Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device — your computer, smartphone, or tablet — when you visit it. These files are stored by your browser and allow the website, or in some cases a third party, to recognize your device on subsequent visits and to recall certain information about your session or preferences. Cookies are a standard and widely-used mechanism of the web, and they serve a variety of functions ranging from the technical — enabling the basic operation of a website — to the analytical and commercial.

Cookies may be categorized by their lifespan. Session cookies are temporary: they are created when you open your browser and deleted when you close it. They are typically used to maintain the continuity of a browsing session, for example to remember items you have placed in a form as you navigate between pages. Persistent cookies, by contrast, remain on your device for a set period after your browser is closed — often days, months, or years — and are read by the website on your next visit. They are commonly used to remember user preferences and to recognize returning visitors.

Cookies may also be categorized by origin. First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting directly; in our case, cookies set by arcusis.com are first-party cookies. Third-party cookies are set by a domain different from the one you are visiting — typically an analytics service, an advertising network, or a social media platform embedded in the page. Similar technologies to cookies include web beacons (small transparent images used to track page views), local storage and session storage (browser-based storage mechanisms that persist data without sending it to a server as cookies do), and device fingerprinting. Where we refer to "cookies" in this policy, we mean cookies and similar web storage technologies unless the context indicates otherwise.

Arcusis uses cookies on arcusis.com for a limited and defined set of purposes. We use cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the website to you, including cookies that store your consent preferences so that we can honor them on subsequent visits and so that we comply with our obligations under applicable law. We also use, with your explicit prior consent, anonymized analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors interact with our site in aggregate, so that we can improve its content, structure, and performance.

We do not use cookies for purposes beyond those described in this policy. We do not use cookies to track your behavior across third-party websites, to build a profile of your personal interests, to serve you targeted advertising, or to share your data with marketing networks. Our cookie usage is intentionally minimal, and we believe it is consistent with the principle of data minimization as articulated in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR) and in the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, as amended by Amendment No. 13.

Strictly necessary cookies are those without which the website cannot function or without which we cannot comply with our legal obligations. They do not require your consent under Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive, as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC), because their sole purpose is to transmit a communication over an electronic communications network or because they are strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the user to provide that service. Accordingly, these cookies are always active and cannot be disabled without materially impairing your use of the site.

We use a cookie consent management system provided by WebCookies, a product developed by Arcusis, to record and store your cookie consent preferences. When you interact with the cookie consent banner on our website, your choices — whether to accept or decline optional categories of cookies — are stored in a first-party cookie so that the website can honor your preferences on your current and future visits without presenting the consent banner on every page. This cookie is typically named in a format consistent with cookie consent management systems (for example, a value such as "cookie-consent" or similar), is set by arcusis.com as a first-party cookie, does not contain personally identifiable information, and has a maximum retention period of twelve months from the date it is set, after which your preferences will be requested again. In addition, technical session cookies may be created by the browser or the web server to maintain the integrity of your browsing session; these are ephemeral, contain no personal data, and are deleted automatically when you close your browser.

The legal basis for these cookies under the GDPR, to the extent they involve the processing of personal data, is Article 6(1)(c) (processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, namely our obligation to record and honor consent preferences under applicable ePrivacy law) and Article 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests in operating a functional and legally compliant website). Under Israeli law, the processing associated with these cookies is similarly justified as necessary for the provision of the requested digital service.

We use Vercel Analytics, a service provided by Vercel, Inc., to collect aggregated, anonymous information about how visitors use arcusis.com. Vercel Analytics is activated on our website only if you have provided your prior, explicit, and freely given consent through our cookie consent banner. If you do not consent to analytics cookies, Vercel Analytics will not be loaded and no analytics data will be collected from your session.

When you have given consent, Vercel Analytics may collect information including, without limitation, the URL of each page you visit on arcusis.com, the referrer URL indicating the site from which you arrived, your approximate geographic region derived from your IP address (at country or regional level only — your precise IP address is not stored), your device type (desktop, mobile, or tablet), your browser type and version, and your operating system. Vercel Analytics is designed to operate without the use of persistent identifiers or cookies in the traditional sense: it does not use browser cookies to identify individual users across sessions, and the data it collects is aggregated and cannot be traced to any individual person. Vercel does not share analytics data with advertising networks or use it for any purpose other than providing the analytics service. Data collected through Vercel Analytics is retained in accordance with Vercel's data retention policy; we encourage you to review Vercel's privacy documentation at vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy for the current retention period applicable to your region.

