Cookie Policy / Privacy Cookies
Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies on our website to enhance your browsing experience. By clicking "Accept," you agree to our use of cookies as described below. If you click "Decline," only necessary cookies will be used to ensure the website functions properly.
Types of Cookies We Use
1. Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are essential for the website to function correctly. These cookies enable basic features such as page navigation, security, and accessibility. They do not collect personal data and cannot be disabled.
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Example: Session cookies for login authentication.
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Impact of Declining: The website may not work properly without these cookies.
2. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website. They collect anonymous data about page visits, time spent on the site, and navigation patterns.
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Example: Google Analytics tracking.
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Impact of Declining: We will not be able to measure or improve website performance.
3. Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies track visitor behavior to display personalized advertisements based on browsing history. These cookies may be set by third-party advertising networks.
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Example: Facebook Pixel for targeted ads.
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Impact of Declining: You may still see ads, but they will be less relevant to your interests.
4. Preferences Cookies
Preferences cookies store your choices, such as language and region settings, to provide a customized experience.
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Example: Saving your preferred language setting.
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Impact of Declining: You may need to reset preferences each time you visit the site.
5. Partner Cookies
Partner cookies are used to share information with trusted third parties that help us provide enhanced services, such as embedded content or social media features.
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Example: YouTube video embeds or social media sharing buttons.
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Impact of Declining: Some interactive features may not function properly.
What Happens If You Click "Accept"?
If you click "Accept," all types of cookies, including necessary, analytics, marketing, preferences, and partner cookies, will be enabled. This allows us to enhance your browsing experience, provide personalized content, improve website performance, and display relevant advertisements. You will also benefit from customized settings, seamless interactions, and access to enhanced features.
Google AdSense and Third-Party Cookies
We use Google AdSense to display relevant ads to users. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on users' previous visits to this site or other websites.
Personalized Ads and Cookie Usage
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Google uses the DART cookie to show ads that are more relevant to users.
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Users can opt out of the DART cookie by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Non-Personalized Ads
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If users choose to decline marketing cookies, ads may still appear, but they will not be personalized based on previous browsing behavior.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can adjust your cookie settings at any time through our cookie consent banner or browser settings. For more details on how we handle your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
By continuing to use our site, you acknowledge our use of necessary cookies. Your consent settings can be changed at any time for other types of cookies.
Cookies consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the Owner in providing the Service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which Cookies are installed may also require the User's consent.
Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
Technical Cookies and Cookies serving aggregated statistical purposes
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Activity strictly necessary for the functioning of the Service
- This Website uses Cookies to save the User's session and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Website, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic.
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Activity regarding the saving of preferences, optimization, and statistics
- This Website uses Cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize the User's browsing experience. Among these Cookies are, for example, those used for the setting of language and currency preferences or for the management of first party statistics employed directly by the Owner of the site.
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Other types of Cookies or third parties that install Cookies
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Some of the services listed below collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the User or may be managed directly by the Owner - depending on how they are described - without the help of third parties.
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If any third party operated services are listed among the tools below, these may be used to track Users’ browsing habits – in addition to the information specified herein and without the Owner’s knowledge. Please refer to the privacy policy of the listed services for detailed information.
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Advertising
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This type of services allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this Website, possibly based on User interests.
This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
Some of the services listed below may use Cookies to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside this Website. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
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Google AdSense (Google Inc.)
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Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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OpenX Ad Exchange (OpenX Technologies, Inc.)
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OpenX Ad Exchange is an advertising service provided by OpenX Technologies, Inc.
The service provides an ad exchange platform that facilitates the optimization of ads from multiple ad networks, which can be third parties to both OpenX and the Owner.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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AdMob (AdMob Google Inc.)
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AdMob is an advertising service provided by AdMob Google Inc.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
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AppNexus (AppNexus Inc.)
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AppNexus is an advertising service provided by AppNexus Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
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Bing Ads (Microsoft Corporation)
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Bing Ads is an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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DoubleClick for Publishers (Google Inc.)
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DoubleClick for Publishers is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with. In order to opt out from being tracked by various advertising networks, Users may make use of Youronlinechoices. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout?hl=en.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Facebook Audience Network (Facebook, Inc.)
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Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by Facebook, Inc. In order to understand Facebook's use of Data, consult Facebook's data policy.
This Website may use identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Facebook Audience Network service. One of the ways Audience Network shows ads is by using the User's ad preferences. The User can control this in the Facebook ad settings.
Users may opt-out of certain Audience Network targeting through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Audience Network related sections of this privacy policy, if available.
Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
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Advertising serving infrastructure
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This type of services have the purpose of providing an advertising serving infrastructure that enables this Website to maintain its own network that serves optimized and targeted advertisements.
To this end, the services listed below may allow the Owner to track unique User visits and their navigation patterns, also with the help of Cookies.
This tracking may occur across different sites or apps, in order to serve optimized and targeted advertisements.
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OpenX Ad Server (OpenX Technologies, Inc.)
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OpenX Ad Server is an advertising server provision service provided by OpenX Technologies, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
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Analytics
- The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
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Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
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Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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Google Tag Manager (Google Inc.)
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Google Tag Manager is an analytics service provided by Google Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
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Google Analytics for Firebase (Google Inc.)
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Google Analytics for Firebase or Firebase Analytics is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Firebase Analytics may share Data with other tools provided by Firebase, such as Crash Reporting, Authentication, Remote Config or Notifications. The User may check this privacy policy to find a detailed explanation about the other tools used by the Owner.
This Website uses identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Firebase Analytics service.
Users may opt-out of certain Firebase features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Firebase related sections of this privacy policy, if available.
Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
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Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Inc.)
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Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users' IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
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Commercial affiliation
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This type of services allows this Website to display advertisements for third party products or services.
Ads can be displayed either as advertising links or as banners using various kinds of graphics.
Clicks on the icon or banner posted on the Application are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with this Website.
For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.
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Amazon Affiliation (Amazon)
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Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy .
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DoubleClick for Publishers Audience Extension (Google Inc.)
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DoubleClick for Publishers Audience Extension is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Google Inc. that tracks the visitors of this Website and allows selected advertising partners to display targeted ads across the web to them.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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Remarketing and behavioral targeting
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This type of service allows this Website and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Website by the User.
This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
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Remarketing through Google Analytics for Display Advertising (Google Inc.)
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Google Analytics for Display Advertising is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the tracking activity performed by Google Analytics and its Cookies with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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SPAM protection
- This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.
How to provide or withdraw consent to the installation of Cookies
In addition to what is specified in this document, the User can manage preferences for Cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing Cookies.
Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of Cookies by this website.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
With regard to Cookies installed by third parties, Users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
Notwithstanding the above, the Owner informs that Users may follow the instructions provided on the subsequently linked initiatives by the EDAA (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
Owner and Data Controller
is INTERNET ADVERTISING LIMITED, company registered in Hong Kong, with its registered office at Room 2303, New Tech Plaza, 34 tai Yau Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, which is the data controller of any personal data which is required to be processed in relation to your use of Website.
Since the installation of third-party Cookies and other tracking systems through the services used within this Website cannot be technically controlled by the Owner, any specific references to Cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the User is kindly requested to consult the privacy policy for the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding the identification of technologies based on Cookies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of Cookies by this Website.
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through this Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
Cookies
Small piece of data stored in the User's device.
Last updated: February 16, 2025