- Introduction
Our website uses cookies for its proper operation as well as the best experience of its visitors. Your Choice. When you accessed this website, our cookies were sent to your web browser and stored on your computer or device. By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies.
- What are Cookies?
It is a common practice for almost all professional websites to use cookies, similar to what our company uses. Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer or device, by uniquely identifying your browser and / or device to improve your experience. The information used by browsers can help improve the functioning of the website enabling it to recognize the user's preferences each time the user returns to the website. Other technologies, including the data we store on your browser or device, the information associated with your device, and other software, are used for similar purposes.
Our website does not request personal information from its visitors while navigating its content, but rather collects personal information of its visitors and users only when they voluntarily provide it. Personal information is the data that can be used to identify or communicate with an individual, as well as other information relating to that person. Therefore, the information we collect from you or about you differs depending on the service you choose to use through our website.
We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
- How we Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, including the following:
- store information about your preferences and tailor our website for you;
- help us run ads of interest to you;
- help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services;
- we use the information available to us to verify accounts and activities and to promote security, whether within or outside the services, by investigating, for example, suspicious activity or violations of our terms or policies; and
- store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies in general.
- Types of Cookies We Use
The types of cookies used on this website can be classified into one of 7 categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these are essential in order to enable you to use certain features of the website, such as submitting forms on the website.
- Functionality cookies: these are used to allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced features to improve your web experience.
- Analytical / Navigation cookies: these cookies enable the site to function correctly and are used to gather information about how visitors use the site. This information is used to compile reports and help us to improve the site. Cookies gather information in anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors came from and the pages they viewed.
- Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device's browser only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
- Permanent cookies: those cookies remain on your browser even after the browser closes, sometimes for one year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (i.e. remembering your username or your site configuration preferences).
- First-party cookies: these are cookies installed on the browser and / or hard drive of your device from the site you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identifier to you to monitor your site navigation. Website administrators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
- Third-party cookies: these are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks to track your visits to the various sites they advertise. The site administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.
- Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps our website to understand how visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘__ga’ cookie. In addition to reporting website usage statistics, Google Analytics can also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies, to help show more relevant ads on Google properties (like Google Search) and across the web and to measure interactions with the ads Google shows.
- HubSpot Cookies: We utilize HubSpot, an integrated marketing and customer relationship management (CRM) platform, to enhance your experience on our website. HubSpot may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and analyze information about your interactions with our site, such as pages visited, and actions taken. The data gathered through HubSpot helps us improve our marketing efforts, personalize content, and streamline communication.
- How Long Will the Cookies Stay on My Device?
For how long a cookie will remain on your computer or on a mobile device depends on whether it is a persistent cookie or a session cookie. Session cookies will remain on your device only until you stop browsing. Permanent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
- How do I Manage or Delete Information About Me?
The data is stored for as long as necessary to provide services to you and other users, including those described above. The information related to you will remain stored until you request for deletion. Most browsers allow you to manage cookies, refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.
- Disabling Cookies
The installation of "cookies" is only allowed with the consent of the visitor / user and after appropriate updating. The user can modify the browser settings to block some or all the cookies. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the website. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser’s “Help” option on how to do this).
Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
- Use of IP Addresses
An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the Internet. We might use your IP address and browser type to help analyze usage patterns and diagnose problems on this website and to improve the service we offer to you. But without additional information your IP address does not identify you as an individual.
- General Information
Hopefully the above information has clarified things for you. As it was previously mentioned, if you are not sure whether you want to allow the cookies or not, it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, then feel free to contact us via email.