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Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy for AlpenCams

What Are Cookies?

This site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

Account related cookies

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Login related cookies

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Analytics

Analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

Content Partners Cookies

To show some webcams on our website, we use media players from our Content Partners. More information about the cookie policy of our partners can be found on their website.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

remember_web_*

This cookie is used to keep you logged in when closing and restarting the browser.

Cookie Key: remember_web_*
Type: First-party
Expiration: 5 years

alpencams_session

This cookie is used to remember your activity on our website.

Cookie Key: alpencams_session
Type: First-party
Expiration: 2 hours

alpencams_cookie_consent

This cookie is used by the cookie notice popup and remembers if you have given consent to use cookies on our website.

Cookie Key: alpencams_cookie_consent
Type: First-party
Expiration: 5 years

alpencams_snow_alert

This cookie is set if you choose to close the "Snow Alert" notification. This message appears on information pages of ski areas if it has snowed recently.

Cookie Key: alpencams_snow_alert
Type: First-party
Expiration: 7 days

alpencams_webcam_play_help

This cookie is set if you choose to close the "Webcam Play Help" notification. This message occurs on video webcams to indicate that it is an interactive video webcam.

Cookie Key: alpencams_webcam_play_help
Type: First-party
Expiration: 5 years

XSRF-TOKEN

This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks.

Cookie Key: XSRF-TOKEN
Type: First-party
Expiration: 2 hours

Performance Cookies

_pk_ses.*

This cookie name is associated with the Matomo (Piwik) open source web analytics platform. It is used to help track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is a pattern type cookie, where the prefix _pk_ses is followed by a short series of numbers and letters, which is a reference code for the domain setting the cookie.

Cookie Key: _pk_ses.*
Type: First-party
Expiration: 30 minutes

_pk_id.*

This cookie name is associated with the Matomo (Piwik) open source web analytics platform. It is used to help website owners track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is a pattern type cookie, where the prefix _pk_id is followed by a short series of numbers and letters, which is a reference code for the domain setting the cookie.

Cookie Key: _pk_id.*
Type: First-party
Expiration: 1 year

Targeting Cookies

test_cookie

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the browser that the visitor is using supports cookies.

Cookie Key: test_cookie
Type: First-party
Expiration: 15 minutes

IDE

This cookie is set by DoubleClick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the website.

Cookie Key: IDE
Type: First-party
Expiration: 2 years

__gads

This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue.

Cookie Key: __gads
Type: First-party
Expiration: 1 year

More Information

Hopefully this cookie policy has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our contact methods: