COOKIES
We at BadgeScanner.io use cookies to enhance your online experience, ensure the proper functioning of our website, and provide us with valuable insights into user preferences. As a part of our commitment to being transparent with our users, we’ve created this Cookie Policy to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use and the purpose for using those cookies on our site.
Please take a moment to review our Cookie Policy to understand how these technologies impact your browsing experience and how you can exercise control over your cookie preferences. By using or accessing our website, you agree to this Cookie Policy. This policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the Platform is deemed to be acceptance of such changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
WHAT ARE COOKIES, CLEAR GIFS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
Cookies: Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. These files contain information about your interactions with the site. Cookies enable websites to recognize your device, track your activities, and personalize your experience. They can be either first-party (set by the website you are visiting) or third-party (set by a domain other than the one you are visiting). Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.
Clear GIFs (Web Beacons): Clear GIFs are tiny, transparent images embedded in a webpage or email. They are often used in combination with cookies to track user behavior and gather information about how individuals interact with content. Clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of a single pixel. It allows website owners or third parties to collect data such as the number of visitors to a page or whether an email has been opened.
Similar Technologies: Beyond cookies and clear GIFs, there are various other technologies that serve similar purposes, including:
- Local Storage and Session Storage: These technologies store data on your device like cookies but with some differences in terms of data retention and accessibility.
- Pixel Tags: Like clear GIFs, pixel tags are small blocks of code embedded in a webpage or email to track user engagement.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies on our website to enhance the overall user experience and improve the performance of our website by enabling us to:
- Help you navigate between pages on the site efficiently.
- Remember information about your preferences and recognize you when you return to our site.
- Allow us to customize our site according to your individual interests.
- Measure how people are using our site to improve the browsing experience.
- Make our site easier to use.
- Generally, give you a better online experience.
Cookies are not unsafe or in themselves a threat to your online privacy, as we do not store sensitive information. The cookies used on our site never collect anything that personally identifies you, such as your name or address, and we never sell your details to any third parties.
HOW ARE COOKIES USED?
The web server providing the webpage can store a cookie on the user's computer or mobile device. An external web server that manages files included or referenced in the webpage is also able to store cookies. All these cookies are called HTTP header cookies. Another way of storing cookies is through JavaScript code contained or referenced in that page.
We use “analytics” cookies, which, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our site and which parts of our site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve our site and better serve our site visitors.
We also use “social media” cookies to personalize your interaction with third-party social media platforms such as X, Facebook, and YouTube. Such cookies recognize users of these social media sites when you view content on our site and allow you to quickly share content across media.
COOKIE TYPES
First-party cookies – these are our own cookies set by our site, controlled by us and used to provide information about the usage of our site.
Third-party cookies – these are cookies set by a party other than us. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits our website and when you visit certain other websites.
HOW LONG DO COOKIES STAY ON YOUR COMPUTER?
Cookies that are used on our website may be either session cookies or persistent cookies:
- Session cookies: Temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave the website.
- Persistent cookies: Stored on your hard drive until you delete them or they reach their expiry date.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
Strictly Necessary cookies: Essential for the operation of our website, such as identifying you as logged in or remembering entered text. Consent is not required for these.
Performance cookies: Used to analyze how visitors use our website and to monitor its performance. These help us fix errors and identify high-quality content.
Functionality cookies: Used to remember preferences like geographic location or whether you have seen a pop-up.
Targeting cookies: Help us ensure you see relevant content. These may be placed by our third-party service providers.
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIES
You can refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. Please be aware that restricting the use of cookies may impact the functionality of our site. Further information can be obtained via the following links:
CONSENT AND WITHDRAWAL
By continuing to use our website, you are deemed to consent to our use of the cookies described in this Policy. If you do not wish to accept cookies, you will need to delete, block, or disable them via your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of the website.
LINKS TO OTHER PLATFORMS
This Cookie Policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other Platforms. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other Platforms you visit.