Cookie Policy
Effective Date: September 22, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website and use our services, including our Unified Post Tool and Unified Chat Tool. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies set by the website owner are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., like advertising, interactive content, and analytics).
Why do we use cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website and services to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
What types of cookies do we use?
The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described below:
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website to you, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our services function.
Purpose: To maintain a secure session for you during your visit and to remember your cookie consent preferences.
Examples: Session_ID, user_auth, cookie_consent_status
Duration: Typically, these are session cookies that are deleted when you close your browser.
2. Performance Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how you use our website. This information is used to help us understand how our website is being used, how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.
Purpose: To collect data on website traffic and user behavior to improve our services.
Examples: _ga, _gid (Google Analytics)
Duration: Varies depending on the cookie, but can be up to 2 years.
3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
Purpose: To remember your settings and preferences, such as your language or region, to provide a more personalized experience.
Examples: lang_pref, user_settings
Duration: Typically persistent cookies that remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.
4. Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Purpose: To build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.
Examples: _fbp (Facebook Pixel)
Duration: Typically persistent cookies that remain on your device for a set period.
5. Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests.
Purpose: To enable "Like" and "Share" buttons, to connect with your social media accounts, and to track your activity for advertising and analytics purposes.
Examples: Facebook Connect, Twitter, LinkedIn cookies.
Duration: Varies by social media platform.
How can you control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:
Cookie Consent Banner: When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject different categories of cookies.
Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Third-Party Cookies
Below is a list of the third parties who may set cookies on your device when you use our services, along with links to their privacy policies.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our users engage with our site. You can learn more about Google's practices by visiting their privacy policy.
Facebook: We use Facebook cookies for advertising and to enable social sharing features. You can review Facebook's cookie policy for more information.
Twitter: We use Twitter cookies to enable social sharing and for advertising purposes. You can find more information in Twitter's cookie policy.
LinkedIn: We use LinkedIn cookies for social sharing and to better understand our professional audience. You can learn more about LinkedIn's cookie policy.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at info@help.devad.io
