Cookie Policy
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is statistical data about users' browsing actions and patterns, does not identify any individual. It is used to inform improvements to the website and for system administration only.
We use a third party product "Google Analytics", a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), to help us analyse how our website is used. In doing so information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to, and stored by, Google. This information will be subject to Google's Privacy Policy. You can find out how Google uses this information here.
Google Analytics uses cookies to define user sessions, as well as to provide a number of key features in the Google Analytics reports. Google Analytics sets or updates cookies only to collect data required for the reports. Additionally, Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies. This means that all cookies set by Google Analytics for our website send data only to the servers for our website. This effectively makes Google Analytics cookies the personal property of our website, and the data cannot be altered or retrieved by any service on another website or domain.
We want to process as little personal information as possible when you use our website. That's why we've chosen to also use Fathom Analytics for our website analytics, which doesn't use cookies and complies with the GDPR, ePrivacy (including PECR), COPPA and CCPA. Using this privacy-friendly website analytics software, your IP address is only briefly processed, and we (running this website) have no way of identifying you. As per the CCPA, your personal information is de-identified. You can read more about this on Fathom Analytics' website.
The purpose of us using this software is to understand our website traffic in the most privacy-friendly way possible so that we can continually improve our website and business. The lawful basis as per the GDPR is "Article 6(1)(f); where our legitimate interests are to improve our website and business continually." As per the explanation, no personal data is stored over time.
For further information as to how LOROS uses private information, please see our data protection section.