This page describes our cookie policy of www.thecircle.business (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”). If you do not accept this Cookie Policy please do not use our Website.
- WHAT ARE COOKIES?
In order to work properly, most websites need to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a website will create files known as Cookies (which are actually small text files created on its users’ devices that are being used for browsing). These cookies are created to allow the website to recognize its users on subsequent visits, or to authorize other designated websites to recognize these users for a particular purpose.
Within the meaning of the present Cookie Policy, the “user” is any natural or legal person who accesses the content of our Website.
- WHAT DO COOKIES DO?
Cookies do a lot of different jobs that makes your experience on the Internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your visited offers or profiles, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently.
They also help ensure that the advertisements that you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Much, though not all, of the data that they collect is anonymous, though some of it is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.
Refusing or deactivating cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising, but that it will no longer be able to take into account your preferences and interests, highlighted by your browsing behavior.
- HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
We collect a number of cookies from our users for various reasons, not just to track our own performance – but also to let us serve you content tailored to your own specifications, hopefully improving your overall experience on the site. Amongst other things, the cookies we use allow users to register to award ratings, allow us to calculate how many visitors we have – anonymously, of course – and how long they stay on our site.
We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy. We use cookies to monitor and improve our services. We sometimes include links on our site to goods and services offered by third parties and we may be paid some commission if you subsequently decide to make a purchase. Cookies may be used to track your visits to third party sites to help ensure that we are paid the correct amounts. Please note that these commercial arrangements do not influence our editorial content in any way.
We believe that your experience on the site would be adversely affected if you opted out of the cookies we use.
- WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE THERE AND WHICH ONES DO WE USE?
There are two types of cookies:
- Persistent cookies remain on a user’s device for a set period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
- Session cookies are temporary. They allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
Cookies also have, broadly speaking, four different functions and can be categorized as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies are essential to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services like registration or viewing posted offers. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. Examples of how we use ‘strictly necessary’ cookies include i) setting unique identifiers for each unique visitor, so site numbers can be analyzed, and ii) Allowing you to sign in to the Website as a registered user.
- Performance cookies collect anonymous data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website, they don’t contain personal information, and are used to improve your user experience of a website.
Here are some examples of how we use performance cookies:
- Gathering data about visits to the Website, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on or where visitors have come from.
- For comparison with other websites using data collected by industry-accepted measurement and research companies.
Information supplied by performance cookies helps us to understand how you use the Website. For example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services.
If you have registered with the Website we can combine the data from the web analytics services and their cookies with the information you have supplied to us, so that we can make your experience more personal by recommending you certain areas of products and services based on your viewing behavior. We would only do this if you have given us permission to communicate with you. Sometimes the data used from the web analytics companies has been collected before you registered or signed in. In these cases, if we use this data to identify you, we use it only in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
- Functionality cookies allow users to customize how a website looks for them: they can remember usernames, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide more personal services like local weather reports and traffic news.
Here are some examples of how we use functionality cookies:
- Storing your user preferences on Your Account page;
- Remembering if you’ve been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you.
- Advertising and targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you, but can also limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and be used to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking users’ clicks. They can also provide security in transactions. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with a website operator’s permission, but can be placed by the operator themselves. They can remember that you have visited a website, and this information can be shared with other organizations, including other advertisers. They cannot determine who you are though, as the data collected is never linked to your profile.
The two main ways we use advertising and targeting cookies are set out below:
- Interest-based advertising (or online behavioral advertising) is where cookies are placed on your device by our third party service providers which remember your web browsing activity and group together your interests in order to provide you with targeted advertisements which are more relevant to you when you visit thecircle.business. This information may also be used to make the advertising on www.thecircle.business more relevant to you.
- Retargeting is a form of interest-based advertising that enables our advertising partners to show you advertisements selected based on your online browsing activity away from the Website. This allows companies to advertise to people who previously visited their website. These cookies will usually be placed on your device by third-party advertising networks and we have listed the main third party networks we work with below.
Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests. If you would like more information about interest-based advertising, including how to opt-out of these cookies, please visit www.thecircle.business.
- HOW DO I CONTROL MY COOKIES?
You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies and many websites will not work properly or you will lose some functionality. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our Website for these reasons.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally you have the option to see what cookies you’ve got and delete them individually, block third party cookies or cookies from particular sites, accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Visit the “options” or “preferences” menu on your browser to change settings, and check the following links for more browser-specific information.
- MANAGING ADVERTISING COOKIES
Please note that if you want to opt out from receiving targeted advertising, this does not mean that you will receive less advertising when you use our Website. This just means that the advertising you see will not be as customized to you.
However if you still want to switch off third-party advertising cookies, you can do this by visiting the Internet Advertising Bureau’s consumer advice site, youronlinechoices.com This will give you a list of all cookies that are currently set on your device and how to opt out of each of them. Please note that this list will contain more networks than just found on www.thecircle.business. We ensure that all third party advertising networks and advertisers who set cookies on our Website are signed up to this website.
We have also set out links below to some of the specific partners we work with and who set cookies on our websites, and therefore on your computer, each of which have instructions on how to opt out of their cookies.
Google – http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/business/help/471978536642445?id=1205376682832142
- USER CONSENT
By continuing to use our site, you agree to the placement of cookies on your device. If you choose not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be.
