The Evo-soft Limited (“Evo-soft”) Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains our approach to the use of cookies and our ongoing commitment to open, and transparent use of information that our visitors, partners and clients provide and how we use your information. This Policy provides detailed information about how, when and for the duration that we use cookies across our online estate and specifically our websites. For the purposes of this Policy, the term, “Websites”, shall refer collectively to www.evo-soft.co.uk as well as the other websites that Evo-soft operate and link to this Policy.

Does Evo-soft use Cookies?

Yes. Evo-soft, our marketing partnerships and alliances, our third party marketing providers including affiliates, analytics or service providers use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses the Websites has the best possible experience.

What is a Cookie?

For this purpose a ‘Cookie’ is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies will always be used.

Why do Evo-soft use Cookies?

When you typically visit any website, the website will typically place one or several cookies in your browser. These are known as First Party Cookies and are required to enable to hold session information as you navigate from page to page within the website. Evo-soft do this too and to provide an example we use cookies on our websites to understand visitor and user preferences, improve their experience based on the device or devices that they use, and track and review usage, navigational paths and other statistical information.
Web beacons, flash, tags, HTML5, and scripts on the websites or in email communications that we send to help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been engaged with through an open, or acted upon through a click. This helps us to see what content or topics are of interest for our visitors and clients and helps our marketing and business efforts stay on point. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our marketing service and analytics providers on an individual and aggregated basis.
We partner with third parties to either display advertising on the websites or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may also use technologies such as cookies,  tags, web beacons, flash, HTML5, scripts, or other tracking technologies to gather information about your activities on our Websites and other sites in order to suggest relevant advertisements based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-in or out by clicking here (or if located in North America you may opt out, by clicking here ). Do note that this does not opt you out of being served ads and you will continue to receive generic, untargeted ads. Interest-Based Advertising – As described in this Policy, where permitted, we and third parties may wish to use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information and infer your interests for interest-based advertising purposes.  You can manage your preferences of tailored advertisements in the cookie settings described below. Do note that if these cookies are switched off, you will continue to see advertisements, but they will no longer be tailored to your interests.

How to disable Cookies

You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you elect not to activate the cookie or to later disable cookies, you may still visit our websites, but your ability to use some features or areas of the websites may be limited. For further information on how to manage Flash cookies please click here.
You can generally activate or later deactivate the use of cookies through a functionality built into your web browser. To learn more about how to control cookie settings through your browser:

  • Click here to learn more about the “Private Browsing” setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox;
  • Click here to learn more about “Incognito” and managing cookie settings in Chrome;
  • Click here to learn more about “InPrivate” and managing cookie settings in Internet Explorer; or
  • Click here to learn more about “Private Browsing” and managing cookie settings in Safari.

If you want to learn more about cookies, or how to control, disable or delete them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. In addition, certain third-party advertising networks, including Google, permit users to opt out of or customise preferences associated with your internet browsing. To learn more about this feature from Google, click here.

Many countries, territories and jurisdictions mandate or recommend that website operators inform users/visitors as to the nature of cookies they use and, in certain scenarios, obtain the consent of their users to the placement of certain cookies.

The Websites include third party social media features, such as Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, and third-party widgets, such as the ‘Share or Add This’ button or interactive programmes that run on the Websites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Websites, and set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the third party company providing it.

How to Opt-Out of Interest-Based Advertising:

To opt-out of interest-based advertising by third parties, please visit:

  • European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA)’s consumer opt-out page ( http://youronlinechoices.eu ) if you are located in Europe.
  • Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)’s self-regulatory opt-out page (http://optout.aboutads.info/)
  • Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)’s self-regulatory opt-out page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) if you are located in the United States.

In the mobile environment, most mobile operating systems offer device-based opt-out choices that are transmitted to companies providing interest-based advertising. To set an opt-out preference for a mobile device identifier (such as Apple’s IDFA or Android’s GAID), visit the device manufacturer’s current choice instructions pages, or read more about sending signals to limit ad tracking for your operating system here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choices.

Do note that these settings must be performed on each device (including each web browser on each device) for which you wish to opt-out, and if you clear your cookies or if you use multiple different browsers or devices, you will need to renew your opt-out preferences. We may use any of the following categories of cookies on the websites as detailed below. Each cookie we use will fall into one of the four categories below:

1. Strictly necessary cookies: Strictly necessary cookies (First Party Cookies) are sometimes called “Essential cookies”. We use these cookies for when you log in so that the websites remember you and save retyping it each time. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features, content or areas when logged in.
2. Analytics or performance Cookies: These cookies track information about visits to the websites so that we can make improvements and report our performance. For example: analyse visitor and user behaviour in order to provide relevant content or suggest certain activities. They collect information about how visitors use the websites, the number of each user’s visits, what site the user came from and how long a user stays on the website(s). We may on occasion use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features to gauge how users react to them.
3. Functionality or Preference Cookies: During your visit to the websites, cookies are used to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as your username, language – where applicable or your region) on the websites. They also store your preferences when personalizing the websites to optimise your experience, for example, your preferred language. These preferences are remembered, through the use of persistent cookies, and the next time you visit the websites you will not have to set them again.
4. Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These First Party Cookies are placed by third party advertising platforms or networks in order to deliver advertisements and track advert performance, enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant to you based upon your activities (this is sometimes called “behavioural” “tracking” or “targeted” advertising) on the websites. Information about your visit may then be used to target you with advertising that you may be interested in, on the websites and other third-party websites. For example, these cookies remember which browsers have visited the websites.

List of Cookies used on Evo-soft Websites:

All Websites Google Analytics This web analytics cookie collects information about how visitors use the Websites, which website the user came from, the number of each user’s visits and how long a user stays on the Websites 2 years Analytics/ Performance
All Websites Google Analytics Session Google Analytics 10 minutes Analytics/ Performance
All Websites Google Analytics Event tracking to monitor behaviour 2 years Analytics/ Performance
All Websites Vimeo Vimeo video player 2 years Functionality/ Preference
All Websites Google Google Account – SSO 6 months Functionality/ Preference
All Websites Website language Language settings for the websites 30 minutes Functionality/ Preference
All Websites popupHide Determines if a user has accepted or rejected the support or service request popup that appears after a certain time on the website session Functionality/ Preference
All Websites Disqus Visitor authentication for commenting and planned user reviews 2 years Strictly necessary
All Websites Twitter Advertising Advertising 18 months Strictly necessary
All Websites LinkedIn Advertising vendor for remarketing 1 year Targeting/ Advertising
All Websites _evo-soft_remember_me Preference for maintaining login sessions 2 weeks Strictly necessary
All Websites Optimizely Tracking for A/B Split Testing 10 years Analytics/ Performance
All Websites Doubleclick Re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts 2 years Targeting/ Advertising
All Websites Google AdWords Conversion Advertising pixel for prospecting and retargeting 540 days Targeting/ Advertising
All Websites Bing Advertising vendor for search marketing 2 years Targeting/ Advertising
All Websites Google Tag Manager Traffic and visitor behaviour measurement 2 years Analytics/ Performance

Cookies are subject to change

The content of this Policy is for your general information and use only. These cookies are subject to change without notice. You acknowledge that this information may contain inaccuracies or errors and is subject to change and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Updating this Policy

If there are any material changes to this Policy, you will be notified by the posting of a prominent notice on our websites prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on the Policy. Your continued use of our websites constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy. If you do not accept the terms of this Policy and do not opt out we suggest that you discontinue use of our websites to ensure agreement.

Contact us

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy or about the Evo-soft privacy practices, please contact us by email at info@evo-soft.co.uk, or any other contact channel available to you.