Cookie Policy of VESSEL
This document informs Users about the technologies that help VESSEL 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 VESSEL.
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 Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
VESSEL 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 VESSEL uses Trackers
Necessary
VESSEL 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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PayPal (PayPal Inc.)
PayPal is a payment service provided by PayPal Inc., which allows Users to make online payments.
Personal Data processed: email address, payment info, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: See the PayPal privacy policy – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- LANG: 8 hours
- __paypal_storage__: indefinite
- akavpau_ppsd: duration of the session
- enforce_policy: duration of the session
- l7_az: duration of the session
- nsid: duration of the session
- ts: duration of the session
- tsrce: duration of the session
- x-cdn: duration of the session
- x-pp-s: duration of the session
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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 VESSEL, i.e., communication between VESSEL and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from VESSEL 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.
Trackers duration:
- _cfuvid: indefinite
- cf_clearance: 30 minutes
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Google Hosted Libraries (Google LLC)
Google Hosted Libraries is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Experience
VESSEL 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 VESSEL to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Hotjar Poll & Survey widgets (Hotjar Ltd.)
The Hotjar Poll & Survey widgets are services that enable interaction with the Hotjar platform provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionStorageTest: indefinite
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
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Hotjar Recruit User Testers (Hotjar Ltd.)
The Hotjar Recruit User Testers widget is a service for interacting with the Hotjar data collection platform provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionStorageTest: indefinite
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
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Hotjar surveys (Hotjar Ltd.)
Hotjar surveys is a survey builder and data collection platform provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar surveys may use cookies to track User behavior. Users can Opt-Out of Hotjar surveys cookie tracking by visiting this opt-out page.
Hotjar surveys respects the Do Not Track option available in most modern browsers that, if activated, sends a special signal to stop tracking User activity. Users can find more information on how to enable Do Not Track for each supported browser here.
Personal Data processed: Data communicated while using the service, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionStorageTest: indefinite
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
- hjActiveViewportIds: duration of the session
Measurement
VESSEL uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior to improve the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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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 VESSEL, 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.
Trackers duration:
- _ga: 2 years
- _ga_*: 2 years
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Hotjar Heat Maps and Recordings (Hotjar Ltd.)
Hotjar is a session recording and heat mapping service provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionStorageTest: indefinite
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
Marketing
VESSEL uses Trackers to deliver personalized ads or marketing content, and to measure their performance.
Trackers managed by third parties
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NextRoll (NextRoll, Inc.)
NextRoll is an advertising service provided by NextRoll, Inc. NextRoll, Inc. performs a hash of the User’s email address in order to serve targeted advertising to other devices connected to them (i.e. cross-device tracking).
Personal Data processed: device information, purchase history, Tracker, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- __adroll: 14 hours
- __adroll_bounce_closed: 2 years
- __adroll_bounced3: 3 months
- __adroll_consent_data: indefinite
- __adroll_consent_params: duration of the session
- __adroll_fpc: 2 years
- __adroll_load_stats: 1 month
- __adroll_shared: 2 years
- __adroll_tcf_banner_seen: indefinite
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Meta ads conversion tracking (Meta pixel) (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
Meta ads conversion tracking (Meta pixel) is an analytics service provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. that connects data from the Meta Audience Network with actions performed on VESSEL. The Meta pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Meta Audience Network.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Trackers duration:
- _fbc: 3 months
- _fbp: 3 months
- fr: 3 months
- lastExternalReferrer: duration of the session
- lastExternalReferrerTime: duration of the session
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Hotjar Form Analysis and Conversion Funnels (Hotjar Ltd.)
Hotjar is an analytics service provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic Do Not Track headers. This means your browser can tell its script not to collect any of your data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionStorageTest: indefinite
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
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Attentive (Attentive Mobile, Inc.)
Attentive is a message-sending service provided by Attentive Mobile, Inc. Attentive uses the Attentive tag as a Tracker to recognize and track User behavior as well as to manage any User-entered data such as email or telephone numbers.
Personal Data processed: email address, payment info, phone number, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- __attentive_id: 2 years
- __attentive_pv: 30 minutes
- __attentive_ss_referrer: 30 minutes
- _attn_: 2 years
- attntv_mstore_email: 30 minutes
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Awin (AWIN AG)
Awin is a commercial affiliation service provided by AWIN AG.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Germany – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- AWSESS: duration of the session
- _D9J: 1 year
- _aw_channel: 1 year
- _aw_j_*****: 3 months
- _aw_m_*****: 1 year
- _aw_sn_*****: 1 year
- _awc_*****: 1 year
- adv_awc: 1 year
- aw*****: 1 month
- awc: 1 year
- awin_source: 1 year
- awpv*****: 1 day
- bId: 1 year
- lantern: 1 month
- source: 1 year
- xd_hash: indefinite
How to manage preferences on VESSEL
Users can set or update their preferences via the relevant privacy choices panel available on VESSEL.
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 VESSEL 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
VESSEL
3197 Lionshead Ave.
Carlsbad, CA 92010, US
Owner contact email: info@vesselbags.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through VESSEL 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 VESSEL.