Cookie Policy

Version 1.1.0 – Last updated: 18 June 2020
Changes to previous version:
1. Integration of LinkedIn Insights Tags
2. Addition of social media plug-in Facebook
3. YouTube Videos

Version 1.0.0  –  20 May 2020

Cookies and how we use them

This policy details how Ciapcto uses cookies and cookie-like files and other technologies on its websites. We refer to all these technologies generically as “cookies”.

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. Next time you visit the site, your browser will read the cookie and relay the information back to the website or element that originally set the cookie. 

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Why and how doe we use cookies?

We use information gathered from cookies to help improve your experience on our website and for security reasons. The cookies we use do not store personally identifiable information nor can they harm your computer. We want our website to be informative, personal, and as user friendly as possible and cookies help us to achieve that goal.

View your options for managing cookies further down below in pur section “How to manage and delete cookies”. 

Our Privacy Policy explains how we protect your privacy in our use of cookies and other information.

We use the following cookies on our website:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to browse around our website and use its features.

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our websites — for instance, which pages you go to most. This data may be used to help optimize our websites and make them easier for you to navigate. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make while browsing. For instance, we may store your language selection in a cookie. We may also remember preferences such as text size, fonts, and other customizable site elements.  The information these cookies collect will not personally identify you, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies are used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. The information collected is anonymous and includes the number of visitors to the website, what pages they visited and where they have come to the website from. More information is available on: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

Google support: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en

Google Analytics opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google TagManager

We use the Google Tag Manager, a solution from Google Inc. that allows companies to manage website tags through a single interface. The Google Tag Manager is a cookie-less domain that does not collect personal information. The Google Tag Manager will trigger other tags that may collect data. We herewith point this out separately. The Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivation has been made by the user at the domain or cookie level, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

You find more information on: https://policies.google.com/privacy

LinkedIn Insight Tags

We use the “LinkedIn Insight Tag” of LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA (“LinkedIn”) on our website. It helps us with in-depth campaign reporting and insights about our website visitors. It can also be used to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about members interacting with our ads on LinkedIn.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to our website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. This data is encrypted, the IP addresses are truncated, and members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days in order to make the data pseudonymous. This remaining, pseudonymized data is then deleted within 90 days.

LinkedIn does not share personal data with us, it only provides aggregated reports about the website audience and ad performance. LinkedIn also provides retargeting for website visitors, enabling us to show personalized ads off our website by using this data, but without identifying the member. LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their account settings.

How to manage and delete cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Find out how to manage cookie settings for your browser:
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Opera

Social Plug-ins and widgets

We use communication tools to share links with social networks. If you click on these features, such as social media widgets or “share” buttons, the company providing them may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site and may place cookies when you are connected into their services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. For more information on the cookies used by these websites, you can refer to their specific privacy statements listed below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

LinkedIn has submitted itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Xing: http://www.xing.com/privacy

YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Facebook
Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA; http://www.facebook.com/policy.php more information on the data collection: http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications as well as http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#everyoneinfo Facebook has submitted itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

LinkedIn
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, (“LinkedIn”), is operating its social media button on our website.

With regards to the LinkedIn profile, Cipacto is provided with statistics on visitors via aggregated data on their location, skills, influencer they are following and content, which they deal with the most on LinkedIn.

Xing
Xing – New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany (“XING”) is providing statistics on Cipacto News views, the number of visits of the profile, follower, entries as employer of choice as well as skills and is transmitting these the Xing profile owner.

Xing is setting Cookies on the computer or another device with access to internet that is accessing the Cipacto profile, whether or not you are disposing over a Xing profile.

YouTube
„YouTube“ a subsidiary of Google Inc. with a seat at Google Ireland Limited in Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, is operating a video platform from which Cipacto is integrating videos on its own website.

YouTube is providing statistics on visitors via aggregated demographic data on their location, age, gender, which videos are viewed for how long and from which device, while doing so, it is also collected from which website with the embedded YouTube videos, visitors have been forwarded to YouTube or if they searched directly on YouTube etc. This data is transmitted to the YouTube profile owner.

YouTube is setting Cookies on the computer or another device with access to internet that is accessing the Cipacto channel, whether or not you are disposing over a Google account.

YouTube Videos

We have integrated YouTube videos into our website, which are stored on  http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in the “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube, if you do not click on the videos to start playing them. Only when you play the videos the data referred to in the next paragraph will be transferred to YouTube. We have no influence on this data transfer.

By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, data will be transmitted as specified in the section of our privacy policy “What data do we collect”?. This is independent of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as user profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such evaluation takes place in particular (even for unlogged-in users) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube, please refer to the privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights and setting options to protect your privacy:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy; Google has submitted itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.