Cookies Policy

App Attic Cookies Policy

Last Updated: November 11th 2021

Regulatory Update

We have updated this policy to reflect the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Guidelines 5/2020  on obtaining consent to cookies under the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679), and the European Court of Justice’s ruling in case C-673/17, Planet49. We are of legislative changes to the consent regime proposed by the draft EU ePrivacy Regulation repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (PECR), and will review this policy subject to any changes the latter introduces.

This Cookies Policy has also been updated to reflect UK data protection legislation from 1 January 2021, and the law of placing cookies on subscribers or users’ “terminal equipment” as it applies as a result of the retained UK law version of EU GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

1. Definitions

When you visit the https://www.appattic.com website or otherwise interact with a App Attic-branded service, such as any desktop or mobile application, App Attic and third parties may send one or more “cookies” to your computer or other devices.

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which a provider of an online service, such as a website operator or an online advertising network agency, can implant on a user’s computer, tablet, smartphone, wearable technology or other smart device when the user visits a website, thereby creating a unique ID. They are stored in a file on the web browser of the user’s device by the websites that they visit.

Most websites, web applications and mobile applications use cookies to recognize a user’s device and store information about their previous visits to:

• Enable the website to function more efficiently.
• Track users’ preferences.
• Personalize content.
• Tailor advertising more effectively, based on previous search history and web browsing behavior, for use in targeted advertising, also known as online behavioral advertising.
• Provide security, for example, where encryption of payment data is needed.

Some features on this site will not function if you do not allow cookies. We may link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you provide us with while on our site.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but some features on the site will not function properly.

2. Who We Are

appattic.com is operated by App Attic Ltd, a private company limited by shares registered in England and Wales under company number 13045669.

Our registered office is at : Flat 22 Lawford Mews, 28 Waterloo Road, Bristol, BS20PN

Our email address is: support@appattic.com

3. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to recognize you and your preferences, improve our site's performance and collect analytical information for ourselves and our business partners.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for such as remembering your login details cannot be provided.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect anonymous information on how people use our website. For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how customers arrive at our website, browse or use our website and highlight areas where we can improve areas such as navigation, the user experience in navigating our services and marketing campaigns. The data stored by these cookies never shows personally identifiable information from which your individual identity can be established.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies remember choices you make such as the country you visit our website from, language and search parameters such as size, color or product line. These can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and to make the visits more tailored and pleasant. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies

These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. The cookies are usually placed by third party advertising networks. They remember the websites you visit and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the relevant third party advertising network’s privacy policy for details of how their cookies work.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on the website on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the relevant platform’s privacy policy for details of how their cookies work.

Tracking Cookies

These Cookies are placed by third party advertising companies and collect information about your browsing habits in order to display advertising more relevant to your interests based on your online navigation. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose or to inform our future marketing campaigns and target bases. For example, we use these Cookies to:

• Show you interest-based advertising following a visit on our Website;
• Provide third party advertising companies and social networks (such as Google, Facebook or Twitter) information about your visit on our Website so that they can show you interest-based advertising;
• Control advertising effectiveness through tracking lead conversion (track that you have made a purchase after following a link to our Website from another third party website).

These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the relevant platform’s privacy policy for details of how their cookies work.

For a full list of cookies used by Google Ads please visit https://business.safety.google/adscookies/

For full details on Facebook's cookies policy, including those we use to run Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads please visit https://www.facebook.com/policy/cookies/

For a full list of cookies used by Hotjar please visit https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information

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In addition, we or third-party data or ad networks we work with may use web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about our services, or other information we or they have collected. Web beacons are tiny graphic objects that are embedded in a web page or email and are usually invisible to the user but allow checking that a user has viewed the page or email. Web beacons may be used within the appattic.com or across our other services to track email open rates, web page visits or form submissions. In some cases, we tie the information gathered by Web Beacons to our users’ personal data. For example, we may use web beacons to let us know which of our marketing emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

We may use local objects such as Flash Cookies or HTML5, to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity may also use Flash Cookies or HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers offer their own management tools for removing Flash Cookies and HTML5.

