Cookie Policy of Dark Horizons®

This document informs Users about the technologies that help Dark Horizons® 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 Dark Horizons®.

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 Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

Dark Horizons® 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.

To find more information dedicated to Californian consumers and their privacy rights, Users may read the privacy policy.

Activities strictly necessary for the operation of Dark Horizons® and delivery of the Service

Dark Horizons® 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.

Third-party Trackers

  • SPAM protection

    This type of service analyzes the traffic of Dark Horizons®, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.

    Google reCAPTCHA

    Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.
    The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; 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

Other Trackers

  • Hosting and backend infrastructure

    This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable Dark Horizons® to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of Dark Horizons®.

    Some services among those listed below, if any, may work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.

    Fluccs Australia (Flying Haggis Pty. Ltd.)

    Fluccs Australia is an Australian cloud provider and dedicated server hosting service that allows the Owner to build, run and host Dark Horizons.

    Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

    Place of processing: Australia – Privacy Policy.

    Category of personal data collected according to CCPA: internet information.

    StackPath (StackPath, LLC)

    StackPath is an American content delivery network, cloud service and web application firewall provider with headquarters in Dallas, Texas in the United States. The CDN service allows the Owner to run Dark Horizons.

    Personal Data collected:
    various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

    Place of processing:
    United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield Participant.

Other activities involving the use of Trackers

Experience enhancement

Dark Horizons® uses Trackers to provide a personalized user experience by improving the quality of preference management options, and by enabling interaction with external networks and platforms.

  • Content commenting

    Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of Dark Horizons®.
    Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
    If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.

    Disqus (Disqus)

    Disqus is a content commenting service provided by Big Heads Labs Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

  • Displaying content from external platforms

    This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of Dark Horizons® and interact with them.
    This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

    YouTube video widget (Google LLC)

    YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows Dark Horizons® to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • PREF: 8 months
    • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: 8 months
    • YSC: duration of the session

    Vimeo video (Vimeo, LLC)

    Vimeo is a video content visualization service provided by Vimeo, LLC that allows Dark Horizons® to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • player: 1 year
    • vuid: 2 years

    Instagram widget (Instagram, Inc.)

    Instagram is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows Dark Horizons® to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  • Interaction with external social networks and platforms

    This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of Dark Horizons®.
    The interaction and information obtained through Dark Horizons® are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
    This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
    It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on Dark Horizons® isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.

    Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)

    The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • personalization_id: 2 years

    Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)

    The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • _fbp: 3 months

Measurement

Dark Horizons® uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior with the goal of improving the Service.

  • Analytics

    The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

    Wordpress Stats (Automattic Inc.)

    Wordpress Stats is an analytics service provided by Automattic Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • tk_tc: duration of the session

    ScorecardResearch (ScorecardResearch)

    ScorecardResearch is an analytics service provided Full Circle Studies, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

  • Analytics services managed directly by Dark Horizons®

    The services contained in this section allow the Owner to collect and manage analytics through the use of first-party Trackers.

    Analytics collected directly (Dark Horizons®)

    Dark Horizons® uses an internal analytics system that does not involve third parties.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Storage duration:

    • modernizr: indefinite

  • Anonymized analytics services

    The services contained in this section allow the Owner, through the use of third-party Trackers, to collect and manage analytics in an anonymized form.

    Google Analytics with anonymized IP

    Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of Dark Horizons®, 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.
    This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users' IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • AMP_TOKEN: 1 hour
    • _ga: 2 years
    • _gac*: 3 months
    • _gat: 1 minute
    • _gid: 1 day

Targeting & Advertising

Dark Horizons® uses Trackers to deliver personalized marketing content based on User behavior and to operate, serve and track ads.

Some of the advertising services used by the Owner adhere to the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, an initiative that facilitates responsible privacy practices across the digital advertising industry - providing Users with enhanced transparency and control over how their data are used for advertising tracking purposes. Users can customize their advertising preferences at any time by accessing the advertising preferences panel from within the cookie notice or via the relevant link on Dark Horizons®.

