Cookie Policy

This cookie policy ("Cookie Policy") of Sevio Digital Limited (alone or together with other Sevio affiliates - "Sevio", "we", "us" or "our") aims to inform you about the use of cookies and other automated means of data collection on any digital property of Sevio, including the following websites: sevio.com (referred to as the "Sites"), along with any other content discovery platform (referred to as the "Services") which you may see on third-party websites belonging to our publishers and/or other customers that allow us to place our content on their websites in order to redistribute their own content or the content of our advertisers and/or customers (collectively known as the "Customers").

Regarding the term "cookies" from this Cookie Policy, we refer to both cookies and any other automated means of data collection, as defined later below. By visiting, interacting, or using the Sites, you expressly agree to the use of cookies as explained henceforth. We can't access nor control the use of cookies and other automated means of data collection on our Customers' Sites; therefore, we request them to obtain consent on our behalf whenever it's required by applicable data protection laws.

This Cookie Policy does not control the use of the Sites nor the processing of the Users' Personal Information (as defined in our Privacy Policy). For more details regarding the use of the Sites, please consult our Terms & Conditions. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data whenever you're using or interacting with our Sites or Services. You can refer to the Sites or platforms of our Customers where we place our widgets to know more about how they might collect cookies or process your Personal Information.

This section will help you learn more about cookies, other automated means of data collection, and how they all work.

A cookie is a small text file, usually composed of letters and numbers, which is stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or any other device that you might use when entering a certain site. It's mostly used by the owners of different sites in order to make them function, improve their performance, or collect analytical information.

1.2 Types of Cookies

What types of cookies are there?

There are several types of cookies. Their classification is made according to their lifespan, role, and source, as follows:

a. Types of cookies depending on the lifespan

• Session cookies: they are temporarily stored in the cookie folder of the web browser until the user exits that site or closes the browser window (e.g., when logging in / logging out on a webmail account or on social networks).
• Persistent cookies: they are stored on the hard drive of a computer or equipment (depending on the default lifetime of the cookie). Persistent cookies also include those placed by a website other than the one the user is currently visiting - known as 'third-party cookies' (cookies placed by third parties) - which can be used anonymously to memorize the interests of a user so that advertising is delivered as relevant as possible to users.

b. Types of cookies depending on their role

• Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are necessary for websites to function properly. Strictly necessary cookies allow you to navigate through the site and benefit from its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to offer certain features, such as automatically redirecting to the least busy server or retaining your list of preferences.
• Functional cookies: these cookies record information about the choices that users make and also allow site operators to customize the site according to the user’s requirements. For example, cookies can be used to save preferences related to a category/segment.
• Performance and analysis cookies: these types of cookies offer the possibility to the operators of the internet sites to monitor the visits and traffic sources and the way in which the users interact with the website or certain sections of the website. The information provided by the analysis cookies helps operators understand how visitors use the sites and then use this information to improve the way the content offered to users is presented.
• Targeting and advertising cookies: these cookies may provide the ability to monitor the users' online activities and establish user profiles, which can then be used for marketing purposes. For example, based on cookies, the products and services agreed upon by a user can be identified, this information subsequently serving to send appropriate advertising messages to that user.

c. First-party cookies vs. third-party cookies

Each cookie has a "responsible" (i.e., website / Internet domain) that places that cookie.

First-party cookies are placed by the Internet domain/website accessed by the user (whose address appears in the address bar of the browser). For example, if the user visits the www.sevio.com site and the domain of the cookie placed on his computer is www.sevio.com, then it is a first-party cookie.

A third-party cookie is placed by another Internet domain/website than the one accessed by the user; this means that the website accessed also contains information from a third-party website - for example, an advertising banner that appears on the accessed site. Thus, if the user visits the www.sevio.com site but the cookie placed on his computer has as domain rubiconproject.com, then it is a third-party cookie.

d. Embedded content (buttons, applications, and social widgets)

Web pages allow the implementation of social buttons or widgets from a third-party, which allow users to interact with the sites whose social buttons or widgets are implemented. The user's interaction with the social buttons or widgets from a third-party allows the third-party to collect some information about that user, including the IP address, information in the page header, and information about the browser.

e. How do targeting and advertising cookies work?

In general, data about internet browsing activity is collected and analyzed anonymously. If a specific interest emerges from this analysis, a cookie is placed on the user's computer, and this cookie determines what advertisement the user will receive, which is called interest-based advertising.

Interest-based advertising is a way of delivering advertisements on the websites you visit and making them more relevant to your interests. The common interests are grouped according to the navigation activity previously carried out, and the users are served only the advertising that suits their interests. In this way, advertising is relevant and as useful as possible.

The data we obtain from our trusted business partners that place third-party cookies on our Sites may include, but is not limited to, details about the User's geographic location (i.e., country, city), data regarding the device and operating system of the User, the webpages accessed by the User while browsing our Sites, the links that redirected the visitor to our Sites, the accessing dates and times, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collaborate with third parties that employ their proprietary cookies, web beacons, and other technologies which record Site Visitors' online activities, either on our Sites and/or other websites, so that we can provide personalized advertisements that are suited to your interests.

For more details about how we may use third parties to deliver you advertisements that are tailored to your interests, please consult our Third-Party Online Advertising section (Privacy Policy).

Our Privacy Policy shall apply to the processing of any of the above Information, along or together with other data, if this constitutes Personal Data under applicable laws.

Cookies help us receive information about your operating system, browser type, the pages you've visited when you accessed our Customer's sites, the links that led you to our Customer's sites, the time and date of your visit, the geographic location of you internet service provider (i.e., country, city), and other diagnostic data.

The information we collected through third-party cookies on the Sites may be used by us to keep track of your Information and avoid re-entering said data the next time you access our Sites, to observe which pages and sections you have visited on the Sites, to keep track of the number of visitors on our Sites and the webpages that have been accessed, and to improve our Sites' management and functionality. The use of third parties may also be employed by us for the monitoring and/or analysis of your online browsing on our Sites or to provide you with personalized advertisements based on your browsing history via third-party websites.

If you want to know more regarding how our third parties may collect your Information or how you can receive personalized advertisements based on your interests, please review our Third-Party Online Advertising section (Privacy Policy).

For our third-party cookies, also refer to the relevant policies of each third-party for further details:

• For Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US and https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US;
• For LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy and https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy;
• For Microsoft: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement;
• For Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy.

There are several categories of cookies used by our service providers on the Sites for accomplishing such purposes. The categories are described below as: