Cookie Policy

Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains that we believe in being transparent about how we use your information. In the spirit of transparency, this policy details on how and when we use cookies and similar tracking technologies like pixels, tags, web beacons (hereinafter collectively referred to as “cookies”) on our website and applications (mobile and hybrid, hereinafter referred to “applications”). This cookie policy applies to any SolvEdge Solutions product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.

Does SolvEdge Solutions Use Cookies?

SolvEdge Solutions uses cookies when you use any of the SolvEdge Solutions websites/applications. These are used to ensure that everyone has the best possible experience. By continuing to visit or use our services, you acknowledge the use of cookies for the purposes we describe in this policy. If you choose not to receive cookies or pixels, please stop using our website/applications, or assess your browsing and third-party cookie settings as described below.

What are Cookies and Pixels?

We collect data about your usage to provide better services to all of our users. We collect data in the ways below:

Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. Cookies are primarily used to store and receive identifiers and other data on computers, phones, and other devices. A cookie file is saved in your browser and allows the website/application or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the website/application more relevant to you. Cookies allow SolvEdge to serve you more efficiently, and to personalize your experience on our website.

A pixel is a piece of code on a web page or in an email notification. As many services do, we use pixels to understand if you have interacted with certain web or email content. This helps us measure and improve our services to you in our attempt to personalize your experience.

Category

  • Essential Cookies Essential cookies, are also referred to as “strictly necessary” as without them we cannot provide many services you need on the website. For instance, essential cookies help remember your preferences as you navigate the website. Essential cookies also keep you logged in into a website enhancing your site experience. Login functionalities would not work without these essential features.

  • Analytics Cookies These cookies track information on visits to the SolvEdge website/application so that we can make necessary improvements as well as report our performance. For instance: analyze visitor and user behaviors in order to provide more relevant content or suggest certain activities. They gather data about how visitors use the Websites, which website the specific user came from, the number of each user’s visits and how long a user stays on the Websites. We may also use analytics cookies so as to test new ads, pages, or features to understand how users react to them.

  • Functionality or Preference Cookies During your website/application visit, cookies are used to recall information you have entered or choices you make (like your username, language or region) when using our services. They also store your preferences when personalizing the Websites to optimize your use of SolvEdge Solutions. These preferences are remembered, through the use of the persistent cookies, so the next time you visit the Website you will not have to set them again.

  • Targeting or Advertising Cookies These Cookies are placed by third party advertising platforms or networks or SolvEdge Solutions website/applications in order to, deliver ads and track ad performance, enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant to you based upon your activities (this is also called “behavioral” “tracking” or “targeted” advertising) on Websites. They may subsequently use information about your visit to target you with advertising that you may be interested in, on the SolvEdge Solutions Websites and other websites. For example, these cookies can also remember which browsers have visited the Websites.

When you visit our website, we may place a number of cookies in your browser. These are known as First Party Cookies and are required to enable to hold session information as you navigate pages within the website. For instance, we use cookies on our websites to understand visitor preferences, enhance their experience, and track and analyze usage, navigational and other statistical information. Furthermore, cookies permit us to bring you advertising both on and off the SolvEdge site, and bring customized features to you. 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 of the features of the Websites may be limited.

We may use any of the following categories of cookies on the Websites/applications as detailed below. Each cookie falls within one of the four following categories:

How Cookies Are Used:

We use cookies on our websites/applications. Any browser visiting the site will receive cookies from us, to help us identify you more quickly when you return. Cookies help us determine the pages or information that you find most useful or interesting at our own Websites/applications

Online Analytics Purposes

We may use web analytics services on SolvEdge Solutions, such as Google Analytics. These services help us analyze how users use the services, including by noting the third-party website/applications from which you arrive. The information collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by such service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to online marketing, as described in the following sections.

Advertising and Other Targeting Purposes

Cookies help us serve personalized and relevant ads to you more effectively. They also help us provide aggregated auditing, research, and reporting for advertisers, understand and improve our service, and know when content has been shown to you. We work with website/applications analytics and advertising partners, including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter, Google Double Click, InMobi, AdSense, SenseDigital etc., to deliver SolvEdge Solutions advertisements on third party publisher websites/applications - these partners may set cookies on your devices’ web browser. Cookies allow our partners to recognize your computer so that the ad server can show you SolvEdge Solutions advertisements elsewhere on the Internet, and so that our analytics software can measure your engagement and interactions while using SolvEdge Solutions. In this way, ad servers may compile anonymous, de-identified information about where you, or others who use your computer, saw our advertisements, whether or not you interacted with our advertisements, and actions performed on subsequent visits to SolvEdge Solutions websites and applications. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you, and it allows SolvEdge Solutions to optimize the performance of our advertising campaigns and the usability of our website/applications. In other words, we use analytics data in concern with data about our online ads that have been shown using the solutions such as Google, Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter, Google Double Click, InMobi, AdSense, SenseDigital etc. for Advertisers, or other online advertising networks. By doing so, we can understand how anonymous users interacted with our /applications after seeing our ads.

What Third-Party Cookies Does SolvEdge Solutions Use?

We restrict access to your Personal Data to employees who we believe reasonably need to know that data in order to fulfil their jobs to provide, operate, develop, or improve our products or services.

Please note that the third parties (advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies on our Services. Also, note that the names of cookies, pixels and similar technologies may change over time. We use trusted partners to help us service advertising, who may place cookies on your device. We also pull through content from social networks into our own pages, such as embedded Facebook feeds. The social networks, such as Facebook, Google, etc. may themselves also put cookies on your machine. If a user logs into Facebook, Twitter or Google+ via our website/applications, they will leave a cookie on the users' device. This is the same process as if the user logs into these social networks directly. We also use Google Analytics and similar solutions on our Services to help us analyze how our Services are used. It uses performance cookies to track customer’s interactions. For example, by using cookies, Google can tell us which pages our users view, which are most popular, what time of day our websites/applications are visited, whether visitors have been to our websites before, what website referred the visitor to our websites/applications, and other similar information. All of this information is anonymized.

We recommend that you check the respective privacy policies for these external services to help you understand what data these organizations hold about you and how they process it.

Your Choices

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you choose to turn off cookies you will still see advertising on the internet but it may not be tailored to your specific interests. It does not mean that you won't be served any advertisements whilst you are online. Whilst we have mentioned most of the third parties involved in using targeting or advertising cookies in the preceding section, the list is not exhaustive and is subject to change. Therefore, even if you choose to turn off all the third-party cookies listed in section, you may still receive some tailored advertisements and recommendations. There are a number of ways you can manage what cookies are set on your devices. Essential cookies, however, cannot be disabled. If you do not allow certain cookies to be installed, the website/application may not be accessible to you and/or the performance, features, or services may be compromised. You can also manage this type of cookie in the privacy settings on the web browser you are using. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access parts of our or others' websites. Please see below for more information.

Changing your Cookie Settings: The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser.

To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details.

  • Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

  • Cookie settings in Firefox

  • Cookie settings in Chrome

  • Cookie settings in Safari

  • More information: To learn more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org You can find out more about opting out of receiving interest-based ads from other companies at optout.aboutads.infoand www.networkadvertising.org/choices In addition, certain third party advertising networks, like Facebook and Google, permit users to opt out of or customize preferences associated with your internet browsing. To learn more about this feature from  Google, click here. For further information about the Facebook Pixel, click here.