VIEWS Digital Marketing’s Cookies & Internet Advertising Policy

A cookie is a small text file placed on your hard disk to enable a site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits, saving you time and effort. While cookies can remember your information to provide you with this convenience, they cannot be used to run programs or spread viruses to your computer.

Cookies are used on this Site to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize the Site. Furthermore, they deliver relevant content, ease site navigation or collect information for statistical use, such as how many visitors our Site receives. There are two common types of cookies that we use, “persistent cookies” and “session cookies.”

When you land on the Site, cookies will be placed on your device by VIEWS or the third parties whose services are used for the overall condition of viewsdigitalmarketing.com. The cookies used on the Site are as follows:

VIEWS uses secure firewalls and cookies to prevent unauthorized access to our internal systems. The security cookie does not contain any personal information, and cannot be opted-out of.

Every time a visitor lands on the Site, our Site performance cookies fires an ‘anonymous cookie.’ These cookies are used to monitor the condition of the Site, visitor behavior, and help us continue improving the content and performance of viewsdigitalmarketing.com.

Google Analytics
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Purpose:
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., to help us see the Site behavior. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyze the frequency of returning visitors, how the Site is found (from advertising or referring websites), and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is combined with data from thousands of other visitors to create an overall picture of the Site’s use. Google Analytics, never identifies the individual or their personal information and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

VIEWS uses functionality cookies to enhance the user experience by tracking the choices you make on the Site. This allows us to tailor content to your preference. All data is stored and used for aggregated and statistical reporting. Form submissions are stored by VIEWS, to manage your identity for customer relationship management initiatives.

SharpSpring

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Purpose:
SharpSpring is a marketing automation software that helps build customer relationships. We use SharpSpring to help see visitor’s behavior and collect personal information through form completion. The main information collected is used to improve our Site’s user experience. SharpSpring only identifies and stores the individual or their personal information if they complete and submit a form on the Site, or knowingly provide their information via other methods.

ShareThis
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Purpose:
ShareThis is a widget that allows visitors to share content through Social Media Applications, email or text by monitoring click-stream activity. The information collected is used to see how many visitors share each content provided on the Site or blog. ShareThis never identifies the individual or their personal information and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

Internet Advertising is delivering promotional marketing messages to you, through viewing ads you may like to see based on your activity on search engines, websites and Social Media Applications. We use tracking pixels to assist with engagement through internet advertising. The technology to do this is made possible through cookies or similar technologies, and we may place these tracking during pixels during your visit. VIEWS employees are unable to reach out to you personally as the process is anonymized and based on audience segmentation.

VIEWS uses marketing and remarketing cookies to understand our audience’s interest better and to promote the VIEWS’s services and products more efficiently. The tracking pixels we may currently use are for LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, Instagram and Google.

In line with new EU regulations, VIEWS is working to change the way our website works and actively get your consent for these cookies. At present, this consent process is not in place.

However, you can accept or decline cookies at any time by modifying the settings in your browser, and you can also erase cookies from your operating system as well. Declining or erasing cookies may preclude you from fully experiencing all the features of this website. You can opt-out by changing your cookie settings in two ways:

You can change your browser’s settings so that it will tell you when cookies are sent, or decline the use of cookies altogether. To understand these settings use the ‘Help’ section in your browser for more information.

You can typically change how third-party cookies and internet advertising interact with you by changing your online behavioral advertising preference. Browser add-ons and extensions can do this.

To identify which third party cookies follow you and understand the sections go to Your Online Choices.

You can control whether you would like to see interest-based ads by changing the settings from the Social Media Applications and search engines.

We keep this Cookie Policy under regular review. We encourage you to periodically review this document to be informed about how VIEWS protects and respects your personal information. This Cookie Policy was last updated on July 2019.