Cookie Policy

SETI may collect collective and impersonal information through cookies.

Cookies are small data files that are placed on the hard drive of your computer, tablet, smartphones or other device when you visit a website and other tracking tools on our SETI website (http://www.s-et.com/en, our “Website”) and digital platforms. Some cookies are functional and enable additional functionality when a user accesses the Website (e.g. allows users to save user preferences or language suggestions). Other cookies are non-functional and allow the website and third parties to tailor messages and advertising relevant to a user’s interests. When we refer to cookies, this includes other similar technologies such as web beacons.

The items of cookies to be collected and the purpose of such collection are as follows:

Category	Reasons for using cookies and additional information
Strictly Necessary Cookies	These cookies are essential to enable you to use the Website effectively and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our Website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
Functional Cookies	These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web commenting on a blog.
Analytical Cookies	They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies do not collect information that can identify you. The information that these cookies collect is only used to improve how the Website works. The Website uses Google Analytics cookies. Information collected by Google Analytics cookies will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America in accordance with its privacy practices. To see an overview of privacy at Google and how this applies to Google Analytics, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk. You may opt out of tracking by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Targeting / Re-marketing Cookies	Third parties, such as Google and Facebook, may use cookies and other similar technologies like pixels to collect or receive information from the Website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide you with targeted ads. These cookies may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.

The cookies that are placed on your browser by visiting our Website are listed in the table below:

Name	Type	Function of Cookie	Retention Period
spzone	1st Party	This cookie helps the Website to remember your language settings from your last visit.	Need to manually disable cookies to turn off
spcookies	1st Party	This cookie is used to remember your cookie consent preferences.	Need to manually disable cookies to turn off
JSESSIONID	1st Party	A generic technical cookie used for storing user session identifier in web applications	Expires after the session
_ga	3rd Party	Google Analytics cookie Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Website. Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk	Expires in 730 days
_ga	3rd Party	Google Analytics cookie Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Website. Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk	Expires in 730 days
_gid	3rd Party	Google Analytics cookie Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Website. Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk	Expires in 1 day
_gat_gtag_UA-137815452-3	3rd Party	Google Analytics cookie This cookie stops too many users from accessing the Website Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk	Only valid during current browser session and it will be deleted when you close the browser
Test_cookie	3rd Party	Google This cookie is used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads	Only valid during current browser session and it will be deleted when you close browser
fr	3rd Party	Facebook Facebook’s primary advertising cookie, use to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads. Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy Cookie policy https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/	Expires in 90 days
_fbp	3rd Party	Facebook Facebook Pixel advertising first-party cookie Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy Cookie policy https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/	Expires in 90 days
IDE	3rd Party	Google This cookie is used to register and report the Web site user’s action s after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types	Expires in 730 days

We do not currently honor any “do-not-track” signal sent by browsers. However, you may opt-out of targeted advertising from National Advertising Initiative members by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. You may also set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other users to our Website. Please check your browser to determine where these types of cookies are stored and how they may be deleted. Please see below for how to check your browser setting.

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
• Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
• Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy

Last Updated: November 19, 2021