Cookies Policy
1. INTRODUCTION
To find out more about how FOXCHANGE (we) use cookies and what benefits they bring, please take a few moments to read this Cookies Policy.
This document explains how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website to help provide you with the best possible online experience. New regulations will change the way in which the use of cookies is governed in the future and we will update this notice once those changes come into effect.
We use cookies only based on your provided permission.
Cookies are small often-encrypted text files that are stored by the browser on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Some cookies are deleted when you close down your browser. They are called the session cookies.
Others remain on your device until they expire or you delete them from your cache. These are persistent cookies, which enable us to remember things about you as a returning visitor.
Cookies are sent to your browser by a website you visit. They are widely used by web developers to help customers navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions. For example, cookies can be used to help the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you do not want information collected this way, the browsers offer a simple procedures that allow you to block cookies.
We use our own cookies and those of third parties to improve our services, customize our website identify and solve problems, measure the usage, compile statistics analyzing your use of the website.
To find out more about cookies, including, how to see what cookies have been set or how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Alternatively, you can search the internet for other independent information on cookies. We comply with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and relevant Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) guidelines applicable to Virtual Asset Service Providers regulated by a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO).
2. TYPES OF COOKIES
The type of cookie can be put into 1 of 4 categories, based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide to cookie categories:
• Strictly necessary (these cookies are essential, as they ensure your security and privacy when you use a website, as well as enable you to move around it and use its features);
• Performance (in most cases, the information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve the way a website works and to help identify issues you may have when using the services);
• Functionality & Profile (these cookies allow a website to remember choices you make);
• Targeting (these cookies and similar technologies gather information about your browsing habits).
Cookies depending on the purpose:
• Technical cookies: these cookies enable the customer to browse the website, platform or application and to use different options or service on it. For example, to control traffic and data communication, to identify the session, to access restricted website areas, to record elements that go to make up an order, to use security elements during browsing, to store content to broadcast videos or sound or to share content over the social networks;
• Geolocation cookies: these cookies permit us to know where the customer requesting a service is. This cookie is anonymous and is used for example to offer you the proper information depending on the country where you are;
• Personalization cookies: these are the cookies enabling the customer to access the service pursuant to certain general, predefined characteristics according to a range of criteria on the customer's terminal, such as e.g. browser type used to access the service, regional configuration from where the service is accessed, etc.
• Analysis cookies: are those that enable its owner to monitor and analyze behavior of customers of the website to which they are linked. The information gathered through such cookies is used for measuring the activity on the website, platform or application, and for profiling navigation of customers of the website, platform or application, in order to improve the website based on such analysis;
• Advertising cookies: these are the cookies enabling to manage the offer of the advertising space on the websites as efficiently as possible, adapting the ad content to the content of the service requested.
Cookies depending on the duration:
• Session cookies: these are the type of a cookie designed to collect and store information while the customer is accessing a website. These cookies are not stored on the customer's computer when the session expires or the browser is closed;
• Persistent cookies; these are a type of cookie in which the data continue to be stored on the customer's computer and can be accessed and processed when the customer leaves the website and when he/she returns to it. The customer can delete these cookies at any time.
Depending on who manages the cookies:
• Own cookies: can be sent to the customer’s terminal from a computer or domain managed by the owner of the website and from which the service requested was provided to the customer;
• Third party cookies: can be sent to the customer’s terminal from a computer or domain that is not managed by the owner of the website and from which the service requested by the customer is provided but for another entity that processes the data gathered by the cookie. If cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the owner of the website itself, but the information collected is managed by a third party, they will be also considered as third-party cookies. The third-party cookies procedures are managed and controlled exclusively by each provider.
3. DO COOKIES COMPROMISE MY SECURITY WHEN I AM LOGGED ON TO PLATFORM?
The cookies we use are completely safe. In fact, many of them are used purely to provide important security features, such as protection of your data and account.
When we include links to other websites, please bear in mind they will have their own privacy, and cookie policies that will govern the use of any information you submit. We recommend you to read their policies, as FOXCHANGE is not responsible or liable for their privacy practices. We only use cookies from trusted providers who comply with Swiss data protection standards and ensure secure handling of your data.
4. DISABLING COOKIES
When you visit this site, we ask for your consent to use cookies. However, this Cookie Policy allows you to amend your preference for tailored content cookies. You can allow, block or delete the cookies installed on their computer or device at any time by means of changing the configuration settings of the browser.
Disabling cookies does not prevent navigation through the website, although the use of some of their services may be limited and therefore, and your browsing experience may be less satisfactory
Please note that under Swiss law, your explicit consent is required before non-essential cookies can be placed. You can adjust your preferences at any time, and disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
5. DATA PROTECTION
We may process your personal data when you browse the website, in compliance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and other applicable laws. Please see our Privacy Policy for detailed information on how we handle your data.
6. REVOKING CONSENT
The customer at any time may revoke a consent in relation to this Cookies Policy by deleting the cookies stored on the computer or device through the configuration and settings of your Internet browser, as listed above.
If you have disabled one or more cookie categories, we may still use information collected from the existing cookies, but we will stop using the disabled cookies to gather any further information.
7. CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY
This Cookies Policy may be amended at any time:
• When requested by the applicable legislation, or
• When there is a variation in the typology used on the website.
We recommend you review this policy each time you visit our website in order to be properly informed about how and why we use cookies.
8. USE OF THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
We use third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics, to help us analyze website usage. These third parties comply with Swiss data protection laws and implement adequate safeguards to protect your data. For more details on their policies, please visit their respective websites. Where cookie-related data is transferred outside Switzerland or the EU, we ensure appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms are in place, in line with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP).