Cookie Policy
The Cookie Policy ("Cookie Policy" or "Policy") covers all websites managed by IXZO Digital OU. (respectively, the "Site/s", "us" or "we"). The use of cookies on the Site requires your agreement with all statements in this Privacy Policy.
This Policy contains an explicit statement that we reserve the right to change it periodically. Review this page frequently to stay updated about our privacy practices. Your continued use of the Site means you accept any changes made to this Policy. The Site remains available to you as your only solution if you do not accept our Policy terms by either stopping website use or blocking cookies through your browser settings.
This Cookie Policy forms an essential part of our Privacy Policy and we used definitions from the Privacy Policy that have equal meanings in this Policy.
This Cookie Policy explains:
- What cookies are
- What cookies are used when you use the Site
- How third parties use cookies on the Site
- Your cookie options
- Interest-Based Advertising
1. What Cookies Are?
The Site and third parties use cookies as small text files which store visitor information to identify browser visitors instead of individual users. Cookies perform four essential functions including enabling website functions and providing analytics and storing user preferences and facilitating ad delivery and behavioral advertising.
Web browsers store cookies into two categories which include session cookies and persistent cookies. When you close your browser session cookies automatically disappear. The duration of a persistent cookie exists until it reaches its expiration date or until you clear your browser cookies. Cookie expiration dates exist within the cookies themselves since their duration ranges from minutes to extended periods. First party cookies are cookies placed by the website you are visiting but third party cookies are cookies placed by other entities.
Pixel tags often work alongside cookies when users visit the Sites. The tracking technology of pixel tags operates under the names web beacons and clear GIFs to deliver transparent graphic images through websites. The tracking functionality of pixel tags requires cookies to measure visitor actions on websites which access their services. We along with our business partners track Site/s interactions using pixel tags to monitor website visitors who arrive from our Site/s and for Retargeting purposes and interest based advertising according to the Privacy Policy and section 5 below.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
Users who access and use the Site and interact with our services receive cookies from us or our third-party partners through their browser. The cookies that activate based on specific feature usage or preference selection have longer durations than those which function only during specific activities as described in our Privacy Policy.
2.1 Essential Cookies:
The first party cookies allow users to stay logged in while using the Site or to complete purchases.
2.2 Preference Cookies:
These first party cookies store your Site preferences.
2.3 Ad Targeting Cookies:
These third party cookies (also known as "behavioral" or "targeted" advertising are placed by advertising platforms or networks in order to: (i) deliver ads and tracks ad performance, and (ii) enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant based upon your activities.
2.3 Analytics Cookies:
These cookies track information about how the Site/s are being used so that we can improve them and report on our performance. We may also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages or features to see how users react to them. Analytics cookies may either be first party or third-party cookies.
3. Third-Party Cookies
The analytics and Third Party vendors and ad networks use cookies as a tool to collect user information without revealing personal identities. The gathered user information helps the system to understand user activities across the Site together with other websites users visit following their visit to the Site.
3.1 Google
We use various products and features provided by Google LLC. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google").
3.1.1 Google Analytics
- Our services use the analytic tools of Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
- Please note the fact that Google Analytics is supplemented by the code "gat._anonymize();" on this website to guarantee the anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
- In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google's collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.You can stop Google Analytics tracking by clicking on the link below. The computer gets an opt-out cookie that prevents future data collection when visiting this website:
- More information about terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
3.1.2 Google Dynamic Remarketing
- Google Dynamic Remarketing is used to advertise our site across the Internet, in particular on the Google Display Network. Dynamic remarketing will show you ads according to what parts of our websites you have viewed by setting a cookie in your web browser. This cookie does not in any way identify you or give access to your computer or mobile device. The cookie will inform other websites that “This user viewed a certain page, show them ads related to that page.” Google Dynamic Remarketing enables us to provide marketing that better suits your needs by displaying only relevant ads to you.
- You can stop Google from showing you ads from our site by disabling cookies in Google's Ads Settings. For further information visit Google’s “Privacy Policy”.
3.1.3Google AdWords
3.1.4 DoubleClick by Google
3.2 Facebook
- Facebook Custom Audiences is used for interest-based online advertising. For this purpose, a non-reversible and non-personal checksum (hash value) is generated from your usage data. That hash value can be transmitted to Facebook for analysis and marketing purposes. The collected Information contain your activities on our site (e.g. browsing behavior, visited subpages, etc.). Your IP address is transmitted as well and used for geographical controlling of advertising. The data collected is only transmitted encrypted to Facebook and is anonymous to us that means the personal data of individual users are not visible to us.
