To understand how https://www.windberge.com/ and our partners use cookies and other similar technologies, please read the following. Cookies and other similar technologies help our site function and allow us to better understand how you use our Services. These have a number of purposes beyond just advertising. This policy asserts that both our site and app and the document will refer to cookies and similar technologies collectively as “Cookie Technologies.”

 

 

 

1. Types of Cookie Technologies

Cookies

Cookies are small data files sent from a server to your web browser and are stored in your browser’s cache. Cookies allow a website or a third party to recognize your browser. There are three primary types of cookies:

• Session cookies are specific to a particular visit and carry information as you view different pages. Session cookies expire and delete themselves automatically after a short period of time such as when you close your web browser.

• Persistent cookies remember certain information about your preferences for viewing the site. They are stored on your browsers cache or mobile device until you choose to delete them.

• Third-party cookies are placed by someone other than https://www.windberge.com/, and may gather browsing activity across multiple websites and sessions. They are typically persistent cookies and are stored until you delete them or they expire.

 

Cookies help the function of our website and customize experience according to your preferences. You can configure your desktop or mobile browser's settings to reflect your preference to accept or reject cookies. 

 

Other Technologies

In addition to cookies, we even use other similar technologies.

• Web beacons are tiny graphics (also called “web pixels” or “clear GIFs”) with unique identifiers that are used to understand browsing activity. Web beacons are rendered invisibly on web pages when you open a page.

• Social widgets are icons or buttons provided by third-party social media providers. They simplify the process of finding them and allow you to interact with those social media services. These social widgets may collect browsing data, which may be received by the third party that provided the widget. Thus, they are controlled by third parties.

• UTM codes are strings that can appear in the “Uniform Resource Locator” (URL - the http or https address) when a user move between web pages or websites.

• Application SDKs are mobile app for third-party software development kits. They are embedded in Apps and are used in mobile applications. These SDKs permit the collection of information about the app such as the device the app is running on and the activity in the app.

• Local Storage Objects are sets of data that the site or app may store on your browser. Their purpose is to maintain preferences, a history of usage, or even the settings of a site or app.

• Internet of Things identifiers: Resembling mobile identifiers, internet-connected devices (smart TVs, voice activated assistants etc) send identifiers and other analogous data to web browsers or mobile SDKs.

 

 

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2. Purposes

https://www.windberge.com/ and related apps use Cookie Technologies to recognize your logged-in state on our sites, to improve our Site function for you, to understand what purchases members and visitors prefer, and for helping your browsing experience and use of our Site, Services, and Apps. By and large, we use Cookie Technologies for:

 

Authentication and Security (Strictly Necessary)

Some cookies and similar technology functions are absolutely vital to ensure that our site work properly, and to maintain the security, safety, and integrity of the Site, and ensuring the ability to securely complete transactions.

 

Account and User Preferences

The aim of some technologies is to remember your account and preferences over time, such as maintaining your choices on how you want our site´s features to appear including your preferred language and country, to provide a smoother user experience and for being able to customize content based on how you use our site.

 

Social Networks

There are technologies that help you to interact with social networks you are signed into while using our Services. You can for instance share content with the social network, logging in with the social network, and more. What you are able to do with the social network in question may be set and controlled by the social networks themselves, and your preferences with those social networks.

 

Some social networks may also have cooperation with us or with you for analytics or for marketing purposes. You may be able to manage your privacy preferences for these social networks and their tools and widgets via your account with the social network. 

 

Performance and Analytics

Some technologies are used to provide performance data on how our Services are functioning in order to improve Services, for example, information on site and app speed and functionality to help us optimize our site, how the Services are used to help us improve your experience when visiting our site, and detecting and gathering reporting on bugs to help make https://www.windberge.com/ a safer environment.

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In addition, https://www.windberge.com/ may use temporary, short-term cookies for limited-time site events such as sales and promotions and may also employ transient technologies for site performance, experiments, form information, and interactions with the site. We employ Google Analytics to help understand how our community is used. To learn how Google Analytics works visit https://developers.google.com/analytics.