The legal basis for processing data through Vercel Analytics is your consent, as provided pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR and in compliance with Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by using the cookie preference controls described in the section below. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred prior to withdrawal.

We wish to be explicit about the categories of cookies that arcusis.com does not use. We do not set or permit any advertising cookies, including cookies used for programmatic advertising, real-time bidding, audience segmentation, interest-based advertising, or any other form of behavioral targeting. We do not use remarketing cookies or pixels that track users who have previously visited our site across other websites or platforms. We do not embed social media tracking pixels from any platform, including but not limited to Meta (formerly Facebook), LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Pinterest, or any other social media service. We do not use any third-party marketing, profiling, or data-broker cookies or scripts. Our website does not participate in any cross-site tracking ecosystem. If you use a browser extension or privacy tool designed to block tracking, you should not encounter any tracking elements on arcusis.com beyond those disclosed in this policy.

When you first visit arcusis.com, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or decline optional cookies. You may accept all cookies, decline optional cookies (in which case only strictly necessary cookies will be set), or, where granular controls are available, make category-level selections. Your preferences will be stored in the essential cookie consent cookie described above and will be honored on subsequent visits.

You may review or modify your cookie preferences at any time by accessing the cookie settings option available in the footer of our website or through the accessibility widget. Clicking that option will reopen the cookie consent interface and allow you to change your selections. Any change you make will take effect immediately for prospective cookie activity; it will not retroactively remove data already collected under a prior consent.

In addition to using our cookie consent controls, you may manage cookies through your browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to view the cookies stored on your device, to delete individual cookies or all cookies, to block cookies from specific sites, or to configure your browser to refuse all cookies. If you choose to refuse all cookies through your browser, please be aware that this may affect the functionality of arcusis.com and other websites you visit, including features that depend on essential cookies. Instructions for managing cookies vary by browser and can typically be found in the browser's help documentation. You may also opt out of Vercel Analytics by withdrawing your analytics cookie consent through our consent interface.

We note that disabling essential cookies — to the extent your browser or a privacy tool allows you to do so — may cause certain features of arcusis.com to malfunction, including the retention of your own accessibility preferences and cookie consent choices. We therefore recommend using our cookie consent interface rather than blanket browser-level blocking for the most coherent experience.

Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, you have the right to withdraw consent to any processing of your personal data that is based on consent — including the use of non-essential cookies — at any time, without any negative consequence. Withdrawal operates prospectively: it does not invalidate processing that occurred while consent was in force, but it stops further processing from that point. You may exercise your right to withdraw consent through our cookie preference controls at any time.

Where cookies or similar technologies involve the processing of personal data, you also have, subject to applicable law, the right to access the personal data held about you, to request rectification or erasure, to restrict processing, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. Given that Vercel Analytics is designed to collect only anonymized and aggregated data that cannot identify you individually, the applicability of individual data subject rights to analytics data collected through that service will in most cases be limited by the irreversible anonymization of the data. For any data subject rights request relating to data processed in connection with our website, please contact us at info@arcusis.com.

Under Israeli law, and specifically under Amendment No. 13 to the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, the use of tracking technologies that constitute processing of personal data requires transparency and, in certain circumstances, consent. We comply with these requirements through the disclosures in this policy and through our consent management system. Israeli residents also have rights under the Privacy Protection Law to access and correct personal data held about them, subject to the conditions and exceptions set out in that law.

Cookie-related data processed by Arcusis is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is available at arcusis.com/privacy-policy and which sets out our broader data protection practices, legal bases for processing, data retention periods, and your rights as a data subject.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies or similar technologies we use, changes in applicable law or regulatory guidance, or changes in our services and website. When we make material changes to this policy, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. If we introduce new categories of optional cookies that we have not previously disclosed, we will seek fresh consent before deploying them. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies. Your continued use of arcusis.com after any update to this policy constitutes your acknowledgment of the changes, though it does not constitute consent to any new optional cookies for which fresh consent has not been separately obtained.

If you have questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or about the cookies used on arcusis.com, please contact us at info@arcusis.com. You may also write to us at Arcusis, Millennia Tower, The 1000 Complex, Entrance B, 18th Floor, 23 HaRishonim Blvd, Rishon LeZion 7519701, Israel, or call us at 058-469-6000. We aim to respond to all substantive inquiries within two business days.