This Cookie Policy explains how Bonterra uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with our Services.
Cookies are text files that websites store on a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, helping us understand activity and patterns, and facilitating online advertising.
Local storage technologies, like HTML5, provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
Bonterra™, LLC takes data protection seriously. When you visit a Bonterra website (listed below) or access a Platform or API account portal, we and our service providers acting on our behalf automatically collect certain data using tracking technologies like cookies and web beacons. This Cookie Notice (the “Notice”) describes what tracking technologies we use and what we use them for.
We, our service providers, and our advertising partners automatically log information about individual’s interactions with our services and communications, such as:
Device information, such as computer or mobile device operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state, or geographic area.
Online activity information, such as pages or screens viewed, how long individuals spend on a page or screen, the website they visited before browsing to our website, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether individuals open our marketing emails or click links within them.
We also can allow our advertising partners to collect this information through our website.
This Cookie Policy refers to all these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
Essential. These cookies are necessary to allow the technical operation of our services (e.g., they enable you to move around on a website and to use its features).
Functionality / performance. We use these cookies to enhance the functionality and performance of the Services.
Analytics. We use these cookies to help us understand how our Services are performing and being used. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect information about how users use our Services, which we then use to compile reports that disclose trends without identifying individual visitors, and help us improve our Services. For more information on Google Analytics, click here. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here. You can opt out of by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Advertising. We and our third-party advertising partners use these cookies to collect information about how you use our website and use that information to serve online ads that may be relevant to your interests. Please find examples of the third-party advertising cookies we use and links to their platform opt out pages in the following section.
Other than “essential cookies,” which are required to allow our Services to operate, you can control our use of cookies through our Cookie Settings.
You can also limit online tracking by:
Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org. Use the following links to learn more about how to control cookies and online tracking through your browser:
Firefox; Chrome; Microsoft Edge; Safari
Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings can provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
Advertising industry opt out tools. You can also use these opt out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:
Digital Advertising Alliance for Websites: outout.aboutads.info
Network Advertising Initiative: optout.networkadvertising.org
Platform opt-outs. Some third-party ad networks, including third-party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms, allow you to opt-out directly by using their opt-out tools. Some of these providers, and links to their opt-out tools, are:
Google
LinkedIn
Bing
Facebook
Note that because these opt out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers can be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
