Legal & Compliance

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer or other internet-connected device to identify your browser, provide analytics, and remember information about you such as your language preference or login information. They’re completely safe and can’t be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device. You can learn more about cookies by clicking here.

What type of cookies does Awarathon use?

Cookies can either be session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you close your browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it expires or you delete your cookies. Expiration dates are set in the cookies themselves; some may expire after a few minutes while others may expire after multiple years. Cookies placed by the website you’re visiting are called “first party cookies”.

Below is a detailed list of the cookies we use on our website. Our website is scanned with our cookie scanning tool regularly to maintain a list that is as accurate as possible. We classify cookies into the following categories:

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary cookies are necessary for our website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are essential in order to enable you to navigate around the website and use its features. If you remove or disable these cookies, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to use our websites

2. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us improve the way our websites work (e.g. by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily). These track information about visits to the websites so that we can make improvements and report our performance.

For example: analyze visitor and user behavior so as to provide more relevant content or suggest certain activities. These cookies also collect information about how visitors use the websites, which site the user came from, the number of each user's visits, and how long the user stays on the websites. We might also use analytics cookies to test new pages or features to see how users react to them.

3. Functional/Preferences Cookies
Function/Preference cookies allow us to remember the choices made by you (such as as your user name, language, or region) as well as other functionalities (such as controlling the cookie banner, and redirection to a new page) in order to provide a more personalized online experience. These preferences are remembered (through the use of persistent cookies) so that you do not set them again the next time you visit the page.

What is a third-party cookie?

A third-party cookie is one which is not set by the website that you are visiting (eg. cookies set by Google Translate on awarathon.com). Some of Awarathon's own technologies and applications may be hosted in a domain that is a third-party to the domain that you may be visiting.

However, Awarathon does not allow third-party tracking companies to set cookies or other trackers on our website as part of our commitment to protect the privacy of our users with the utmost care. When we embed content that is hosted on a third-party's platform on our website, the third party may set cookies on your browser which are usually for the purposes of providing the service as intended (such as for bandwidth management, to store your preference of language, tracking consent and for collecting anonymous statistics. Wherever possible, we choose the most privacy-friendly options such as Privacy Mode, and Anonymous Statistics Only, to ensure we guarantee you privacy. However, some of the properties of such embeds may not be fully under our control such as our ability to control cookies that are set by these third parties unilaterally when the webpage embedded with such content loads.

Browser settings

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their ‘settings’ preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information. Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products.

Disclaimer

We may update this Cookie Statement periodically to reflect, for instance, changes to the cookies we utilize or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Therefore, please revisit this Cookie Statement regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. For more information regarding cookies, you may contact info@awarathon.com.