Syndeca and The Syndeca Platform uses cookies, in combination with pixels, local storage objects, and similar devices (collectively, “cookies” unless otherwise noted) to distinguish you from other users our website and platform. This helps us provide you with a good experience, improve our service, and to personalize ads and content to you while you use the Syndeca Platform.
This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes the types of the cookies we use on the Syndeca Platform and our purposes for using them.
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at hello@syndeca.com. For a more complete description and list of the cookies that we currently use on the Syndeca Website and Platform, please review our Cookie List. For more information about our privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy.
Your Consent
You consent to placement of cookies on your browser by us and our third party service providers. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully for details about why we use cookies and the information they collect from and about you.
Withdraw Your Consent at Any Time
If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of the Syndeca Platform, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings; see below for more information on how to do this. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of the Syndeca Platform, and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on the Syndeca Platform.
What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the Syndeca Platform.
Key Concepts
First and third-party cookies: whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party refers to the domain placing the cookie.
Persistent cookies: these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
Session cookies: these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
Our use of of log files
Syndeca gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes an anonymized internet protocol address as well as browser, referring/exit pages, search terms, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. Otherwise, we generally use this information as we would any Usage Data, to analyze trends, administer and maintain the Service, or track usage of various features within the Syndeca website or Platform Service.
How to Delete and Block our Cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of the Syndeca Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the Syndeca Platform.
Changing your Cookie Settings. The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.
More information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
What Cookies Do We Use and Why?
Generally the Syndeca Platform uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Syndeca Platform. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Syndeca Platform and also allows us to improve it.
The cookies we may use on the Syndeca Platform may be categorized as follows:
Some cookies may fulfill more than one of these purposes.
‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies let you move around the Syndeca Platform and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services.
We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the Syndeca Website and Syndeca Platform, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee how the Syndeca Platform or the security on the Syndeca Platform will perform during your visit.
‘Performance’ cookies collect information about how you use the Syndeca Platform e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how the Syndeca Platform works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
We use performance cookies to:
Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties.
‘Functionality’ cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.
We use ‘Functionality’ cookies for such purposes as:
Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties.
‘Targeting’ cookies are used to track your visit to the Syndeca Platform, as well other websites, apps and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, which allows Syndeca to display targeted ads to you on the Syndeca Platform.
We may use targeting cookies to:
Facebook Connect. For more information about what Facebook collects when you use Facebook buttons on the Syndeca Platform, please see: https://www.facebook.com/about/p….
Facebook Ads. For more information about what Facebook collects and your choices around Facebook Ads, please see: https://www.facebook.com/ads/ad_….
Twitter. For more information about what Twitter collects when you use Twitter buttons on the Syndeca Platform or visit pages on the Syndeca Platform that include these buttons, please see: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
LinkedIn. For more information about what LinkedIn collects when you use LinkedIn buttons on the Syndeca Platform or visit pages on the Syndeca Platform that include these buttons, please see https://www.linkedin.com/legal/p…
Google Analytics: For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy:
Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on; if you want to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Syndeca Platform. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Syndeca Platform (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the Syndeca Platform, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Syndeca Platform, compiling reports on your activity for us and third parties who help operate and provide services related to the Syndeca Platform. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as discussed in this notice. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Syndeca Platform. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/….
Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/… or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk….
Please note that on the Syndeca Platform, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
Disqus
Disqus outlines its use of information collected in its Privacy Policy. You may also opt out of Disqus personalization features.
Syndeca Opt-Out Options
To opt out of tracking via the Syndeca Pixels, please contact us at hello@syndeca.com. Opting out of Pixels tracking may impact our ability to personalize ads and content tailored to your interests. This setting is tied to your cookies and, unless you are logged in to the Syndeca Platform, will only be effective on the browser for which you have performed the opt-out.
More Information About Syndeca Ads and Personalization
A guide to behavioral advertising and online privacy that has been produced by the internet advertising industry can be found at http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
For more information about and to opt out of interest based ads from many ad networks, go to:
More Information About Cookies
International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom
Information on the ICC (UK) UK cookie guide can be found on the ICC website:
http://www.international-chamber….
Pixel Privacy Terms
Syndeca offers the opportunity to use its technology to both publishers of content on the Syndeca Platform and users of Syndeca’s publishing services (the “Services”). Publisher or advertisers may embed Syndeca’s pixels or Cookies (“Pixels”) on their website and pages, subject to compliance with their own terms of services and privacy policy, in addition to Syndeca’s terms of service for uses of its Pixels and other guidelines. The Pixels allow us to collect browsing information across sites and helps us to make the content we display on the Syndeca Platform more relevant to users. The Pixels also allow us to provide information to publishers or advertisers on the Syndeca Platform about how viewers engage with their content or advertisements and how to reach the most interested audience.
What Do Our Pixels Collect?
Our Pixels collect IP address and location, date and time stamp, user agent, cookie IDs (if applicable), URL, time zone, and other browser-level data or cookie data. In addition, as explained in this Privacy Policy, users of our Services may be able to choose to submit other information to us for targeting purposes – such as order numbers and purchase history.
We may also use Pixels (and cookies and other features) to help us display ads and personalized content on the Syndeca Platform, and for a number of other purposes, such as to stop you from seeing the same ad or content repeatedly, to show ads or content that are likely to be more relevant (i.e., based on websites you have visited), to maintain records of the ads or content we display, and to track conversion rates (e.g., when a user of the Syndeca Platform clicks on an content and is transferred to the client’s website).
Syndeca will use data from Pixels for ad or content optimization only after such data has been aggregated with other data collected from advertisers or other third parties or otherwise collected on Syndeca.
What About Children and Other Sensitive Information?
Users of our Cookies or Pixels are prohibited from using our Pixels on child-directed sites and services or to otherwise use Pixels to collect or transmit information about children under 13, financial information, health information, other sensitive data or sensitive information, or any information that is prohibited from being collected.
How Do I Know When Third Party Sites are Sharing Information?
Users of our Pixels are required to provide prominent notice of, and obtain any required consent to, the following:
What Do You Share With Third Parties?
We may share aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their publications or content in the Syndeca Platform, such as the number of unique user views, about the users who saw their content, conversion rates, and date and time information, and click stream data. We may also allow publishers or advertisers to use Pixels on the Syndeca Platform in order to collect information about the performance of their content. Our Terms prohibit publishers and advertisers from combining any information obtained in connection with their use of the Pixels with personally identifiable information for any purpose.