What are Cookies and How Do We Use Them?
“Cookies” are data files that a website sends to your computer while you are browsing the website. These data files include information that enable our website to retain important information that will facilitate and optimize your use of the website. Our websites use cookies for a variety of purposes. We use the cookie technology and IP addresses to get information from our online visitors, and to provide registered visitors with the best personalized online experience.
Visitors on our websites use various web browsers and computers. To make your visits as easy as possible based on the technology you use, we automatically keep track of information such as the browser type (e.g., Internet Explorer) and operating system (e.g. Windows, Mac) that a visitor uses, as well as the domain name of the visitor’s internet provider. We also keep track of the total number of visitors on our websites in aggregate form for updating and improving our websites. This information tells us if more visitors prefer certain features or areas to the detriment of others, which helps us keep our website up to date and interesting for most of our visitors. We also use cookies to prevent children from accessing certain areas or features designed for adults or adolescents only.
How Do We Use Cookies to Personalize Your Experience?
Cookie technology helps us to deliver personalized content based on the individual interests of visitors, and enables us to facilitate the ordering of services or products, and the registration we may offer visitors to use other features on our website. When we have your permission under our communicated practices and policies, we may associate personal information with a cookie in such situations.
Do Third Parties Use Cookies on our Websites?
Third parties may have our permission to use cookies and advertise on our websites. We do not, however, control third-party cookies. There are free downloadable programs that allow you to set your preferences and block the vast majority of third-party cookies on the Internet.
The Different Types of Cookies We Use
The cookies we use are based on the International Chamber of Commerce’s guidelines for cookie categories – strictly necessary, performance, functionality, and targeting.
“Strictly necessary” cookies allow you to browse the website and use key features such as secured areas, shopping carts, and online billing. These cookies do not collect information about you that could be used for marketing purposes or to record your activity on the Internet. We use these strictly necessary cookies to:
- Retain information such as that information you entered in the request for information or order forms when browsing different pages in a single browsing session.
- Retain any services or products you ordered when you accessed the payment page.
- Identify you when you connect to a Language Acquisition SRL/Perfectiv.co website.
- Make sure you sign-in to the right service on our website when we make any changes to how the website works.
The cookies we have defined as “strictly necessary” cookies will NOT be used to:
- Collect information that could be used to promote products or services to you, nor
- Retain your preferences or username after ending your current visit.
“Performance” cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as the pages you visit, and whether you encounter any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that can identify you – all information collected is anonymous and is used only to help us improve our website’s functioning, understand what our users are interested in, and measure how effective our advertising is. We use “performance” cookies to:
- Provide statistics on how our website is used.
- See how effective our ads are (we do not use this information to target ads to you when you visit other websites.
- Improve our website by measuring errors that may occur.
- Test different draft versions of our website.
The cookies we have defined as “performance” cookies will NOT be used to:
- Collect information that could be used to promote products or services to you on other websites.
- Retain your preferences or username after ending your current visit.
- Target ads to you on any other website.
“Functionality cookies” are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit. We use “functionality” cookies to:
- Remember the settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colors.
- Remember if we have already asked you if you wanted to fill out a questionnaire.
- Show you when you are connected to our website; and
- Share information with our partners to provide a service on our website. Shared information will only be used to provide the service, product, or functionality, and for no other purpose.
The cookies we have defined as “functionality” cookies will NOT be used to:
- Target ads on other websites to you.
“Targeting” cookies are related to third-party services such as the “Like” and “Share” buttons. The third party provides these services in exchange for the acknowledgment that you have visited our website. We use “targeting” cookies to:
- Connect with social networks such as Facebook, which can later use your information to target ads to you on other websites.
- Provide advertisers with information about your visit so that they can show you ads that might interest you.
Set your browser to reject cookies. If you do not want cookies, you can set your computer to alert you whenever a cookie is sent or to stop all cookies through your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Firefox). Search the browser HELP menu to find out how to modify or update cookies correctly.
Alternatively, you can visit a website which contains complete information on how you can do that on a wide variety of browsers. Here you will also find details on how to clear cookies on your computer, as well as more general cookie information. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, see your phone’s user guide.
Please note that the restriction of cookies may have an impact on the functionality of Language Acquisition SRL/Perfectiv.co’s websites.
