COOKIE POLICY
This Cookie Policy explains how Contrafinder Platform, collectively "we", "us", or "our," use cookies and similar technologies. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information about how we treat personal information. To learn more about our use of interest-based advertising and your choices, please see the “Non-Essential” Cookies section below.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. A cookie may have unique identifiers and reside, among other places, on your device, in emails we send to you, on the Platform, and on third-party sites using our plug-ins, widgets, embedded content, and pixels.
Cookies set by us are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than us are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable features or functionality provided by third parties in connection with the Platform, for example, advertising, interactive features, and analytics. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits our website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
We may use other technologies similar to cookies like pixels, local storage and software development kits (SDKs). In this Cookie Policy, we generally refer to these technologies as “cookies.”
Why do we use cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some are required for technical reasons in order for our Platform to operate. Others provide a better experience on our Platform by remembering some of your activities on the Platform (including through our plug-ins, widgets, and embedded content). Other cookies enable more relevant advertising and better analytics.
Essential Cookies. Some cookies are required for the Platform to operate, for example, in the following ways:
- To identify you as being logged into the Platform
- To make sure you connect to the right service on our Platform when we make any changes to the way the Platform works
- Adding purchases to your basket and remembering the products you have added
- Remembering when you have added a photo to your ideabook
- Remembering settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colors
- Generating statistics on how the Platform is used for our exclusive interest in order to measure the audience and to improve the Platform
Non-Essential Cookies. We and third parties use cookies to make advertising more relevant to you. These third parties (such as ad networks and advertising partners) and we may use these cookies to collect information about your activity across your different devices on our Platform and third-party websites and apps (such as web pages you visit and your interaction with our advertising and other communications).
These cookies perform functions like measuring the performance of ads, preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases, making predictions about your preferences and delivering ads both on and off our Platform that are more relevant based on your visits to our Platform and other sites. These cookies, for example:
- Provide feedback to advertising partners that one of their visitors also visited the Platform
- Provide our advertisers with data relating to ads that have been displayed to you or that you have clicked on, and the date and time of your use
- Are used to show you relevant advertising both on and off of the Platform
- Are used to understand what actions you take on the Platform after receiving our advertising
