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Optima Media S.L ("us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on www.beyondcompare.com (the "Service").

Our Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies on the Service and how to manage them.

The Service website uses cookies to allow you to take full advantage of the functionality of the Service. Cookies make it possible to improve your future browsing experiences on the website. By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

The Service only uses cookies to identify the IP address of your device, your browsing habits and behaviour on the website. No cookie used on the website identify you as an individual (name, contact information). We may also use mobile device identifiers and the other technologies identified in Section 5 of our Privacy Policy for the purposes articulated in our Privacy Policy, for example to recognize your device when you use our Service.

1.What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small data file sent by a website that is stored and processed by your web browser when you visit a website. Subject to your consent, cookies are stored in the directory or in the program data sub-folders of the browser used on your terminal (computer, mobile or tablet). It allows a website to temporarily save anonymous information about visits and visitors of the website. Cookies are placed when you use your browser to consult a website which helps to detect your language and display its content in your language, to remember your consultations and preferences, to customise the content, to analyse traffic, to make survey and analysis, to find out technical anomalies of the website and for security purposes. Cookies record information relating to your internet browsing and are intended to be readable only by their issuers. Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location. Cookies can also log what type of terminal is connected to the Internet when viewing the content, which page and at what time, recognising the browser on your terminal only during the period of validity of the cookie used. They are mainly used to ensure that the website works as you expect it to in order to provide you the best user experience possible.

2. How to manage your cookies

When you first connect to Our website, you agree to the placement of cookies by clicking on the “accept” button on Our cookie banner or simply by continuing to navigate Our website after seeing the banner.

If you decide to refuse cookies, you may no longer be able to fully benefit from the Service or from other websites that you visit. The refusal of certain cookies may disrupt or block certain navigation features on websites (difficulty displaying content or registering for example).

Configuration/Settings of your internet browser:

You can choose to deactivate cookies at any time on your browser. You can accept or delete cookies one by one or delete them systematically once and for all.

Cookie preferences must be set for each web browser. You generally have several ways to manage cookies, including: completely authorizing or prohibiting cookies, deleting specific cookies that have already been saved by the browser, preventing certain websites from sending cookies to your computer, or blocking third-party cookies (when browsing on a website, cookies are sent to your computer by another website).

Please find below the necessary information on managing cookies with each of the main browsers:

You can also find useful information about how to control cookies here.

3. What types of cookies does the Service use and for what purpose?

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use different types of cookies to run the Service. The period of validity of the cookie varies according to its use and cannot exceed 24 months from the day on which you have given your consent to the integration of said cookie.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies allow you to access all the functionality features of our website and are essential for a smooth running of the Service. These cookies are necessary for the operation of the website and cannot be deactivated in our systems. You can configure your browser to block these cookies, but certain parts of the site will no longer be able to function afterwards. These cookies do not store any data able to identify you as a person. The legal basis for these cookies is our legitimate interest in providing you the Service you seek when visiting our website.

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our website, for example, the most visited pages and if error messages are displayed. These cookies do not collect data that identifies you as a person. All the information collected by these cookies is anonymized. These cookies are only intended to improve the functioning of the website. Then make it possible to measure the traffic or the audience linked to our website and to analyse interactions carried out on the website during your visit.

Purpose of the use of data collected from cookies	Cookie Lifetime	Legal right to data processing
Visit statistics: server capacity configuration and visitor measurement and measurement of advertising campaigns performance	24 months	This processing is based on our legitimate interest in optimizing website performance
Information of changes to our services	13 months	This processing is necessary for the execution of our legal obligations and / or for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim
Website management to carry out internal technical operations within the framework of problem solving, data analysis, tests, research, analysis and technical improvement of the service	13 months	This processing is based on the legitimate interest of ensuring the security of the site and improving its characteristics
Improvement and optimization of our site to ensure that the display of our content is adapted to your terminal	13 months	This processing is based on our legitimate interest in providing you a content formatted for its use
Preservation of a healthy and secure environment on the site	13 months	This processing is based on our legitimate interest in ensuring n the security of the site

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember your choices, the language chosen or the region where the device used is located, they provide you with more precise and customized content user experience. These cookies can also be used to remember changes made by you, such as the size of the text or the font, leaving a comment on the content. The information collected by these cookies can be made anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Purpose of the use of data collected from cookies	Maximum Cookie Lifetime	Legal right to data processing
To improve the browsing experience	13 months	This processing is based our legitimate interest in in optimizing user experience
To display information relating to the use of our services. We may also use your data to adapt the content of the site to your browsing habits and to your interests	13 months	This processing is based on the legitimate interest in optimizing user experience
To allow you to use all the interactive features of our service if you wish	13 months	This processing is based on the legitimate interest in optimizing user experience

4. List of first-party cookies

handl_ip - Function: to identify the user's IP - Lifetime: 30 days
handl_landing_page - Function: to identify the landing page (page visited) - Lifetime: 30 days
adgroupid - Function: Analytics: to know on what type of ad user has clicked on - Lifetime: 30 days
source - Function: to know where the user comes from: Google ads campaign, Facebook ads Campaign, Bing ads campaign - Lifetime: 30 days
time - Function: to determine the time when the user visited the site - Lifetime: 30 days
Aff_Id - Function: Identification of the site seen by the user in the analysis platform - Lifetime: 30 days
Aff_Subid_4 - Function: stores an identifier created by / for google analytics - Lifetime: 30 days
Timestamp - Function: To know at what time and date the user has clicked on our ad - Lifetime: 30 days
Track - Function: to identify campaign id and ad group id for marketing purpose- Lifetime: 30 days
Lastcat - Function: to identify last category seen by the user - Lifetime: 30 days
cookieCheck - Function: banner behavior: acceptance of the use of cookies - Lifetime: 30 days

5. Does anyone else use cookies on our website?

We also allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into one of the three categories above. For example, like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic. We may also enable third parties to serve cookies to help identify fraudulent or non-human traffic on our website.

