Cookie Policy of Data Society
This document informs Users about the technologies that help this Website 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 this Website.
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, depending on the applicable law. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
This Website 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 this Website uses Trackers
Necessary
This Website 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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Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.)
Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through this Website, i.e., communication between this Website and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from this Website to be collected.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult their partner policy and their Business Data page.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Stripe (Stripe, Inc.)
Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers.
Place of processing: United States – 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 reCAPTCHA (Google LLC)
Personal Data processed: answers to questions, clicks, keypress events, motion sensor events, mouse movements, scroll position, touch events, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – 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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SiteGround Hosting (SiteGround Hosting Ltd.)
SiteGround Hosting is a hosting service provided by SiteGround Hosting Ltd.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy.
Functionality
This Website 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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Contact form (this Website)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data.
Trackers managed by third parties
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WordPress.com Single Sign On (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress.com Single Sign On is a registration and authentication service provided by Automattic Inc. and is connected to the WordPress.com network.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- tk_or: 5 years
- tk_r3d: 3 days
- tk_rl: duration of the session
Experience
This Website 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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Google Fonts (Google LLC)
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Measurement
This Website uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyse User behaviour to improve the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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HubSpot Analytics (HubSpot, Inc.)
HubSpot Analytics is an analytics service provided by HubSpot, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out .
Storage duration:
- __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss: 6 months
- __hssc: 30 minutes
- __hssrc: duration of the session
- __hstc: 2 years
- hubspotutk: 2 years
- messagesUtk: 2 years
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Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC)
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, 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 their partner policy and their Business Data page.
Personal Data processed: number of Users, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _ga: 2 years
- _ga_*: 2 years
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Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features (Google LLC)
Google Analytics on this Website 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 analyze specific behavior 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.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult their partner policy and their Business Data page.
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: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- _gcl_*: 3 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports (Google LLC)
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports is a Google Advertising Reporting feature that makes available demographic and interests Data inside Google Analytics for this Website (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: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- _gcl_*: 3 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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Google Analytics Granular location and device data collection (Google LLC)
Google Analytics on this Website has granular data collection activated which collects location and device data on a per-region basis. It allows the Owner to create and analyze User reports that rely on those metrics.
Personal Data processed: browser information, city, device information, number of Users, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Google Analytics for Firebase (for apps) (Google LLC)
Google Analytics for Firebase (for apps) or Firebase Analytics is an analytics service provided by Google LLC.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Firebase Analytics may share Data with other tools provided by Firebase, such as Crash Reporting, Authentication, Remote Config or Notifications. The User may check this privacy policy to find a detailed explanation about the other tools used by the Owner.
This Website uses identifiers for mobile devices and technologies similar to cookies to run the Firebase Analytics service.
Users may opt-out of certain Firebase features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Firebase related sections of this privacy policy, if available.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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WordPress Stats (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress Stats is an analytics service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- tk_tc: duration of the session
Marketing
This Website uses Trackers to deliver personalized ads or marketing content, and to measure their performance.
Trackers managed by third parties
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HubSpot CRM (HubSpot, Inc.)
HubSpot CRM is a User database management service provided by HubSpot, Inc.
Personal Data processed: company name, country, email address, first name, gender, last name, phone number, physical address, profession, purchase history, Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss: 6 months
- __hssc: 30 minutes
- __hssrc: duration of the session
- __hstc: 2 months
- hubspotutk: 2 months
- messagesUtk: 2 months
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HubSpot Lead Management (HubSpot, Inc.)
HubSpot Lead Management is a User database management service provided by HubSpot, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss: 6 months
- __hssc: 30 minutes
- __hssrc: duration of the session
- __hstc: 2 months
- hubspotutk: 2 months
- messagesUtk: 2 months
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HubSpot Email (HubSpot, Inc.)
HubSpot Email is an email address management and message sending service provided by HubSpot, Inc.
Personal Data processed: email address, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss: 6 months
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Bombora (Bombora Inc.)
Bombora is an advertising service provided by Bombora Inc.
Personal Data processed: Age range, city, country, device information, Education History, geographic position, income information, language, metro area, profession, purchase history, scroll-to-page interactions, session duration, Trackers, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example), Usage Data and ZIP/Postal code.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
- _ccmaid: indefinite
- pi: 1 year
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LinkedIn conversion tracking (LinkedIn Insight Tag) (LinkedIn Corporation)
LinkedIn conversion tracking (LinkedIn Insight Tag) is an analytics and behavioral targeting service provided by LinkedIn Corporation that connects data from the LinkedIn advertising network with actions performed on this Website. The LinkedIn Insight Tag tracks conversions that can be attributed to LinkedIn ads and enables to target groups of Users on the base of their past use of this Website.
Users may opt out of behavioral targeting features through their device settings, their LinkedIn account settings or by visiting the AdChoices opt-out page.
Personal Data processed: device information, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AnalyticsSyncHistory: 1 month
- JSESSIONID: duration of the session
- UserMatchHistory: 1 month
- bcookie: 1 year
- bscookie: 1 year
- lang: duration of the session
- lidc: 1 day
- lms_ads: 1 month
- lms_analytics: 1 month
How to manage preferences on this Website
Users can set or update their preferences via the relevant privacy choices panel available on this Website.
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 and UK), 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 the use of Trackers
Users are free to decide whether or not to allow the use of Trackers. However, please note that Trackers help this Website to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, if the User chooses to block the use of Trackers, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
Owner and Data Controller
Data Society Group (d.b.a. of Data Leaf Buyer, LLC)
95B Rowayton Avenue
Rowayton, CT 06853
Owner contact email: info@datasocietygroup.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through this Website 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 this Website.