Last reviewed on 25 April 2026.

This Cookie Policy explains how SwissBanks.net uses cookies and similar technologies, what each category does, and how you can review or change your choices. It supplements the Privacy Policy, which covers data handling more generally.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file stored by your browser when you visit a website. Cookies let a site remember information about your visit — for example, that you have already accepted a notice — and they let analytics and advertising services understand which content is read and which ads are shown. The site also uses similar technologies such as local storage and pixel tags; for simplicity these are referred to collectively as "cookies" in this policy.

Cookies can be first-party (set by SwissBanks.net) or third-party (set by services that the site embeds, for example analytics or advertising providers).

Categories used on this site

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These are required for the site to render correctly and for basic functions such as remembering your consent choices. They cannot be turned off without breaking the page. They do not store information for marketing purposes.

Typical purposes: load balancing, security tokens, remembering whether you have already seen the consent interface.

2. Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand which pages are read, how readers arrive at the site, and where pages can be improved. The site uses Google Analytics for this purpose. Where required by law, analytics cookies are only set after you give consent.

Information collected through analytics is processed in aggregate. It is not used to build advertising profiles for individual readers.

3. Advertising cookies (Google AdSense and partners)

SwissBanks.net is funded by display advertising served through Google AdSense. Google and its certified ad-technology partners may set cookies to:

  • Serve ads, including frequency capping (so you don't see the same ad repeatedly).
  • Measure whether ads were viewed or clicked.
  • Detect invalid traffic and protect against ad fraud.
  • Where you have consented, personalise the ads shown based on your interests and prior browsing.

If you do not consent to personalised advertising — or if you visit from a region where personalised ads require consent and you decline — the site will continue to show ads, but they will be non-personalised (contextual). Non-personalised ads are based on the page being viewed rather than your interests.

Specific third parties

  • Google AdSense / Google Ad Manager. Display advertising and ad-fraud detection. See Google's Advertising and Privacy policies.
  • Google Analytics. Aggregate traffic measurement.
  • Hosting and CDN. Operational cookies and request logs to deliver pages and protect against abuse.

The full list of advertising vendors that may serve ads on the site is exposed through the consent interface, where one is shown. Vendors operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.

How to review or change your choices

On this site

Where the law requires consent, a consent interface is shown on your first visit. You can re-open it at any time by clearing the site's cookies for SwissBanks.net in your browser, which will trigger the interface again on your next visit.

In your browser

All major browsers let you view, block, and delete cookies. The exact menu varies by browser, but is typically found under Settings → Privacy. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may break parts of the site; blocking advertising cookies will not break the site but will result in non-personalised ads instead.

Through industry opt-outs

You can manage advertising personalisation centrally through the following tools, which apply across many sites and ad networks:

Note that these tools opt you out of personalised advertising, not advertising in general. They also rely on cookies of their own, which means clearing all cookies will reset the opt-out.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Browser "Do Not Track" signals are not interpreted consistently across the web, and SwissBanks.net does not rely on them. Where the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal is required to be honoured by applicable law (for example, under California's CPRA), the site treats it as a request to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Children

The site is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly use cookies to build advertising profiles for users we know to be under 16.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy when we add or remove vendors, or when changes in law require it. Substantive changes will be reflected in the "Last reviewed" date at the top.

Contact

For cookie- or privacy-related questions, see the Contact page.