Cookie Policy

Upon your subsequent visit to the website, your browser transmits these files back to the site, enabling it to identify your session, retain your chosen settings, or analyse page usage patterns. Comparable technologies including local storage, session storage, and small tracking pixels function similarly, and this policy applies to all such technologies using the umbrella term "cookies".

A cookie generally contains the name of the site that set it, a value (often a random identifier) and an expiry date. Cookies cannot read other files on your device and are not programs.

Kestrel Spartix uses cookies to keep the website secure and functional, to remember the choices you make, to understand which pages are useful, and - where you have agreed - to measure the performance of our marketing. Strictly necessary cookies are set as soon as you open the site because the site cannot work without them. All other categories are only activated after you give consent, and you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Strictly necessary cookies

These keep the site usable: they maintain your session while you move between pages, balance traffic across servers, protect forms against automated abuse and remember the cookie choices you have already made. They do not build a profile of you and cannot be switched off through our banner, because without them core functions such as signing in would fail.

Preference (functionality) cookies

These remember the settings you choose - for example the interface language, a region, a display preference or whether you have dismissed an informational notice. They make the site more convenient but are not essential; if you refuse them, the site still works and simply asks for your preferences again on each visit.

Analytics (performance) cookies

These help us count visits, see which pages are read, how long people stay and where errors occur. The reporting is aggregated: it tells us that a page is popular or slow, not who you are. We use the results to fix problems and to improve the structure of the site.

Marketing (advertising) cookies

These record that you arrived from a particular campaign or advertisement, help avoid showing you the same message repeatedly, and measure whether a campaign led to a sign-up. They may be read by advertising partners on other websites. They are only set with your explicit consent.

Session cookies exist only while your browser window is open and are erased automatically when you close it. Persistent cookies persist for the duration specified by their expiration date or until you remove them; across this site, lifespans vary from several days to approximately two years based on their function. You can always view the precise expiration time of any specific cookie within your browser's storage configuration.

For a restricted timeframe, we retain documentation of your consent preferences to prevent the banner from displaying on each subsequent visit; once this timeframe expires, we will request your consent anew.

Some cookies are set by service providers acting on our behalf, for example providers of web analytics, content delivery, fraud prevention or advertising measurement. These providers may read their own cookies when you visit other sites that use the same services. We do not control the content of third-party cookies; their use of the data they collect is governed by their own privacy and cookie notices.

Where a third-party cookie is not strictly necessary, it is only placed after you have consented through the cookie banner. If you would like a list of the providers currently in use, contact support and we will provide the up-to-date details.

Through our banner

Use the cookie banner or the cookie settings link on the site to accept or reject the preference, analytics and marketing categories. Rejecting a category stops new cookies of that type from being written; cookies already stored can be cleared through your browser.

Through your browser

Most popular browsers enable you to inspect cookies that have been saved, remove them one at a time or in full, prevent cookies from particular websites, prevent all third-party cookies, or clear all data when you close the browser. You can typically access these settings through a menu labeled "Settings", followed by "Privacy", "Privacy and security", "Site permissions" or "Cookies and site data". On mobile devices, browsers feature comparable settings available in their preferences, while mobile operating systems offer additional options to manage advertising identifiers.

Private browsing

Accessing the site through a private or incognito browsing mode results in most cookies being removed upon window closure, though this does not stop cookies from being created while you browse.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent parts of the site from working: you may be unable to stay signed in, submit a form or complete a secure step. Blocking preference cookies means settings such as language are not remembered. Blocking analytics or marketing cookies has no effect on functionality - you will simply not be counted in our statistics and campaign measurement.

This policy is reviewed on a regular basis and modified if there are changes to the cookies utilized, their underlying technologies, or the relevant regulations. The latest version is consistently available on this page; significant modifications will be communicated via the website or through the cookie notification tool, and further use following the revision indicates acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have a question about this policy, want details of a specific cookie or wish to exercise a data-protection right, please write to our support team through the contact page. Related documents are listed in the footer of every page, including our Privacy Policy.

Read the Privacy Policy