Cookie Policy

Last edited: 06 April 2021

We use cookies on the this website https://proxytales.com (“ProxyTales”), as explained in this cookie policy. Below, you can find detailed information about the types of our cookies, their purposes, and your right to manage cookies.


1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR COOKIES ON PROXYTALES?


The data controller that is responsible for the processing of personal data through ProxyTales, including placing first-party cookies, is ProxyTales LTD having a registered address at 31 Rickliffe rd, Bacup OL13 9QG, the United Kingdom, and the registration number 12479695 (“we”, “us”, or “our”).


2. WHAT SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT COOKIES?


A cookie is a small piece of data typically consisting of letters and numbers. When you visit a website, that website may send a cookie to your browser. Subsequently, the browser may store the cookie on your computer or mobile device for some time (cookie expiration date depends on its type). Cookies are used to recognise your device and collect certain information about your use of websites and track you across websites. Thus, over time, cookies allow websites to “remember” your actions and preferences. There are several types of cookies, namely, (i) persistent cookies, which remain valid until deleted by you, (ii) cookies that remain valid until their expiration date, and (iii) session cookies that are stored on a web browser and remain valid until the moment the browser is closed. Cookies may also be (i) first-party cookies (set by the original website itself) and (ii) third-party cookies (placed by third-party websites).


3. WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?


We may different types of cookies on ProxyTales, including:

  • Essential technical cookies that are strictly necessary to ensure the correct functioning of ProxyTales and provide the services requested by you;

  • Marketing cookies that allow us to create, implement, and examine our marketing campaigns. Such cookies allow us to reach the right customers, analyse the productivity of our marketing campaigns, and offer you personalised advertisement; and

  • Statistics cookies that allow us to generate statistical reports about how you use ProxyTales.

Below, you can find a list of cookies that we use on ProxyTales, including their purpose and expiration time:

Essential technical cookies

Name

Type

Provider

(location)

Expiration

Purpose

G_ENABLED_IDPS

First-party cookie

.proxytales.com

(UK)

Persistent

The cookie is used for the sign-in functionality.

__cfduid

Third-party cookie

.chatra.io

(US)

30 days

The cookie is used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.

AWSALBCORS

Third-party cookie

chat.chatra.io

(US)

7 days

The cookie is used for load balancing services provided by Amazon in order to optimize your experience.

caosLocalGa

First-party HTTP cookie

.proxytales.com

(UK)

29 days

This cookie is used to determine whether your browser accepts cookies.

caosLocalGa_gid

First-party HTTP cookie

.proxytales.com

(UK)

1 day

This cookie is used to determine whether your browser accepts cookies.

rc::a

Third-party HTTP cookie

google.com

(US)

End of session

The cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

Preference cookies

Name

Type

Provider

(location)

Expiration

Purpose

Chatra.clientId

Chatra.hostedItems

First-party HTML cookie

.proxytales.com

(UK)

Persistent

The cookie is used to recognise you in order to optimise the chat-box functionality.

Marketing cookies

Name

Type

Provider

(location)

Expiration

Purpose

NID

Third-party HTTP cookie

google.com

(US)

6 months

The cookie is used to register unique ID that identifies your device and helps to serve you targeted advertising.

Statistics cookies

Name

Type

Provider

(location)

Expiration

Purpose

_gat

First-party HTTP cookie

.proxytales.com

(UK)

End of session

The cookie is used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

Chatra.lastPageViewAt

Chatra.referrer

First-party HTML cookie

.proxytales.com

(UK)

Persistent

The cookie is used to identify the last page visited by you. This is used in order to make the chat-box function more relevant.


4. COOKIE CONSENT


When you visit the Website for the first time, we may ask you to provide us with your consent to our use of all cookies via a cookie consent banner. If you do not provide your opt-in consent, we will not serve you our non-essential cookies. Please note that we may not be able to provide you with the best possible user experience on ProxyTales if not all cookies are enabled.


5. HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES?


When we ask you to provide your consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you have the freedom not to provide such consent. If you would like to refuse our use of non-essential cookies later, you can do it at any time by declining cookies in your browser or device. For more information, you can consult the cookie management instructions of your browser:


6. GOOGLE ANALYTICS


To analyse your use of ProxyTales, we use Google Analytics, the business analytics service provided by Google LLC located in the United States (“Google”). Google generates statistical information by means of cookies and creates reports about your use of ProxyTales. The cookies served by Google Analytics are anonymous first-party cookies (please refer to section 3 for more information) that do not allow us to identify you in any manner. The information generated by cookies will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. To ensure your privacy, your IP address will be anonymised and Google will not combine your IP address with other information Google holds about you. Thus, Google will not be able to identify you. In certain cases (e.g., when required by law or when third parties conduct services on behalf of Google), Google may transfer the information to third parties. For more information about Google Analytics’ privacy practices, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. If you would like to opt out from Google Analytics, you can do so by installing a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.


7. GOOGLE reCAPCHA


We use reCAPCHA on ProxyTales, the service provided by Google, to verify whether you are a human being and not a robot. It helps to protect ProxyTales against spam and abuse. The reCAPTCHA analysis takes place in the background. When you use reCAPCHA, Google will collect some personal and non-personal data from you, such as:

  • All cookies set to your browser by Google in the last 6 months;

  • Information about your mouse clicks;

  • CSS information;

  • Date;

  • Browser language;

  • Any plugin installed in the browser; and

  • Javascript objects.

The above-mentioned data will be sent to Google located in the United States. We have a legitimate interest in protecting ProxyTales from abusive automated crawling and spam. For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html.


8. CONTACT


If you have any questions about this cookie policy our our data protection practices, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Email: [email protected]