Dark Horizons® participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework and complies with its Specifications and Policies. Dark Horizons® uses iubenda (identification number 123) as a Consent Management Platform.

  • Advertising

    This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on Dark Horizons®, possibly based on User interests.
    This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
    Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside Dark Horizons®. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
    Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section "How to opt-out of interest-based advertising" in this document.

    Google AdSense

    Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing. This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of Dark Horizons® and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
    Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.

    In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • AID: 2 years
    • ANID: 2 years
    • Conversion: 3 months
    • DSID: 14 days
    • FCNEC: 1 year
    • FLC: 10 seconds
    • FPAU: 3 months
    • FPGCLAW: 3 months
    • FPGCLDC: 3 months
    • FPGCLGB: 3 months
    • IDE: 2 years
    • NID: 6 months
    • RUL: 1 year
    • TAID: 14 days
    • __gads: 2 years
    • __gsas: 2 years
    • _gac_: 3 months
    • _gac_gb_: 3 months
    • _gcl_au: 3 months
    • _gcl_aw: 3 months
    • _gcl_dc: 3 months
    • _gcl_gb: 3 months
    • _gcl_gf: 3 months
    • _gcl_ha: 3 months
    • id: 2 years
    • test_cookie: 15 minutes

    Taboola Monetize Content (Taboola Inc.)

    Taboola is an advertising service provided by Taboola Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • *:session-data: indefinite
    • COu: 1 month
    • _data: 1 day
    • _tb_sess_r: 30 minutes
    • _tb_t_ppg: 30 minutes
    • abLdr: 3 hours
    • abMbl: 3 hours
    • br: 30 minutes
    • cnx_roi: 1 month
    • eng_mt.crossSessionsData.SessionsHistory: indefinite
    • eng_mt.numOfTimesMetricsSent: indefinite
    • eng_mt.scrollDepth: indefinite
    • eng_mt.sessionDepth: indefinite
    • eng_mt.sessionStartTime: indefinite
    • eng_mt.timeOnSite: indefinite
    • eng_mt.ver: indefinite
    • redirect_data: 1 month
    • rng: 1 day
    • roi_cookie: 1 month
    • sessionid: 1 day
    • t_gid: 1 year
    • taboola global:local-storage-keys: indefinite
    • taboola global:lspb: indefinite
    • taboola global:tblci: indefinite
    • taboola global:user-id: indefinite
    • taboola_fp_td_user_id: 1 year
    • taboola_select: 1 year
    • taboola_session_id: duration of the session
    • tb_click_param: 50 seconds
    • tbl-exm-apperance: indefinite
    • tbl-exm-history: indefinite
    • tbl-session-referrer: indefinite
    • tbl_rtus_id: indefinite
    • trc_cache: indefinite
    • trc_cache_by_placement: indefinite
    • trc_cookie_storage: 1 year

    Google Ad Manager

    Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with. In order to opt out from being tracked by various advertising networks, Users may make use of Youronlinechoices. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
    This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of Dark Horizons® and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.  

    Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • AID: 2 years
    • ANID: 2 years
    • Conversion: 3 months
    • DSID: 14 days
    • FCNEC: 1 year
    • FLC: 10 seconds
    • FPAU: 3 months
    • FPGCLAW: 3 months
    • FPGCLDC: 3 months
    • FPGCLGB: 3 months
    • IDE: 2 years
    • NID: 6 months
    • RUL: 1 year
    • TAID: 14 days
    • __gads: 2 years
    • __gsas: 2 years
    • _gac_: 3 months
    • _gac_gb_: 3 months
    • _gcl_au: 3 months
    • _gcl_aw: 3 months
    • _gcl_dc: 3 months
    • _gcl_gb: 3 months
    • _gcl_gf: 3 months
    • _gcl_ha: 3 months
    • id: 2 years
    • test_cookie: 15 minutes

    PubMatic (PubMatic, Inc.)

