Cookies are small text files that are stored in a device’s browser directory. Cookies contain basic information about your internet use. Your browser sends these cookies back to our Website every time You revisit it, so it can recognise Your device. This helps us with things like understanding how the visitors use the site, remembering a user’s login details, and storing site preferences.

Alongside cookies, our Website and the third-party tools we use may store information in your browser’s local storage and session storage. These work in a similar way to cookies, but the information is not sent back to a server with every request. Local storage remains on your device until it is cleared; session storage is deleted when you close the browser tab. Where this Policy refers to cookies, it means cookies, local storage and session storage together.

What is a “tracking pixel”?

We use tracking pixels to collect information about how you interact with our Website. Tracking pixels are small, invisible image files or snippets of code embedded in web pages. When you access a page or open an email containing a tracking pixel, a request is sent to our server (or a third party’s server) to download the image or code, which allows us to record your actions.

This may include information such as:

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Type of browser used
• Pages visited or links clicked

Tracking pixels do not store information on your device, but they may work in conjunction with cookies to recognise your device across different websites and sessions.

We only use tracking pixels for advertising with your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by updating your cookie preferences or adjusting your browser settings. For this purpose please use the “Cookie Preferences” button in the bottom right corner.

We use cookies to improve our Website's functionality and to provide a safe user experience, as well as to provide our services safely and efficiently. This includes:

• ensuring that our Website and services function properly;
• detecting and preventing fraud;
• understanding how you use and engage with our Website and services, and
• analysing and improving our Website and our services.

The cookies may be distinguished in types, depending on the party that sets the cookies:

• first party cookies: these cookies are placed directly by DECTA when you visit our Website and use our services,
• third party cookies: these cookies are not set by DECTA, but by other companies. The third parties whose cookies or tracking technologies run on our Website are Google LLC, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Cloudflare Inc (which provides security services to LinkedIn), Hotjar Ltd, Osano Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Ahrefs Pte Ltd and Business Inventive.
   

The cookies may also be distinguished in types, depending on the purpose for which they are set:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential to the operation of our Website and our services and make it usable and secure by enabling basic functions, such as page navigation and access to the secure areas of our Website. Without these cookies our Website would not be able to operate properly.

Marketing cookies

These are the cookies our cookie consent tool lists under “Targeted Advertising”. We use marketing cookies on our Website to direct ads about our services to you through targeted advertisements on other sites you visit, such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Google and to measure your engagement with those ads. We place these cookies only with your permission. 

Personalisation cookies

These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name or language) and provide enhanced, more personal features. We place these cookies only with your permission. 

Analytic cookies

These are the cookies our cookie consent tool lists under “Analytics”. We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These cookies help us identify which pages are most popular, where visitors might be struggling, and how we can improve the overall performance and user experience of our services. We place these cookies only with your permission.

We do not currently place any personalisation cookies on our Website. The category remains available in our cookie consent tool so that you can record your preference in advance, in case we introduce such cookies in future.

Our cookie consent tool contains detailed information as to how long each cookie is stored on your device. Most of the cookies we use expire within 90 days or at the end of your visit. The longest period applied by any cookie we use is 400 days. Cookies are stored for these periods unless you delete them earlier through your browser or withdraw your consent.

Information collected through essential cookies is available only to DECTA and to Osano, which provides our cookie consent tool. Where you consent to analytics, personalisation or marketing cookies, the information collected by those cookies is also received by the provider that sets them - Google LLC, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Hotjar Ltd, Microsoft Corporation, Ahrefs Pte Ltd and Business Inventive. Each of these providers processes the information for the purposes described above and in accordance with its own privacy notice. Data collected by these tools is also made available to the Limited Liability Company G-2, which is responsible for maintaining our Website. We do not sell the information collected through cookies.

International transfers

Some of the providers named above are established outside the European Economic Area, or process the information on servers located outside it. Where that is the case, the transfer is made on the basis of the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses or another transfer mechanism permitted under Chapter V of the GDPR. You can obtain further information about these safeguards by contacting us at the address below.

You are free to adjust your preferred cookie settings at any time via our Cookie Consent Tool. You can opt-out of all the cookies apart from the essential cookies. For this purpose please use the “Cookie Preferences” button in the bottom right corner. Withdrawing your consent is as easy as giving it, and it does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdrew it.

Also, in case you generally don’t want cookies to be used on your devices, you can change the security settings of your browser. Security settings need to be made on each browser individually and the setting methods used may differ. Clearing your browser’s site data will also remove the information stored in local storage and session storage.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please e-mail us on data.protection@decta.com.