What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text file that is stored on the user’s machine by the web browser. It contains an identifier that is sent from one web browser to another. Every time the browser requests a page from the server, this identifier is sent back to it. Cookies are used by the websites to store browsing information, for authentication and some user data. They are specifically used to identify whether a user is visiting a website for the second time. However, no information that can personally identify a user is stored through cookies.
If you access the STechies site, both the third parties and the STechies will use cookies to monitor your activities. Information like your usage of the site, browsing history and some access data about you will be stored.
We use both session and persistent cookies. The life of a session cookies ends right after you exit the browser. The persistent cookies stay in your browser for some time. They are used to execute a request you send for a long time, like if you want to stay logged in our site. We use session cookies to track you while you are in a particular browsing session, like the time you log in our site for the first time.
The following policy depicts how third parties and STechies use the cookies when you are on our website or elsewhere. This will help you manage your cookies better. However, this may change your experience while you are on our site, and certain features may have limitations, like being logged in.
Why do we use Cookies?
Kindly note that our site uses the cookies to improve the services provided to our users. The technologies like flash cookies also known as local shared objects, pixel tags, and web beacons. This helps us deliver better services and monitor the existing services to the users.
These cookies are implemented by us whenever you visit our site through the mobile application or the browser. Through the usage, and the technologies mentioned above, we may collect additional information.
Primarily we use the cookies for:
- Authenticating a user who wants to access a particular user account.
- Based on the user’s activity and preferences while accessing the different sections of our website, we aim to improve the quality of our products and services.
- To improve communication with our users and provide them with customized content, cookies are used to manage the products.
- Managing the business activities of the Marketing and Advertising departments of the company.
- To enhance the efficiency of our products and detect the errors and bugs in the code.
- For identifying the individual users when they are visiting different sections of our website.
- To store the settings of individual users.
- To store the preferences and browser data of individual users.
- It is also used to store all the different choices you have made while at our site.
Google Analytics
Advertising partners like Google use cookies to display various ads on our website. Google analytics is a very popular traffic analysis tool used by websites to track website usage by people. Through it, the website owners can understand the number of visitors they have on their site, and obtain real-time insight on the site’s performance.
The STechies platform uses Google Analytics to monitor the website traffic, behaviour of different users, in order to improve the quality of our services. To understand the ways through which you can control the information processed and shared by Google, collected by Google on https://www.stechies.com, visit the link https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
What Information We Collect
We collect some information you enter directly like your selection and participation in our courses and the data about the third party platforms you connect through STechies. The services you communicate with at our site, data about your system through which you access the site and the total time spent on our platform are also collected automatically.
When you visit the site, apart from some personal information, certain anonymous data is also stored. This data includes information like the IP address of the system by through which the site was accessed, the name of the Internet Service provider and the pages you access while at the site. Data like the time and date you accessed the site, geographic information and the site from which you linked to the site. Your IP address can be used to locate the organization where you are associated. This anonymous data is used to manage the services offered to our users, for analyzing the user’s usage habits and improve the site’s overall performance.
We can use certain data about you along with your site’s profile like your interactions on the platform, content you view, the pages you access and the comments you provide. All this is useful to maintain your profile on our site.
What are my privacy options?
The cookies are automatically accepted by most browsers, but if you want to stop this service you have to look at the browser support articles. If you change the settings to decline cookies you may not be able to get some interactive features in Services, and have problems while signing in the site and customization.
You can visit the Google Ads Settings page to customize Google Display Network ads and stop Google Analytics’ display advertising.
To gather more information about disabling cookies and how to target them, you can access the www.allaboutcookies.org website.
Updates & Contact Info
We may update this cookie policy occasionally. When such alterations are made, we will let you know and post the policy on the website along with the date from which it will be effective. We will notify you beforehand about any material change we make.
For any questions regarding cookies, mail us at contact@stechies.com.