Apps Beyond LLC, Countdown+ Cookie Policy
Safeguarding your privacy is important to Apps Beyond LLC and our affiliates (collectively, “Apps Beyond”, "Countdown+", "CountdownPlus", “we”, “us”, or “our”). The objective of this Policy is to provide you, as a user of CountdownPlus’ services, with clear and accessible information about the cookies that we use, the role they play in helping us provide the best possible experience to you and the choices you have when it comes to your cookie settings.
1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small data file that is placed on the hard drive of your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device when you visit a website. They are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device.
When we refer to cookies, this includes other similar technologies such as tracking pixels (transparent graphic images placed on a web page or in an email, which indicate that a page or email has been viewed), Google Tag Manager, or web storage used in desktop software or mobile devices.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. They can also help to ensure that ads you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
Some cookies are functional and enable additional functionality when a user accesses the website (e.g. allows users to save user preferences or language suggestions). Other cookies are non-functional and allow the website and third parties to tailor messages and advertising relevant to a user’s interests. We use cookies to keep track of how you use our website and services so we may provide a personalized service.
There are a few different categories of cookies, including:
Session and Persistent Cookies- Session Cookies - these are cookies which expire once you close your web browser,
- Persistent Cookies - these are cookies which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them.
- First-party cookies - these are cookies set by the website that you are visiting at that time, either by us, or by a third party at our request;
- Third-party cookies - these are cookies that are set by a party other than that of the website you are visiting. If you visit the CountdownPlus website or use the CountdownPlus Service and another party sets a cookie through that website this would be a third-party cookie.
2. What types of Cookies do we use?
In an effort to provide increased transparency with respect to our use of cookies, we wanted to provide you with additional information about the types of cookies we employ. We may use any of the following types of cookies on the Services as described in the table below:
| Cookie Type | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | These cookies are necessary for the functionality of the Services. These cookies can be disabled in your browser but may prevent certain parts of the Services from functioning. |
| Analytics Cookies | These cookies help us to determine the source and amount of traffic to the Services and help us to better understand how our visitors use the Services. If you choose to disable these cookies, it will impact our ability to measure the performance of the Services. |
| Functionality Cookies | These cookies help us to enhance the functionality of our website, including through the use of customization or personalization. These cookies may be set by third parties. Disabling these cookies may prevent certain parts of the Services from functioning. |
| Advertising or Targeting Cookies | Advertising or targeting cookies may be set by third parties to facilitate the delivery of targeted advertising, including through the delivery of interest-based advertising, and helping us measure the effectiveness of our campaigns. If you disable these cookies, you may receive less relevant or targeted advertising. |
For more information about the cookies we deploy, the purposes for which they are deployed, and how to manage the use of cookies on your device, please see below. You can also learn more about cookies and set cookies preferences from Cookies & You, AllAboutCookies.org, Ad Choices - AboutAds.info, and Network Advertising Initiative.
3. What Information Is Processed?
Our cookies and other tracking technologies will collect persistent identification numbers to enable our website to recognize you as a repeat visitor and apply your settings, the location from which you are currently accessing the website and location you selected in your last session, preferences you set on our website, actions you take on our website, and your browsing history. Your data will be processed in the EU and in the United States in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
4. How We Use Cookies
| Cookie Type | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | These cookies are necessary for the functionality of the Services. These cookies can be disabled in your browser but may prevent certain parts of the Services from functioning. |
| Analytics Cookies | We deploy these cookies to help us identify how users navigate to and around our website, to track your use of the website, to carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services, and to help us better understand your requirements and interests. We may also obtain information from our email alerts or other communications we send to you, including whether you opened or clicked on any of its content. |
| Functionality Cookies | These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to parts of web pages that you can customize. |
| Advertising or Targeting Cookies | These cookies allow us to serve advertising more relevant to you and your interests on our website and other websites. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. |
| Third Party Cookies | We may also use cookies issued by third parties to track the websites you visited before and after our website or search terms you used immediately prior to visiting our website. This helps us improve our online profile and to serve advertising more relevant to you and your interests. We may also use such cookies to display content from third parties. The third party suppliers are responsible for the cookies they set on our site. |
5. How We Manage Use Of Cookies
Browser CookiesYou can withdraw or modify your consent to our use of cookies at any time. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, or would like to stop cookies being stored on your device in the future, you can change the settings in your web browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” settings).
Note that changing cookie settings may affect certain features within this website. To find out more information, you can visit Cookies & You, and AllAboutCookies.org
On your mobile device, you may use the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting (on iOS devices) or a setting to “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” (on Android) which allows you to limit the use of information about your use of apps for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests.
Internet AdvertisingCertain targeted advertisements that we (or a service provider acting on our behalf) display to you based on information about your online activities across websites and other interactive properties operated by third parties may include the “Ad Choices” icon or another mechanism to opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements.
- Click on the AdChoices icon or visit AboutAds.info to receive more information about the collection and use of information about your online activities for interest based advertising or to learn how to opt out of having your data used for interest based advertising by Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) participating companies.
- Visit NAI Consumer Opt Out to learn how to opt out from the use of information about your online activities for interest based advertising by NAI member companies.
- Visit The Canadian AdChoices Program if you live in Canada
- Visit Your Online Choices | EDAA if you live in Europe
5. Legal Basis For Processing
The information we obtain from our use of cookies may contain your personal data. We will process your personal data for required and functional cookies based on our legitimate interests. For interaction and marketing cookies, we will process your personal data based on your consent.
For more information about how we process your personal information, obtain consent and how you may withdraw consent you can visit our Privacy Policy.
By continuing to browse on our website you consent to us deploying cookies as described in this policy.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies or this policy, you may email us at [email protected].
