Cookies Policy

This is the Cookie policy of Veritas Intercontinental. 

Who we are?

Veritas Intercontinental SL has its address registered at Madrid, Paseo de la Castellana 101 – Bajo 1, 28046 and VAT number B-88132907, with telephone number +34 915 623 675. For Brazilian residents, Veritas Brasil Analises Laboratoriais EIRELI has its address registered at Alameda dos Nhambiquaras, 1770, ANDAR 5 SALA 508, São Paulo, Brasil CEP 04090-004, with CNPJ number 32.948.264/0001-68 and telephone number +55 11 96352 4450. For Colombian residents, Veritas Genetics Colombia SA has its address registered at Carrera 16 # 82-95 Unidad Medica el Country, Of. 901, Bogotá, Colombia with NIT number 9012454114 and telephone number +57 1 2220786.

This policy explains how we use cookies and related technologies (collectively called “Cookies”) to provide our services to you through our website https://www.veritasint.com/ (the “Site” or “Website”).

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device to remember preferences and other information, for example previous website or page visits from that device and browser, username or login prompts, or other online behaviors.

How are they used on our Website?

We use Cookies to help us collect data about you and how you use our services – for example, we’re interested in which internet browser you used to visit our website, how long you visited and which pages you looked at.

We use industry standard cookies and other tracking technologies (such as Google Analytics) to track your behavior online, assist you in navigation and using intended website functionality (e.g., retaining items in a shopping cart), analytics purposes to gather – and enable your ability to provide – feedback to improve our products and services, or to provide marketing, for example if you visit other websites within our network of marketing service providers.

What types of cookies are on our Website and why?

We use the following types of cookies for the following purposes:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse our Website and use its intended functionality, including accessing secure areas of the Website, moving items to the shopping cart before making a purchase, helping to ensure security, and to log interactions with our cookie banner. These cookies cannot be opted in or out of.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Website. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance using data provided by your visit.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality. They may be set by us or by third-party service providers whose services we have added to our pages (for example, adding Customer Service Chat support to our site, or allowing you to provide feedback on products and services). If you disable these cookies, the website may lose certain non-essential aspects of its functionality.
• Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set on our Website by our advertising and marketing service providers. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. This recognition is used to serve relevant adverts, links, or other information about our products and services to users visiting other websites after having previously visited our Website or interacted with our products and services. If you consent to these cookies, you may experience targeted advertising.

Other definitions

• First Party Cookies – These are Cookies that are directly generated by the Veritas Intercontinental website.
• Third Party Cookies – These are Cookies that are created by websites other than the  Veritas Intercontinental website and are mainly used for tracking and online-advertising purposes.
• Session Cookies – These are Cookies that are removed when a user closes the web browser.
• Persistent Cookies – These are Cookies that have an expiration date for a set period of time.

How to opt in or out of cookies

The first time you visit our Website and depending on your location, you may be displayed a cookie banner providing you with information about the use of cookies on our Website, and options for how to opt in or opt out of certain cookies when you visit. This opting in or opting out can be done using our cookie preference center, which is accessed through the cookie banner you are presented.  This preference center is also accessible from the cookie icon which is located on the bottom left hand corner of the Website. You can opt in or out of certain categories of non-essential Cookies (e.g., “Targeting Cookies” as described above), by turning the toggle on or off for these in the Cookie preference center.

You can clear cookies set on our website from previous web browsing sessions. Below are instructions on how to do this on the main browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer

You can also set your internet browser to disable or block cookies. If cookies are disabled then some of the content on our Websites will also be disabled or may not be displayed correctly. For more information on how to disable cookies in your internet browser, please go to www.aboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.com.

Global Privacy Control

Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a specification designed to allow Internet users to notify businesses of their privacy preferences, such as whether or not they want their personal information to be sold or shared. It consists of a setting or extension in the user’s browser or mobile device and acts as a mechanism that websites can use to indicate they support the specification.

GPC is available for an increasing number of browsers and browser extensions, listed here. If you want to use GPC, you can download and enable it via a participating browser or browser extension. More information about downloading GPC is available here.

At Veritas Intercontinental, we support and honor a Website user’s GPC request.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to better understand your use of our Website and Services. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Website, what pages are visited, and what other sites may have been used prior to visiting. Google uses the data collected to track and examine websites usage, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services, and to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. More information about how Google Analytics collects and processes data can be found here.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Websites is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can also opt out of and manage your preferences for Google’s use of personalized advertising and related Cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings, and Google Analytics also offers an opt-out mechanism for the web available here.

More Information

If you have any questions regarding our use of Cookies please contact us at the below email address:  dpo@veritasint.com