Cookie Disclosure Policy
Introduction
Absolutdata Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries / affiliates (“Absolutdata” or “we”) are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally identifiable information. We advise you to read this Cookie Disclosure Policy (“Policy”) carefully to understand the use of cookies on our website. This Policy is drafted in compliance to the General Data Protection Regulations (‘GDPR’) and the ePrivacy Directives.
Purpose
We use cookies to ensure that any person who uses our website gets the best possible experience. In this notice we have provided detailed information about how and when we use cookies.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. It allows us to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. Cookies can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies cannot access any other information on your computer.
Types of cookies used
We use the following two types of cookies:
- Persistent / Permanent cookies:Persistent cookies helps us recognise you as an existing user, so it’s easier for you to return to our website without signing in again. After signing in, the persistent cookies stay on your browser and will be read when you return to our website. These remain on your computer/device for a pre-defined period.
- Session cookies: Session cookies only last for as long as the session exists, (they are erased when the user closes the browser).
Refer the table below for detailed description on cookies used by Absolutdata:
Cookie name | Description | Cookie category | Provider | Expiry |
__cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third Party | bootstrapcdn.com | 30 days |
__cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third Party | hsadspixel.net | 30 days |
__cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third Party | hs-analytics.net | 30 days |
__cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third Party | hs-banner.com | 30 days |
__cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third Party | hs-scripts.com | 30 days |
__cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Third Party | hubspot.com | 30 days |
PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Session |
wc_cart_hash_# | Unclassified | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Persistent |
wc_fragments_# | Unclassified | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Session |
lang | Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website. | First Party | ads.linkedin.com | Session |
_ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 2 years |
_gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 1 day |
_gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 1 day |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors – this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 1 day |
_hjFirstSeen | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 1 day |
_hjid | Sets a unique ID for the session . This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 1 year |
_hjid | Sets a unique ID for the session . This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Persistent |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 1 day |
_hjTLDTest | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the web site operator. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Session |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used in connection with data-syn chronization with third -party analysis service. | Third Party | linkedin.com | 29 days |
vuid | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read . | Third Party | vimeo.com | 2 years |
__ptq.gif | Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Third Party | hubspot.com | Session |
_lfa | Used in context with Account-Based-Marketing (ABM ). The cookie registers data such as IP-addresses, time spent on the website and page requests for the visit. This is used for retargeting of multiple users rooting from the same IP addresses. ABM usually facilitates B2B marketing purposes. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | 2 years |
_lfa_expiry | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Persistent |
bcookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn , for tracking the use of embedded services. | Third Party | linkedin.com | 2 years |
bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn , for tracking the use of embedded services. | Third Party | linkedin.com | 2 years |
IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | Third Party | doubleclick.net | 1 year |
index.php | This cookie is used to determine the content of the shopping basket and promote related products or advertisement based on that information . | Third Party | stats.sa-as.com | Session |
lang | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded “Follow us” panel. | Third Party | linkedin.com | Session |
lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn , for tracking the use of embedded services. | Third Party | linkedin.com | 1 day |
test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | Third Party | doubleclick.net | 1 day |
UserMatchHistory | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. | Third Party | linkedin.com | 29 days |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ band width on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | Third Party | youtube.com | 179 days |
YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen . | Third Party | youtube.com | Session |
yt.innertube::nextId | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen . | Third Party | youtube.com | Persistent |
yt.innertube::requests | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen . | Third Party | youtube.com | Persistent |
yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Third Party | youtube.com | Session |
yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Third Party | youtube.com | Persistent |
yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Third Party | youtube.com | Persistent |
yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Third Party | youtube.com | Session |
yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Third Party | youtube.com | Session |
yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Third Party | youtube.com | Session |
_lfa | Unclassified | First Party | Absolutdata.com | Persistent |
How we use cookies?
Absolutdata uses cookies to enhance and improve your browsing experience. We use cookies primarily for:
- Preferences: Cookies allow our website to remember information about you that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. Remembering your preferences enables us to personalise and display advertisements and other contents for you.
- Security / Optimisation: Cookies allow us to maintain security by authenticating users, preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and protecting user data from unauthorized parties. We may use certain types of cookies which allow us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal content from the forms present on our website.
- Processing: Cookies enable the website to work efficiently. Basis such cookies, we are able to deliver services that a website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website.
- Marketing / Advertising: We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to our users. Some common applications of cookies are made to select advertising based on what’s relevant to you, to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing ads you would have already seen. Cookies capture information about how you interact with our website, which includes the pages that you visit most.
- Communication: We may use information collected via cookies to communicate with you, for sending newsletters, seeking your opinion and feedback and providing you services and promotional materials.
- Analytics and Research: We may use cookies to better understand how people use our products/services so that we can improve them.
Basis for lawful processing of cookies:
We process your cookies with your explicit consent. You can accept the cookies to be placed on your browser by clicking on the Allow Cookies or I Agree button. We seek to renew your consent every 12 months from the date of obtaining the consent.
The Company will perform quarterly review of the cookie scan report to ascertain the count of identified cookies along with unclassified cookies, which would be classified and assigned a purpose using manual intervention within 7 days of extraction of the report. The consent of the visitors to the website to store necessary cookies, statistics cookies, marketing cookies and other categories of cookies post classification will be sought online through a pop-up alert to regularize the same.
How do I turn off the cookies or withdraw my consent?
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their setting preferences. If you want to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our website, you can do so through your browser settings. If you wish to revoke your consent for use of cookies, please reach out to us at dpo@Absolutdata.com. Absoutdata’s platforms and systems are cookie based, so for the opt-out to work for you, your browser must allow third-party cookies.
Your Privacy rights and whom to contact:
We respect your legal rights in relation to your data. For details on the rights available to you, please refer our Privacy policy. In case you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Policy or wish to exercise any of the rights available to you, please contact dpo@Absolutdata.com.