Use of Cookies

Cookies are used by almost all websites. A cookie is a small data file that is stored in users’ web browsers in order to recognize their computers. A web browser is a computer program used to download and display web pages, such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

A cookie is a passive file and cannot collect information from users’ computers or spread computer viruses or other malicious programs.

Cookies can, among other things, be used to prepare statistics of users' use of the site.

Cookies are used to recognize computers in the event of subsequent visits.

Directly identifiable information, such as name, address or similar, is not stored in our cookies. 

Some third-party cookies collect IP-addresses which is can indirectly identify you as a person.

How we use cookies

Cookies are essential for you to get the best out of our websites.

Milestone Systems uses cookies to store your preferences and other information that helps us improve our websites. Milestone Systems uses cookies to keep statistics on how many users use our sites and how they use them. We may collect information regarding your activities on our website, including your preferences related to our website. This information is used to optimize our website and help us to provide useful information to our visitors. This also makes your visit to our website as convenient and interesting as possible, and helps Milestone Systems improving our sites, increasing our website’s usability and visitors’ satisfaction.

We categorize our cookies into Preferences/Statistics/Marketing. This data processing is necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interest to carry out analyses in order to improve our website and our products, and to advertise our products on the Internet in a customized and more efficient way.

Storage period for a cookie

All cookies (both from Milestone Systems and third-party) delete themselves after a given number of days, weeks or months; the time may vary according to purpose.

It should be noted that a cookie is renewed at each visit and the storage period is reset.

For expiring time please visit push our cookie declaration tab.

Protection of personal data

According to EU’s General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") all your personal identifiable data must be stored and handled safely and confidentially.

We store your data on servers with limited access, placed in controlled facilities and we adjust our security measures all the time to secure that we handle your information lawfully.

Due to the nature of the internet we cannot guarantee 100% security when data is being transferred via the internet. This means that others might unrightfully retrieve the data, when the data is sent.

Recipients in non-EU/EEA-countries

Some technology providers may transfer your personal data to the USA and other third countries outside the European Union/European Economic Area. In such cases, Milestone Systems ensures that:

• an adequacy decision on the European Commission is applicable or

• that Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) are in place between Milestone Systems and the provider.

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for a detailed description of our Safeguards for transfer of Personal Data, including potential transfer of Microsoft and Google cookie information to the US after the Schrems II decision. 

Rights concerning your personal data

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for a detailed description of your rights as a data subject.

If you want to complain about the way Milestone Systems treats your data, you should submit your complaint to the Danish Data Protection Agency via email: dt@datatilsynet.dk or by phone + 45 33 19 32 00 or Carl Jacobsens Vej 35, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark. You can visit their website for more information (www.datatilsynet.dk).

Delete or block cookies (Browser settings)

If you do not wish to receive cookies you can set your web browser to disable cookies. Note that most browsers offer different levels of privacy, such as allowing first party cookies but blocking third party cookies or notifying you each time a website wants to install a cookie.

Be aware that disabling cookies in this way will prevent new cookies from being set but will not stop previously set cookies from operating on your device unless you delete all cookies in your browser settings. The instructions for managing cookies in your browser can usually be found via the browser’s Help function or in a smartphone manual.

If you wish to delete cookies, this is done using your web browser settings. You can find the most commonly used web browsers’ help/support via the following links:

Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge 

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/?hl=en

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

Apple Safari: https://www.apple.com/support/safari/

More information

You can read more about cookies at https://www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Last updated: July 2, 2021.