detect if a service has already been offered, provide information to allow access to an optional service (such as the offer of a live chat session), fulfil a user request (such as submitting a comment).
We use the following functional cookies:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration | Source and ownership | Access to more information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI_Cookie NG_TRANSLATE_LANG_KEY |
These cookies are set to offer users the most relevant experience to the visitor’s selected preferences, country, language and data (such as username, password, email address, name, country, phone number, cookie and active consent preferences). | 2 years Session |
QIMA | More information available at https://www.qima.com/privacy-policy |
| hubspotutk | This cookie is set by the HubSpot platform for user authentication purpose. | 2 years | HubSpot, Inc. | More information available at https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy |
| device_view | This cookie is associated with the MobileDetectBundle library for the Symfony PHP web development framework. It is used for adaptive/responsive sites to determine which version should be served according to the user’s device (e.g. desktop or mobile). | 1 month | Symfony SAS | More information available at https://connect.symfony.com/privacy-policy |
Third-party profiling cookies for marketing and retargeting purposes
These cookies are used by QIMA’s partners, upon your prior consent, in order to profile users for advertising and retargeting purposes.
They can, for example, create user profiles to serve ads that are in line with your preferences showed as you surf the web; record your choices and activity on our website to carry out statistical analysis – for us or for third parties – by tracking your preferences and browsing behavior, serve customized ads to you, integrate some common feature of the major social media and provide it within the site, etc.
We use the following third-party third-party profiling cookies for marketing and retargeting purposes:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration | Source and ownership | Access to more information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | This cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 4 months | Google Inc. (Google AdSense) | For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the Google Inc's privacy policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can block the use of Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the relevant extra component for your browser from this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie carries out information about how the visitor uses the website and any advertising that the visitor may have seen before visiting the said website. | 1 month | Google Inc. (Google Analytics) | For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the Google Inc's privacy policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can block the use of Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the relevant extra component for your browser from this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| NID | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to help build a profile of the visitor’s interests and shows relevant ads on other sites. | 7 months | Google Inc. | More information available at https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| AID | Cookie used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. | 9 months | Google Inc. | More information available at https://policies.google.com/privacy |
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These cookies are set via embedded Youtube videos. They register anonymous statistical data, such as how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. No sensitive data is collected unless the visitor logs in to his google account, in that case his choices are linked with his account, for example if the visitor clicks “like” on a video. | 2 years 2 years 20 years 2 years 8 months 2 years 2 years 3 months 2 years Session Session 8 months |
Youtube Inc. | More information available at https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| _fbp fr |
There cookies are used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products, such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months 3 months |
Facebook Inc. | More information available at https://www.facebook.com/policy/cookies/ |
| bcookie | This is a Microsoft MSN cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | 2 years | Microsoft Corporation | More information available at https://privacy.microsoft.com/ |
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These cookies are set by Twitter, if the Twitter social plug-in on our website has been activated by the user. The cookies enable to link with Twitter to authorize the use of the widget. | Session 9 months 4 days 9 months 2 years 9 months 1 day 2 years |
Twitter Inc. | More information available at https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
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These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the “Apply with LinkedIn” or the “Sign-in with LinkedIn” functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. | Session Session Session 1 day 1 month 1 month 1 month 1 year |
LinkedIn Corporation | More information available at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| ELOQUA | This cookie is set by the Eloqua Business Marketing platform to collect and transfer contact info from webforms to internal databases. | 2 years | Oracle Corporation | More information available at www.eloqua.com/about/privacy/ |
How Can I Disable Cookies?
We remind you that, in compliance with current legislation on cookies, your prior consent is not necessary for necessary cookies.
If you do not agree with the use of all or any cookie, you must configure the browser settings and disable the cookies or stop using the Site. By disabling cookies, however, the Site or some of its features may not work properly.
To modify the use of cookies and block/delete them on the device, simply enter the browser settings.
Configurations of the cookies may be different in each browser, even though the steps are very similar. For more details on the procedure, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org and see the “Help” section of your specific browser.
To learn more about cookies and to manage your preferences on third-party cookies please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
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