PointBox Cookie Policy
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other devices when you access the internet.
Why are cookies essential for PointBox?
This website, along with most other major websites, uses cookies. Cookies enable users to navigate around websites and (where appropriate) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the site and help us improve the user experience. Without cookies enabled we cannot guarantee that the website and your experience whilst visiting are as we intended it to be. None of the cookies used on our websites collect personally identifiable information about you.
What cookies do we use?
At PointBox we use cookies for different purposes to enhance the experience of our visitors and customer. More concretely, we use cookies in the following ways:
- To protect our customers and prevent fraudulent activity. Without cookies enabled you will not be able to access the PointBox repository.
- To save session data between pages. This helps us to manage the data of your session.
- To track how visitors reach our site and the path they take through it to help us improve our service to you. For example, we use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyze how users use the site. Find out more about how these cookies are used on the Google Privacy site.
What kind of cookies are used on this website?
Please note that none of the cookies we use on this website, contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you. The length of time a cookie will remain on your device will depend on the type of cookie.
- Session Cookies. These are temporary cookies, which only exist in the period you access the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after accessing the website). Session cookies help to remember what you chose on a previous page, therefore avoiding the need to re-enter information and improve your experience whilst using the site.
- Persistent Cookies. These are cookies that remain on your device after you have visited our website. e.g. if you use the 'Remember me' when logging. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor; they do not contain information that could be used to identify you to another person.
More specifically we save the following cookies in your browser:
- token: a persistent cookie for technical purposes. We use this token to send your request to our server. The token is periodically updated and renew for security reasons. This cookie persists in your browser until you log out.
- rememberme: a persistent technical cookie. It is required just for redirecting you directly to your clouds when you access to the index of PointBox. Is is stored in your broser for 1 month.
- cookie_consent: another persistent cookie for technical purposes. It saves your answer to the policy consent request so we do not have to ask you the same question every time you access PointBox.
- gtoken: a third-party cookie created by Google when you access PointBox through your Google acount. Is is removed once you are registered in PointBox and your user credentials are validated.
How can I control and delete cookies?
- If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
- Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device, you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Additional information
If you request more information about our Cookie Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at our e-mail