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Effective: November 27, 2020
Cookies

To make this Website and our Client Portal work properly, we, dedupe, Inc. sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too. For a more detailed description of this Website, our Client Portal and our Technology Products, see our privacy policy.

As further described in this cookie policy and our privacy policy, we permit third-party service providers to place cookies on your device when you visit our Website and our Client Portal.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

What types of cookies do we use?

We use various types of cookies:

Session cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave the Website. Session cookies are essential to make our Website work correctly, as they enable you to move around our Website and use our features.

Functional cookies: Functional cookies are persistent and help us recognize you as an existing user of our Website, so it’s easier and convenient to return to our Website or interact with our services without signing in again and help us record information about your web browsing habits during the lifetime of the persistent cookie. They remain on your device for much longer or until you manually delete it (how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific cookie and your browser settings).

Analytics and performance cookies: We also use cookies to track, compile and analyze usage, navigational and other statistical information that allow us to understand how people use our Website and to help us improve the structure and content of the Website.

What third-party cookies do we use?

We work with third-party service providers who may also set cookies on our Website. These third-party service providers help us track and analyze your use of our Website and to optimize our Website to improve your user experience on the Website. These third-party service providers are responsible for the cookies they set on our Website. If you want further information please go to the website for the relevant third-party service provider. You will find additional information in our privacy policy and below:

Google Analytics. These types of cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages, how many visits we have per pages, origin of frequentation. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is used to improve how a website works and to improve the performance or our website.

Other Third Party Services. Third party services incorporated into the Website, such as email capture widgets (e.g., Mailchimp), may collect Personal Data about your visits to our Website for other purposes, including interest-based advertising. The Personal Data collected by third party services incorporated into the Website may include IP address, pages visited, times and dates of visits, browser or operating system configuration and other usage data, which may also be combined with Personal Data collected from other sites.  Your interactions with these applications are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing the application and/or service, and not by this Privacy Policy.

More information:

For Google Analytics, please visit: https://www.google.com/analytics

For Mailchimp, please visit: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

How do we use tracking technologies with mobile devices?

We may also collect device-specific information such as your operating system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types. This helps us measure how the Website is performing and improve the Website for you on your particular device.

How to control cookies and similar technologies with mobile?

You can disable and/or delete all types of cookies by using your browser settings. Cookies are generally easy to disable and/or delete but how you do so varies from browser to browser. The “help” function within your browser should tell you how to do it. The best way may be to close your browser and then search for “cookie folder” or “cookie manager” or simply “cookie”.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit:

http ://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or
www.allaboutcookies.org or
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

In particular, to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

To exercise choice applicable to companies participating in this choice tool, you can install the DAA’s AppChoices app: http://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

European residents may opt-out of targeted advertising using the IAB Europe opt-out platform: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

Please note you may continue to receive generic or non-personalized ads even after opting out.

Your browser or device may offer settings related to these technologies. Please visit your browser or device’s help or privacy settings to learn about your options. For example, you may set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Mobile operating systems come with options to reset these randomly-generated identifiers and limit targeted advertising across apps and online.

Information on how to customize your cookies options in your browser settings:

Firefox

• Click the menu button and choose “Options”.
• Select the “Privacy panel”.
• Set Firefox will: to “Use custom settings for history”.
• Check mark “Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies”, and uncheck it to disable them
• Please check the procedural steps with screenshots here: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/desactiver-cookies-tiers

Chrome

• Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
• Select “Settings”.
• Click “Show advanced settings”.
• In the “Privacy” section, click the “Content settings button”.
• In the “Cookies” section, select “Block cookies by default”
• Please check here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr

Internet Explorer

• Click the “Tools” button, and then click “Internet options”.
• Click the “Privacy” tab, and then “Advanced”,
• Select “Override automatic cookie handling”
• Select “Block” in the list “third-parties cookies”

Safari

• Choose “Preferences” from Safari menu / “Confidentiality” near to “Block cookies and other website data” and select the option “Third parties and advertisers”. It might be the default setting.

Cookies used in our Technology Solutions.

We do not use cookies in our Technology Products.