Cookie Policy

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) applies to you and your personal data collected on the website https://matthew-mercury.com/ as well as all underlying web pages (“Website”) by Mercury Watch Corporation as the owner of the Website or any of its affiliated companies (“Matthew Mercury”, “we” or “us”).

“Matthew Mercury” is a trade name and brand operated by Mercury Watch Corporation and does not constitute a separate legal entity.

When you visit the Website, we will place one or more cookies on your device or use JavaScript, HTML5 and other digital technologies to collect information from your computer, mobile handset or other device. This information may contain personal data. In this Cookie Policy we will tell you what cookies we will use and what their functions are. How we process personal data that we obtain from your device is described in our Privacy Policy. When you visit our Website, we will regard this as your specific request to provide you with the full functionality of the Website.

This Cookie Policy applies to all visitors of the Website.

  1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

The responsibility for this Cookie Policy lies with Mercury Watch Corporation as the owner of the Website. You can contact us at the address listed below.

  1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small (temporary) text files we transfer to your device. We may also use similar digital techniques, such as JavaScript, HTML5, device fingerprinting etc. Collectively we refer to these digital techniques as “cookies” in this Cookie Policy.

  1. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

Cookies may be used for many different purposes. In the first place, cookies ensure that you can use the basic functionality of the Website: they remember your selection and the choices you make to improve your experience on our Website. We call them “functional cookies”.

Cookies can also be used to allow us to further develop and improve the functionality of the Website by analyzing usage. In some cases, they improve the speed with which we can process your request and allow us to remember site preferences you have selected. You can make a choice to not consent to our use of these “analytical cookies”.

Thirdly, “social media and advertising cookies” offer the possibility to connect you to social networks and share content from our Website on social media. Information that we obtain from advertising cookies is used to maintain your personal advertising profile. You can make a choice to not consent to our use of these “social media and advertising cookies”.

The actual cookies that are in each of the three categories are listed and described here:

Cookie Name Details

cookie_notification
• This cookie is used to store the information on whether the user accepts the cookie policy or not.

cookie_shoponline_text
• This cookie stores the text for the shop online link.

cookie_shoponline_url
• This cookie stores the URL for the shop online link.

cookie_handle
• This cookie is used to store the language handle.

cookie_language
• This cookie is used to determine which language we should show on the region selector dropdown inside the footer.

_ga
• This cookie is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 2 years.
• This cookie stores the Client ID.
• Client ID: a unique, randomly generated string that gets stored in the browser cookies, so subsequent visits to the same site can be associated with the same user.
• This cookie does not store any personal user information.

  1. HOW CAN I MAKE A CHOICE ABOUT COOKIES AND MY PRIVACY

On the Website, you can set your preferences regarding cookies. You can do this by clicking the “more info” link in the cookie banner or, when you wish to change a previously provided consent, you can access your preferences via the “more info” button. In the subsequent “more info” screen that is shown to you, you can indicate that you withhold consent by removing the relevant tick in the tick boxes for analytical and social media and advertising cookies.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality and user experience of the Website.

When you withhold your consent this does not automatically delete any cookies that are already on your device pursuant to your previous consent. You will need to delete these cookies manually. Below you’ll find the way to remove cookies for your particular browser:

Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Edge
Safari (iOS)
Safari (macOS)

  1. QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or if you have a complaint, you can send a request to support@matthew-mercury.com.

  1. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY

Mercury Watch Corporation may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.