Cookie Policy

Effective Date: March 2024

As you navigate through and interact with our websites or application, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our website or application, including traffic data, time zone logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our platforms.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

If you require more information related to our privacy practices, please access our Privacy Policy by visiting www.side.com/privacy-policy/. If you have questions about the Cookie Policy or data privacy, information can be obtained by contacting privacy@side.com.

Background

What are Cookies?

These are small files of letters and numbers that are stored on a user’s browser or the hard drive of the user’s device. Cookies allow website or application owners to link the actions of users during a browser session.

First-party cookies: Cookies are set by a website or application that the user is visiting at the time. These cookies are directly placed by the website, domain, or Side platform.

Third-party cookies: Cookies set by a domain other than that of the website being visited or application being used by the user (These are generally cookies placed by another entity on a website or application visited by users).

Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. Every time the user revisits the website, the cookies are activated.

Session cookies: These cookies are temporary, once a browser is closed, all session cookies are deleted.

Use of Cookies and Purpose

Cookies that are used on our website or application provide us with the ability to manage your preferences, customize and display relevant content to you, and evaluate usage information related to your visits. The following information describes the types of cookies and similar technologies that are used by us:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies allow the user to navigate around the website and use essential features (such as secure areas). They are used:

To identify and authenticate the user.
To ensure the user connects to the correct website service.
For security purposes.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how users use the website, for example, which pages a user has visited and if there are any errors during that visit. Performance cookies do not collect identifiable information about the user. Some {{organization.name}} performance cookies may be managed by third parties. Performance cookies are used to:

Provide statistics on website use and for web analytics purposes.
Provide feedback to affiliates and to carry out affiliate tracking.
Gather data on how many users of the website viewed particular services or products.
Improve the website by measuring errors.
Test designs of the website.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies provide services to users or remember settings for users. Some functionality cookies may be managed by third parties. Functionality cookies are used to:

Remember layout, text size, or color preferences for unique users.
Remember when users have already been asked to fill in a survey.
Remember when users have visited or engaged with specific website components.
Show users when they are logged in to the website.
Show embedded videos.

Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies are used to track user visits to the website, and other websites, apps and online services. Targeting cookies are used to:

Display targeted ads within the website.
Improve the delivery of personalized content and ads and to measure ad campaign success through the website.

Third-Party Cookies We Use

Some cookies and other automatic data collection technologies that we use are from third party companies, such as Google, Hubspot, Instagram, Intercom, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Facebook, and Hotjar to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our sites, which may also be used to provide measurement services and target ads. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our sites. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies.

Consent

Some jurisdictions require consent for Cookies to be placed on a user device. Consent can be given by clicking on the appropriate button in the cookie banner displayed to the user. If a user does not wish to give consent or would like to withdraw their consent to any cookies at any time, the user will need to delete and block or disable cookies via their browser settings. Disabling cookies affects website functionality and may prevent user access to particular features of the website.

Managing Your Preferences

You can manage the cookies that are set to activate when you interact with our website or application by changing your preferences via the pop-up cookie banner on the web page or by navigating to the relevant browser settings. Please note that the website may not function properly or at all if a user blocks all cookies. If a user has not adjusted their browser settings to refuse cookies, the system will automatically issue all cookies. The following links for commonly used browsers may be helpful, or you can use the help option in your browser for more details:

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.

For more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for interest-based advertising you may visit the https://thenai.org.

Do Not Track Signals

In general, we do not currently respond to or take any action in regard to web browser “Do Not Track” signals or other mechanisms that give users the option to control how data about their online activities is collected over time and across websites or services operated by third parties. However, our third-party business partners who interface with our Services may honor ‘Do Not Track’ signals.