    PubMatic is an advertising service provided by PubMatic, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • COKENBLD: 1 day
    • DPFQ: 3 months
    • DPPIX_ON: 20 seconds
    • DPSync2: 3 months
    • DPSync3: 3 months
    • FPtrust: duration of the session
    • HPAUSRBK__: duration of the session
    • KADUSERCOOKIE: 3 months
    • KCCH: 30 seconds
    • KRTBCOOKIE_[DSPID]: 3 months
    • KTPCACOOKIE: 3 months
    • PM-UL-Sync: 3 months
    • PMDTSHR: 1 day
    • PMFREQ_ON: 2 seconds
    • PUBMDCID: 3 months
    • PUBRETARGET: 3 months
    • PUBUIDSYNCUPFQ: 3 months
    • PugT: 1 month
    • R_[DSPID]: 3 months
    • SPugT: 1 month
    • SSCS: 1 day
    • SYNCUPPIX_ON: 20 seconds
    • SyncRTB2: 3 months
    • SyncRTB3: 3 months
    • TEMPHPAUSRBKCNT__: 1 day
    • UND: 1 hour
    • USCC: 1 day
    • _curtime: 2 days
    • aid_key: indefinite
    • camfreq_: 4 days
    • chk: 3 months
    • chkChromeAb67: 3 months
    • chkChromeAb67Sec: 3 months
    • chkSecSet: 3 months
    • dV: 3 minutes
    • ipc: 3 seconds
    • limited_tracking_ad_key: indefinite
    • optout: 5 years
    • pi: 8 seconds
    • pp: 3 months
    • pubfreq_: 4 days
    • pubtime_: 1 day
    • repi: 2 seconds
    • uids: 3 months

    Rubicon Project (The Rubicon Project, Inc.)

    Rubicon Project is an advertising service provided by The Rubicon Project, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • FPTrust: duration of the session
    • audit: 1 year
    • cd: duration of the session
    • emilyRan: indefinite
    • fcap: indefinite
    • khaos: 1 year
    • khaos: indefinite
    • pux: indefinite
    • sample_number: indefinite
    • trp_optout: 5 years
    • uids: 3 months
    • uids-audit: 3 months

    FreeWheel (Freewheel Media Inc)

    FreeWheel is an advertising service provided by Freewheel Media Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Storage duration:

    • UID: 1 month
    • UID: 1 month
    • _uid: 1 year
    • _uid: 1 year
    • uid-bp-*: 1 year
    • uid-bp-*: 1 year

    OpenX Ad Exchange (OpenX Technologies, Inc.)

    OpenX Ad Exchange is an advertising service provided by OpenX Technologies, Inc.
    The service provides an ad exchange platform that facilitates the optimization of ads from multiple ad networks, which can be third parties to both OpenX and the Owner.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • i: 1 year
    • pd: 15 days

    RhythmOne (RhythmOne, LLC)

    RhythmOne is an advertising service provided by RhythmOne, LLC.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

    Storage duration: up to 2 years

    Smart AdServer (Smart AdServer SAS)

    Smart AdServer is an advertising service provided by Smart AdServer SA.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: France – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration: up to 2 years

    Fyber (SponsorPay GmbH)

    Fyber is an advertising service provided by Fyber GmbH.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: Germany – Privacy Policy.

    AppNexus (AppNexus Inc.)

    AppNexus is an advertising service provided by AppNexus Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

    Storage duration:

    • anj: 3 months
    • icu: 3 months
    • pses: duration of the session
    • sess: duration of the session
    • uids: 3 months
    • usersync: 3 months
    • uuid2: 3 months

    TremorHub (Tremor Video DSP, Inc.)

    TremorHub is an advertising service provided by Tremor Video DSP, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy - Opt Out (AdChoices) - Opt Out (NAI)

    SpotX

    SpotX.TV is an advertising service provided by SpotX.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy - Opt Out

    Index Exchange (Index Exchange, Inc)

    Index Exchange is an advertising service provided by Index Exchange, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy - Opt Out (AdChoices) - Opt Out (NAI).

    ADman Media (ADman Interactive S.L.U.)

    ADman Media is an advertising service provided by ADman Interactive S.L.U.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: Spain – Privacy Policy - Opt Out (AdChoices) - Opt Out (NAI).

