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Cookie Policy (Cookie Declaration)

Our Privacy Policy explains our principles when it comes to the collection, processing, and storage of your information. This policy specifically explains how we, our partners, and users of our services deploy cookies, as well as the options you have to control them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as “first party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”).

Both websites and HTML emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third party networks. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “like” or “follow” button on a post, for example).

Many of the cookies we use are only set if you are a registered WordPress.com user (so you don’t have to log in every time, for example), while others are set whenever you visit one of our websites, irrespective of whether you have an account.

For more information on the choices you have about the cookies we use, please see the Controlling Cookies section below.

Types of Cookie

The table below explains the types of cookies we use on our websites and why we use them.

Required Cookies: These cookies are essential for our websites and services to perform basic functions and are necessary for us to operate certain features. These include those required to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account-related functions, store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location, and ensure our services are operating properly.

Analytics and Performance: These cookies allow us to optimize performance by collecting information on how users interact with our websites, including which pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our websites function and to understand how users interact with them. Performance Cookies do not store any Personal Information.  Specifically, for analytics providers, we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service offered by Google, tracks and reports website traffic. This service uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. Google Analytics shares this data with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. 

If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us or clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of our email communication. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. To exercise these rights, please contact us at contact@growisto.com.

Functional cookies: These cookies allow the Site to remember the choices you make and provide enhanced functionality and more personalized features.  Depending on the context, Functional Cookies may store certain types of Personal Information as needed to provide functionality.

Advertising: These cookies are set by us and our advertising partners to provide you with relevant content and to understand that content’s effectiveness. They may be used to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites to predict your preferences and to display more relevant advertisements to you. These cookies also allow a profile to be built about you and your interests and enable personalized ads to be shown to you based on your profile

Google AdWords/Analytics: Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: https://www.google.com/settings/ads  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/  We may also use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements, which may include targeted advertisements on a third-party site after you have visited our website. We and the third-party service providers use cookies to inform, optimize, measure performance serve ads based on your previous visits to our site. Any tracking that a third party performs is subject to their own privacy notice. Our third-party service providers may provide us information that tells us how our marketing ads, often placed on third-party sites, performed and who clicked on them. This information does not identify any specific individual and is generally non-identifying. If we were to associate it with you, we would treat it as personal data.

Social Media Cookies:  Social Media Cookies make social sharing easier for you, provide you with tools to connect with the Site, and help us better understand both the audience for the Site and the effectiveness of our social media outreach.  These are third-party cookies.  Your choices with respect to such cookies are determined by the social media platforms on which you have accounts.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Category: Necessary (6)
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
COOKIE NAMEPROVIDERTYPEEXPIRY
__cfduidgrowisto.comHTTP29 days
Cookie purpose description: Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
 
_GRECAPTCHAgoogle.comHTTP179 days
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
 
CookieConsentgrowisto.comHTTP1 year
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
 
rc::agoogle.comHTMLPersistent
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
 
rc::bgoogle.comHTMLSession
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
 
rc::cgoogle.comHTMLSession
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
 
Category: Statistics (9)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
COOKIE NAMEPROVIDERTYPEEXPIRY
_gagrowisto.comHTTP2 years
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
 
_gatgrowisto.comHTTP1 day
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
 
_gidgrowisto.comHTTP1 day
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
 
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgressgrowisto.comHTTP1 day
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors – this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice.
 
_hjFirstSeengrowisto.comHTTP1 day
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website.
 
_hjidgrowisto.comHTTP1 year
Cookie purpose description: Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.
 
_hjidgrowisto.comHTMLPersistent
Cookie purpose description: Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.
 
_hjIncludedInPageviewSamplegrowisto.comHTTP1 day
Cookie purpose description: Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder.
 
_hjTLDTestgrowisto.comHTTPSession
Cookie purpose description: Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.
 
Category: Marketing (8)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
COOKIE NAMEPROVIDERTYPEEXPIRY
_fbpgrowisto.comHTTP3 months
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
 
ads/ga-audiencesgoogle.comPixelSession
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
 
frfacebook.comHTTP3 months
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
 
IDEdoubleclick.netHTTP1 year
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
 
pagead/1p-user-list/#google.comPixelSession
Cookie purpose description: Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites.
 
RULdoubleclick.netHTTP1 year
Cookie purpose description: Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed – This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient.
 
test_cookiedoubleclick.netHTTP1 day
Cookie purpose description: Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.
 
trfacebook.comPixelSession
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
 
Category: Unclassified (1)
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
COOKIE NAMEPROVIDERTYPEEXPIRY
sb-updatesgrowisto.comHTTP1 year
Cookie purpose description: Unclassified

 

Don’t Want Cookies?

Most web browsers let you choose whether to accept cookies.  Most also let you delete cookies already set.  The choices available, and the mechanism used, will vary from browser to browser.  Such browser settings are typically found in the “options”, “tools” or “preferences” menu. You may also consult the browser’s “help” menu.
For example:  

For more info, visit our Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use.