Data Collection Policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We use cookies and similar technologies for storing and honouring your preferences and settings, enabling you to sign-in, providing interest-based advertising, combating fraud, analysing how our products perform and fulfilling other legitimate purposes.Tarsus Technology Group together with its subsidiaries and all associated companies, collectively referred to as ‘TTG’, use additional identifiers, such as the advertising ID in Windows described in the Windows section of this statement, for similar purposes.

We also use “web beacons” to help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data. Our websites may include web beacons, cookies or similar technologies from third-party service providers.

You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your Internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies.

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

TTG uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, depending on the context or product, including:

• Storing your Preferences and Settings. We use cookies to store your preferences and settings on your device, and to enhance your experiences. For example, if you enter your city or postcode to get local content on a TTG website, depending on your settings, we store that data in a cookie so that you will see the relevant local information when you return to the site. Saving your preferences with cookies, such as your preferred language, prevents you from having to set your preferences repeatedly. If you opt out of interest-based advertising, we store your opt-out preference in a cookie on your device.
• Sign-in and Authentication. We use cookies to authenticate you. When you sign into a TTG website using your personal identifier, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
• Security. We use cookies to process information that helps us secure our products, as well as detect fraud and abuse.
• Storing Information You Provide to a Website. We use cookies to remember information you shared. When you provide information to TTG, for example when you add products to a shopping basket on TTG websites, we store the data in a cookie for the purpose of remembering the information.
• Social Media. Some of our websites include social media cookies, including those that enable users who are logged in to the social media service to share content via that service.
• Feedback. TTG uses cookies to enable you to provide feedback on a website.
• Interest-Based Advertising. TTG uses cookies to collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that is most relevant to you. You can opt out of receiving interest-based advertising from TTG as described in the Access and Control section of this privacy statement.
• Showing Advertising. TTG uses cookies to record how many visitors have clicked on an advertisement and to record which advertisements you have seen, for example, so you don’t see the same one repeatedly.
• Analytics. We use first- and third-party cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our products.
• Performance. TTG uses cookies to understand and improve how our products perform. For example, we use cookies to gather data that helps with load balancing; this helps ensure that our websites remain up and running.

Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate the primary purposes for which we typically set cookies. If you visit one of our websites, the site will set some or all of the following cookies:

• AdRoll – Gives you an anonymised, unique identifier on our websites and other websites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes.
• Facebook – Adds you to a Facebook audience of users that have visited our websites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes.
• Google – Used to identify you for analytics purposes. Gives you an anonymised, unique identifier on our websites and other websites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes.
• CC- Contains a country code as determined from your IP address.

In addition to the cookies TTG sets when you visit our websites, third parties can also set cookies when you visit TTG sites. For example:

• Companies we hire to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics, place cookies when you visit our sites. See opt out links below.
• Companies that deliver content, such as videos or news, or ads on TTG sites, place cookies on their own. These companies use the data they process in accordance with their privacy policies, which may enable these companies to collect and combine information about your activities across websites, apps or online services.

How to Control Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but provide controls that allow you to block or delete them. For example, in Microsoft Edge, you can block or delete cookies by clicking Settings > Privacy > Cookies. Please refer to your browser’s privacy or help documentation to find Instructions for blocking or deleting cookies in other browsers.

Certain features of TTG products depend on cookies. If you choose to block cookies, you cannot sign in or use some of those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies will be lost. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, will be deleted and may need to be recreated.

Additional privacy controls that can impact cookies, including the Tracking Protection feature of web browsers, are described in the Access and Control section of this privacy statement.

Our Use of Web Beacons and Analytics Services

Some TTG web pages contain electronic tags known as web beacons that we use to help deliver cookies on our websites, count users who have visited those websites and deliver co-branded products. We also include web beacons or similar technologies in our electronic communications to determine whether you open and act on them.

In addition to placing web beacons on our own websites, we sometimes work with other companies to place our web beacons on their websites or in their advertisements. This helps us develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on a TTG website results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser’s website.

Finally, TTG products often contain web beacons or similar technologies from third-party analytics providers, which help us compile aggregated statistics about the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations. These technologies enable the analytics providers to set or read their own cookies or other identifiers on your device, through which they can collect information about your online activities across applications, websites or other products. However, we prohibit these analytics providers from using web beacons on our sites to collect or access information that directly identifies you (such as your name or email address). You can get help on how opt out of data collection or use by some of these analytics providers by clicking the following links:

• Adroll –https://help.adroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/216599538-Opting-Out-of-Personalized-Advertising
• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
• Google – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Other Similar Technologies

In addition to standard cookies and web beacons, our products can also use other similar technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This is typically done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally. But, like standard cookies, these technologies can also store a unique identifier for your computer, which can then track behaviour. These technologies include Local Shared Objects (or “Flash cookies”) and Silverlight App Storage.

Local Shared Objects or “Flash cookies”. Websites that use Adobe Flash technologies can use Local Shared Objects or “Flash cookies” to store data on your computer. To manage or block Flash cookies, go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.

Silverlight Application Storage. Websites or applications that use Microsoft Silverlight technology also have the ability to store data by using Silverlight Application Storage. To learn how to manage or block such storage, see the Silverlight section of this statement.