Cookie Statement

1. What are cookies?

Top Shop International SA (the “TSI SA” or the “Provider”) uses web cookies on its Websites.

Cookies are text files that are stored onto the computer that a User uses to visit and use a Website. Upon the User's repeat visit to the website, the Provider can access information from the User's computer that was collected with the aid of cookies.
By using cookies, TSI SA ensures better, more user-friendly and more personally oriented Website functionality and presentation for the User. At the same time, cookies assist in user analysis, recording visits (for statistical purposes) and providing more efficient advertising.

Cookies perform a number of functions – they enable tracking Website visits and offering different types of campaigns.
Cookies, or rather the data that are collected with the aid of cookies, do not, in and of themselves, enable a User to be identified in the sense of legislation that pertains to the protection of personal information because the use of cookies does not enable the identification of a concrete person.

TSI SA uses its own cookies on its Websites, while it also enables selected third parties to store their own cookies on a User's computer (so-called 'third party cookies'). When consenting to the use of cookies, a User consents to the cookies of both TSI SA and third parties.

Because we continuously strive to provide you with the best possible user experience, our Websites function optimally only when cookies are enabled. In this way, we can identify you during a repeat visit to our Website, while cookies also allow us to uncover and eliminate errors. Therefore, accessing our Website is quicker and more personalized when cookies are enabled.

2. Cookies are not…

• intended for spying on users and DO NOT track everything that a User does,
• ill-intentioned code or viruses,
• related to undesired messages,
• capable of tracking your keyboard entries (they cannot store your passwords),
• intended only and exclusively for advertisement purposes.

3. The types of cookies that we use on this website:

TSI SA uses different types of cookies on its Websites. Cookies are differentiated on the basis of their functionality, their length of validity and the site that is installing them. Cookies are more specifically explained in the following section:

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies enable the normal functioning of a Website. These cookies enable the basic use of a Website.

Following is a list of strictly necessary cookies that are used by the Websites of TSI SA:

Data Administrator	Cookie	Cookie Description	Cookie Validity
TSI SA	PHPSESSID	Basic cookie that enables website browsing	Until the end of the browsing session

 

3.2 Functional cookies

Functional cookies allow a website to remember your selected options (i.e. language or region of origin) and provide you with improved and even more personalized options. .

Functional cookies are also strictly necessary for certain types of campaigns, through which you receive various benefits. Functional cookies also allow you to participate in prize games.

While our Websites would still work without functional cookies, the majority of the Websites’ most advanced functionalities would be disabled because we cannot prevent abuse of such functionalities without the aid of functional cookies.

Following is a list of functional cookies that are used by the websites of TSI SA:

Data Administrator	Cookie	Cookie Description	Cookie Validity
TSI SA	visited	Cookie which tells iff user visited website	365days
TSI SA	cc_cokie_accept	Cookie if customer allowed cookies	356 days
TSI SA	cc_cookie_decline	Cookie if customer declined cookies	Until the end of the browsing session

 

3.3 Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information on the method of use of the Website – for example, which sites the User most frequently visits and whether error messages are displayed on the Websites. These cookies do not collect information that allow for the identification of visitors. All information that is collected by these cookies are united (aggregated) and are therefore anonymous.

Through the use of cookies, we monitor through which source you have accessed our website (external advertisement, our electronic mail, from another one of our websites, etc.) Aside from the source of your access point, the point from which you exit our Website and your activities on our website, we do not monitor any of your other internet activities.

3.4 External (Third Party) Cookies

External (third party) cookies are normally installed by external providers (i.e. Facebook Inc., Google Inc., etc.).

These types of cookies are mostly cookies that are used by various analytics tools (Google Analytics) or various plug-ins for social networks (Facebook, Google+, etc.) that are adjusted to you as the user of the social network.

Following is a list of external cookies that are used by the websites of TSI SA:

Data Administrator	Cookie	Cookie Description	Cookie Validity
Google Inc., TSI SA	_ga	Cookie used to distinguish users.	365 days
Google Inc., TSI SA	_gat	Cookie used to throttle request rate	365 days

 

4. Administering Permission for Use of Cookies

The decision on whether or not you allow websites to use cookies rests completely in your own hands – but you must be aware that a website functions optimally only if cookies are enabled on your browser and on our Websites.

You can disable this Website’s installation of cookies on your computer by clicking on the button bellow. By clicking on ``I allow the use of cookies`` you may re-enable the installation of cookies at any time.