PURE’S COOKIES POLICY

This cookies policy (“Cookies Policy”) applies to the use of the website https://pure.app/ in its entirety, including all of our subpages, associated sites or pages (“Website”) and the PURE web app which is accessible through browsers on mobile phone, tablet computer and personal computer (collectively, “PURE”), all operated by Online Classifieds AG, Steinhauserstrasse 74, 6300 Zug, Switzerland, CHE-274.401.166 (“we”, “us”, “our”).

In this Cookies Policy we explain the cookies which we use in connection with PURE, the purposes for which cookies are used, and how you can manage your preferences in relation to these cookies. For further information about how we process your personal data, please refer to our privacy policy here.

1. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file stored permanently or temporarily on your computer or mobile device by your web browser when you visit or use PURE. Cookies are a tool that stores information about website visits and recognizes you and your preferences each time you visit PURE, thus ensuring site functionality and enabling us to provide the services you request. 

By law, we are allowed to use cookies that are necessary to make PURE work and to ensure its functionality. Depending on the purpose, necessary cookies are stored permanently or are deleted when the browser is closed. If you block necessary cookies, individual functionalities of PURE may be limited or unavailable.

With your consent we may use other cookies, for example persistent tracking cookies (also known as local storage devices), mainly for security protection purposes, such as preventing fishers, scammers, and unauthorized login attempts. These other cookies may also be used to analyze your usage behavior and to optimize and personalize the content on PURE.

We also use technologies such as web beacons known also as pixels (files with unique identifier that allows us to check when a user has accessed some content on our Website), tracking URLs (allows us to trace from where our Website visitors come from) and software development kits also known as SKDs (set of tools that function like web beacons or cookies). For the sake of simplicity, we also refer to these technologies as “cookies” in this Cookies Policy.

2. Why do we use cookies?

Use of cookies and local storage devices falls into the following categories:

  • those that are strictly necessary to deliver the services that you have requested. It is not possible to deactivate these cookies because they are essential to enable us to provide the service that you have requested;
  • cookies related to the performance of PURE, such as Performance and Analytics Cookies that help us determine how PURE is performing and ensure a smooth and trouble-free experience for our members and visitors.

We collect and may give others permission to collect information by placing cookies on your computer or mobile device. Below is a list to of the individual cookie functions and their explanation:

  • Necessary (mandatory): Necessary cookies are required to enable basic features of this site, such as providing safe and secure log-in, adjusting your consent preferences and establishing overall security and integrity of PURE. 
    In order to provide this we use cookies and other devices such as CAPTCHAs, we also use persistent cookies, which enable us to identify whether the device on which a login is attempted is the same as the device that is linked to the user's account. These types of cookies also help with our anti-spam measures and help us to prevent phishers, scammers, unauthorized login attempts to your account, and access to any hacked accounts. 
  • Functional (opt-in): Functional cookies are used to help perform certain functionalities like recognizing users on PURE, remembering preferences they have previously selected, including language preferences and location information, and other features.
  • Analytics (opt-in): Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help to provide information on metrics such as number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The main analytical cookies we use are Google Analytics and Yandex Metrica.
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, or Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (collectively, “Google”). Google Analytics uses methods that enable us to analyze the use of PURE. Through the use of cookies, Google systematically records and evaluates your behavior on PURE. It creates reports for us using this data, giving us insight into how PURE is used. We have configured the service in such a way that your IP address is shortened by Google in Europe before being forwarded to Google in the USA. Thus, your IP address cannot be traced back to your PURE profile or the device associated with it. Although the information we share with Google is not associated with the identity of a user of PURE, one cannot exclude the possibility that Google may draw conclusions about your identity given this data for its own purposes, creating personal profiles, and linking this data to your Google account. If you agree to the use of Google Analytics, you explicitly consent to such processing, which also includes the transfer of your Personal Data to Google in the USA and other countries without an adequate level of protection. Please find more information about how Google protects your data privacy rights here. If you have a Google account, you can find more information about data processing by Google here. If you would like to deactivate Google Analytics, you can download and install the relevant browser add-on here.
    Yandex Metrica, Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo 16, Moscow, Russia 119021, is used to collect information about how visitors use PURE. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve PURE. Please find more information about how Yandex Metrica protects your data privacy rights here.
  • Performance (opt-in): Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the users with assisting with navigation on PURE, ensuring pages load up quickly and responding rapidly to users requests for services.
  • Advertisement (opt-in): Advertisement cookies are used to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns we create and manage on other platforms.

Our use of cookies and local storage devices, including the specific cookie names, may change over time, but will generally fall into the above categories. Our privacy policy is regularly reviewed and updated. If you would like to know more about cookies, the following websites provide useful information: https://allaboutcookies.org/ or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

3. How can you control cookies?

You can set and adjust your cookie preferences at any time by accessing your browser settings and adjusting your cookie preferences there.

Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser to better control or reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your end device. The procedure for managing cookies is slightly different for each internet browser. You can check the specific steps in your browser help menu.

Please note that disabling cookies may prevent you from using some specific features of PURE.

4. Privacy policies of other websites

PURE may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by us.

The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to these third-party sites, nor do the links from PURE imply that we endorse or have reviewed these third-party sites.

We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.

5. Contact

If you have feedback, comments, or questions about data protection or PURE’s Cookies Policy please contact us by email at [email protected]. 

Alternatively, you can write to:

Online Classifieds AG
Steinhauserstrasse 74
6300 Zug
Switzerland

Effective date: 15 April 2023