Cookies Policy

Introduction

This Advertising and Cookies Policy explains how buzzbeehive.com uses cookies and similar technologies. Whenever you use the buzzbeehive.com website, apps, products, advertising services, or other technologies (“Services”) or visit a website, app, or service which uses our Services, information may be collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies. buzzbeehive.com is committed to protecting the personal information collected when you use our Services.

This Advertising and Cookies Policy provides the following information for users:

  • What are cookies and similar technologies?
  • What are the different types of cookies?
  • What are cookies used for?
  • How does buzzbeehive.com use cookies?
  • How can users manage or opt-out of cookies?
  • Contact details and where to find further information

What are Cookies and Similar Technologies?

A cookie is a small data file, often including a unique identifier, which is sent to your computer, mobile phone, or tablet device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so the website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the website. 

The cookie will collect information about your use of our Services, information about your device, e.g., the device’s IP address and browser type, broad location, and, if you arrived at our site via a link from a third party site, the URL of the linking page.

If you have registered for any Services or you are a subscriber, it may also collect your name and email address, which may be transferred to data processors for registered user or subscriber verification purposes.

Similar technologies known as “local storage” may also be used in our Services as an alternative to cookies. This is a technology that is similar to cookies and performs very similar functions, such as caching data to enable us to improve our Services, allowing you to register for our Services, and tracking activity to enable our advertisers and us to advertise to you in accordance with this policy and counting the number of people who view adverts on our Services. Where we refer to “cookies” in this policy, we mean cookies or similar technologies.

Cookies record information about your online preferences and help us to tailor our Services to your interests. Information provided by cookies can help us to analyze your use of our Services and help us to provide you with a better user experience.

In addition to cookies, our Services may also use web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags, and web bugs. These are all types of technology implemented by websites or third-party ad servers to allow them to analyze your website use and help improve your experience of the Services.

What are the Different Types of Cookies?

  • Session Cookies: These are only stored for the duration of your visit to a website and are deleted from your device when you close your browser.
  • Persistent Cookies: These are saved on your device for a set period of time after the browser has closed and are used where we (or a third party) need to identify you for a later browsing session.
  • First-Party Cookies: These are set by the website you are visiting.
  • Third-Party Cookies: These are cookies used within our services that are set by other organizations. These include cookies from external analytics services, which help us to understand the use of our sites, or by advertisers so that they can track the effectiveness of their advertisements.

What are Cookies Used For?

buzzbeehive.com, together with our trusted partners, uses cookies in combination with other information we maintain for a number of purposes, including the following:

  1. Essential or “Strictly Necessary Cookies”: These cookies are essential for the running of our Services. Without these cookies, parts of our websites would not function. These cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not remember preferences beyond your current visit.
  2. Functional Cookies: These are used to remember your preferences on our websites and to provide enhanced, more personal features.
  3. Analytical Performance and Measurement Cookies: These are used to monitor the performance of our Services, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users a website has.
  4. Targeting or “Behavioural Advertising Cookies”: These cookies, which may be placed on your device by our trusted third-party service providers or us. Remember that you have visited a website and use that information to provide you with content or advertising which is tailored to your interests.
  5. Social Media Cookies: These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site when you share our content with your friends and networks or when you engage with our content on or through a social site such as Facebook or Twitter.

How Does buzzbeehive.com Use Cookies?

buzzbeehive.com, together with our trusted partners, uses cookies in combination with other information we maintain for a number of purposes, including the following:

  1. Essential and Functional Cookies: We use these cookies to enable certain online functionality, including accessing your information so we can provide you with customized content and experiences, or remember the last page you visited on the Services.
  2. Analytical Performance and Measurement Cookies: We use these cookies to measure users’ behavior to develop our Services better. By using analytics services provided by third parties such as Google Analytics and ComScore, we can analyze and measure which pages are viewed and how long, and which links are followed.
  3. Targeting or “Behavioural Advertising” Cookies: We use these cookies to deliver content and marketing communications tailored to your interests based on information from your visit.
  4. Social Media Cookies: Cookies are also used when you share information using a social media sharing button on the sites. The social network will record that you have done this and may use this information about your visit to target advertising to you.
  5. Other Third-Party Cookies: You may notice on some pages of our websites that cookies have been set that are not related to buzzbeehive.com. When you visit a page with content embedded from a third-party service provider such as YouTube, for example, they may set their own cookies on your device.

How Can Users Manage or Opt-Out of Cookies?

Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their device a little intrusive, in particular when the information is stored and used by a third party. If you would prefer to opt-out of cookies, it is possible to control cookies by following the steps below, however, you should be aware that you might lose some features and functionality of the website if you do so.

To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your internet browser.

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection, and use practices, the features of our Services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to this Policy will mean you accept those changes.

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