Cookie Policy of WOW Freebies
This document informs Users about the technologies that help WOW Freebies to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with WOW Freebies.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
WOW Freebies uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information – such as the presence of other Trackers - in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
How WOW Freebies uses Trackers
Necessary
WOW Freebies uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Google reCAPTCHA (Google Ireland Limited)
Personal Data processed: answers to questions, clicks, keypress events, motion sensor events, mouse movements, scroll position, touch events, Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- _GRECAPTCHA: duration of the session
- rc::a: indefinite
- rc::b: duration of the session
- rc::c: duration of the session
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Cloudflare (Cloudflare Inc.)
Cloudflare is a traffic optimisation and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through WOW Freebies, i.e., communication between WOW Freebies and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from WOW Freebies to be collected.
Personal Data processed: Tracker.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Stripe
Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe Inc.
Personal Data processed: billing address, email address, first name, last name, payment info and Tracker.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy; United Kingdom – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __Host-LinkSession: 2 years
- __stripe_mid: 1 year
- __stripe_sid: 30 minutes
- dashboard.banner-dismissals: duration of the session
- link.auth_session_client_secret: duration of the session
- m: 2 years
- pay_sid: 1 year
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Google Tag Manager (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google Ireland Limited.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Functionality
WOW Freebies uses Trackers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User's communication with the Owner.
Trackers managed directly by the Owner
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Mailing list or newsletter (WOW Freebies)
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning WOW Freebies. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to WOW Freebies or after making a purchase.
Personal Data processed: country, email address, first name, Trackers and Usage Data.
Experience
WOW Freebies uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Font Awesome (Fonticons, Inc. )
Font Awesome is a typeface visualisation service provided by Fonticons, Inc. that allows WOW Freebies to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Measurement
WOW Freebies uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior to improve the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Conversion tracking (WOW Freebies)
When visiting the WOW Freebies website we may store certain information like Click IDs, referring website name and other source information in a cookie, in order to optimise our advertising across different channels.
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Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports is a Google Advertising Reporting feature that makes available demographic and interests Data inside Google Analytics for WOW Freebies (demographics means age and gender Data).
Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- _gcl_*: 3 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of WOW Freebies, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: browser information, city, device information, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _ga: 2 years
- _ga_*: 2 years
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Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Analytics on WOW Freebies has Advertising Reporting Features activated, which collects additional information from the DoubleClick cookie (web activity) and from device advertising IDs (app activity). It allows the Owner to analyse specific behaviour and interests Data (traffic Data and Users' ads interaction Data) and, if enabled, demographic Data (information about the age and gender).
Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- _gcl_*: 3 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Crazy Egg (Crazyegg)
Crazy Egg is a heat mapping service provided by Crazy Egg, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Marketing
WOW Freebies uses Trackers to deliver personalised ads or marketing content, and to measure their performance.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Jetpack (Jetpack Digital LLC)
Jetpack is an advertising service provided by Jetpack Digital LLC.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
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Google Ads conversion tracking (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on WOW Freebies.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (Microsoft Corporation)
Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking is an analytics service provided by Microsoft Corporation that connects data from the Microsoft Advertising network with actions performed on WOW Freebies.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example), Universally unique identifier (UUID) and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _uetsid: 1 day
- _uetvid: 2 years
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Google Ads Similar audiences (Google Ireland Limited)
Similar audiences is an advertising and behavioural targeting service provided by Google Ireland Limited that uses Data from Google Ads Remarketing in order to display ads to Users with similar behaviour to Users who are already on the remarketing list due to their past use of WOW Freebies.
On the basis of this Data, personalised ads will be shown to Users suggested by Google Ads Similar audiences.
Users who don't want to be included in Similar audiences can opt out and disable the use of advertising Trackers by going to: Google Ad Settings.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- GCL_AW_P: 3 months
- GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY: duration of the session
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- __gads: 2 years
- __gpi: 2 years
- __gpi_optout: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_: 3 months
- _gac_gb_: 3 months
- _gcl_ag: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_gs: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- ar_debug: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- receive-cookie-deprecation: 6 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google Ads enhanced conversions (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Ads enhanced conversions is an advertising service provided by Google Ireland Limited that allows the Owner to send hashed first-party conversion Data to Google in order to improve conversion measurements.
Personal Data processed: contact details and Trackers.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
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MailerLite (UAB "Mailerlite")
MailerLite is an email address management and message sending service provided by UAB "Mailerlite".
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, last name, Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Lithuania – Privacy Policy.
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Truepush (Way2Online Interactive India Pvt Ltd)
Truepush is a message sending service provided by Way2Online Interactive India Pvt Ltd.
Truepush allows the Owner to send messages and notifications to Users across platforms such as Android, iOS, and the web. Messages can be sent to single devices, groups of devices, or specific topics or User segments. Depending on the permissions granted to Owner, the Data collected may also include precise location (i.e. GPS-level data) or WiFi information, apps installed and enabled on the User's device. Owner uses identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Truepush service.
Place of processing: India - Privacy Policy.
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Google Ads Remarketing (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Google Ireland Limited that connects the activity of WOW Freebies with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Users can opt out of Google's use of Trackers for ads personalisation by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- GCL_AW_P: 3 months
- GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY: duration of the session
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- __gads: 2 years
- __gpi: 2 years
- __gpi_optout: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_: 3 months
- _gac_gb_: 3 months
- _gcl_ag: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_gs: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- ar_debug: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- receive-cookie-deprecation: 6 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Poper (Latracal Solutions Private Limited)
Poper is a smart pop-up service provided by Latracal Solutions Private Limited.
Poper allows the Owner to display smart pop-ups to Users on our site about newsletters, offers, and more. These pop-ups can be displayed to individual users, groups of users, or specific user segments. Depending on the permissions granted to us, the Data collected may also include precise location (i.e. GPS-level data) or WiFi information, apps installed and enabled on the User's device. We use identifiers and cookies cookies to run the Poper service.
Place of processing: United States - Privacy Policy
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Affiliate Networks
When you click through to an offer's website from the WOW Freebies website, your browser may redirect you via an affiliate network, which may drop a cookie on your computer.
WOW Freebies uses links from affiliate networks in order to generate revenue from the website and to keep the website free for users. Affiliate networks may pay us commission for certain actions you take on third party websites you were directed to from WOW Freebies. For example; signing up for a newsletter, entering a competition, subscribing to a free trial, purchasing a product and more.
Whilst the affiliate network cookie isn’t dropped by us, we wanted to tell you about it so you are aware when using the WOW Freebies website. By continuing to use the WOW Freebies website you agree to third parties such as affiliate networks and offers featured on our website using cookies for the purpose of tracking actions you may take on the third party websites.
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Skimlinks (Skimbit Ltd)
Skimlinks is a commercial affiliation service provided by Skimbit Ltd.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent on WOW Freebies
Whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting or updating their preferences via the relevant privacy choices panel available on WOW Freebies.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
How to control or delete Cookies and similar technologies via your device settings
Users may use their own browser settings to:
- See what Cookies or other similar technologies have been set on the device;
- Block Cookies or similar technologies;
- Clear Cookies or similar technologies from the browser.
The browser settings, however, do not allow granular control of consent by category.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
How to opt out of interest-based advertising
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Consequences of denying consent
Users are free to decide whether or not to grant consent. However, please note that Trackers help WOW Freebies to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, in the absence of the User's consent, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
Owner and Data Controller
WOW Media UK Ltd
38 North Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire
NG24 1EZ, UK
Owner contact email: support@wowfreebies.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through WOW Freebies cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by WOW Freebies.