PLEASE FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THIS COOKIE AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING TO USE THE WEBSITE OR APP.
Latest version: 01/08/2020
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files containing letters and numbers that are stored on your device when you visit a website or app. We use cookies to improve your user experience on our Platform by remembering your preferences. For example, on many e-commerce websites, when you add a product to the virtual shopping cart without finalizing the order, the next time you visit the website, you will be able to see the same product still in the cart. This is one example of how cookies are used to remember your preferences. Without the use of cookies, your user experience on the Platform will be significantly less personalized.
For more information on cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
2. Why do we use cookies?
Cookies perform many functions, including facilitating navigation and storing your preferences in order to provide more personalized content and improve the overall user experience.
We use cookies:
To manage your preferences and improve certain features of the Platform. This includes collecting information about the date and time of a visit, your search history, and your language preferences;
To maintain our security measures and detect abuse;
To analyse how our Platform is accessed and used. We use this information for the purpose of maintaining, managing and permanently improving our services;
To provide you with personalized ads. Cookies help us manage ads and measure their performance.
3. What types of cookies and other technologies do we use?
Our Platform uses the following categories of cookies and technologies:
Permanent cookies – these cookies are stored on your device's browser and come into use when you visit the Platform. These cookies serve to remember users' settings and preferences in order to improve their subsequent visits. For example, these cookies ensure that users won't have to sign in to their accounts again. In addition, they remember users' language preferences on a subsequent visit.
Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that are stored in your browser's cookie archive until you leave the Platform. The information we receive using these cookies helps us analyse web traffic, allowing us to identify and troubleshoot issues, as well as provide better navigation.
Advertising cookies – these cookies ensure the delivery of personalized ads and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns by analysing your interaction with ads. For example, they help us determine the number of clicks on a listing by users who have visited the advertiser's website.
In addition, our Platform uses web pointers, which are small graphics (also known as “pixel pointers” or “clear GIFs”). They are used together with cookies for the purpose of identifying users and their behaviour.
Our Platform may contain links to third-party websites or apps, including those of our partners. Please note that these third party websites may also use cookies. We have no control over these third-party websites and are not responsible for the cookies they use or access. In case you choose one of these links or apps, please note that they apply their own cookie policies. Therefore, we ask that you familiarize yourself with the cookie policies of other websites or apps before accessing them.
4. Do we use third-party cookies or extensions on our Platform?
Third parties, such as advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis, may use cookies, web pointers, software development tools (SDIs) and other technologies to collect information about your visit to the Platform. This information is used to provide more personalized ads within our Platform or elsewhere on the Internet. We have no control over the use of such third-party cookies that apply the privacy/cookie policy of those third parties.
Below we provide you with a list of the third parties that have obtained our consent to store cookies or other technologies on your device.
Analytics and Marketing Partners: In order to better understand how you use the Platform, we collaborate with multiple analytics and marketing partners. We allow the following of partners to use cookies, SDT (software development tools) and other applicable technologies. For more information on how Google and Facebook use their data, please visit:
https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/, https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
Advertising partners: Our advertising partners such as DoubleClick, Criteo, RTB House, Index Exchange, OpenX, etc. may use targeting and advertising cookies to serve ads that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you and to measure the effectiveness of such ads on our platform. Below you can find explanations on how you can control ad personalization and tracking. If you disable personalized ads, you will continue to receive general ads on our platform.
Third-party extensions: Our Platform also uses third-party extensions in the form of a share button on Facebook, Twitter, and Whatsapp. By using the share button, you can share our listings on third-party platforms, provided that you are signed in to your accounts with these third parties. They could link your interaction with our Platform and your accounts with them. You should familiarize yourself with these third parties' privacy policies before clicking the share button.
5. How to delete, disable, or block cookies
On our platform, we will give you full control and the ability to opt out at any time when using third-party extensions or tools that connect to the servers of an external service provider. When you click on the “Learn more and manage settings” button that appears in our cookie banner, you will be able to access a settings page. There you will find a list of our advertising partners and other providers, as well as the purposes for which we use these providers. If you want to manage your consent settings, you can do so at any time by accessing the Advertising Preferences on our Platform, which can be found in the footer of our website.
Please note that the settings page itself is provided by one of our service providers and will require some data (your IP address and user data) to be transmitted to that provider. A cookie setting will be required for this purpose. This data will then be forwarded to the advertising partner or other provider to register whether you have given your consent or not. Since we need to use a certain type of cookie to remember your privacy settings and withdraw your consent, you should keep in mind that all your cookie settings will be lost in case you delete your preferences cookies.
The above applies only to third-party cookies and tools; you can disable the use of cookies in general. Your browser usually provides information on how to refuse, delete, or block cookies. The following links will take you to this information for some of the most common browsers:
You can opt out of the use of third-party cookies by Google Analytics through its advertising settings or through https://adssettings.google.com
You can opt out of the use of interest-based targeting cookies set by the participating ad providers through the following websites managed by the Digital Advertising Alliance:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com
In addition, you can change the settings on your mobile device to control the serving of advertising based on your interests.
Caution: In the event that you block the cookies used by our Platform, you may not be able to access all or part of our services, such as remembering personalized settings as access information.
