Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy “Cookies”
Last updated: 01.01.20
Please read this Cookie Policy (“Cookies”) carefully before using the https://www.truenorth.co website (the "Service") operated by Blockit, Inc (BLOCKIT, INC.). BLOCKIT, INC. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “BLOCKIT, INC.”) understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with the BLOCKIT, INC. Privacy Policy and the BLOCKIT, INC. Terms of Use. By continuing to browse or use the BLOCKIT, INC. Sites, you agree that BLOCKIT, INC. can store and access Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.
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WHAT ARE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of the BLOCKIT, INC. Sites, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use the Sites. This allows BLOCKIT, INC. Sites to recognize your device from those of other users of the Sites. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
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HOW DO BLOCKIT, INC. SITES USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
BLOCKIT, INC. uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of BLOCKIT, INC. Sites. BLOCKIT, INC. also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on BLOCKIT, INC. Sites, protect the Sites, and to process any requests that you make of BLOCKIT, INC.. To administer the Sites and for research purposes, BLOCKIT, INC. also has contracted with third party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from BLOCKIT, INC. Site users. These third party service providers use persistent Cookies to help improve the user experience, manage site content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Sites.
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FIRST AND THIRD PARTY COOKIES
“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to BLOCKIT, INC. and that BLOCKIT, INC. places on your device. “Third party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through BLOCKIT, INC. Sites. BLOCKIT, INC. may contract with third party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided BLOCKIT, INC. with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on behalf of BLOCKIT, INC., please refer to their privacy policies as indicated below.
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DEPENDING ON THE SITE, THESE TYPES OF COOKIES MAY BE USED
Persistent Cookies. Persistent Cookies are used to improve your experience of using the Sites. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Sites.
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Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. Session Cookies are used to help track internet usage as described above. You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to BLOCKIT, INC. Sites. The data collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above.
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COOKIES ARE USED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES
Purpose Strictly Necessary/ Technical - These Cookies are necessary to allow BLOCKIT, INC. to operate the Sites so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, help recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable BLOCKIT, INC. to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure the Sites.
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Analytical/ Performance - These Cookies are used by us or third party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
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Functionality - These Cookies let us operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit BLOCKIT, INC. to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and remember how you customized the Sites and services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
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Third-Party Advertising - These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. BLOCKIT, INC. may also allow third party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to BLOCKIT, INC. Sites.
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HOW TO REFUSE OR WITHDRAW CONSENT FOR USE OF COOKIES
If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of BLOCKIT, INC. Sites. If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above. For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choices if in the United States.
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HOW OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES ARE USED IN COMMUNICATIONS
BLOCKIT, INC. may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you through web beacons. A web beacon is a graphic image, which is placed on a website or in an email that alone or in conjunction with cookies compile information about your usage of or your interaction with a BLOCKIT, INC. website or email. For example, BLOCKIT, INC. may add web beacons to the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you to determine whether you have opened our email or clicked a link. The analysis gathered helps us improve the effectiveness of content and format of our websites and email communications.
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HOW TO REFUSE OR WITHDRAW CONSENT FOR WEB BEACONS
You may avoid web beacons by configuring your email reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.
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CONTACT BLOCKIT, INC.
If you have any other questions about the BLOCKIT, INC. Cookie Policy, please see the footer of the site for contact information.