Cookies can be perpetual (they are called persistent cookies) and stored on the computer until the user deletes them or temporary (such cookies are called session cookies), they are stored only until the browser is closed. In addition, cookies are divided into main (they are set directly by the visited Bank's website) and third-party (set by other websites).
More information about cookies can be found on the websites:
The purpose of using cookies
The Bank takes care of its users and tries to make their stay on the Bank's website as comfortable as possible, for this purpose the Bank needs to analyze your behavior, preferences and interests with the help of cookies. This analysis helps the Bank to improve the experience of user interaction with the Bank's website, determine the most user-friendly interface and navigation services, evaluate the effectiveness of posted marketing information.
User identification data that contain cookies
A standard cookie contains information about the identity of the user's web browser, not the user's own. This cookie remembers the settings, the history of navigation through the pages of the Bank's website, optimizes the user's work, saves the set parameters.
Some cookies used by the Bank may store more detailed information, which may even allow the user to be identified, and may contain more personal information about the user. However, additional information of such identification may be entered only by the user and knowingly transmitted to the Bank, and only if the user's personal consent is confirmed.
According to the classification of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Bank uses the following categories of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the user to navigate the website and when using certain services, such as access to secure pages, registration and authorization, search on the Bank's website. Also, they memorize the previous actions of the user when going to the previous page in the same session.
Operational cookies aggregate information on how the Bank's website is used. This data is stored on the user's device between web browser sessions. Examples of such data are the following metrics: time spent on the Bank's website, most frequently visited pages, understanding which sections and services of the Bank's website were most interesting to the user, how effective this or that advertising and / or marketing campaign is, etc.
All information collected through operational cookies is intended for statistical and analytical purposes. Some cookie data may be provided to third parties who have the permission of the website and only for the above purposes.
Functional cookies are used to store settings or configurations that are stored on the user's device between web browser sessions. Examples of such data are the following metrics: username, information on comments left, language version of the Bank's website, location, information on whether the user has been provided with any information or selected preferences, as well as other settings of the Bank's website.
Target cookies are used to provide with content that may be interesting to the user. This data is stored on the user's device between web browser sessions. Examples of such data include the following metrics: tracking recommended text, graphics, audio, and video to avoid reruns, managing targeted advertising, evaluating the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, information about user visits to other resources during conversions, and other website settings.
Cookie management and tracking technology
The user of the Bank's website may refuse to accept, restrict the use or delete cookies altogether, adjusting his web browser accordingly. Web browser settings are available at the following hyperlinks:
The user revokes his consent to the use of cookies by the Bank by setting individual settings of his web browser and deleting cookies from the web browser.
Other tracking technologies
The Bank uses buttons or banners on the website to access social networks and instant messaging applications through which users can share a link to the Bank's website or make an electronic bookmark. After clicking a button or banner, the user is redirected from the Bank's website to websites / websites of social networks and messenger applications owned by third parties, which, in turn, can record information about user activity on the Internet, including the Bank's website.
The user can read the terms of use of user data and the privacy policy of social networking websites and messenger applications and the possibility of the user to refuse to use user data websites by the following hyperlinks:
The Bank's website may use buttons / banners to activate third-party web services to display images, view videos or organize polls / polls. Such web services can be the Google Play and the App Store application. In its turn, the Bank may not prevent such websites or external domains from collecting information on how the content of the Bank's website is used.
Information about users received by the Bank via cookies is not publicly available and is the property of the Bank to which the resource belongs.