Cookies and how they benefit you
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Types of cookies and why we use them
Absolutely necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to move around a website and use its features.
Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our websites. Information collected includes, for example, the Internet browsers and operating systems used, the domain name of the website previously visited, the number of visits, average duration of visit, and pages viewed. These cookies don’t collect information that personally identifies you and only collect aggregated and anonymous information. Performance cookies are used to improve the user-friendliness of a website and enhance your experience.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Allowing you to add comments to our blog and submitting a completed “Contact us” form on our site
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers nor our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
Remarketing Cookies
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called “remarketing cookie” during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc. to encourage you to come back to our site. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt out of these cookies at any time as explained above.
Cookies in emails
Our emails are sometimes send through Email marketing software, which contain cookies that track whether you open, forward, report or unsubscribe from our emails and whether you click any links within them. The cookies used in our emails to monitor these behaviours are unique to each email and track to them better communicate with, share interesting solution and services news and offers. They are not stored on your computer or mobile device.
WHAT KIND OF COOKIES ARE SET UP ON OUR WEBSITE?
| Cookie type | Nature | Description |
| Performance, analyze and search (Navigation on seenews.com) | SeeNews | These are cookies set up by seenews.com on your device to meet navigation needs, for optimization and personalization of services from our site. |
| Google Analytics | SeeNews | These are cookies set up by seenews.com allowing the analysis of the platform’s audience and of the marketing performance indicators. They are attributed to each visitor of a webpage. Thus a visitor will be given the same login at each visit and will be only counted once. |
| Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn | Third party | These are cookies set up by Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn. We do not have control over the process operated by the social media network Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn to collect information. We invite you to see directly their confidentiality policy. |
You will find below the list of cookies used on seenews.com
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
Other tracking technologies
Web server & application logs: Our servers automatically collect certain information to help us administer and protect the Services, analyze usage, and improve users’ experience. The information collected includes:
- IP address and browser type
- Device information including Unique Device Identifier (UDID), MAC address, Identifier For Advertisers (IFA), and similar identifiers we or others may assign
- Device operating system and other technical facts
- The city, state, and country from which you access our website
- Pages visited and content viewed
- Information or text entered
- Links and buttons clicked
- URLs visited before and after you use our Services
- Links and connections to third-party services
Our Services may contain links to and may be used by you in conjunction with third-party apps, services, tools, and websites that are not affiliated with, controlled, or managed by us. Examples include Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter® and, third-party apps like voice software and readers. The privacy practices of these third parties will be governed by the parties’ own Privacy Statements. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties. You should review the privacy statements or policies applicable to these third-party services.
Children’s privacy
SeeNews provides business information solutions for professionals, and our Services/Solutions are generally not aimed at children.
Marketing preferences and services support:
To update your email marketing preferences if you ever happen to receive such form of communication from us, or for technical support or other help with our Services, please visit the applicable email preference center or use the “Contact Us” form.
How to contact us
We understand that you may have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices or may wish to file a complaint. Please feel free to contact us in one of the following ways:
SeeNews Protection Officer:
Email: customercare@seenews.com
Attn: Data Protection Officer
Address: SeeNews Ltd. 64 Kiril i Metodiy St., Sofia 1202, Bulgaria
Last Updated – May 2018