Last Updated on December 2020
This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains how SEO440 Technologies and its worldwide affiliates (“we/ us/our/SEO440”), use cookies and similar technologies when you visit our web sites on which this Policy is posted. This Cookie Policy should be read together with SEO440’s Website Privacy Policy, which is in https://www.seo440.com/privacy-policy/
1. What are cookies?
Once you choose to provide a web page with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. Cookies are small text files that are installed on your browser, computer or mobile device. They allow a website to recognise your device. Cookies can serve several purposes: to ensure that our websites take the user’s preferences into account by storing language preferences, passwords and log-in details, to collect statistical data and adapt the content. They can store account and password information.
You do not have to accept cookies, but without accepting them you may experience reduced website functionality on our websites. If you wish to reject cookies then please read the information that accompanies your browser software to see how you can turn off the automatic download feature, should you wish to. For more information about cookies, including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies, you may refer to ICO Cookies.
2. Which similar technologies do we use?
When you visit our websites, we use cookies to collect certain information automatically. We may also use other technologies such as pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs, “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to collect information for counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. A web beacon is an electronic image, called a single-pixel or clear GIF. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on a user’s computer, such as a user’s Cookie number, time and date of a page view and description of the page where the web beacon is placed. We may use such technologies for similar purposes as described in this Policy and we may include them on our websites, in marketing email messages or our newsletter and affiliated websites to determine whether messages have been opened and whether links have been clicked on. You may render some web beacons unusable if you choose to reject their associated cookies. These web beacons may be used to deliver cookies that conform with this Policy. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these technologies.
3. Which cookies do we use and for what purposes?
We use cookies for different reasons: for the technical and functional management of our websites, to provide us with information that we may use for marketing purposes and to enable users’ access to our accounts on social media sites via the use of “plug-ins”:
(a) Category: Strictly Necessary cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for our websites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.
Please find a detailed list of the strictly necessary cookies we use on our websites below:
| Name | Purpose | Third-party Provider | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| • __cfduid | Registers an unambiguous ID which is used to generate statistical data concerning the use of the website by the user. | HTTP (Self) | Session |
| • BIGipServer# | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | HTTP (Self) | Session |
| • JSESSIONID | Preserves users’ states across page requests. | HTTP (Self) | Session |
| • cookie-agreed | Records whether or not the cookies notification pop-up has been acknowledged by the user. | HTTP (Self) | 90 Days |
| • tc_ptid | Randomly generated person identified | HTTP (Self) | 90 Days |
| • tc_ptidexpiry | Tracking cookie expiration value | HTTP (Self) | 2 years |
| • tc_q | Local queue to store captures until they can be sent | HTTP (Self) | 30 Days |
| • tc_ttid | Touch identifier | HTTP (Self) | 30 Days |
| • lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website | HTTP (Self) | 30 Days |
| • Vuid | Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. | HTTP (Self) | 30 Days |
| • ATN | Targets ads based on behavioural profiling and geographical location. | HTTP (Self) | 30 Days |
(b) Category: Functional Cookies
Subject to your consent, we use functional cookies to enable the websites to provide enhanced functionality and personalization, such as allowing the website to remember the choices you make. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites and they do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the Internet besides our sites. If you do not allow these cookies some services may not function properly. They also allow us to analyse your use of the sites and to evaluate and improve site performance.
SEO440 is not using any functional cookies as of the date of this Policy.
(c) Category: Third Party Analytical, Performance and Marketing cookies
Subject to your consent, we may use third-party cookies such as, Google Analytics etc. to understand how users arrive on our websites and how they interact with us on our websites. This information is used to evaluate and improve the content of our websites and our campaigns and ultimately to improve user experience. In addition, they may be used to (i) deliver advertisements more relevant to your interests, (ii) to limit the number of times you see an advertisement, (iii) to help measure the effectiveness of an advertisement campaign, and (iv) to understand user’s behaviour after having seen an advertisement. These cookies collect information about your visit and use of our websites such as the pages you visit the most and the error messages you may get from web pages.
4. Withdrawing consent / managing cookies
You can withdraw your consent to the use of cookies for the future at any time. To so do, please adjust your consent settings in the respective cookies consent banner or via the settings in your internet browser.
In addition, you can also choose to customise your choices regarding cookies you want to accept. You may configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser. Please be aware that some parts of the site will not function properly if you have refused cookies. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your system/ device and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your system/ device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third-party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
5. Complaints and Grievances
Complaints, concerns and any communications regarding this Policy shall be redirected to the Data Privacy Officer at the following email [email protected]
6. General
If SEO440 collect personal data via the use of cookies, such personal data will be treated in accordance with the terms of the SEO440 Website Privacy Policy in https://www.seo440.com/privacy-policy/
You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. This site will give you guidance on how to control and delete unwanted cookies you have already accepted.
7. Changes to this Policy
Please note that SEO440 reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time and will inform you on any material changes in our websites.
