This cookie policy ("Cookie Policy") is part of the technical and organisational measures implemented by AlphaNeural AI Association domiciliated in Steinhausen, Hinterbergstrasse 49 6312 Steinhausen (hereinafter the "Company", "we", "us", "our") to ensure its processing of personal data is performed in accordance with the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act 2020 ("FDPA"), Article 45c of the Telecommunications Act ("TCA"), as well as the guidelines issued by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner ("FDPIC") on January 22, 2025 (the "Guidelines") with respect to the use of cookies on the Company's website available at the following address: https://www.alphaneural.io/ (hereinafter the "Website").
A 'cookie' is a small text file that is delivered by our Website server onto your computer whilst you visit our Website, which can generally be used by the Website to identify particular devices and thereby remember your Website's preferences and login details. Most cookies will not collect information that identifies you and instead will collect more general information such as how you arrived at and used our Website, or your general geographical location.
Cookies make websites work better and they are a standard part of most modern websites. For example:
Cookies can be classified based on several specifications that help to understand their nature and function, as detailed below.
We exclusively use first-party cookies, ensuring that no cookie data is shared, transmitted, or disclosed to third parties. All cookies, along with any personal data collected in association with them, are securely stored on our self-hosted infrastructure within Swiss territory. Additionally, we utilize both session cookies and persistent cookies, as detailed in Section 4 below.
We employ only analytical and technical cookies for statistical purposes (as described in Section 4 below) for monitoring, as a way of example, the streams of visitors on the Website. Therefore, we justify the use of such cookies in accordance Article 31 par. 2 letter e) of the FADP and point 3.8.2. of the Guidelines namely we ensure the following:
In general, many websites employ other kinds of cookies including but not limited to:
We collect your data automatically via cookies when you visit our Website, in line with the cookie settings in your browser.
We use cookies to track your activity to help ensure you get the best possible experience when visiting our Website.
We do not make any attempt to discover the identities of anyone who visits our Website, and we will not associate any of the data gathered from our Website with any personally identifiable information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our Website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
The Company employs analytical cookies for examining traffic volume and user engagement with the Website, as well as for system management purposes (see the list below). The gathered information is processed anonymously.
The Website does not use cookies for profiling activities.
| Name | Retention period | Function | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga_W4G2YNBQE2 | 400 days | Persistent session cookie used by GA4. It helps store and count user sessions to provide statistical data to the Company. It helps identify when a user starts a new session. It does not store personally identifiable information (PII) directly. | Analytical |
| _ga | 400 days | It is used to uniquely identify users during their browsing on a website. It helps to track user sessions and gather information on how users interact with the site, such as the number of pages viewed, the duration of the visit, and the origin of users (e.g., from a search engine, direct link, etc.). It is used to collect data useful for analyzing website performance (e.g., improving user experience). | Analytical |
| _privy-id-token | Up to 7 days | Records site and display-related activity so the visitor does not see displays that are irrelevant or have already been dismissed. | Analytical |
| _privy-session | Up to 7 days | Anonymously records site and display-related activity (for the current session) so the client does not see displays that are irrelevant or have already been dismissed. | Analytical |
| _privy-token | 1 hour | Used to distinguish users. | Analytical |
You can turn off cookies for a particular website or several websites, by adjusting your browser settings to prevent it from accepting cookies. You can follow the links below:
It's important to note that turning off cookies is likely to limit the functionality of not only our Website, but also the functionality of a large number of the world's websites, and accordingly, your experience of ours and other websites may be impaired because data is no longer being captured about your interactions.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called "spyware" and in which case, rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
There are other methods to reduce the risk of online tracking, including using the "private" or "anonymous" browsing functionality of your browser (if available), which prevents cookies from being retained on your device after browsing.
The content of both this 'Cookie Policy' and of the 'Cookie Banner' will be reviewed regularly by the Company, and the information contained therein shall be updated where necessary to reflect the true use of cookies by the Company.
Last updated April 2025