COOKIES



We at fairplicity.com use cookies to enhance your online experience, ensure the proper functioning of our website, and provide us with valuable insights into user preferences. As a part of our commitment to being transparent with our users, we’ve created this Cookie Policy to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use and the purpose for using those cookies on our site.

Please take a moment to review our Cookie Policy to understand how these technologies impact your browsing experience and how you can exercise control over your cookie preferences. By using or accessing our website, you agree to this Cookie Policy. This policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the Platform is deemed to be acceptance of such changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

WHAT ARE COOKIES, CLEAR GIFS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?

Cookies: Cookies are small text files that are stores on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. These files contain information about your interactions with the site. Cookies enable websites to recognize your device, track your activities, and personalize your experience. They can be either first-party (set by the website you are visiting) or third-party (set by a domain other than the one you are visiting). Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.

Clear GIFs (Web Beacons): Clear GIFs are tiny, transparent images embedded in a webpage or email. They are often used in combination with cookies to track user behavior and gather information about how individuals interact with content. Clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of a single pixel. It allows website owners or third parties to collect data such as the number of visitors to a page or whether an email has been opened.

Similar Technologies: Beyond cookies and clear GIFs, there are various other technologies that serve similar purposes. This includes:

  • Local Storage and Session Storage: These technologies store data on your device like cookies but with some differences in terms of data retention and accessibility.
  • Pixel Tags: Like clear GIFs, pixel tags are small blocks of code embedded in a webpage or email to track user engagement.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use cookies on our website to enhance the overall user experience. Cookies help us improve the performance of our website by enabling us to:

  • Help you navigate between pages on the site efficiently.
  • Remember information about your preferences and recognize you when you return to our site.
  • Allow us to customize our site according to your individual interests.
  • Measure how people are using our site to improve browsing experience.
  • Make our site easier to use.
  • Generally, give you a better online experience.

Cookies are not unsafe or in themselves a threat to your online privacy, as we do not store sensitive information. The cookies used on our site never collect anything that personally identifies you, such as your name or address, and we never sell your details to any third parties.

HOW ARE COOKIES USED?

The web server providing the webpage can store a cookie on the user's computer or mobile device. An external web server that manages files included or referenced in the webpage is also able to store cookies. All these cookies are called http header cookies. Another way of storing cookies is through JavaScript code contained or referenced in that page.

Each time the user requests a new page, the web server can receive the values of the cookies it previously set and return the page with content relating to these values. Similarly, JavaScript code can read a cookie belonging to its domain and perform an action accordingly.

We use “analytics” cookies, which, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our site and which parts of our site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve our site and better serve our site visitors. We do not generally store any personal information that you provide to us in a cookie.

We also use “social media” cookies to personalize your interaction with third-party social media platforms such as X, Facebook and Youtube, where our site uses such features. Such cookies recognize users of these social media sites when you view content on our site and allow you to quickly share content across media, through the use of simple “sharing” buttons.

COOKIE TYPES

First-party cookies – these are our own cookies set by our site, controlled by us and used to provide information about the usage of our site.

Third-party cookies – these are cookies set any a party other than us. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits our website and when you visit certain other websites and allow them to deliver the services they are providing.

HOW LONG DO COOKIES STAY ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Cookies that are used on our website may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

  • Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave the website.
  • Persistent cookies are stored on your hard drive until you delete them, or they reach their expiry date. These may, for example, be used to remember your preferences when you use the website and recognize you on your return.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

Strictly Necessary cookies: Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. These cookies are essential in helping you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Platform. We may use Strictly Necessary cookies to:

  • Identify you as being logged in to the site.
  • Provide access to protected areas of the website.
  • Remember previously entered text so it’s not lost if the page refreshes.
Consent is not required for Strictly Necessary cookies, as they are required for us to provide the services requested by you.

Performance cookies: These cookies simply help us improve the way our website works. We utilize these cookies to analyze how our visitors use our website and to monitor its performance. They tell us how people use each page, which ones are most commonly viewed, or whether any errors occurred. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience and quickly identify any issues that arise and fix it. We may use Performance cookies to:

  • Store preferences to see which method of linking between pages is most effective.
  • Enable web analytics such as Google Analytics to provide anonymous statistics on how our Platform is used.
  • To assist with error management in helping us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur.
You can delete or manage Performance cookies as instructed in the last section of this Cookie Policy.

Functionality cookies: We use Functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, we may store your geographic location in a cookie to ensure that we show you our website localized for your area. We also use Functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog. We may use Functionality cookies to:

  • Remember if we’ve already asked you if you want to fill in a survey.
  • Detect if you have already seen a pop-up to ensure it doesn't get shown to you again.
  • Process a request from a user to submit a comment or blog or forum post.
If you delete these Functionality cookies, any preferences, or settings you selected will not be retained for later visits.

Targeting cookies: These cookies help us make sure that you see relevant content of interests. Cookies may be placed on your device by our third-party service providers. We may use Targeting cookies to:

  • Collect information about browser habits to target website content.
  • Provide links to social networks like Facebook, X and youtube.

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIES

Most Internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our site.

You can refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. Please be aware that restricting the use of cookies may impact the functionality of our site and you may be unable to access certain parts of our website.

The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the site of its provider. Depending on your browser, further information can be obtained via the following links:

If you use different devices to access our website (e.g. your computer, mobile) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences. Mobile phone users may have to refer to their handset manual for details on how to block cookies using their mobile browser.

CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES ON THIS WEBSITE

By continuing to use our website, you are deemed to consent to our use of the cookies described in this Policy. If you do not consent to our Cookie Policy, then please read "How to Manage Your Cookies" section of this policy.

WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT ANY TIME

If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of the website, you will need to delete and block or disable cookies via your browser settings; see "How to Manage Your Cookies" above for more information on how to do this. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of the website and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on the site.

LINKS TO OTHER PLATFORMS

This Cookie Policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other Platforms. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other Platforms you visit.


Fairplicity Cookies Policy v1.0
Effective Date: February 6, 2024







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