Cortell Privacy and Cookie Policy
Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to our website (the "Website") where we, Cortell Technologies Ltd. located at Unit 3, Oldtown House, Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland. (‘we’ or ‘us’) collect certain personal data. We are part of the Cortell Tech. Group. We are the controller of the Personal Data collected and processed through this website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it contains important information to help you understand our practices regarding any personal information that you give to us or that we collect otherwise in the context of the Website (“Personal Data”).
Grounds for data collection
You can use the majority of our Website without being required to provide any Personal Data to us. For certain services or activities you will need to provide Personal Data for us to be able to provide you the requested service or product or for you to participate in the activity. Requested information on the Website marked with an asterisk is mandatory. If you do not provide the requested information, we will not be able to deliver the service or product to you or you cannot participate in the activity. In addition to information you are required to provide to us in order to participate in activities/campaigns, we collect certain information when you visit our Website.
Information about your visit to and use of our Website?
We may collect certain information when you visit our Website, such as your IP address, which web pages you visit, device category, browser, and type of internet browser, social media activity (such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook & Instagram), clicks and views. The information about your use of our Website and services enables us to build segments, whic h are groups of website visitors or customers with a number of common characteristics such as age group, gender or region. We will likely add you to one of our segments. Segments are used by us to customise the Website and to e.g. change the order of search results or where we place certain offers so you are more likely to see these but also to personalise Website content so these may be tailored to your preferences. We may also use segments to show online advertisements that we think are relevant for you.
We use this Personal Data as it is necessary in our legitimate interests to do so to promote our products and services to our website visitors, to maintain the relevance of our brands and reputation, to enable us to attract more website visitors and to grow business by serving website visitors with advertising relating to our brands and to finance our Website (via online advertisements). We will retain the Personal Data for 24 months after your last relevant activity on our Website. We will ask for prior consent, when we are legally required.
Maintenance and
Optimization of our Website.
Your Personal Data will also be used for maintenance and analysis of our Website to solve performance issues, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data, to improve the availability and user experience of the Website and to secure the Website against fraud. We log all use of our Website.
Our use of your Personal Data for these purposes is necessary in our legitimate interests and the information will be retained for a maximum period of 14 months. The logs of the use of our Website will be deleted within 14 months after creation.
Using photo and /or video footage
The Personal Data may include photo and/ or video footage captured at public or private events on social media, with marketing agencies and internally. We may share these photos and video footage on our Website or use social media to promote our products and brands and grow our business. Where required by law, we will first obtain your consent to use this data. We will retain the data for 6 years from the time the photo or video recording was captured.
Strategic reporting purposes, creating insights and marketing activation
The Personal Data collected by us is used to create aggregated strategic reports with insights and for sending commercial messages and personalised marketing (as described under the relevant purposes above), which are used to identify opportunities globally and to improve our global brands, products and services.
We use this information as it is in the legitimate interest of the Cortell Tech. Group and all affiliates and subsidiaries to identify opportunities globally and to promote and improve our products and services to our customers and website visitors and to maintain the relevance of our brands and reputation. We will retain this information for 24 months. We will ask for prior consent, when we are legally required.
How We Share Your Personal Data
We will only share or receive such Personal Data and cookie data when we are allowed to do so by law. This means that you will be asked for prior consent, if this should be the lawful basis (for example when we share cookie data). When we are allowed to rely on our legitimate interest, we will do so. This is the case when we create and share aggregated marketing insights or segments.
We may need to share Personal Data with third parties to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Website. These third parties are:
Cortell Tech. group companies for the purpose of storing Personal Data processed via the Website, due to shared IT systems service providers where this is needed to provide us with a service and to provide data analytics services, service providers that help us organise campaigns and promotions.
First and third-party advertising companies media agencies for marketing purposes and research purposes social media providers. Cortell Tech. group companies in the event of any reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings)
in case Cortell Tech sells all or some of the assets or shares of a Cortell Tech group company to which Personal Data was transferred to a third party, your Personal Data may be provided to this third party.
These parties may be located in the European Union or other countries in the European Economic Area or elsewhere in the world. When Personal Data is stored by us outside the EEA we will ensure an adequate level of protection of the transferred Data. We require service providers to use appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the Personal Data.
We may also need to provide Personal Data to law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order.
Security of Personal Data
We will take appropriate technical, physical and organisational measures to protect the Personal Data collected through the Website from misuse or accidental, unlawful or un-authorised destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, acquisition or access, that are consistent with applicable privacy and data security laws and regulations. However, no internet-based site can be 100% secure and we cannot be held responsible for un-authorised or unintended access that is beyond our control. Our Website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security used by such other websites, which shall not be governed by this Privacy Policy. We advise you to always carefully read the privacy policies on these other websites.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain your Personal Data for as long as legally required or for as long as necessary to provide you with any requested services or for any of the other purposes listed in this Privacy Policy. The specific retention terms are listed in this Privacy Policy for each of the relevant purposes. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify Personal Data we hold if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out above or after the expiration of the defined retention term.
Cookies
A major part of the information referred to in this Privacy Policy is collected via our use of cookies and similar techniques. Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and may be stored on your user device, e.g. your computer, smartphone or table. Techniques we use that may be similar to cookies are tracking pixels, Java scripts, tags and web beacons. These cookies and similar techniques are sometimes necessary to remember your account settings, language and country, but also enable us to measure and analyse your behavior on our Website and for showing you personalised advertisements on our Website or on third party websites. Where required, you will be asked for consent to our use of cookies. To view more information on what cookies we use and how we use them please review our separate Cookie Policy, which is also available in the footer of this Website. Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and may be stored on your user device e.g. your computer (or other internet enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet). At Cortell we may use similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons and device fingerprints. For the sake of consistency, all these techniques combined will be hereafter referred to as ‘cookies’.
