Cookies Policy

Last Updated on: 11 April 2022

This Cookies Policy (“Cookies Policy”) describes how Fused Portal Services (“splidu”, “we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies on the Platform, https://www.splidu.com/. We recommend that you also go through our Privacy Policy, which may be found at https://www.splidu.com/, for additional information on how we collect and use information collected from Users who visit our Platform.

Please read this Cookies Policy and our Privacy Policy carefully. Your continued use of the Platform will signify your acceptance of this Cookies Policy. We may modify this Cookies Policy from time to time, by continuing to access or use our Platform after we have posted a modification on our Platform or have provided you with notice of a modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified Cookies Policy.

By accessing and/or using our Platform, or by clicking a button or checking a box marked ‘I Agree’, you agree to this Cookies Policy. Use of our Platform is also subject to additional terms, conditions, and policies that we separately post on our Platform or provide to you from time to time.

Terms not defined in this Cookies Policy shall have the same meaning as that defined in the Terms and Conditions published on the Platform.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

   Cookies are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your browsing device (such as a computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies can be recognized by the website that downloaded them — or other websites that use the same cookies. This helps websites know if the browsing device has visited them before.

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR?

   Cookies do lots of different jobs, like helping us understand how the Platform is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. We use cookies on the Website and associated domains of Website for the following purposes:

   1. Authentication, Customization, Security and Other Functional Cookies: Cookies help us verify your Account and device and determine when you’re logged in, so we can make it easier for you to access the Platform and/or the Platform Services and provide the appropriate experiences and features. We also use cookies to help prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and to remember choices you’ve made on the Platform, such as your language preference.
   2. Performance and Analytics: Cookies help us analyse how the Platform and/or the Platform Services is/are being accessed and used and enable us to track performance of the Platform. For example, we use cookies to determine if you viewed a page or opened an email. This helps us provide you with information that you find interesting.
   3. Third Parties: Third party cookies are cookies that another party places on your browsing device through our Platform. For example, Facebook will place a cookie on your browsing device if you click on the Facebook link when browsing the Platform.
   4. Website Ads: We partner with third party publishers, advertising networks and service providers to manage our ads on other sites. Our third party partners may set cookies on your device or browser to gather information about your activities on the Platform and other sites you visit, in order to provide you with Website ads. For example, if you visit our Website and also use a social media platform, you may see our Website ad in your social media newsfeed or timeline.
3. WHAT OTHER COOKIES WE USE?

   Our Platform uses cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, and/ or a third-party ad serving software, to gather non-personal identifiable information about Users on our Website. Information such as user activity on our Website, information they are searching on our Website, we use this information to deliver User specific advertisements on our Website. You can choose to opt out from receiving such advertisements by writing an email to us. We may share this non-personal identifiable information with our third-party advertising companies. The sharing with third-party is done to facilitate targeted advertisements on our Website. These third-party may use this non-personal identifiable information in combination with similar non-personal identifiable information collected from other websites. The collection and utilization of information by these third party is governed by their respective privacy policy. We may use different kinds of cookies for various reasons, including but not limited to:

   1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, some services you have asked for such as payment submission cannot be provided.
   2. Session Cookies: Session cookies, also known as ‘temporary cookies’, help websites recognise users and the information provided when they navigate through a website. Session cookies only retain information about a user’s activities for as long as they are on the website. Once the web browser is closed, the cookies are deleted.
   3. Secure Cookies: These cookies help to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
   4. Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Website, for example which pages you go to most often and if you get error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not gather information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works.
   5. Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in). These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font, and other parts of pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
   6. Flash Cookies: We may, in certain circumstances, use Adobe Flash Player to deliver special content, such as video clips or animation. To improve your user experience, Local Shared Objects (commonly known as “Flash cookies”) are employed to provide functions such as remembering your settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored on your device, but they are managed through an interface different from the one provided by your web browser. This means it is not possible to manage Flash cookies through your browser in the same way you would normally manage cookies. Instead, you can access your Flash management tools from Adobe’s website at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.
   7. Tailored Content Cookies: Tailored content cookies help the Website provide enhanced features and display content in a way that is relevant to you. These cookies help the Website determine what information to show you based on how you have used the Website previously. These cookies do not track your browsing activity on other websites.
   8. Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers. This means after you have been to the Website you may see some advertisements about our Platform Services elsewhere on the Internet.
   9. Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow the entity in charge of them to track and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by these cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications, or platforms and to compile browsing profiles of the users of these websites, applications, and platforms in order to make improvements based on analysing the data on how users use the service.
4. HOW LONG WILL COOKIES STAY ON YOUR BROWSING DEVICE?

   The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your browsing device until they expire or are deleted.

5. HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES THROUGH YOUR BROWSER?

   The browser you are using to view the Website can enable, disable, or delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” facility). Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Website and other parts of the Website may also not work properly.

6. HOW CAN YOU CONTROL OR OPT OUT OF COOKIES?

   If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our Website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device. Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your experience of a website, blocking all cookies may mean you are unable to access certain features and content across the sites you visit.

7. CONTACT US

   If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, feel free to contact splidu at info@splidu.com.

You acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accepted to be bound by this Cookies Policy.

Effective as of 1 May 2022