4. Session and Persistent Cookie

We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. They enable website operators including Huarizo to link the actions of a user during a single browser session to allow them to use the website most efficiently. For example, the Huarizo website uses session cookies to enable it to remember that a user has placed items in their online shopping basket.

A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interest of our users over a longer time period to enhance the experience on our site. Persistent cookies enable a website to “recognize” a user on their return, to remember a user’s preferences and to tailor services to them. They may also be used to track a user’s browsing activity across different websites and to build up a detailed profile of their browsing behavior for use in targeted forms of online behavioral advertising. For this reason, persistent cookies are sometimes referred to as “tracking cookies.”

5. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Session and persistent cookies can be either first or third-party cookies. Whether a cookie is “first” or third “party” refers to the website or the domain placing the cookies. First-party cookies are placed by the website itself when a user visits that site. This means assigning a unique identity to the user by setting the cookie to either the user’s browser and/or their hard drive with a view to tracking the user’s journey on the website.

First-party cookies are commonly used by website operators for session management, personalization and recognition purposes. They allow website operators to build profiles of individual users, their online behaviors and their interests. This allows website operators, for example, to make specific recommendations to a user on the goods and services they may be interested in based on their previous browsing habits. Users can block first-party cookies by adjusting their browser settings. However, on some cases this may lead to a loss of functionality on the website visited.

Third-party cookies are cookies planted by parties, other than the website operator (as defined by the URL placed in the address bar of the browser). It usually happens when the website incorporates images, social media plugins or advertising from other sites, as these can set cookies as well. It also includes cookies set by third-party online advertising network (“adtech”) providers. This allows website operators to rent out website space for the purposes of behavioral advertising as part of a monetization strategy. As with first-party cookies, users are able to block third-party cookies through their browser settings.

6. How We Use Session and Persistent Cookies

We use both session cookie and persistent cookie on our websites, with the following purposes: to recognize your computer when you visit our website; to track you as you navigate our website and to enable certain features, such as logging in, posting projects, project and task management, communication; to track your IP and location, the use of VPNs or similar technologies; to improve the website's usability; to analyze the use of our website; in the administration of this website; to debug and fix any potential errors you might encounter; to prevent fraud and to improve the security of our website; to personalize the website for you, including through targeted ads. Session cookie expire at the end of the user session, while persistent cookies are set to expire after up to 10 years. The information and data gathered from all these cookies is stored for up to 10 years.

7. Third-Party Cookies We Use

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, Adroll, Retargeter, SiteScout, Exact Drive, MailChimp, Drip, HotJar, HubSpot, CrazyEgg, Clicktale, Smartlook, Mouseflow, FullStory, UserZoom, Contentsquare, Lucky Orange, EyeQuant, SessionCam, ReactFlow, Optimizely, Intercom, UserTesting, Google Analytics, Visual Website Optimizer (and all their affiliates).
The cookies used by these 3rd party sites help us to analyse how users use the site and to count the number of people who use the site. Third party analytics cookies store your IP address anonymously and neither App Attic Ltd or these 3rd party companies associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information. These cookies will expire after 10 years. This information will be held for 10 years.

CrazyEgg, Clicktale, Smartlook, Mouseflow, FullStory, UserZoom,Contentsquare, Lucky Orange, EyeQuant, SessionCam, ReactFlow, Optimizely,Intercom, UserTesting, Google Analytics, Visual Website Optimizer will be usedfor behavioral analytics. These cookies will expire after 10 years. Thisinformation will be held for 10 years.

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may send us an email at cookies@appattic.com

8. Disclaimer

Notwithstanding, the audit undertaken regarding our cookies, it is possible we may have missed one from our list above. If you happen to find one that is being set on our site, please let us know.

9. English Law

This policy, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of it, will be interpreted in accordance with the law of England and Wales. Any disputes will be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.