Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how FoolFree.com and its affiliates (collectively “FoolFree.com”, “we”, “us”, and “ours”) use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites, including without limitation FoolFree.com, and any successor URLs, mobile or localized versions and related domains/subdomains (“Websites”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in this Cookie Statement to collect Personal Information or collect information that becomes Personal Information if we combine it with additional information. For more information about how we process your Personal Information, please consult our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or mobile application. Cookies are then sent back to the originating site on each subsequent visit or to another site recognizing those cookies. You can find out more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies are widely used to make sites work or work more efficiently and provide information to the website or platform owners.
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors (for example, by remembering your language and/or content preferences) and better understand how our site is used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.
What types of cookies do we use?
There are two broad categories of cookies:
First-party cookies, served directly by FoolFree.com to your computer or mobile device. They are used only by FoolFree.com to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our site.
Third-party cookies, which are served by a service provider on our site, and can be used by the service provider to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites. Third-party cookies are most commonly used for Platform analytics or advertising purposes.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’, meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. Those cookies are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are ‘permanent cookies,’ meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. The site can use them to recognize your computer or mobile device when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Websites and/or App and/or Platform to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Websites and/or App and/or Platform. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites and/or App and/or Platform for analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
Type of cookie | Who serves them | Purpose | How to refuse |
Essential Cookies | FoolFree.com | These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our site and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible. | Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the services to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, however, as described below in the section “How can you control cookies?”. |
Analytics Cookies | Google Analytics | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor and is aggregated. It includes the number of visitors to our site, the sites that referred them to our site, and the pages that they visited on our site. We use this information to help operate our site more efficiently, gather broad demographic information, and monitor the level of activity on our site. | To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can you control cookies?”. |
Performance Cookies | Performance Cookies | These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our services but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable. | To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can you control cookies?”. |
Social Media Cookies | Facebook Social Graph, Twitter Social Graph | These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our sites or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/ advertising activities. | – Facebook Social Graph: You can disable and manage through use of personal privacy settings when logged into a Facebook account. To refuse others cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can you control cookies?”. |
Other tracking technologies
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors. We may also use pixel tags (which are also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) on our site to track the actions of users on our site. Unlike cookies, which are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on web pages. Pixel tags measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the site to manage our content more effectively. The information we collect using pixel tags is not linked to our users’ personal data.
How can you control cookies?
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies, and we have explained how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our site.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As for how you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser; you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Modifications
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please, therefore, re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact us
If you have questions or need to contact us about this Cookie Policy, please email us at [email protected].
