Cookie Policy
LAST UPDATED: DECEMBER 2019
A. COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
Our website at CMS.law (the “Website”) uses cookies to remember your preferences and help you obtain the right information. Cookies also allow us to see how our Website is being used.
This Website is owned and maintained by CMS Legal Services EEIG, for the benefit of all CMS Member Firms and their connected businesses (the “CMS Offices”).
CMS Legal Services EEIG is a European Economic Interest Grouping that coordinates CMS Member Firms. It has its head office at: Neue Mainzer Straße 2–4, 60311 Frankfurt, Germany. The contact email address for CMS EEIG is: [email protected]. Its contact telephone number is: +49 69 717 010, its Ust-ID is: DE 257 695 176 and it is registered on Handelsregister A in Frankfurt am Main with the registration number: HRA 44853.
CMS Legal Services EEIG provides no client services. Such services are solely provided by CMS Offices in their respective jurisdictions.
Please see the Legal Information page for information about the CMS Offices that operate in each country.
In this Cookie Policy, references to “we”, “us” or “our” means CMS Legal Services EEIG and/or, as the case may be, the CMS Offices. References to “you” and “your” are to users of our Website
B. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer's hard drive by a website. Each time you return to the same website, your browser retrieves and sends the relevant cookie(s) to the website’s server.
C. COOKIE ACCEPTANCE
By using this Website after accepting the cookie notice that appears when you first visit the Website, or by browsing our Website, after having been presented with this notice, you agree to the placement of cookies on your computer in accordance with the terms of this Cookie Policy.
D. HOW ARE COOKIES USED?
Cookies used by us are stored on your computer/device for a maximum period of 2 years from the date when they are initially installed or if they are subsequently updated, from the date of the update.
Technical
Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
scs_browserLangs | Saves the public data sent from the visitors client to suggest a better matching language.
LocalStorage and SessionStorage is a storage provided by all browsers. In contrary to cookies these data types are not sent with a request and are only available on the client´s browser (and cannot be retrieved from other scripts). They improve the visitor's privacy in contrary to cookies. | Expires when browser closed |
dpcms_lang | Saves the public data sent from the visitors client to suggest a better matching language. | 360 days |
dpcms_cookie_analytics | Remembers the agreement of the cookie notice | 360 days |
dpcms_cookie_ personalization | Remembers the agreement of the cookie consent - if allowed, our website can track user's IP address to detect nearest location to the CMS Office. | 360 days |
eZSESSID_eZFront | We use this cookie to enable user login and access to restricted areas of the website.
EZSESSID + hash for security reason (configurable),
e.g.: eZSESSIDf4749f6f95f4ac08f393 854bfa3e69a2eZSESSIDf4749f6f95f4a c08f393854bfa3e69a2eZSESSID f4749f6f95f4ac08f393854bfa3e69a2 | 365 days |
__cfduid | Cloudflare cookie, this cookie is set only in some special cases to improve security. | 365 days |
dpcms_c_v | This cookie is used for users in specific countries with legal content restrictions. | 365 days |
Personalization
Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
scs_officeData | This cookie saves data of the next office and is the result of IP-detection. | 1 day |
Analytics
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect aggregate statistical information on the number of users accessing the website, and how they are using it, including how they access the website, the length and frequency of visits and pages viewed. We use this information to create reports and improve the website. For more information about Google Analytics cookies please click here. To learn more about how we use Google Analytics please refer to our Privacy Policy.
You can prevent transmission of the data created by Google Analytics cookies to Google and processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?
Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
_ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
_gid | Used to distinguish users. | 1 minute |
_gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | 1 day |
AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year |
_gac_<property-id> | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. | 90 days |
Socia Media
We are using cookies to allow sharing into third party social media tools and to analyse links between our website and social media tools providers. To learn more about how we use LinkedIn Insights please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
L1c | LinkedIn insights and ads tags - Browser ID cookie | Current Session |
BizoID | LinkedIn insights and ads tags - LinkedIn Ad analytics | 6 months |
BizoData | LinkedIn insights and ads tags | 6 months |
BizoUserMatchHistory | LinkedIn insights and ads tags | 6 months |
E. HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER
The "Help" section on the menu bar of most internet browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to make the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that certain features of the Website may no longer be available to you if you disable cookies.
You also can manage your cookies preferences using the following links for some of the most popular internet browsers:
Internet Explorer - https://www.microsoft.com/info/uk-en/cookies.mspx
Google Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Firefox- http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
Safari - https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?locale=en_US
Opera - http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
To find out more about using your browser settings to control cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org
At any time, you can object to the use of cookies already set up on this Website, by contacting us at the following address: [email protected].
F. HOW DO WE MAKE CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY?
We may change our Cookie Policy from time to time. When we change our Cookie Policy, we will publish the updated policy on our Website. Please check this Cookie Policy regularly. Subject to applicable law, all changes will take effect as soon as we publish the new Cookie Policy, but where we have already collected information about you and/or where legally required to do so, we may take additional steps to inform you of any material changes to our Cookie Policy and may request that you agree to these changes.
G. HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions in relation to this Cookie Policy you may contact us at: [email protected].
