COOKIE POLICY

This Document is describing how and why the website www.makemeclear.com is using cookies, the cookies used by the website and the purpose of the cookies that the website is using.

This website (www.makemeclear.com) is owned by MakeMeClear Lda (hereinafter as ”MakeMeClear”),a privat company headquartered in Esipnho, 23rd Rua Street, 344 3C, Portugal.

We encourage you to read this Policy carefully, in conjunction with the Privacy Policy published on the website to understand how MakeMeClear collects, processes and uses your personal data and to understand the rights as granted by the European Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.

Understanding this document makes it easier to understand the use of cookies and their impact on your user profile.

We use cookies on the website to automatically collect information of technical nature, namely: IP Address, type of internet browser used to browse our website, your operating system, domain name or domain host by through which the user browses the website.

The use of cookies is mainly intended for the following:

Cookies provide users with a pleasant browsing experience and support our efforts to provide more user-friendly services. They are also used in the preparation of anonymous statistics that help us understand how a user benefits from our web pages, allowing us to improve their structure and content, without allowing the user to be personally identified.

I. What are the cookies and what are the purposes of their use?

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website asks your browser to store on your computer, mobile device, or other electronic device through which a user accesses the Internet in order to help the user navigate the website efficiently, perform certain functions and allow the website to remember the actions or preferences of the user over time.

Cookies are generally placed to recognize the terminal used and to present the content in a proper way, helping us to give you a pleasant experience.

Cookies do not contain software or viruses and cannot access the information on the terminal used.

Cookies are used for our website to remember how to interact with the website, for example the sections visited.

Please note that cookies themselves do not request / use / store personal data and, in most cases, do not personally identify internet users. But there are situations when personal data may be collected through cookies to help certain features of the site or to provide the user with a personalized experience. In these situations, the data is encrypted and makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to access it.

Cookies are mainly used for the following:

We will not use cookies for purposes other than those set forth in this policy.

II. What types of cookies do we use?

Our website www.makemeclear.com uses the following cookie categories:

Necessary cookies – are required for the operation of the website and for the appropriate display of the content on the website (browsing cookies). These cookies and the information contained therein will not be used for purposes other than those stated and described in this document.

Preference cookies – we may also use preference cookies to save your preferences and settings and improve your experience on the website. In order to ensure the proper functioning of your preferences, these cookies will not be deleted when you leave our website.

Statistics cookies – these cookies collect information about how a page is used by a user, the type of browser used, the device used to access the page, helping to improve the way our website works, and personalizing advertising displayed according to the accessed pages. In addition, these cookies can also be used to target audience demographics, which is useful in personalizing advertising.

Marketing cookies - these cookies are used to track the activity of users in order to display relevant advertisement.

Some of the cookies from the categories mentioned above are session cookies and some are permanent cookies. The lifetime of a cookie varies depending on the purpose for which it is placed.

Some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookie). This means that once the user has left the website, the session cookie will not be retained.

Other cookies are retained and reused each time the user returns to the website (persistent cookie). These cookies are placed on the used device and reused each time the user accesses the site and have a longer lifespan ranging from a few days to years.

You may decide at any time, at your own discretion, to block the profiling cookie settings or to withdraw your prior consent without affecting your ability to visit the website and benefit from the relevant content.

Cookies can be deleted / removed by the user at any time through the browser settings.

Cookie name Category Provider Cookie Purpose Expiry
CONSENT Necessary Youtube.com Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website 2 years
hl Preferences Makemeclear.com Determines the preferred language of the visitor. Allows the website to set the preferred language upon the visitor’s re-entry. 1 year
_ga Statistics Makemeclear.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years
_gat Statistics Makemeclear.com Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate 1 day
_gid Statistics Makemeclear.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 day
_fbp Marketing Makemeclear.com Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real bidding from third party advertisers 3 months
Ads/ga-audiences Marketing Google.com Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to costumers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites Session
Tr Marketing Facebook.com Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers Session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Marketing Youtube.com Tries to estimate the user’s bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos 179 days
YSC Marketing Youtube.com Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen Session
Yt.innertube::nextld Marketing Youtube.com Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen Persistent
Ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent
Yt-remote-cast-available Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
Yt-remote-cast-installed Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
Yt-remote-connected-devices Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent
Yt-remote-device-id Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent
Yt-remote-fast-check-period Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
Yt-remote-session-app Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
Yt-remote-session-name Marketing Youtube.com Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
d3c8e3ade32649e2a4fff0dabfe20334a66bf23e8a004b998b3bd5563262c1c8 Marketing Nimbleswan.io Unclassified 1 year

Our website uses cookies from third parties, from social networks www.facebook.com ("Facebook"), www.twitter.com ("Twitter"), www.youtube.com ("YouTube"), www.linkedin.com ( “LinkedIn”).

Facebook is a social network managed by Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA). For information on the purpose of Facebook's data collection and processing, your rights in this regard, and to set your privacy options, please read Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Twitter is managed by Twitter Inc. (795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA94107, USA). Information about Twitter can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.

YouTube is a video steaming network managed by Google Inc. (901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California, USA). For more information on Youtube, visit https://www.youtube.com/about/policies/#community-guidelines.

LinkedIn is a social network managed by LinkedIn Ireland, Gardner House, Wilton Place, Wilton Plaza, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn"). For more information you can visit the LinkedIn privacy policy available at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=hb_ft_priv.

III. How to control cookies?

Cookies (except the necessary cookies, which are installed automatically when you access the site) are installed only with your prior consent. For this reason, when you visit our site for the first time, a pop-up is displayed informing you that the site uses cookies and gives you the opportunity to express your choice regarding the categories of cookies that may be installed in the device used in browsing our website.

After expressing your choice, the cookie pop-up will disappear. Consent is not required to use cookies each time you access the site. The first access consent will be withheld and will no longer be displayed on future site accesses.

Most browsers support cookies, but users can configure their browsers to reject them and remove them whenever they want. You can remove all cookies that are already stored on your computer, and you can configure most browsers to prevent cookies from being stored. However, if you do this, you may have to manually adjust certain preferences each time you visit a site, and certain services and features may not work.

You can block / disable cookies in your web browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or part of our site, as some cookies may be strictly necessary for the website.

IV. Cookie Policy version

Please note that it is necessary to read the cookie policy together with the privacy policy constantly, as they may be subject to improvements or changes depending on the legislative changes, if any.

Regardless of the number of changes or additions, the latest version of the policy will be published on our site.

Date of this version: 20.03.2022