Cookie Statement

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to make their websites or services work, to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner or service provider 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 or service you are using (advertising, interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer either when it visits the website or service in question and also when it visits certain other websites or services.

This Cookie Statement explains how IdeaBuddy team (in this Statement: “we”, “us”, “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies in the course of our business through our Website (www.ideabuddy.com) and Subscription Services. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Cookie Statement have the meanings given to those terms in ourPrivacy Policy.

We may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in this Cookie Statement to collect Personal Information, or to collect information that becomes Personal Information if we combine it with other information. For more information about how we process your Personal Information, please refer to ourPrivacy Policy. We may update this Cookie Statement from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Statement regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

Why Cookies?

Necessary Website Cookies

These cookies are required for technical reasons. They are essential to provide you with Subscription Services available through our Website and to use some of their features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website and Subscription Services, you cannot refuse them without impacting how the Website and Subscription Services function. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, as described under the heading “Managing Cookies” in the Cookie Statement below.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies enable us and the third parties we work with to track and target the interests of visitors to our Website in order to tailor content and information displayed for you. Functionality cookies can personalize your experience while interacting with our Website and otherwise enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to its use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable. Besides Necessary and Functionality cookies described above, there are also Statistic cookiesthat collect information used in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used, or how effective our marketing campaigns are. Advertising cookiesare used to make advertising messages relevant to your interests and they in the same time prevent the same ad from continuously reappearing.

Targeted Online Advertising

We have engaged one or more third-party service providers to track and analyze both individualized usage and volume statistical information from interactions with our Website. We also partner with one or more third parties (such as advertisers and ad networks) to display advertising on our Websites and/or to manage and serve advertising on other sites.

These third parties use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and similar tracking technologies to collect and use certain information about your online activities, either on our Website and/or other sites or mobile apps, to infer your interests and deliver you targeted advertisements that are more tailored to you based on your browsing activities and inferred interests. For more information about this practice, click here:https://www.aboutads.info/choices.

Our third-party service providers may also use cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to our Website and/or other sites to measure and track the effectiveness of advertisements and our online marketing activities (for example, by collecting data on how many times you click on one of our ads). The information collected by these third parties does not include Personal Information that enables you to be specifically identified (e.g. by reference to your name or email address).

Managing Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject 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 and Subscription Services. However, your access to some functionality and areas of our Website and Subscription Services 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.

Disabling Most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visithttps://www.aboutads.info/choicesorhttps://www.youronlinechoices.com.

Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of Interest Based Advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and no further data collection or tracking will occur. The random ID we (or our third-party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.