Paycot Cookie Policy

Cookies are a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your device (computer, smartphone etc.) by your web browser while you are visiting our websites. Without Cookies it would be impossible to provide you information and services you are requesting through the Internet. Cookies remember stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) or record your browsing activity. They can also be used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields such as names, addresses, passwords and billing address.

By using Platforms, you agree to the use of any of the cookies and tracking tools mentioned in this policy, unless you opted out (not available for essential cookies).

Additional information about cookie processing can be found on the current website of Paycot.

Categories Of Cookies Used By Paycot

Technical and strictly necessary Cookies

In most cases our Platforms use cookies in order to ensure technical feasibility to connect our Platform with your device and provide services requested by you. These cookies are integrated by default into our Platforms. In case, you try to block/ turn off any of such cookies you might not receive some essential part of services requested by you. Some examples of such cookies are:

  • User input cookies (session-id), e.g. when you are filling an online form (submitting documentation, registering or creating an account etc.).
  • Authentication cookies, used for authenticated services, e.g. when You are logging into your online account within any of information systems integrated with our Platform.
  • Security cookies used to detect authentication abuses and prevent malicious attacks.
  • Multimedia content player session cookies, such as flash player cookies.
  • Load balancing session cookies (faster processing of your requests).
  • Third party social plug-in content sharing cookies.

Functionality and Preferences Cookies

Such Cookies help us to optimize and make more user-friendly our Platforms, enhance security level, facilitate faster and more convenient use of Platforms, and receive valuable statistics.

In case we are collecting Cookies for statistical purposes, we are committed to apply a “functional separation” principle, so the results of the processing shall be without any negative impact to Your privacy or there should not be any decisions made against you. Retention period of Functionality Cookies usually is very short. In case of longer periods, please, be aware that we always assess the risk level of such processing, so it does not adversely affect your privacy. Under the strict supervision we might allow service providers to collect Functionality Cookies on our Platforms in order to provide us with aggregated statistics. In such cases we require service providers to aggregate or erase data obtained from your device.

Advertising and Targeting Cookies

We and our third party vendors, including Google and Facebook, use Advertising cookies to serve ads based on a Your prior visits to our Platforms. For example:

  • To make use of cross-device tracking in order to optimize our advertising activities. As part of cross-device tracking, Paycot may combine information collected from a particular browser or mobile device with another computer or device linked to the computer or device from which the information was collected. By changing your cookie settings on your device you can change your cross-device tracking settings for advertising purposes.
  • To work with online advertising companies to display targeted advertising on our Platforms and third party platforms that you visit. This targeting may be based on information collected by us or third party platforms. This targeting may also be based on your activities or behaviors on our Platforms or those of third parties. We may also obtain information about your browsing history from our business partners.
  • We may use Google Analytics to collect demographic and interest data about you (such as age, gender, and interests), including through Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. We may use the information collected about you through Google Analytics for Google services such as Remarketing with Google Analytics and Google Display Network Impression Reporting. Choices you make are browser and device specific. Some aspects of our site use cookies to function. You may not be able to use these features if you set your device to block cookies. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics.

We and our advertising partners may also use web beacons (single pixel GIF images). These web beacons are placed in the code of a Web page or an email newsletter. When you access a partner site within our mobile applications, we may track your activity on that site.

Opt-Out From Cookies

Your browser gives you the ability to control cookies. How to do this varies from browser to browser. You should view the Help menu on the browser you use for further information. Your opt out choice is stored in opt out cookies only in that browser, so you should separately set your preferences for other browsers, computers, or devices you may use. If your browser blocks cookies, your opt out preferences may not be effective. Deleting browser cookies can remove your opt out preferences, so you should visit this page periodically to review your preferences. If you block or delete cookies or opt out of online behavioral advertising, not all of the tracking that we have described in this policy will stop.

Please also note that opting out of a third party cookie does not mean that you will no longer receive or be subject to online advertising or marketing. It means that the third party service from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and online behavioral.

You may also opt out of third party cookies by visiting opt-out website like www.aboutads.info or https://cookies.insites.com/disable-cookies/.