    Beachfront (Beachfront Media LLC)

    Beachfront is an advertising service provided by Beachfront Media LLC

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy - Opt-Out.

    ContextWeb (PulsePoint, Inc.)

    ContextWeb (aka. Pulsepoint) is an advertising service provided by PulsePoint, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy - Opt Out (AdChoices) - Opt Out (NAI).

    Advertising.com & AOL.com (Verizon Media)

    Advertising.com and Aol.com are advertising services provided by Verizon Media.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy - Opt Out (AdChoices)

    Adform (Adform A/S)

    Adform is an advertising service provided by Adform A/S.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: Denmark – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • C: 10 years
    • C: 10 years
    • CFFC: 7 hours
    • CM: 1 day
    • CM: 1 day
    • CM14: 14 days
    • CM14: 14 days
    • CT: 1 hour
    • EBFC: 7 hours
    • EBFCD: 7 hours
    • GCM: 1 day
    • GCM: 1 day
    • SR: 1 day
    • TPC: 14 days
    • TPC: 14 days
    • otsid: 10 years
    • otsid: 10 years
    • uid: 2 months
    • uid: 2 months

    AdGear (AdGear Technologies, Inc.)

    AdGear is an advertising service provided by AdGear Technologies, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: Canada – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

    Storage duration:

    • id: indefinite

    ADITION technologies AG (ADITION technologies AG)

    ADITION technologies AG is an advertising service provided by ADITION technologies AG.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: Germany – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

    Storage duration:

    • LogID1_*: duration of the session
    • LogID1_*: duration of the session
    • UserID1: 3 months
    • UserID1: 3 months
    • _autaclids: 3 months
    • _autoo: 16 years
    • _autuserid2: 3 months
    • lc_*: 30 minutes
    • lc_*: 30 minutes
    • lv_*: 30 minutes
    • lv_*: 30 minutes
    • oo: 16 years
    • oo: 16 years

    Criteo (Criteo SA)

    Criteo is an advertising service provided by Criteo SA.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: France – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

    Storage duration:

    • cto_bundle: 2 years
    • cto_bundle: indefinite
    • cto_optout: 5 years
    • cto_optout: indefinite
    • optout: 5 years
    • uid: 2 years

    Sonobi (Sonobi, Inc)

    Sonobi is an advertising service provided by Sonobi, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy.

    Smaato (Smaato, Inc.)

    Smaato is an advertising service provided by Smaato, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

    Storage duration:

    • SCM: 21 days
    • SCM*: 11 days
    • SCMtemp*: 1 hour

    Unruly (Unruly Group Ltd)

    Unruly is an advertising service provided by Unruly Group Ltd.

    Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

    Improve Digital (Improve Digital International BV)

    Improve Digital is an advertising service provided by Improve Digital International BV.

    Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: Netherlands – Privacy Policy – Opt out.

How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent

There are various ways to manage Tracker related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:

Users can manage preferences related to Trackers from directly within their own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of Trackers.

Additionally, whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, Users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences widget, if available.

It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored Trackers, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent.

Other Trackers in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.

With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent 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.

Locating Tracker Settings

Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Apple Safari
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Brave
  • Opera

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 Dark Horizons® 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

Garth Franklin
Dark Futures Pty. Ltd.
141 Oaks Avenue, Dee Why
Sydney NSW 2099
AUSTRALIA

Owner contact email: privacy@darkhorizons.com

Since the use of third-party Trackers through Dark Horizons® 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 Dark Horizons®.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through Dark Horizons® (or third-party services employed in Dark Horizons®), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use Dark Horizons®, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User

The individual using Dark Horizons® who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of Dark Horizons®. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of Dark Horizons®.

Dark Horizons® (or this Application)

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Service

The service provided by Dark Horizons® as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookie

Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.

Tracker

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This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to Dark Horizons®, if not stated otherwise within this document.

Latest update: December 11, 2021

iubenda hosts this content and only collects the Personal Data strictly necessary for it to be provided.

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