Cookies and Data policy
Cookies Policy
Thesocialmirror.fi ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://www.thesocialmirror.fi website (hereinafter referred to as the "Service").
Thesocialmirror.fi operates under Gn-Projects Tmi Finland.
Contact information in matters related to personal data files / Cookies Policy / Terms of Service
[email protected]
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://www.thesocialmirror.fi
Updated: 26.06.2020 (26 June 2020)
1. Use of cookies
Use of Cookies on this website, emails, web services, ads, and interactive applications use cookies to ensure that our services work best.
1.1 What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file, usually made up of letters and numbers, that is sent by our web server to a browser cookie file on your computer's hard drive. The main purpose of this cookie is to enable our web server to provide customized web pages to the user, which makes the visit to our website more personalized and better suited to the user's individual needs.
Some cookies are important to the operation of this website and are automatically activated when users access the site. Some cookies allow us to provide you with the services and features that are best suited to your needs and to tailor our services to make your website easy and fast to use.
1.2 What kind of cookies does this website use?
These online ad tracking cookies serve relevant online ads based on what you've viewed and clicked on, and on the pages of our website you've visited.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
- Social network cookies. We use Pinterest.com and Facebook.com cookies on our service for the purpose of that customers will be able to share/like/post/pin easily our pages and information. More information about their privacy policy can be found:
- Pinterest privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
- Facebook privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy
- Google Analytics privacy policy: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on. https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!%2F
1.3 Log Files
Our websites follow a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
1.4 Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on Thesocialmirror.fi to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
Like any other website, Thesocialmirror.fi uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
1.5 DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (“interest based targeting”).
The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “none personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting https://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
1.6 Analytics
We use our own analytics and Google Analytics services to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
- Our own Analytics
Our own Analytics is a service that tracks and reports website traffic. We use the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. We may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network and provide a better service to our customers.
- Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a service that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network and provide a better service to our customers.
1.7 Advertising Partners
Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
- com
Infolinks.com is a service that tracks and reports website traffic. Infolinks.com uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. Infolinks.com may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network and provide a better service to our customers.
https://www.infolinks.com/support/general/gdpr/
1.8 Enable and disable cookies and similar technologies
The Internet browser menu bar's help menu informs users
- How to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies
- How to set the browser to notify the user that a new cookie has been received
- How to completely disable cookies
If cookies are disabled, much of the content on our websites will also be inaccessible. To avoid this, we recommend that you enable cookies.
There are several web publications on cookies to read more about. For example, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org
1.9 Social media
- Facebook (privacy statement at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy .)
- Pinterest (privacy statement at https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.)
1.10 reCAPTCHA
ReCAPTCHA collects personal information from users to make this determination of whether they’re human and not a bot.
You acknowledge and understand that the reCAPTCHA API works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sending these data to Google for analysis. The information collected in connection with your use of the service will be used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes. It will not be used for personalised advertising by Google.
Some of personal information does the reCAPTCHA collect?
- The reCAPTCHA algorithm will check to see if there’s a Google cookie placed on the computer being used.
- ReCAPTCHA-specific cookie will be added to the user’s browser, and a complete snapshot of the user’s browser window at that moment in time will be captured, pixel by pixel.
- Some of the browser and user information collected at this time includes:
- All cookies placed by Google over the last 6 months,
- How many mouse clicks you’ve made on that screen (or touches if on a touch device),
- The CSS information for that page,
- The date,
- The language your browser is set to,
- Any plug-ins you have installed on the browser, and
- All Javascript objects
More and updated information about the personal information which is collected and privacy policy of ReCAPTCHA can be found here: https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy/
ReCAPTCHA feature can be found on contact us page.