Cookie policy
About the Cookie Policy
This Cookies Policy (the “Policy”) describes how CoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares”, “we”, “our”, us) uses cookies and other tracking devices through www.coinshares.com and etp.coinshares.com (the “Websites”).
This Policy applies when you ("you", "Client", "User", “Visitor”) access, visit, or use any portion of the Websites and has to be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy. For more information regarding how we process your personal data and your rights as a data subject, please see our Privacy Policy.
Your privacy is important to us. As such, we encourage you to read this policy on cookies and other tracking devices to understand how they work and how our company and third parties use them.
We use cookies to personalise the content on the Websites, to provide social media features and analyse traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners, who may combine it with other information you have provided or collected from your use of their services. Please see our Privacy Policy for further information about how your personal data might be shared.
This Policy allows you to understand how and why we use them so that you can make an informed choice about their use during your browsing.
Legal basis
When you first visit our Websites, we ask for your consent to the use of cookies for different purposes. You have the option to Allow all cookies, Customize your cookies (i.e. preferences, statistics and/or marketing) or Deny cookies via the cookie settings banner. We do not need your consent to use strictly necessary cookies and we may process personal data collected via strictly necessary cookies based on a legitimate interest, where CoinShares’ interest in maintaining the website overrides the visitor's interest in not having the information processed.
During your browsing, you can always change or withdraw your consent to cookies at any time by changing your cookie preferences through the Cookiebot tool located at the bottom left of the Website.
What are cookies, and why do we use them?
Cookies are small text files which the website you are visiting asks to save on your device. Cookies are stored on the Visitor’s computer, tablet, smartphone or other devices. Cookies then allow us to recognise that device, track your browsing and record helpful information to optimise your visit and ability to access the various features of our Websites.
Cookies can be classified by their lifetime and by the domain to which they belong:
By legitimacy:
Necessary: Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling essential functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preferences: Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language, the type of investor you are or the region that you are in.
Statistics: Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with their website (i.e. what are the most popular pages on the website).
Marketing: Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
Unclassified: Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
By duration:
Session cookies: These are cookies that are deleted when the user closes the web browser.
Persistent cookies: These are cookies that remain stored on the hard disk of the user's terminal for a predefined period.
By domain:
First-party cookies: These are cookies deposited by the server of the visited website that shares the same domain.
Third-party cookies: These are cookies that are deposited by a domain other than that of the website visited. Because of the way they work, we cannot access the data collected by third-party cookies, and in particular, we cannot control all the tracking functions of third-party tools. However, these providers are required to comply with applicable data protection regulations.
We may use different types of cookies.
Which tools do we use and can you opt-out?
Because of how cookies and similar technologies work, we cannot access data collected by third-party cookies, or persons access the data generated by such tools, and in particular, not all tracking functions of third-party tools can be controlled by us.
All the following providers are obliged to comply with the applicable data protection regulations and are solely responsible for any processing of personal data as a data controller. Some third-party providers act as data processors and as such, CoinShares is responsible for ensuring these providers comply with the above-mentioned regulation.
| Cookie name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CookieConsent | Cookiebot | Necessary | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year | HTTP |
| CONSENT | coinshares.com | Necessary | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | coinshares.com | Necessary | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 180 days | HTTP |
| YSC | coinshares.com | Necessary | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | HTTP |
| yt-remote-cast-available | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTTP |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTTP |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | HTML |
| yt-remote-device-id | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | HTML |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTML |
| yt-remote-session-app | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTML |
| yt-remote-session-name | coinshares.com | Necessary | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTML |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar | Statistics | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. | 1 day | HTTP |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar | Statistics | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. | 1 day | HTTP |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_# | Hotjar | Statistics | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 day | HTTP |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | Hotjar | Statistics | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | Session | HTML |
| _hjSession_# | Hotjar | Statistics | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 day | HTTP |
| _hjSessionUser_# | Hotjar | Statistics | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 year | HTTP |
| hjViewportId | Hotjar | Statistics | Saves the user's screen size in order to adjust the size of images on the website. | Session | HTML |
| hjActiveViewportIds | Hotjar | Statistics | Stores user active viewports IDs. Stores an expirationTimestamp that is used to validate active viewports on script initialization. | Persistent | HTML |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | Hotjar | Statistics | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. | Session | HTML |
| _hjCookieTest | Hotjar | Preferences | This cookie is set by the audience manager of a website in order to determine if any additional third-party cookies can be set in the visitor’s browser – third-party cookies are used to gather information or track visitor behavior on multiple websites. Third-party cookies are set by a third-party website or company. | Session | HTTP |
| test_cookie | Necessary | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 1 day | HTTP | |
| _ga [x3] | Statistics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | HTTP | |
| _ga_# | Statistics | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | 2 years | HTTP | |
| _collect | Statistics | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session | Pixel | |
| _td | Statistics | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Session | Pixel | |
| _gat | Statistics | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 day | HTTP | |
| _gid[x3] | Statistics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | HTTP | |
| _gcl_au | Statistics | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | HTTP | |
| IDE | Statistics | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 year | HTTP | |
| pagead/1p-user-list/#/ [x2] | Marketing | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. | Session | Pixel | |
| personalization_id | Statistics | This cookie is set by Twitter - The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. | 2 years | HTTP | |
| i/adsct [×2] | Twitter Inc. | Marketing | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. | Session | Pixel |
| muc_ ads | Twitter Inc. | Marketing | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. | 2 years | HTTP |
| _guest_id | Twitter Inc. | Marketing | Collects data related to the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, with the purpose of personalising and improving the Twitter service. | 2 years | HTTP |
| _guest_id_ads | Twitter Inc. | Marketing | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| _guest_id_marketing | Twitter Inc. | Marketing | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | YouTube | Marketing | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session | HTTP |
| nextId | YouTube | Marketing | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session | HTTP |
| remote_sid | YouTube | Marketing | Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | Session | HTTP |
| requests | YouTube | Marketing | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session | HTTP |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | YouTube | Marketing | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | 1 day | HTTP |
| LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | YouTube | Preferences | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | IDB |
| YtIdbMeta#databases | coinshares.com | Marketing | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent | IDB |
How to manage your cookies settings?
When you first visit our Website, we ask for your consent to the use of cookies for different purposes. You have the option to Allow all cookies, Customize your cookies (i.e. preferences, statistics and/or marketing) or Deny cookies via the cookie settings banner. We do not need your consent to use strictly necessary cookies and we may process personal data collected via strictly necessary cookies based on a legitimate interest, where CoinShares’ interest in maintaining the website overrides the visitor's interest in not having the information processed.
During your browsing, you can always change or withdraw you consent to cookies at any time by changing your cookie preferences through the Cookiebot tool located at the bottom left of each Website.
Other options exist, in particular via your browser settings, which allow you to permanently oppose the installation of cookies or to be informed if a new cookie has been installed.
Cookies that have already been installed can be deleted at any time via your browser or other software. You can find a description of the appropriate settings for each current browser by clicking on the following links:
Chrome: Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome - Computer
Firefox: Websites say cookies are blocked - Unblock them | Firefox Help
Safari: Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
Microsoft Edge: Allow or Block Cookies in the new Microsoft Edge
Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
Changes to this Policy
Please note that this Policy may be updated from time to time. We, therefore, recommend that you read this policy whenever you decide to accept or decline cookies from us or change your initial cookie setting.
Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, or more generally about the processing of your personal data, please contact us at [email protected]
We also invite you to consult our Privacy Policy.
June 2023