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Interest-based Ads & Marketing Services

https://www.windberge.com/ works with third-party service providers that may use various Cookie Technologies to permit us and them to learn about which ads you see and click when you visit our site, the Apps, and affiliated sites or to show you ads on and off https://www.windberge.com/. These Technologies may include:

• Frequency capping limits the number of times a user’s browser or mobile device displaying the same ad;

• Attribution tracking estimates the advertising or marketing source that brought someone to https://www.windberge.com/, and/or determines which marketing source led to actions;

• Remarketing and retargeting shows relevant ads based on prior activities and browsing patterns on https://www.windberge.com/;

• Audience targeting refers to targeting advertisements to a larger audience based on their known or inferred demographics; and

• Cross-device recognition recognizes actions across multiple devices or browsers.

 

Some third-party service providers may provide information like interest categories, cross-device information, demographics, or from a combination of sources. These will not identify you personally, but helping us to provide you with more relevant and useful advertising. This type of information may also have non-marketing performance analytics uses as well, however, we can assure you that in any case these do not allow access to other personal information about you from https://www.windberge.com/ and that third parties concerned are required to follow applicable laws, self-regulatory programs, and https://www.windberge.com/’s data protection rules where applicable. Nonetheless, while https://www.windberge.com/ does not share any structured data which can lead to the identification of a specific person or organization, we do not have control over third parties, who each have their own privacy policies and privacy practices.

 

Opt-out of Third-Party Networks

If you don't want the above-mentioned information being used to serve you with interest-based ads, you may change your preferences as described below. Please note that this does not stop you from being served advertisements. You will still receive generic advertisements. If you reject or block all cookies in your browser settings, you will not be able to take advantage of our Services as some cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly.

 

You can learn more about managing your preferences for ads online through the publishing of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance at https://youronlinechoices.eu/ or through resources made available by the Digital Advertising Alliance at https://youradchoices.com/control and the Network Advertising Initiative at https://thenai.org/opt-out/.

 

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3. Services in the Apps (SDKs)

Apps may include third-party application software development kits (“SDKs”) that provide bug reporting features, mobile performance and analytics data, and application program interfaces ("APIs") to third parties that help provide Services, for social media functionality, and for marketing and advertising. 

 

 

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4. Consent, Contract, and Legitimate Interests in Processing

Based on contractual necessity and on your agreement with https://www.windberge.com/ we must employ certain Cookie Technologies to make our site function as it is intended, and for being able to provide the services you have requested. These include the functions strictly necessary to the service noted above. By choosing to use our Services after having been notified of our use of Cookie Technologies in the ways described in this Policy, and, in applicable jurisdictions, through notice and unambiguous acknowledgement of your consent, you agree to such use. For further information please read our Data Privacy Policy.

 

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5. Managing Your Cookie Technology Preferences

You have the ability to manage the use of specific Cookie Technologies via the Cookie Settings link available on the banner that turn up at the bottom of most site pages when you enter our site, or via the GDPR Preferences link for users in the European Union and EEA. You can also manage your https://www.windberge.com/ marketing preferences in your account settings.

 

Opt-in and Opt-out for Browsers

In addition, you can change your web browser's settings to reflect your cookie preferences. The below links offer information about how to adjust cookie settings for the most frequently used browsers:

• Chrome 

• Microsoft Edge 

• Safari 

• Firefox 

 

Google Analytics Opt-out

For Google Analytics Advertising Features, you can opt-out through Google Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means. For the web Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out plug-in.

 

Third-Party Tools

Various third parties provide browser plug-ins and apps that can help provide you information on and limit or block third-party cookies, web beacons, and Javascript-based technologies. For example both Google and Facebook provide tools to control use of advertising on their respective platforms. However, https://www.windberge.com/ cannot stand for the efficacy of any third-party product. 

 

Mobile and Third Party Device Opt-out

If you access https://www.windberge.com/ through the App, you may also control interest-based advertising on an Android device via advertising preferences (usually in the Google Settings app) or by selecting the “Limit Ad Tracking” option in the privacy section of the Settings App on iOS. This option will not, however, prevent you from seeing advertisements but will limit the use of device advertising identifiers to personalize ads based on your interests.

 

For third party IoT devices such as smart TV or voice activated assistants, consult with the manufacturer and/or service provider for the opt out mechanism.

 

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6. Contact Us

If you have questions about the use of Cookie Technologies at https://www.windberge.com/, please read the “Contact” and the “Revocation of your consent to data processing” sections of our Data Privacy Policy.

 

 

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Published on Oktober 28, 2024