- Please check https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ or https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/custom-audiences-website for the privacy policies of Facebook and Custom Audience. If you do not want data acquisition via Custom Audience, you can disable Custom Audience here.
- This tool enables us to track actions that users take after they click on a Facebook advertisement to visit a provider's website. We can thus evaluate the success of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s privacy policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook Conversion Tracking also enables Facebook and its partners to present you ads on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
- Using the website means you consent to all Facebook pixel data processing procedures.
- You can cancel your permission by following this link: https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings.
We use retargeting tags and Custom Audience offered by Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA, “Facebook”).
3.2.1 Facebook Custom Audiences
3.2.2 Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel
3.3 Sentry
- This site implements Sentry technologies (132 Hawthorne St. San Francisco, CA 94107) for monitoring site applications. Our site serves better through the internet because Sentry's technology helps identify browser problems experienced by our users.
- Sentry will stop collecting your information if you activate your web browser "do not track" setting. You can learn more about Sentry's privacy practices by visiting their "Privacy Policy."
3.4 OneSignal
- We use OneSignal (2850 S Delaware St #201, San Mateo, CA 94403, United States) technologies and services to allow users to register to our Site push notification service, this inorder to allow better user expiriance and communication with our Sites and Services. For further Information visit Sentry's “Privacy Policy”
3.5 List of third parties that can access information through our partners sites:
- Gooogle AdWords + DoubleClick
- Bing
4. How to Control Cookies?
A browser lets you remove existing cookies from your system and refuse future cookie reception. The help pages of your browser provide instructions on how to achieve this goal. Our website features will not work properly when you delete cookies or disable them since it will also prevent you from storing preferences and certain pages may display incorrectly.
You can opt-out from third party cookies through the instructions provided in each third party privacy policy.
5. How to manage cookies?
The Cookie Policy explains how cookies enable maximum Site/s and services utilization for you. When you disable cookies certain parts of our Site will not function correctly.
The following instructions describe how to disable behaviorally targeted advertising cookies.
The European Union users can find information about behaviorally targeted advertising cookies at www.youronlinechoices.eu while US users should visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. The instructions on how to block cookies or set up alerts for cookie transmission to your device are shown above.
Be aware that disabling the cookies we use on the Site may affect your experience on the Site as you may not be able to visit certain areas or receive personalized content or information when you visit a Site.
More information about the cookies we use on the Site can be accessed by clicking here.
6. Enable or Disable cookies
Google Chrome
- Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar >> Select Settings >> Click ‘Show advanced settings’ >> In the "Privacy" section, click the ‘Content settings’ button
- The "Cookies" section lets you allow both first-party and third-party cookies by selecting 'Allow local data to be set' but you can choose to allow only first-party cookies by selecting 'Block all third-party cookies without exception'
- To disable cookies select the 'Block sites from setting any data' option in the "Cookies" section.
- The cookie enablement and disablement options in Chrome exist at multiple levels. You can find additional information about Chrome cookie options by visiting the following Google webpage: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
- Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Internet Options’
- In the options window navigate to the ‘Privacy’ tab
- To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below
- To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies
The cookie enablement and disablement options in Explorer exist at different levels. Internet Explorer cookie management options are explained in detail at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies.
Microsoft Edge
- You can access the More actions button from the toolbar to reach Settings
- Search for View advanced settings and select it
- Under Cookies section, select to either Don't block cookies (default), Block only third party cookies
- Restart Edge.
Mozilla Firefox
- Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and select ‘Options’
- Select the Privacy panel
- To enable cookies: Check ‘Accept cookies for sites’
- To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’
The cookie enablement and disablement options in Firefox exist at different levels. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookiesOpera
Opera
- To access the browser settings open the menu and navigate to ‘Settings’
- Select ‘Quick Preferences’
- Users need to check "Enable Cookies" to activate this feature
- Users need to uncheck "Enable Cookies" to disable it.
There are multiple settings available for cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For information on other cookie settings available in Opera refer to Opera Software’s privacy page: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari on OSX
- Click on ‘Safari’ at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option
- Click on ‘Security’
- Select ‘Only from site you navigate to’ in the ‘Accept cookies’ section to enable cookies
- Select ‘Never’ in the ‘Accept cookies’ section to disable cookies
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from Apple: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html
All other browsers
Please look for a "help" function in the browser or contact the browser provider.
7. Interest-Based Advertising
We and third parties use interest-based advertising provided by vendors to deliver advertisements and personalized content which we and other advertisers believe will be of interest to you. To the extent third-parties are using cookies or other technologies to perform these services, the Site does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information for online, mobile, or email advertising, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
You can contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions about our Cookie Policy.