Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 7th November, 2020.
Our Website (“Site”) is https://sophiall.com
Sophia Global Consulting F.Z.E. and its affiliates and solutions (collectively, “Sophia Global”, “Sophiall”,“us” or “we”) are committed to transparency about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of use.
What are Cookies and Tracking Tools?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our site, to the extent you agree. The other tracking tools place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Site. This allows us to recognize your device from those of other users of the Site.
We use these tools to identify you, remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Site. These tools enable us to control access to certain content on our Site, protect it, and to process your requests.
We may utilise party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users to optimise the administration and user experience of the website. These persistent Cookies are used to help us to improve the website for our users, manage our Site content, and analyze how users navigate and utilise the Site.
First and Third Party Cookies
“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Sophia Global and that Sophia Global places on your device. “Third party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. Sophia Global may contract with third party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.
Types of Cookies:
- Persistent Cookies. We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Site. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Site.
- Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.
You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.
The data collected by the Site and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above.
Cookie Classification and Purpose
Strictly Necessary/Technical
These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Site so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Site.
Analytical / Performance
These Cookies are used by us or third party service providers to analyze how the Site is used and how it is performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a blog or otherwise register with the Site, these Cookies may be correlated to you.
Functionality
These Cookies let us operate the Site in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to retain your information and preferences in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and effectively remember how you customized the Site and services, and provide you with the same customisations during future visits
Third Party Advertising
These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other websites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third party service providers to use Cookies on the Site for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites based on your visit to our Site.
How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of Cookies?
If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Site from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
How do we use Other Tracking Technologies in our communications?
Sophia Global may also collect information through web beacons, which are graphic images placed on a website or email that compiles information about your usage and interaction with the site. We would analyse this data to improve the content and format of our electronic communications.
How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of Web Beacons?
You may avoid web beacons by configuring your email reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.
Contact Us
If you have any other questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at: info@sophiall.com.