1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Toolify) 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 (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Website functions.
Performance and Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
Analytics and Customization Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
| Cookie Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Session Cookies | To keep you logged in during your browsing session | Session |
| Preference Cookies | To remember your preferences (language, theme, etc.) | 30 days |
| Security Cookies | To identify and prevent security risks | Session |
| Analytics Cookies | To understand how visitors interact with our website | 2 years |
| Advertising Cookies | To deliver relevant advertisements | 1 year |
4. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These include:
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
- Facebook Pixel: We use Facebook Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to understand the actions people take on our website.
- Hotjar: We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users' needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users' experience.
- Cloudflare: We use Cloudflare for security and performance optimization. Cloudflare may set cookies to identify malicious visitors and reduce the chance of blocking legitimate users.
5. How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website 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.
The following links provide information on how to manage cookies for the most common browsers:
Note: If you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website. Some parts of the site may not work properly, and you may not be able to access certain areas of the site.
6. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers have incorporated "Do Not Track" (DNT) features that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Currently, there is no standard for how websites should respond when they receive these signals, so our Website does not currently respond to DNT signals. We await the result of work by the privacy community and industry to determine how to interpret DNT signals and what actions to take in response.
7. Other Tracking Technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. A "web beacon" or "pixel tag" is tiny object or image embedded in a web page or email. They are used to track the number of users who have visited particular pages and viewed emails, and acquire other statistical data. They collect only a limited set of data, such as a cookie number, time and date of page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which they reside. Web beacons and pixel tags cannot be declined. However, you can limit their use by controlling the cookies that interact with them.
8. Cookie Consent
When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner that asks for your consent to use non-essential cookies. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.
Your consent applies to the following domains: toolify.com and all subdomains.
9. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at privacy@toolify.com.
Last Updated: December 2023
Effective Date: January 1, 2023