Rules for using cookies to obtain personal data

1. Principles of using network identifiers

When providing its services and making its content available to users of the website www.arws.cz (hereinafter also referred to as the “website”), ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o., Company ID: 067 17 586, with its registered office at U Trezorky 921/2, 158 00 Prague 5, 150 00, registered in the Commercial Register kept by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section C, Insert 287750 (hereinafter referred to as “ARROWS”), uses various network identifiers, so-called cookies, pixel tags and plugins, in order to enable and streamline the use of the website.

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are stored on your device by the internet browser you use. Without these files, using the website would be more complicated and less user-friendly. By means of cookies, the website you visit remembers the user's actions and settings, in particular the language, font and other display options, so that you do not have to enter them repeatedly. Thanks to cookies, repeated visits to the website are more user-friendly. You grant consent to the use of cookies for a period of 6 months; if you wish to continue using cookies, the consent must be renewed after the specified period expires.

3. Types of cookies

Cookies are divided according to their duration of use, according to their necessity and further according to which entity places them on your device.

a. According to the duration of use, cookies are divided into the following two categories:

  • Short-term (session cookies), which are automatically deleted from the computer immediately after the browser is closed. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.
  • Long-term (persistent cookies), which remain stored on the computer for a longer period depending on the settings of the internet browser you use. You can manually delete long-term cookies at any time. These cookies make it easier for you to navigate the website.

b. According to necessity, cookies are divided into the following categories:

  • Technical/Functional (necessary cookies), without which the website could not function; they are essential for transmitting information, e.g. preserving the contents of a shopping cart or remembering the user's consent to the (non-)use of cookies.
  • Other serve in particular to facilitate the transmission of information, measure traffic or analyse the behaviour of website users. These are further divided into marketing, analytical and preferential cookies.
    • Marketing which are used to better target advertisements and to personalise them.
    • Analytical which make it possible to monitor website visits, how many users clicked on a link on the website or used any of its functions.
    • Preferential thanks to which the website can remember the given user's preferences and adapt to them (language settings, currency, etc.).

c. According to which entity creates the cookies and stores them on your device, we divide cookies into two categories:

  • First party cookies are created directly by the data controller operating the visited website. They most often serve to ensure the basic functions of the website.
  • Third party cookies are created by data controllers other than the operator of the visited website. These are most often cookies of advertising service providers or cookies for analysing website traffic.

4. What do we use cookies for?

ARROWS uses cookies when you visit our website, in particular for the following purposes:

  • Adapting the website settings in terms of personalising the settings for the user.
  • Remembering login and logout details for registered users.
  • Tracking analytical data necessary to identify and evaluate the content that interests you on our website. Thanks to cookies, we are able to tailor the website content to the specific user. To track analytical data on traffic, we also use the services of external suppliers who have developed their own effective system of personal data protection.
  • Website security. Cookies help us verify users and serve to prevent fraudulent conduct and protect user data.
  • Advertising and marketing activities. Cookies also help us tailor advertising to your specific interests and the interests of individual users of our website, which allows us to display relevant advertising to you. Our website may also contain cookies of advertising systems, which serve to obtain statistical data on the effectiveness of advertising. Through our website, third-party cookies may therefore also be stored on your computer. Advertising systems have their own effective system of personal data protection.

5. Third party cookies

As stated above, our website also contains cookies of our contractual partners. These cookies are managed by third parties and ARROWS does not have access to read or write this data. These are in particular advertising systems or website traffic analytics.

These partners are:

  • Google Analytics – details about this tool can be found here
  • Google Tag Manager – details about this tool can be found here
  • Hotjar – more information about this platform can be found here
  • Seznam Sklik – more information about this system can be found here
  • Leady.com – more information about this system can be found here

6. How to adjust cookie settings?

In connection with the change in legislation, the website can no longer use cookies without your active consent, as there has been a change from the opt-out principle (your consent was presumed and had to be withdrawn) to the opt-in principle (you need to actively grant your consent). However, this does not apply to necessary cookies — these still operate on the opt-out principle, so consent to them can be withdrawn in the settings of your internet browser. As already stated in Article 2 of this document, consent or disagreement with the use of cookies is granted for a period of 6 months, after which the website will again prompt you to grant/withhold it.

For the purpose of obtaining consent to the use of cookies, a so-called cookie banner or cookie bar has been added to the website. This bar is divided into two layers. In the first layer, you can grant consent to the use of all types of cookies, express disagreement with the use of all types of cookies operating on the opt-in principle, close the cookie banner and leave the decision for next time, or click on the “settings” hyperlink field and access the second layer of the cookie banner, where you can express consent to the use of individual types of cookies.

In the second layer of the cookie banner, you will find a link to these Rules for using cookies to obtain personal data. Below is a list of cookies used by the website, which is divided by type of cookies, and the list of relevant cookies falling under a certain type of cookies will expand by clicking on the name of the given type of cookies. Next to the names of the types of cookies, you will find a switch, which is set by default so that you do not consent to the use of the given type. If you want to allow the website to use a certain type of cookies, you need to click on the switch and actively grant your consent.

You can change your decision at any time while using the website by clicking on the field located at the edge of the screen, thereby invoking the cookie banner again and being able to decide again which type of cookies you consent or do not consent to. This consent/disagreement will again be valid for a period of 6 months.

We hereby inform you that withholding consent to the use of a certain type of cookies may result in a deterioration of the user quality of the website and a limitation of the ability to use the services that our website provides. These are functions relating to certain types of cookies, which are described in Article 3 of this document. Changing the granting or withholding of consent is possible in the settings of your internet browser.

If you block the option of collecting and storing cookies in your internet browser, we will no longer process any of your network identifiers or other information that can be obtained through cookies.

Detailed information on setting the storage of cookie files in your browser can be found on the pages of the providers of the specific internet browsers.

7. What are your rights in connection with the use of cookies?

In connection with the use of cookies, you also have in particular the following rights:

  • to request information from us about which of your personal data we process
  • to request an explanation from us regarding the processing of personal data
  • to request access to this data from us and have it updated or corrected
  • to request the deletion of this personal data from us – we will carry out the deletion if it is not contrary to applicable legal regulations or our legitimate interests
  • in the event of doubts about compliance with obligations related to the processing of personal data, to contact us or the Office for Personal Data Protection, located at Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Prague 7; uoou.cz

If you have any questions or comments, you can contact us at the email address gdpr@arws.cz, or in writing at the registered office of ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o., located at U Trezorky 921/2, 158 00 Prague 5. More detailed information on the protection of personal data by ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o. can be found in the Personal Data Processing Policy.