This is the Cookie Policy of ‘PlaRecon’, accessible from https://www.plarecon.com. We may refer to ‘PlaRecon’ as “we”, “our”, “us”, “blog”, “site”, “website” below. PlaRecon understands the importance of protecting your personal information and you can find our ‘Privacy Policy’ here.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience while you navigate through the website, that tell us which parts of our website you have visited, measure the effectiveness of ads and web searches, and give us insights into your on-site behaviour so that we can improve our communications and current/future products. We like most websites use them and these cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. This page describes what information the cookies gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality. Cookies can be ‘Persistent’ or ‘Session’ Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

What Cookies Do We Use?

• Necessary or Essential Cookies [Type: Session cookies; Administered by: us] Purpose: These cookies are essential for websites on our services to perform their basic functions.
  • We use these cookies to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account related functions. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. In addition, we use third party trackers like Google reCAPTCHA, in sign up, login, and other forms- details below under tracking cookies section.
• Functionality Cookies [Type: Persistent cookies; Administered by: us] Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your preference to provide you with a more personal experience and avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
  • We use this to remember your cookie preference through ‘cookie consent’ banner in the bottom of our website.
  • We offer newsletter or email subscription services where cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
  • When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages, comment or feedback forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
• Tracking and Performance Cookies [Type: Persistent cookies; Administered by: Third-Parties] Purpose: These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. They don’t identify you personally.
  • We use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics’ Cookie Usage on Websites, visit the official Google Analytics Developer’s Guides page.
  • We use Google reCAPTCHA v3 in sign up, login, and other forms like the contact, feedback and comments form to protect the website against spam and other types of automated abuse and provide you a better experience. It detect abusive traffic in the website without user interaction, tracks and learns from the real traffic on our site, and verifies requests with a score. For more information on Google reCAPTCHA’s functioning, visit the Google reCAPTCHA Developer’s Guides page.
  • We may also use these cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how you and our other users react to them and make site optimizations based on the results.
• Targeting and Advertising Cookies [Type: Persistent cookies; Administered by: Third-Parties] Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to enable Us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to You. These Cookies use information about your browsing history to group You with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with Our permission, third party advertisers can place Cookies to enable them to show adverts which We think will be relevant to your interests while You are on third party websites.
  • The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick Dart Cookie to serve more relevant ads based upon their visit to this and other sites on the internet and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on how AdSense uses cookies, visit the official Google AdSense Help Center page.
  • We also use Social Media buttons and login/share plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways: login, comment, share etc. For these to work the following social media sites, including but not limited to- Facebook, Google, Twitter, and/or Telegram– will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies as mentioned in the Privacy Policy page of PlaRecon.

Controlling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser ‘Help’ section for how to do this). For more details on disabling cookies, visit: aboutcookies.org. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. You can use Ads Settings to manage the Google ads that you see and opt out of Ads Personalisation. For more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for interest-based advertising you may visit the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programmes in many countries, such as the US-based WebChoices: YourAdChoices Control for the Web or the EU-based Your Online Choices. On a mobile device, you may also be to adjust your settings to limit tracking. For example, you can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on, or from Hotjar by using the Do Not Track header or visit NAI mobile opt out information page.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.  However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: [email protected]
• Web page: PlaRecon Contact

For more details on the Privacy Policy of PlaRecon, see Privacy Policy.

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