Cookie policy
This is the Cookie and other Local Storage Policy for the Verce app, Verce website, and Linkpool by Verce website.
What Are Cookies:
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer/phone, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored.
What is Local Storage:
Cookies are a form of local storage, as it’s data stored on your device. Local storage is basically storage on your device, and can include browser storage methods called “sessionStorage” and “localStorage”. The information is often used to make your experience with a website or app better.
How We Use Cookies and Local Storage:
We use cookies (web) and local storage (app) to enhance your experience while using our website and app, including a smooth authentication process and keeping your basic settings for later.
Disabling Cookies/Local storage:
You can choose what non-essential cookies you allow us to use, in our cookie banner. After setting your preference, you can update it by clicking the “Update cookie settings” in the main menu. You can also disable ALL cookies in your browser settings, but this will make Verce unusable.
In the mobile app you can disable the use of advertising-id (IDFA/AAID) to show personalized ads and/or analytics/tracking/marketing-purposes as you wish by setting your privacy preferences in the privacy section of the app.
The Cookies/Local Storage Data We Set:
Mobile app:
- Authentication-information
In order to keep you signed in so you don’t have to sign in every time you visit the app, we store some authentication-information in your device's local storage, which is removed when you sign out of the app.
- Settings-information
We save some non-personal identifiable information in a local storage in order to improve your experience when using the app, such as your settings.
- Feature-information
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these local storage data may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the app whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
Website:
- Authentication related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
- Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Settings cookies
These cookies are used to remember your settings, aswell as your cookie-preferences.
- Feature cookies
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
Third Party Cookies:
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies/other localstorage usage you might encounter through the use of Verce.
Mobile app:
- Google Admob for Firebase
We use Google Admob for Firebase and their partners to display ads in order to keep the app free. Google and their partners will use your advertising-id (IDFA/AAID) to serve personalized ads and track your usage of Verce, if you allow it in your privacy settings. We also use Google Analytics for Firebase, which also uses the advertising-id to help us analyze the app's performance if you allow it.
Website
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, will set cookies through our website which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. But you will get the choice before they set their cookies.
- Daily.co
Daily.co might set cookies in your browser to save your call-settings. If you visit their site, they will also use their analytics tools such as Google Analytics (which can set cookies in your browser to help them better understand how people are using their web site and services. We use Daily to provide video call functionality on our platform.
- Pollfish
Pollfish will set a cookie in your browser (called uuid), containing an identifier which is used for anonymously identifying you to serve relevant surveys.
- Hotjar
Hotjar stores cookies in your browser, which are responsible for displaying the correct content to you without personally identifying you. Hotjar also stores some information in your browsers Session storage. You can view all the cookies and session storage data which the Hotjar script creates here: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information
More Information:
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Template Generator and the Privacy Policy Template Generator.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through email:
post@verce.me