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]