Cookie Policy

The Cookies Notice explains how Vaave is uses cookies and similar technologies in the course of our business, through our website Vaave. Itexplains what these technologies are, and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that a website asks the user’s browser to save on the user’s system/device, when a user visits the website, to remember the user’s device upon revisiting the website or during the session. Cookies set up by the domain Vaave, are called first-party cookies and cookies set by other domain(s) than the website(s) you are visiting are termed as third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are generally used for marketing and advertising purposes.

2. PURPOSE OF USING COOKIES?

Our website Vaave uses cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

1. To analyze your use of our website
2. For promotional and marketing purposes
3. To understand your preferences such as preferred language
4. To deliver information that matches your interests
5. To help us understand our audience and traffic patterns
6. To let you automatically log into programs and parts of our site that require membership
7. To manage and present the information displayed on our website

3. TYPES OF COOKIES USED BY Vaave

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
2. Targeting Cookies
3. Performance Cookies

4. COOKIE LIST

The table below provides additional details on the specific cookies used on Vaave:

Strictly Necessary Cookies - Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites to support functions such as logging in, and payment transactions.

Cookie key	Domain	Path	Cookie type	Expiration	Description
li_gc	.linkedin.com	/	Third-party	6 months	Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes
PHPSESSID	www.vaave.com	/	First-party	Session	Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.
AnalyticsSyncHistory	.linkedin.com	/	Third-party	1 month	Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries

Targeted Cookies - These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store direct personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

Cookie key	Domain	Path	Cookie type	Expiration	Description
lidc	.linkedin.com	/	Third-party	1 day	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.
UserMatchHistory	.linkedin.com	/	Third-party	1 month	This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences.
IDE	.doubleclick.net	/	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
test_cookie	.doubleclick.net	/	Third-party	15 minutes	This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.
bcookie	.linkedin.com	/	Third-party	1 year	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.
_gcl_au	.vaave.com	/	First-party	3 months	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
bscookie	.www.linkedin.com	/	Third-party	1 year	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
_gat_gtag_UA_730295_18	.vaave.com	/	First-party	53 seconds	This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate).

Functionality Cookies- Not Applicable

Performance Cookies- Performance cookies are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it. These cookies don’t collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of a website.

Cookie key	Domain	Path	Cookie type	Expiration	Description
_gid	.vaave.com	/	First-party	1 day	This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
_ga_6D039CR3BW	.vaave.com	/	First-party	1 year 1 month	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
_ga	.vaave.com	/	First-party	1 year 1 month	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

Any cookie, whose purpose has not been identified by us or is unknown to our current understanding, is classified together as “Unclassified Cookies”. Such cookies may or may not adhere to our policy and we cannot take ownership of said cookies, however, we would periodically and actively try to investigate them and categorize them in their respective cookie categories for the benefit of our users, partners and customers.

5. Other tracking technologies like web beacons

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors on a website. We may use other similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our websites or opened an e-mail including these. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and hence, declining cookies will impair their functioning.

6. How can I control the cookie preferences?

Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you may remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings. Removing or rejecting the cookies may affect the performance of the website. You may opt-out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/. Or you may opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out page: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Also, Please follow the instructions below to disable cookies:

• How to disable cookies in Firefox?
• How to disable cookies in Chrome?
• How to disable cookies in Safari?

7. Update and Review

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on the Policy. For any queries, reach out to our Data Protection Officer dpo@vaave.com