Cookie Policy

OpenMicz employs various technologies, including cookies, mobile identifiers, tracking URLs, log data, and similar tools, to enhance, safeguard, and refine the OpenMicz Platform. This Cookie Policy acts as a supplement to the OpenMicz Privacy Policy, elucidating the purposes and methodologies behind our use of these technologies and outlining the choices available to you.

These technologies serve several key purposes, including:

• Facilitating Platform Use: Enabling your use and access to the OpenMicz Platform and the OpenMicz Payment Services.
• Enhancing Functionality: Streamlining the functioning of the OpenMicz Platform for a smoother user experience.
• User Interaction Understanding: Gaining insights into how you navigate and engage with the OpenMicz Platform, leading to continual improvements.
• Personalized Advertising: Delivering tailored advertising, both on the OpenMicz Platform and through emails, as well as on third-party websites.
• Relevant Content Display: Presenting content, such as advertisements, that aligns more closely with your interests.
• Performance Monitoring: Analyzing the performance, operation, and efficacy of the OpenMicz Platform and OpenMicz advertisements.
• Legal Compliance: Enforcing agreements that govern the use of the OpenMicz Platform.
• Security Measures: Detecting and preventing fraud, ensuring trust and safety, and conducting investigations.
• Support and Development: Facilitating customer support, analytics, research, product development, and regulatory compliance initiatives.

This Policy is designed to offer transparency regarding the utilization of these technologies and to empower you with choices regarding their use. For further details, please refer to the OpenMicz Privacy Policy.

During your visit to the OpenMicz Platform, we may employ cookies on your device. These are compact text files sent by websites to your computer or other internet-connected device. They serve to uniquely identify your browser or store specific information and settings within it. Cookies play a pivotal role in recognizing you upon your return, facilitating a personalized experience, and aiding in the detection of certain types of fraud.

The information gathered through cookies and similar tools is often utilized in a non-identifiable manner, devoid of reference to personal details. For instance, we may analyze this data to enhance our understanding of website traffic patterns and optimize the overall website experience. On some occasions, we may associate the information collected via cookies and related technology with your personal information. It's important to note that our business partners may also utilize these tracking technologies on the OpenMicz Platform or may engage others to track your behavior on our behalf.

The two primary types of cookies utilized on the OpenMicz Platform are as follows:

• Session Cookies: Typically expiring when you close your browser.
• Persistent Cookies: Remaining on your device even after you close your browser, they can be reused during your subsequent accesses to the OpenMicz Platform.

In numerous instances, you retain the ability to control your cookie preferences and opt-out of utilizing cookies and other data collection technologies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Since each browser operates differently, please consult the "help" section of your specific browser to understand cookie preferences and explore other available privacy settings. It's important to be aware that choosing to remove, reject, or clear local storage of cookies may impact the features, availability, and functionality of the OpenMicz Platform. For more information, please refer to the OpenMicz Privacy Policy.

In enhancing your online experience, we may employ Local Stored Objects, commonly known as Flash Cookies, and similar technologies. A Flash cookie is a small data file deployed on a computer through Adobe Flash technology, which facilitates the swift development of dynamic content like video clips and animation.

Flash cookies serve to personalize and enrich your online experience, delivering content for Flash players. Additionally, we may use Flash cookies for security measures, to collect specific website metrics, and to aid in recalling settings and preferences. It's important to note that the management of Flash cookies involves a distinct interface compared to the one provided by your web browser. For Flash cookie management, please refer to Adobe’s website.

Tracking URLs, web beacons, and pixel tags are diminutive graphic images and/or small blocks of code strategically positioned on website pages, advertisements, or within our emails. Their primary function is to ascertain whether you have taken a particular action. Your interaction with these pages or the act of opening an email signals to us that you have accessed the webpage or opened the email. These tools play a crucial role in gauging the response to our communications and enhancing the effectiveness of our web pages and promotional efforts.

Diverse types of information are gathered from server logs and additional technologies. This includes details about the device utilized to access the OpenMicz Platform, such as operating system type, browser type, domain, and system settings. Furthermore, information regarding the language settings, country, and time zone of your device is recorded. The IP address of the device used for Internet connection is also logged, serving as a unique identifier crucial for device communication on the Internet.

Our server logs extend to collecting information about the website you visited before entering the OpenMicz Platform, as well as the website you navigate to upon departure. Additionally, insights into your OpenMicz Platform usage, especially when accessibility tools are employed, contribute to enhancing user experience and optimizing service delivery.

Device-related information serves as a means of authenticating users on the OpenMicz Platform. This may involve utilizing your IP address, browser details, or other data supplied by your browser or device to discern the specific device accessing our platform. Employing these techniques enables us to associate you with different devices used to access our content, aiding in fraud protection and enhancing the precision of targeted advertising.

OpenMicz allows third parties to gather the information detailed above through our Service and reveals such information to third parties for business purposes, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. These purposes include providing advertising on our Service and other platforms based on users' online activities across various sites, services, and devices over time.

Third parties, such as Meta Platforms, deploy technologies like pixels and SDKs on the OpenMicz Platform for various reasons. These include analyzing how users utilize the OpenMicz Platform, marketing OpenMicz services on our platform and third-party websites, detecting or preventing fraud, conducting risk assessments, and gathering information about user activities.

For instance, in collaboration with analytics partners like Google Analytics, we strive to comprehend user behavior on the OpenMicz Platform. Users can prevent Google Analytics from utilizing their information for analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser. Cookies may be placed under certain conditions, such as being logged into the third-party service on the same browser.
Third parties, including Meta Platforms, may employ these tracking technologies to collect or receive information from the OpenMicz Platform and beyond. They utilize this information to deliver targeted ads they believe align with users' interests and measure ad effectiveness on the OpenMicz Platform and other online platforms.

The targeting and advertising cookies we use may involve Google and other advertising networks and services we employ periodically. Users can visit various opt-out pages to manage their preferences, including the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out page, or the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page.

If users wish to opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising or customize Google display network ads, they can do so via the Google Ads Settings page. Despite opting out of tailored advertising, users may still receive advertising content, although it will not be tailored to their interests. OpenMicz does not control these opt-out links and is not responsible for their availability or accuracy. Users can opt out of information collection for ad targeting by adjusting their Facebook or Instagram account ad settings or contacting support@openmicz.com with a request description and validation information.

Most browsers are configured to automatically accept cookies, but you have the option to adjust your browser settings to decline cookies. You can typically find this option in the Help section of your browser's toolbar. It's important to note that while disabling cookies is possible, the OpenMicz Platform does not currently respond to a "Do Not Track" signal in the HTTP header from your browser or mobile application due to the lack of standardization on how that signal should be interpreted.

Flash cookies, operating differently than browser cookies, cannot be removed using cookie management tools available in a web browser. To understand how to manage flash cookies, you can visit the Adobe website and make adjustments through the Global Privacy Settings Panel.

For mobile devices, you may have the ability to control cookies through its settings function. Please refer to your device manufacturer's instructions for more detailed information.

It's essential to be aware that opting to decline cookies may impact the functionality of certain parts of the OpenMicz Platform. Some features may not work as intended or may not work at all.