Last update: June 2020

Thank you for visiting our website!

The website www.beyondcompare.com (the “Website”) is operated by Optima Media, S.L. (“us”, “we”, “Optima”). This Cookie Policy applies:

To your use of the Website;
To the communications we may exchange together, such as through e-mails;
To our commercial services which consists of indexing offers from commercial partners.

(together, the “Services”)

This Cookie Policy does not apply:

To the organizations which we compare and index through this Website, including their websites, goods and services;
To any links towards third-party services, websites or applications.

We encourage you to review the cookie practices of these third parties prior to use their respective websites or purchase their goods or services.

If you have any questions, concerns or inquiries about how we process your personal data through cookies or this Cookie Policy or for the exercise of your rights, you can reach us to us at:

Attention: Data Protection Officer

E-mail: [email protected]

Mailbox: Optima Media, Av. de Josep Tarradellas 38 - 08029 Barcelona, Spain

To know more about how we process your personal data, please refer to our Cookie Policy which also contains information regarding your rights. Cookies include personal data such as electronic data.

2. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small data file that is packed and stored as a cookie, sent to your web browser, and then stored on your computer. We include in our definition of cookies similar tracking technologies such as pixels and web beacons.

First party cookies are those installed by us and they are installed either for the time that you use our Services or they are stored longer to be used when you come back to use our Services.

Third-party cookies are installed by our partners and generally stay installed as you navigate the web. When you come back to our Website, the cookies that we have installed on your device will be sent to our web server so the information can be accessed and reused. Websites use cookies because web servers do not have memory.

A session cookie is only installed temporarily in a browser’s memory, so once you close your browser, session cookies disappear.

A Persistent cookie is installed longer on your device. None of our cookies are installed for more than 24 months. Persistent cookies are commonly used for web analytics which requires tracking visitor behaviour over different websites, as with Google Analytics. Web analytics does not allow websites to identify you individually as it uses tokens as an identifier or is provided as mass traffic. However, third parties who are permitted to install these cookies on our Website, such as Google Analytics, may have access to more personal information about you.

Most cookies collect information such as how users arrive at and use our Services, or a user’s general location. Cookies can also log what type of device you are using to connect to our Services, which page and at what time, recognizing the browser on your terminal only during the period of validity of the cookie used. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information about the electronic data that we process about you.

3. What types of cookies do you use, and why?

We use cookies for our Services to function as intended, to conduct marketing, to provide functionalities as part of the Services, to analyze our performance and to ensure that our Services are secure. Cookies are also useful to identify bugs and errors. We use both first-party and third-party cookies installed by partners on our Website.

We collect cookies that classify in each of these categories:

TYPE OF COOKIE	DESCRIPTION
Essential	Essential cookies are necessary to operate the core functions of our Services. These include login cookies, session ID cookies, language cookies as well as security cookies. In other words, essential cookies are used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network or are strictly necessary to provide an online services which you requested, such as our Services. In the European Union, these cookies are collected based on our legitimate interests because they are essential to the Services.
Functional	Functional cookies are used to provide you with some functionalities, and to remember preferences, consents and configurations. For instance, we use cookieCheck to remember your consent about cookies. In the European Union, these cookies are collected based on your explicit consent.
Analytics	Analytics cookies are used to generate aggregated statistical data about traffic and behavior of users when using our Services. For instance, we can determine how much time users spend on a page, and how successful our advertisings are. For instance, the cookie named _ga is used by Google Analytics to gather data about your behavior on our Services and adgroupid which is used to understand users’ clicks on our advertisings. We use analytics cookies to present you with advertisings within our Website, but not based on your behaviour across websites. We do not conduct interest-based advertising. In the European Union, analytics cookies are processed based on your explicit consent.

4. Do you use Google Analytics?

Yes, we use cookies installed by Google Analytics. Google Analytics helps website owners like us to measure how users interact with the content of our Website. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example, the URL of the page. The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages and interactions with a website. Google Analytics supports different types of JavaScript libraries for measuring website usage and leverages _ga and _gid cookies to distinguish users and _gat which is used to throttle request rates.

Google Analytics collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of their services and to identify in which country, state or city in the world you are located. This is referred to as IP geolocation, and does not give Google Analytics or us access to your address. Google Analytics uses a method to mask IPs from website owners. Other data collected by Google Analytics include data related to the device, browser, and on-site activities to measure and report statistics about your interaction.

Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that once installed and enabled disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site you visit. You can find this add-on by clicking here.

5. Do you respond to “do not track” browser settings?

Legislation in California provides that California residents are entitled to know how we respond to “Do Not Track” browser settings. If activated by you, this setting sends a special signal to the websites you encounter while web browser indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. We do not respond to Do Not Track signals at this time. If we do so in the future, we will describe how so in this Cookie Policy.

6. How can I manage my preferences about cookies?

You can manage your cookies through your browser, however, if you decide to refuse all cookies (such as essential cookies), you may not be able to fully benefit from our Services.

You can choose to deactivate cookies at any time on your browser. You can accept or delete cookies one by one or delete them systematically once and for all.

Please find below the necessary information on managing cookies with each of the main browsers:

Safari: https://support.apple.com/et-ee/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en-GB

Internet Explorer:https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Firefox:https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

You can also find useful information about how to control cookies here.

7. Do I have any rights over my personal data?

Yes, you have rights and you may lodge complaints as well. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information.

8. Can you change this Cookie Policy?

Yes, we will change it as required to reflect our current practices and to align with legislative requirements. Please see the above latest update date.