WE COLLECT INFORMATION THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
1) When you give it to us or give us permission to obtain it
2) We get technical information when you visit our Sites and/or Services
3) Our partners and advertisers collect and share information with us
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”) which assists website owners and operators in learning and understanding the usage patterns of visitors who use their websites by collecting information, namely, which individual web pages were visited, how long users spent on the website, which websites referred the most visitors, general geographic location of visitors, and other similar anonymous statistics.
For this reason, Google Analytics may create and store several cookies on your device. Google Analytics does not collect any personally identifiable information by default. Google Analytics collects anonymized IP address or internet connections used by visitors to websites on which Google Analytics has been installed. Google Analytics does not reveal or expose the IP address of visitors to the owners of the website on which Google Analytics is installed.
We also use Google AdWords remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites including Google, to visitors who have previously visited our Sites or Services. The advertisement can be on the Google search results page or a website that has the Google display network implemented. For this reason, third-party vendors including Google may create several cookies on your device.
We also enable Hotjar, an analysis software, by inserting a tracking code within our Sites and Services, which further transmits to Hotjar servers based in Ireland (EU).
This tracking code contacts Hotjar’s servers and provides a script to your device accessing the Site or Service. This script will capture specific data related to your interaction with that particular Site or Service. This information is then sent to Hotjar’s servers for further processing. Through these tools, we receive heatmaps, visitor’s recordings, funnels and form analysis, that help us to provide you with a better experience and service as well as assist us in diagnosing technical problems and analyse user trends.
Hotjar uses cookies to collect technical information including standard internet log information and details of your behavioural patterns when you visit our Sites and Service. This is done to provide you with a better experience, identify preferences, diagnose technical problems, analyse trends and generally to help improve our Sites and Services. Hotjar may also use cookies to record login details on your device. This helps to determine whether a particular device previously visited our Sites or Services so that the login details would not have to be re-entered each time you visit that Site or Service. Hotjar also uses cookies to determine if someone has opted out of being tracked by Hotjar services.
Furthermore, we use Google DoubleClick to advertise based on what’s relevant to a user, improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing advertisements the user has already seen. For this reason, Google DoubleClick creates several cookies on your device. For example, Google DoubleClick uses cookies to keep a log of which advertisements where shown on which browser. When it’s time to serve an advertisement to a browser, Google DoubleClick can use the browser’s cookies to check which Google DoubleClick advertisements have already been delivered to that particular browser. That’s how Google DoubleClick avoids showing advertisements the user has already seen. In the same way, cookies allow Google DoubleClick to log conversions related to advertisement requests—such as when a user views a Google DoubleClick advertisement and later uses the same browser to visit the advertiser’s website and make a purchase.
We also get information about you and your activity outside our website and services from our advertisers and other third parties we work with , or other publicly available sources.
Online advertisers or third parties share information with us to measure or improve the performance of our services, or to figure out what kinds of ads to show you.
HOW TO PREVENT COOKIE STORAGE AND OPT-OUT?
You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
You can also prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by visiting Google Analytics opt-out page and installing the Google add-on for your browser. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or visit https://www.google.com/settings/ads to set your settings for Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Google DoubleClick.
You may opt-out from having Hotjar collect your information when visiting our Sites and Services at any time by visiting www.hotjar.com/opt-out and clicking ‘Disable Hotjar’.
For more details on installing and uninstalling the Google add-on, Google Analytics, Google DoubleClick or AdWords, please visit Google’s website.
HOW WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION
- Provide the Service(s) you request;
- Bill and collect for the Service(s) provided to you;
- Send you marketing communications;
- Provide customer care;
- Protect our rights or property;
- Enforce the Terms of Service;
- Comply with legal requirements;
- To improve our Sites and Services;
- Respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests; and
- Respond to court orders, subpoenas or other legal proceedings.
We could have a legal obligation to use your information. When we suspect fraud, for example. And sometimes you have provided us permission to use your information. This is the case when you subscribe to the newsletter. We keep track of this appropriately.
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see our California Privacy Rights Notice for more information.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION ALSO OUTSIDE THE EU
Because we operate internationally, your information, including personal information, may be transferred to and made available in the USA and/or any other country than your country of residence. Also in these countries, we take all reasonable care to protect your personal information.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
Other than as explicitly described in this Privacy Policy, we will not share personally identifiable information with any third party. However, we reserve the right to share the information that we collect with third parties in aggregated and/or anonymous form, and we will not necessarily ask for your permission or even inform you that we are doing so. We may also disclose information that we collect, if required to do so by law or in good faith that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone’s safety. Note that we may be required to release personally identifying data in response to lawful requests from public authorities including to meet national security and law enforcement requirements.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see our California Privacy Rights Notice for more information.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY
Notice, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of the changes.
Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page to determine if the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of our Site or Services following the posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
CONTACTING US
- You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
- You can inform us of any changes to your personal data, or you can ask us to correct any of the personal data we hold about you;
- In certain situations, you can ask us to erase, block, or restrict the processing of the personal data we hold about you, or object to particular ways in which we are using your personal data; and
- In certain situations, you can also ask us to send the personal data you have given us to a third party.
We rely on you to ensure that your personal data is complete, accurate and current. Please inform us of any changes to or inaccuracies of to your personal data by contacting us immediately.