This Cookie Policy provides you with information about the cookies we use and why. Our Privacy Policy sets out full details of the personal data we collect and how we may use your personal information.
Cookies used on the Website
By clicking ‘Yes’ on the cookie banner, you give your consent to Cortell Technologies Ltd to place and/or read cookies. Cortell Tech uses several different types of cookies: 1) functional cookies, 2) analytics cookies, and 3) advertising cookies. Some of these are session cookies which are temporary and allow us to link your actions during a browser session. Session cookies are erased when you close the browser. Other cookies are persistent cookies which remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie. The Website uses cookies for the following purposes:
• FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
Functional cookies are essential and help you navigate the Website. They enhance the user friendliness of the Website for visitors. These cookies make sure that you only have to pass the age-gate once and that your basket is saved during all the steps of your checkout process. These cookies also help to support website security and basic functionality.
• ANALYTICS COOKIES
Analytics cookies help us to understand the behavior of our visitors and the usage of the Website in an aggregated manner. For instance, we can use these cookies to gain insight into how our visitors use our Website. This means we can find out what works and what doesn’t, it allows us to continuously improve the Website, and measure how effective our advertising and communication is.
• ADVERTISING COOKIES
Advertising cookies will remember your product and page preferences and in general that you visited the Website. We strive to provide you with advertisements relevant to you and your interests on other online platforms, where available on the basis of your visits and surfing behavior on our Website and other third party websites. Based on these interests, we develop a segmented profile and then adapt the content and the advertisements on our website for various groups of customers. Third parties that set cookies via our website may also try to find out what your interests are in this way, and this information may also be used to present you with content or advertisements that appear more likely to be of interest to you on other websites. In this case, the information about your current website visit may be combined with information from previous visits to websites other than ours. These advertising cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertisements.
Even if no advertising cookies are used, please note that you will be provided with advertisements on our site; however, these advertisements will not be tailored to your interests. These advertisements can, for instance, be modified according to the content of the website. You can compare this type of content-related Internet advertisements with advertising on television. If, say, you are watching a cookery programme on TV, you will often see an advertisement about cooking products during the advert breaks while this programme is on.
Third party social networks (e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn) may also place cookies. This enables you to share content of the Website on social networks. These third parties may use cookies for their own purposes. Cortell has no influence over how these social media networks make use of your data. For more information regarding the cookies set by the social media networks please refer to their own privacy and cookie policies.
Sharing of cookie data
We will only share such information when we are allowed to do so by law. This means that we will ask for prior consent for sharing ‘cookie data’ or for Cortell Tech. group affiliates and subsidiaries to use cookies, if this should be the lawful basis.
Control your cookie settings
We offer you the possibility to consent to our use of cookies or to set your preferences regarding certain categories of cookies by clicking ‘Cookie settings’ in the banner. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookie Settings/Set Preferences’ hyperlink that is available on our website – which also enables you to withdraw the consent you have previously given to us. This hyperlink will include a list of all analytical and advertising cookies.
Please be aware that Cortell Technologies LTd currently does not make use of a technical solution that would enable us to respond to your browser's 'Do Not Track' signals. Besides using the ‘Cookie Settings/Set Preferences’ hyperlink on our website, you can manage your cookie settings in your browser settings at any time. Please be aware that your browser settings may not offer you the same ease of use as the Cookie Settings/Set Preferences on our website. If you simply disable all cookies in your browser settings, you may find that certain sections or features of our website will not work, because your browser may prevent us from setting functionally required cookies. Therefore, it is recommended to use the Cookie Settings on our website instead of disabling all cookies via your web browser.
Social Media
You may choose to share information on our Website via social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. This means that the information you share, with name and preferences, shall be visible to visitors of your personal pages. We advise you to carefully read the privacy policies of the social media parties as these are applicable to the processing of your Personal Data by these parties.
Children's Privacy
The Website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18 . We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from individuals under the age of 18.
Your Rights to Access, Rectification, Deletion, Restriction and Data Portability
If your personal data is or has been subject to the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or to the extent applicable under your local law, you have the right to request access to and deletion of your personal data, to request restricted processing, to receive an overview of the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority. All your rights are subject to applicable data protection laws and other relevant laws and regulations, to the Cortell Tech Group Privacy Procedures and other guidelines. Where you have provided consent to our use of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent without this effecting the lawfulness of our use of this Data before your withdrawal.
Please note that if you make use of (some of) your choices and rights, you may not be able to use, in whole or in part, our Website services anymore.
Your Right to Object
You also have a right, in certain circumstances, to require us to stop processing your Personal Data, but where we have compelling legitimate grounds, we will continue processing your Personal Data. However, you have the right to object to our use of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, and when you do so, we will accommodate your request.
Concluding Remarks
We will keep this Cookie Policy under review and make updates from time to time. Any changes to this Cookie Policy will be posted on our Website page and to the extent reasonably possible, will be communicated to you. You can consult this web page for the latest version.
If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact us with a data privacy request.
The most recent version of this Cookie Policy is dated: 08/01/2021
