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NICMAN LABS AND NICMAN GROUP PRIVACY NOTICE: COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES (the “Cookie Notice”)
This Cookie Notice provides details on: · the cookies, web beacons and similar technologies that we and our service providers may use when you visit or interact with us online; and · your options regarding these technologies.
SCOPE OF THIS NOTICE AND CONSENT
This Cookie Notice applies to all websites, services, messaging (e.g., email and online chat communication), and mobile-device applications that are operated by or on behalf of Nicman. The Cookie Notice also applies to Nicman-branded pages on third party platforms. For the purposes of this Cookie Notice, we refer to all such websites, services, messaging, mobile-device applications and Nicman-branded pages on third-party platforms as the “Nicman Sites”. This Cookies Notice is supplemental to Nicman’s corporate Privacy Statement (available at www.nicmanlabs.com/privacy-policy). By continuing to browse the Nicman Sites, you are agreeing to our use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies in accordance with this Cookie Notice. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies in the ways described in this Cookie Notice, you should set your browser to reject all, or certain, technologies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all such technologies, you may not be able to access all or parts of the Nicman Sites. To fully ensure that no cookies or other technologies are used when you visit Nicman Sites, you also have the option to refrain from using Nicman Sites. For further information on how to control cookies please read section 3 of this Cookie Notice, below.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES? · A cookie is a unique alphanumeric identifier that may be placed on your computer (or other internet enabled devices, such as tablet or mobile phone) when you’re online. The unique alphanumeric identifier acts like a label, helping to distinguish you from other website users. Cookies, therefore, provide useful information about your browsing actions and patterns. o First party cookies: These cookies are set by the Nicman Sites and read by Nicman. You can find more information about these cookies in section 2, below. o Third party cookies: These cookies are set by the Nicman Sites and read by a third party. You can find more information about these cookies in section 4 below. o Session / temporary: These cookies are stored only while you’re connected to a particular website - they expire at the end of your browser session or are deleted from your device when you leave the website. o Permanent / persistent: These cookies are not deleted from your device when you leave the website. They remain on your device until they expire. Cookies do not contain software programs and cannot install anything (such as a virus) on a computer. · A web beacon, also known as a web bug, is a small graphic (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel), that is embedded in a web page, web advertisement or email, but is invisible to you. It operates as a tag that records your visit to a particular web page. · A server log, (the log file generated by, for instance, Nicman’s web server) provides information on how and when web pages and applications are being accessed. The log file details who accesses a graphic or specific web page and when.
2. WHEN WE USE FIRST PARTY COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES Cookies. We use cookies to collect information about your device, such as IP address, operating system and browser type. The types of cookies that we use are detailed below: · Strictly necessary. These cookies help you to move around Nicman Sites. For example, if you’re required to sign into a Nicman Site, the cookies identify you as being signed in and remember you so that you don’t have to sign back in every time you move between Nicman Sites. · Functional. We use these cookies so that Nicman Sites recall the choices you make. For example, these cookies are capable of recognizing if you’ve been to a Nicman Sites before, so messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you. We may also use functional cookies to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interest and to avoid showing you the same advertisements repeatedly. · Analytical. These cookies help us identify the number of unique visitors to Nicman Sites, whether or not those visitors are repeat visitors, and the source of Nicman Site traffic. For example, if there are 1,000 visits to a Nicman Site on a certain day, we can use cookies to discover how many of those visits were made via the same browser (same visitor). We may also use the cookie to discover whether you have visited Nicman Sites more than once and the source for each visit. Cookies help us to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics so that we can: better understand how people use Nicman Sites; improve the structure of Nicman Sites; and count the number of anonymous users of the Nicman Sites. · Session cookies. These cookies allow us to link your actions during a particular browser session. · Persistent cookies. These cookies allow us to recall your preferences or actions across multiple Nicman Sites. In addition to the reasons for our use of cookies detailed above, we use the information gathered from cookies – namely, IP addresses - to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer Nicman Sites. To learn more about the cookies we use, take a look at our cookie table. Please note that the names of cookies may change over time and we will update this table accordingly. Web Beacons. We use web beacons to track your movements to, from and on the Nicman Sites to determine the effectiveness of content and advertising campaigns, particularly as they enable us to count the number of times that our advertisements and web-based email content are viewed. Server logs. If you arrive at a Nicman Sites by clicking on an advertisement that we have paid for (including a paid search engine result) or a link in an email sent from or on behalf of us, then we will capture information that tracks your visit from that link (e.g., referring URL, browser information). If you arrive at a Nicman Sites by clicking a source not paid for by Nicman, such as link in a non-paid search engine result or an unsponsored link on a third party’s website, we may capture information that tracks your visit from that source, to the extent we are able to do so. We may also capture information about your computer system, such as your browser type and operating system.
3. HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES If you want to control the cookies that are placed on your computer or other device, you could: · view cookies stored on your hard drive; · choose whether or not to permit cookies to be set by default; · delete the cookies stored on your hard drive. Please be aware, however, that your decision to control cookies may affect your experience of the Nicman Sites – you may not be able to access all or parts of those sites. Turning cookies off, for instance, will prevent you from registering for, signing in to, and using many of the services on such Nicman Sites. The main browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful; otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details. · Cookie settings in Internet Explorer support.microsoft.com/kb/196955 · Cookie settings in Firefox: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies · Cookie settings in Chrome: support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py · Cookie settings in Safari: docs.info.apple.com/article.html For information on how to use the browser of your mobile phone to amend cookie settings, you will need to refer to your handset manual. To learn more about advertisers' use of cookies the following links may be helpful. Please note, however, that these links will take you to third party sites over which Nicman has no control: · www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to amend the settings of a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. · www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/ - If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Internet Advertising Bureau's (IAB) consumer site. · www.networkadvertising.org, which is the website for the trade body representing advertising platforms. This body provides a one-stop place that gathers all of the opt-out controls. Please bear in mind that there are many more networks listed on this site than those used by us at Nicman.
4. THIRD PARTY COOKIES SET ON NICMAN SITES Nicman engages a number of suppliers to provide analytical services. In order to provide those services to Nicman, our suppliers set and read analytical or performance cookies on Nicman‘s behalf. If you would like more information about the cookies that are set on Nicman Sites by these suppliers, as well as information on how to opt-out, please see their individual privacy policies, links to which are listed below. Cookie Name Description Adobe Analytics Adobe Analytics provides anonymised statistical information to Nicman. Adobe gathers anonymised data on behalf of Nicman about visits to the Nicman Sites. Adobe uses cookies, server log file data and code, all of which is embedded into Nicman Sites. Nicman uses information collected by such technologies to track volume of usage of the Nicman Sites and to help improve the services it provides. Adobe Media and Affiliate tags are used to measure the effectiveness of Nicman's online marketing campaigns. The data collected by these tags is anonymised data. For information on how to reject or delete this technology from your device, please visit www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html Marketo Marketo provides email marketing to Nicman. The cookies placed on Nicman Sites by the Marketo server are readable only by Marketo. These cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on your computer. All web-browsers offer the option to refuse any cookie. If you refuse the Marketo cookies or delete them from your device, · Marketo will not gather any personal information about you, · you will need to re-enter certain information whenever you visit the Nicman Site, and · you’ll be prevented from customising Nicman's features according to your preferences. Marketo may link the information they store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you choose to submit to Nicman while on the Nicman Site. For information on how to reject or delete this cookie, please visit developers.marketo.com/blog/delete-marketo-tracking-cookie/ OMG OMG is an affiliate marketing network. The OMG affiliate marketing sites show Nicman advertisements on our behalf and they use cookies on our Nicman Sites so that we can record how many signups and leads originated from affiliate marketing. For information on how to reject or delete these cookies, please visit www.omgpm.com/tracking-privacy-policy/ Visual Website Optimizer (“VWO”) VWO provides anonymised statistical information to Nicman. VWO uses cookies, which are embedded on Nicman Sites, to gather data on behalf of Nicman about visits to Nicman Sites. Nicman uses this data to see how visitors are interacting with the Nicman Sites and to help improve the services it provides. For information on how to reject or delete these cookies, please click: vwo.com/opt-out/ objectrocket.com?vwo_opt_out=1 Twitter Twitter provides Nicman with the functionality to spread content via social media. Nicman Sites feature the Twitter button to help you to share Nicman web content. Whenever the Twitter button is clicked, Nicman records anonymised statistics on the sharing of its web content via Twitter. iCIMS iCIMS provides a job applicant tracking system that enables Nicman to find and recruit employees. iCIMS places a cookie on Nicman Sites. This cookie is used to identify a potential job applicant’s interaction with our online recruiting application. Atdmt Atdmt.com supplies advertisement solutions to Nicman. Through a cookie placed on Nicman Sites, Atdmt records anonymised information about your interaction with Nicman’s online advertisements. Nicman uses this information to improve the relevancy of its advertisements based on your online behaviour. For information on how to reject or delete this cookie, please visit www.atdmt.com/CookieActions.aspx Infinity Call Tracking Infinity Call Tracking provides call tracking for Nicman. Infinity Call Tracking uses cookies which are embedded on Nicman Sites. This collects anonymised statistical information about calls made to the business, which helps Nicman determine if calls originated from marketing activities. Google Google Analytics is an ad management and ad serving technology. Google Analytics places cookies on Nicman Sites so that Nicman can record how many signups and leads originated from its marketing activity. For information on how to reject or delete this cookie, please visit: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Clicktools Clicktools is the application service provider of online surveys for Nicman. It collects anonymised statistical information that helps Nicman to improve the services it provides to users.
5. COOKIES SET BY THIRD PARTIES ON THIRD PARTY SITES To enhance your experience of Nicman Sites, we sometimes embed photos and video content that originated from websites such as YouTube and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page on a Nicman Site that features content from, for example, YouTube or Flickr, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Nicman does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party’s website for more information about these cookies. Nicman Sharing Tools We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Nicman Sites now carry embedded “share” and “like” buttons to enable visitors to Nicman Sites to share content through a number of social media networks. These networks may set a cookie when you are logged in to their service. Nicman does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
6. CONTACT US If you have a question or complaint about this Cookie Notice or our information collection practices, please contact us at privacy@nicmanlabs.com.
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