Last updated
September 2026
This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) is part of the technical and organizational measures implemented by Skew Labs SA, Via Ferruccio Pelli 13 c/o SiPaFid SA, 6900, Lugano (hereinafter the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) to ensure its processing of personal data is performed in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection 2020 (“FADP”), Article 45c of the Telecommunications Act (“TCA”), as well as the guidelines issued by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”) on 22 Jan 2025 (the “Guidelines”) with respect to the use of cookies on the Company’s website available at the following address: https://skew.net/ (hereinafter the “Website”) and on the Company’s web application available at the following address: https://app.skew.net/ (hereinafter the “App”).
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 preferences and sign-in 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.
Similar technologies, such as the “local storage” and “session storage” of your web browser, allow a website or web application to store small amounts of information on your device in a comparable way. In this Cookie Policy, the term “cookies” also covers these similar technologies, which are listed in the tables below together with the cookies.
Cookies make websites work better and they are a standard part of most modern websites. For example, they remember the items you’ve placed in your online shopping cart so that the items appear at the checkout when you make your purchase. Another example would be when you sign in to webmail services such as Hotmail or Gmail: on such occasions a cookie is generated that confirms you are signed in and when you sign out, the cookie is deleted. This means if someone goes back to your webmail address on your computer, you will still be signed out, and they won’t be able to read your emails.
Cookies can be classified based on several specifications that help explain their nature and function, as detailed below.
3.1 Issuer of cookies
3.2 Duration of cookies
We use both first-party and third-party cookies, as further detailed in Sections 4 and 5 below.
3.3 Purpose of cookies
We employ analytical and technical cookies for statistical purposes (as described in Section 4 below) for monitoring, by way of example, the flow of visitors on the Website. Therefore, we justify the use of such cookies in accordance with Article 31 par. 2 letter e) of the FADP and point 3.8.2. of the Guidelines ensuring the following:
In addition, analytics cookies on the Website are only activated if you have given your consent through the cookie banner (see Section 4.1 below).
In general, many websites employ other kind 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 and the choices you make in our cookie banner.
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.
4.1 Cookie banner and your choices
When you first visit the Website, a cookie banner allows you to “Accept” or “Reject” non-essential cookies, or to select individual categories via “Preferences”. Technical cookies are always active; analytics and marketing cookies are only set if you consent to them. Your choice is stored for 365 days, and you can change or withdraw it at any time by clicking the cookie preferences icon displayed at the bottom of every page of the Website.
4.2 Cookies and similar technologies set by the Website
| Name | Provider / domain | First / third party | Retention period | Type | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _cfuvid | Cloudflare, Inc. (.skew.net) | First-party | Session | Technical | Set by Cloudflare, the content delivery and security network through which the Website is delivered. It is used to distinguish individual visitors sharing the same IP address for rate-limiting and to protect the Website against malicious traffic. It does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| fs-consent | Finsweet Consent Pro (skew.net) | First-party | 365 days | Technical | Stores the choices you made in the cookie banner (technical, analytics, marketing and personalization categories), so that cookies are only activated in accordance with your consent and the banner is not shown again at every visit. |
| _ga | Google Analytics 4 – Google (.skew.net) | First-party | 400 days | Analytical | Used by GA4 to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated identifier, in order to gather aggregated statistics on how visitors use the Website (e.g. number of pages viewed, duration of the visit, origin of the visitors such as a search engine or a direct link). Set only with your consent. |
| _ga_LWH2F20QVJ | Google Analytics 4 – Google (.skew.net) | First-party | 400 days | Analytical | Used by GA4 to persist session state for the Website’s GA4 property (measurement ID G-LWH2F20QVJ). It helps distinguish sessions for aggregated statistical reporting, enabling the Company to understand user interactions and improve Website performance. Set only with your consent. |
| _gcl_ls (local storage) | Google tag – Google (skew.net) | First-party | Persistent (entry renewed every 24 hours) | Analytical | Local storage entry written by the Google tag that loads GA4; it records the loading status of the Google tag. It does not contain any identifier of the user. |
| geoPopupShown (session storage) | Skew Labs SA (skew.net) | First-party | Session | Technical | Strictly necessary. Remembers that the jurisdiction / reverse-solicitation warning pop-up (see Section 4.4) has already been shown to you during the current browsing session, so that it is not displayed again on every page. |
4.3 Third-party cookies from embedded videos (YouTube)
Some pages of the Website contain videos embedded from YouTube, a service provided by Google. These videos, and the related cookies, are only loaded if you have consented to marketing cookies. The cookies below are set and controlled by YouTube/Google, which may use them for its own purposes, including advertising; please refer to Google’s privacy policy for more information.
| Name | Provider / domain | First / third party | Retention period | Type | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSC | YouTube – Google (.youtube.com) | Third-party | Session | Marketing | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of the YouTube videos viewed and to ensure the correct functioning of the embedded player. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube – Google (.youtube.com) | Third-party | 180 days | Marketing | Used by YouTube to estimate the user’s bandwidth and to remember player settings; may be used by YouTube to personalize content and advertising. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube – Google (.youtube.com) | Third-party | 180 days | Marketing | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for YouTube in relation to the current domain. |
| __Secure-YNID | YouTube – Google (.youtube.com) | Third-party | 180 days | Marketing | Used by YouTube for security purposes, to prevent fraud and to remember video player preferences. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | YouTube – Google (.youtube.com) | Third-party | 180 days | Marketing | Used by YouTube to manage the roll-out of new player features and to keep statistics of the videos viewed. |
YouTube may also store information in the local storage of your browser within the embedded player (for example, your caption preferences).
