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Last Revised: 1 November 2018
When
you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or
messaging, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies, web
beacons, and other similar technologies to make your experience better,
faster and safer, for advertising purposes and to allow us to
continuously improve our sites, services, applications and tools.
We
hope the information below provides you with clear and comprehensive
information about the technologies we use and the purposes for which we
use them, but it you have any additional questions, or require any
additional information, please review our Privacy Policy or contact us at sales@vvssoftwares.com.
Your consent
By
continuing to use and navigate our sites, services, applications, tools
or messaging, you are agreeing to our use of cookies, web beacons and
similar technologies as described herein and in our Privacy Policy. If
you do not wish to accept these technologies in connection with your
visit to or use of our sites, services, applications, tools or
messaging, you may visit our Manage Settings
page and see additional options below available to you to manage,
control or delete our, or our service provider’s, use of these
technologies.
What are cookies, web beacons and similar technologies
These
technologies are essentially small data files placed on your computer,
tablet, mobile phone or other device (“collectively, a “device”) that
allows us to record information when you visit or interact with our
websites, service, applications, messaging, and other tools. Though
often these technologies are generically referred to as “Cookies,” each
functions slightly differently, and is better explained below:
Cookies:
These are small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers)
placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website
or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular
device or browser. There are several types of cookies:
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Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session.
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Persistent cookies
are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to
remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.
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First-party cookies
are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the
time in order to preserve your settings (e.g., while on our site).
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Third-party cookies
are placed in your browser by a website, or domain, that is not the
website or domain that you are currently visiting. If a user visits a
website and another entity sets a cookie through that website this would
be a third-party cookie.
When
you enter a website using cookies, you may be asked to fill out a form
providing personal information; like your name, e-mail address, and
interests. This information is packaged into a cookie and sent to your
browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.), which then stores the information for
later use. The next time you go to the same website, your browser will
send the cookie to the server. The message is sent back to the server
each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Web beacons: small
files (also called “pixels”, “image tags”, or “script tags”) that may
be loaded on our sites, applications, and tools, that may work in
concert with cookies to identify our users and provide anonymized data
on their behavior.
Similar technologies: Technologies
that store information in your browser or device utilizing local shared
objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and
other web application software methods. These technologies can operate
across all of your browsers, and in some instances may not be fully
managed by your browser and may require management directly through your
installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for
storing information to target advertising to you on or off our sites.
What types of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies do we use and why
Our
cookies, web beacons and similar technologies serve various purposes,
but are generally either necessary or essential to the functioning of
our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, help us improve
the performance of or provide you extra functionality of the same, or
help us to serve relevant and targeted advertisements. More
specifically:
Strictly Necessary or Essential: 'Strictly
necessary' or “essential” cookies, web beacons and similar technologies
let you move around the website and use essential features like secure
areas and shopping baskets. Without these technologies, services you
have asked for cannot be provided. Please note that these technologies
do not gather any information about you that could be used for marketing
or remembering where you've been on the internet. Accepting these
technologies is a condition of using our sites, services, applications,
tools or messaging, so if you prevent these from loading we can't
guarantee your use or how the security therein will perform during your
visit.
Performance: 'Performance'
cookies, web beacons and similar technologies collect information about
how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you
experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that
could identify you and is only used to help us improve how our website
works, understand what interests our users and measure how effective our
content is by providing anonymous statistics and data regarding how our
website is used. Accepting these technologies is a condition of
using our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, so if you
prevent these from loading we can't guarantee your use or how the
security therein will perform during your visit.
Functionality: These cookies, web beacons or similar technologies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.
Advertising: First
or third-party cookies and web beacons may be placed by our sites,
applications, or tools, in order to deliver content, including product
related advertisements, relevant to your specific interests on our sites
or third-party sites. These technologies allow us to understand how
useful our advertisements are, and improve the relevancy of the content
delivered to our users.
We also utilize 3rd
party service providers to assist us in delivering on the same
functions, which means that our authorized service providers may also
place cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on your device via
our services (first and third party cookies). They may also collect
information that helps them identify your device, such as IP-address, or
other unique or device identifiers.
How to manage, control and delete cookies, web beacons and similar technologies
You may manage certain cookies, web beacons and similar technologies we place by visiting our Manage Settings control panel. You may also visit our "Advertising Preferences" link exists in the footer of our webpages.
You
may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows
you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use
your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies)
it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website
or service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it
will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit
our site. Please note, as further described in our Privacy Policy, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser.
Internet
browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are
usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet
browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may
be helpful. Otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your internet
browser for more details.
If
you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to delete
your cookies using your internet browser settings.
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