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Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for Softarex Technologies, Inc, accessible from softarex.com

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

  • Forms related cookies;
  • When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
  • Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
  • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, Xing, Clutch.co will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Information we collect automatically

WordPress

  • wp-settings-, wp-settings-time- WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users’ database table. This is used to customize your view of the admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
  • akm_mobile – stores whether a user has chosen to view the mobile version of a site.
  • botdlang – used to track the language a user has selected to view popular blogs in.
  • wordpress_logged_in* – used to check whether the current visitor is a logged-in WordPress.com user.
  • wp_sharing_{id} – used to track whether or not a user has already performed an action.
  • PHPSESSID To identify your unique session on the website
    SESS. To ensure that you are recognized when you move from page to page within the site
    and that any information you have entered is remembered.

Google Analytics

  • _ga Used to distinguish users.
  • _gid Used to distinguish users.
  • _gat Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named dc_gtm.

More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However, if you are still looking for more information than you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Softarex Technologies terms of service
Softarex Technologies privacy policy