4.4 Geolocation for the jurisdiction warning (ipapi.co)
When you visit the Website, your IP address is transmitted to the geolocation service ipapi.co in order to determine your approximate country. This information is used exclusively to display, where applicable, a warning pop-up concerning the availability of the Skew services in your jurisdiction and the fact that you access them on your own initiative (reverse solicitation). This processing is necessary to comply with the regulatory requirements applicable to the Company and is based on the Company’s legitimate interest in, and legal obligation of, ensuring compliance with such requirements; it does not require your consent. No cookie is set for this purpose; the Website only records in the session storage that the pop-up has been shown (geoPopupShown, see Section 4.2).
The newsletter subscription form on the Website is provided by Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.). It does not set any cookie when you visit the Website; the data you enter is transmitted to Mailchimp only when you submit the form.
The App (https://app.skew.net/) does not use analytics, marketing or profiling cookies. It only uses cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to provide the services you request, to keep your account secure and to remember your choices, as well as the third-party services described below. As these cookies and technologies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the App, they do not require your consent; you can nevertheless block or delete them through your web browser’s settings (see Section 6), but in that case you will not be able to sign in to or use the App.
5.1 Session and authentication
When you sign in, the App stores your session in the local storage of your browser. This record is needed to keep you signed in while you move between pages and is deleted when you sign out or when your session expires. It also contains the preferences associated with your account, such as your display currency, so that amounts are shown in the currency you have chosen.
5.2 Security (Cloudflare Turnstile)
The sign-in, sign-up and password-recovery pages of the App use Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot-protection service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., to verify that the request comes from a human user and not from an automated system. To do so, Turnstile processes technical information about your browser and device (such as your IP address and browser characteristics) on Cloudflare’s servers (challenges.cloudflare.com). In our tests, Turnstile did not store any cookie on the user’s device.
5.3 Address autocompletion (Google Maps Platform)
On the address step of the sign-up form, the App uses the Places service of Google Maps Platform, provided by Google, to suggest complete addresses while you type. For this purpose, the characters you type in the address field and technical information such as your IP address are transmitted to Google (maps.googleapis.com and places.googleapis.com). This service does not store cookies on your device. You can always enter your address manually without selecting a suggestion.
5.4 Customer support chat (Crisp)
The App includes a customer-support chat provided by Crisp IM SAS (client.crisp.chat), through which you can contact our support team directly from the App. The customer-support chat is part of the services provided through the App, and the related cookie is therefore strictly necessary and does not require your consent. To keep your conversation available across pages and visits, Crisp stores a session identifier in a cookie and in the local storage of your browser.
5.5 List of cookies and similar technologies used in the App
| Name | Provider / domain | First / third party | Retention period | Type | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| app_session (local storage) | Skew Labs SA (app.skew.net) | First-party | Until you sign out or the session expires | Technical | Keeps you signed in: stores the authentication tokens of your session and the basic data of your account, including your preferences such as the display currency. |
| crisp-client/session/<id> (cookie and local storage) | Crisp IM SAS (.skew.net) | First-party (set by the Crisp script) | 6 months | Technical | Strictly necessary for customer support: identifies your support chat session, so that your conversation with our customer-support team is kept when you change page or come back to the App. |
| skew.maintenance.dismissed (local storage) | Skew Labs SA (app.skew.net) | First-party | Persistent, until cleared | Preferences | Remembers that you have closed a maintenance notice, so that it is not displayed again. |
| skew.edd.popup.dismissed (session storage) | Skew Labs SA (app.skew.net) | First-party | Session | Preferences | Remembers, for the current browsing session, that you have closed the reminder to complete the additional verification (enhanced due diligence) checklist. |
| Cloudflare Turnstile (no cookie) | Cloudflare, Inc. (challenges.cloudflare.com) | Third-party | Not stored on the device | Technical | Bot protection on the sign-in, sign-up and password-recovery forms (see Section 5.2). |
| Google Maps Platform – Places (no cookie) | Google (maps.googleapis.com, places.googleapis.com) | Third-party | Not stored on the device | Technical | Address autocompletion on the sign-up form (see Section 5.3). |
You can change or withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies on the Website at any time through the cookie preferences icon described in Section 4.1.
You can also turn off cookies for a particular website or several websites by adjusting your web browser’s settings to prevent it from accepting cookies, or delete cookies and other data already stored on your device. The relevant options are usually found in the “Settings”, “Privacy” or “Security” menu of your web browser (for example Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Opera); please refer to the help pages of your browser for detailed instructions.
It’s important to note that turning off cookies is likely to limit the functionality of not only our Website and App, 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. In particular, if you block the local storage of your browser you will not be able to sign in to the App.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called “spyware” 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 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.
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Skew is operated by Skew Labs SA, a Swiss company whose registered office is Via Ferruccio Pelli 13 c/o SiPaFid SA, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland. Skew Labs SA is affiliated with SO-FIT as a financial intermediary (member no. 1504) under article 2 para. 3 of the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA). SO-FIT is a self-regulatory organization recognized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Skew’s services are actively offered only in Switzerland; their availability depends on your location, which may affect your rights and protections. Please read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy that apply to you carefully. Taxes may be payable on profits. If you are outside Switzerland, you access Skew services on your own initiative and without solicitation.
