AAS BALTA cookie policy
Cookie Policy
Last modification date: 18.12.2024. V2
Insurance Joint Stock Company “BALTA”, registration No. 40003049409, legal address: Skanstes iela 25, Riga, Latvia, LV-1013; email address: [email protected], (BALTA) ensures the security and protection of personal information of visitors to the websites https://www.balta.lv and https://www.baltaonline.lv (sites) when visiting BALTA sites and familiarizing themselves with their content and functionality.
The cookie policy is prepared to provide visitors of BALTA websites with information about the technologies used on the site and how BALTA uses them.
Cookies are small text files that the browser saves on your device (e.g., computer, mobile phone, tablet) during website browsing. They are widely used to improve the user experience of website visitors and enhance site performance.
Purpose of cookies:
- ensure the website works as expected
- keep you logged in during your visit for your convenience
- remember your settings during and between visits
- improve site speed/security
- personalize our site to help you get what you need faster
- continuously improve our site for easier use
- make our marketing more effective (helping us offer you more suitable marketing content)
Additional information about cookies and their management can be found on the website aboutcookies.org.
Without your consent, we only set cookies that are necessary for our website to function. We will not set other cookies unless you enable them. For information on how to control your cookie settings, see the section “How to manage cookies” below.
You can see exactly what cookies we use, the cookie name, category, purpose and storage period in the cookie notice on BALTA websites, which you can open even if it was once closed by clicking on the “Cookie settings” button at the bottom left of our website screen.
Each cookie we use is categorized by its type, party and purpose. For example, a cookie is categorized as a persistent, first-party, functionality cookie. A more detailed explanation of the categories (by type, party and purpose) can be found below.
We use two types of cookies: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. This division helps us to set and enforce the retention periods for the cookies we place.
Session cookie
A session cookie is used each time you visit our website. We use this type of cookie to link your activities on our website, and each session cookie will only exist for the duration of your browser session, at the end of which the cookie will also expire. Each browser session will begin when you open a browser window and end when you close it. After you have finished your visit to our website, all session cookies are deleted.
Persistent cookie
A persistent cookie allows us to remember your settings or activities on a website (or across websites). Its lifespan is longer than a session cookie and it lasts for the period specified in the cookie (this will vary from cookie to cookie). This type of cookie will not be deleted when you close your browser window, it will be stored on your device. It will be activated every time you visit the BALTA website.
We use two types of cookies, known as “first-party” cookies and “third-party” cookies. This distinction helps determine who else will have access to the information collected by the cookie we place.
First-party cookie
A first-party cookie is set by us or by our authorized service providers on our behalf. These cookies help to provide you with a better experience and keep your session open, for example, the browser can remember your language settings.
A first-party cookie is only readable when you visit a BALTA website.
Third-party cookie
A third-party cookie is created by another company whose service is used by BALTA. We use such cookies by including products provided by third parties on our website to collect the activity data we need and such data as is necessary for marketing purposes, providing social sharing functionality, etc. In this case, third parties also receive information from such cookies.
On the BALTA website, in the description of the cookie notice, we have indicated for what purposes we use such cookies. The activities of third parties and the purposes for which they use information from these cookies are subject to the privacy policy of the third party. For example, we use Google Analytics, and you can find more information in the section “How Google used data when you visited our partner sites or apps” by clicking on this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Based on the information in the “Service providers” column of the cookie notice, you can track which cookies belong to which third parties.
To help you understand cookies, we have divided each of them into one of the following groups:
Necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for our website to function and to allow you to move around and use our website features. For example, to ensure that a page loads quickly and efficiently, to allow you to log in to our website as a registered user, to ensure that your selections and data are not lost when you move between pages on our website during a browsing session. Without strictly necessary cookies, certain functionality of our website will not work, and our website will not be able to function as smoothly as it should. These cookies do not collect any information for marketing purposes and do not track your activities on our website or across the internet.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies collect information about how you use our website and help us improve it. For example, performance cookies can show you the most visited pages, the length of time spent on a page and the articles you have opened, and help us record any difficulties with the site. These cookies track your activities on our website, but they collect information in a way that does not directly identify you. Analytics cookies do not collect any information for marketing purposes and do not track your activities on the rest of the internet.
Functionality cookie
Functionality cookies support specific interactive functionality, providing you with added value, but our website can still function without it. Functionality cookies allow the website to remember your choices (such as language) and provide enhanced and more personal features to the service provided. For example, customize a particular web page (text size, fonts and other parts of the pages that you can customize), provide other functionality that you need (watch a video or leave a comment), and remember whether you have visited our website before so that you are not shown messages intended for first-time visitors. These cookies do not collect any information for marketing purposes and do not track your activities on our website or on the rest of the internet.
Marketing Cookie
Marketing cookies are used to provide advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests, to limit the number of times you see the same advertisement, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns by tracking your clicks.
The advertisement may not be displayed on our website, but it may be displayed elsewhere, even after you leave our website. These cookies collect information for marketing purposes and track your activities not only on our website, but also on the rest of the internet.
When visiting the BALTA website, the user is provided with a Cookie Notice, providing the ability to manage the application of cookies.
- By clicking the "Accept all" button – all cookies will be applied.
- By clicking the "Customize" button – you will have the opportunity to adjust your preferences.
- By clicking the "Use only necessary" button – only necessary cookies will be applied.
By not making your choice and continuing to use the BALTA website, BALTA will consider that you have not given your consent to the use of all cookies.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" button at the bottom of the site. You can adjust your settings by checking or unchecking the available categories of options, then clicking "Accept checked" or "Accept all". You will need to refresh the site in your browser for the settings to take effect.
You can also control the use of analytics cookies, functionality cookies, and marketing cookies by adjusting your browser settings.
Learn how to manage cookies in the most popular browsers:
For information about other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you have any questions about the processing of personal data, please read the BALTA data processing notice, which can be found in the “Useful” section of the BALTA website, in the subsection “Personal data processing notice for customers” or contact the BALTA data protection officer at [email protected].
BALTA has the right to make changes to the cookie policy, all changes to the cookie policy will be published on www.balta.lv.