Cookie Disclosure Policy
Introduction
Nearsoft, Inc and its subsidiaries / affiliates (“Nearsoft” or “we”) are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally identifiable information. We advise you to read this Cookie Disclosure Policy (“Policy”) carefully to understand the use of cookies on our website. This Policy is drafted in compliance to the General Data Protection Regulations (‘GDPR’) and the ePrivacy Directives.
Purpose
We use cookies to ensure that any person who uses our website gets the best possible experience. In this notice we have provided detailed information about how and when we use cookies. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or they have collected from your use of their services.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. It allows us to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. Cookies can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies cannot access any other information on your computer.
Types of cookies used
We use the following two types of cookies:
- Persistent / Permanent cookies: Persistent cookies helps us recognise you as an existing user, so it’s easier for you to return to our website without signing in again. After signing in, the persistent cookies stay on your browser and will be read when you return to our website. These remain on your computer/device for a pre-defined period.
- Session cookies: Session cookies only last for as long as the session exists (they get erased when the user closes the browser).
| Cookie name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic | Necessary | 1 year |
| Lang | Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website | Preference | Session |
| _utmx | Used by Google Analytics Experiments to determine if the visitor is participating in a design experiment. | Statistics | 539 days |
| _ga | Used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | Statistics | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate | Statistics | Session |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitor uses the website | Statistics | Session |
| Collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks visitor across devices and marketing channels | Statistics | Session |
| _ab12# | Unclassified | Marketing | 2 years |
| _hssrc | Collects anonymous statistical data related to the user’s website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website’s users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising. | Marketing | Session |
| _ptq.gif | Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | Marketing | Session |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google Ad Words to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | Marketing | Session |
| Bcookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services | Marketing | 2 years |
| BizoID | Unclassified | Marketing | 29 days |
| Bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | Marketing | 2 years |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | Marketing | Session |
| Hubspotutk | Keeps track of a visitor’s identity. This cookie is passed to the marketing platform Hub Spot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts. | Marketing | 10 years |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the web site user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user | Marketing | 1 year |
| Lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services | Marketing | Session |
| PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different web sites | Marketing | 8 months |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies | Marketing | Session |
| UserMatchHistory | Unclassified | Marketing | 29 days |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | Marketing | 179 days |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | Marketing | Session |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Unclassified | Marketing | Persistent |
| yt.innertube::requests | Unclassified | Marketing | Persistent |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Marketing | Session |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Marketing | Persistent |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Marketing | Persistent |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Marketing | Session |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Marketing | Session |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Marketing | Session |
| dc | Unclassified | Unclassified | Session |
| Drift.Targeting.currentPageViewStarted | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.currentReferrer | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.currentSessionStartedAt | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.firstVisit | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.lastVisit | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.numberOfSessions | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.numberOfVisits | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.previousPage | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| Drift.Targeting.referrerDomain | Unclassified | Unclassified | Persistent |
| driftt_aid | Unclassified | Unclassified | 2 years |
| driftt_sid | Unclassified | Unclassified | Session |
| pathcookie | Unclassified | Unclassified | Session |
How we use cookies?
Nearsoft uses cookies to enhance and improve your browsing experience. We use cookies primarily for:
Preferences: Cookies allow our website to remember information about you that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. Remembering your preferences enables us to personalise and display advertisements and other contents for you.
- Security / Optimization: Cookies allow us to maintain security by authenticating users, preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and protecting user data from unauthorized parties. We may use certain types of cookies which allow us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal content from the forms present on our website.
- Processing: Cookies enable the website to work efficiently. Basis such cookies, we are able to deliver services that a website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website.
- Marketing / Advertising: We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to our users. Some common applications of cookies are made to select advertising based on what’s relevant to you, to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing ads you would have already seen. Cookies capture information about how you interact with our website, which includes the pages that you visit most.
- Communication: We may use information collected via cookies to communicate with you, for sending newsletters, seeking your opinion and feedback and providing you services and promotional materials.
- Analytics and Research: We may use cookies to better understand how people use our products/services so that we can improve them.
Basis for lawful processing of cookies:
We process your cookies with your explicit consent. You can accept the cookies to be placed on your browser by clicking on the I Agree button.
The Company will perform quarterly review of the cookie scan report to ascertain the count of identified cookies along with unclassified cookies, which would be classified and assigned a purpose using manual intervention within fifteen (15) days of extraction of the report. The consent of the visitors to the website to store necessary cookies, statistics cookies, marketing cookies and other categories of cookies post classification will be sought online through a pop-up alert to regularize the same.
How do I turn off the cookies or withdraw my consent?
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their setting preferences. If you want to remove existing cookies from your device you can do this using your browser options. If you want to block future cookies being placed on your device you can change your browser settings to do this. You can find more information about cookies at: All About Cookies.
Your Privacy rights and whom to contact:
We respect your legal rights in relation to your data. For details on the rights available to you, please refer our Privacy Policy. In case you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Policy or wish to exercise any of the rights available to you, please contact [email protected]
