W8 (“We”, “us”) use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g. pixel tags or links) at our website www.W8.live (“Website”) to ensure the best way of site functioning for you and other website visitors and to provide us with necessary information. This also helps us to remember you when you visit the Website, to improve your browsing experience, as well as to detect any abuse of our Website and services.

Cookies are:

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer (or telephone or on any other device connected to the internet) when you visit the Website. Cookies are saved by the browser on the visitor’s device in the scope it is specified in settings of the browser of the visitor’s computer, each time when the visitor visits the website.

Types of cookies:

There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.

Session cookies are only stored temporarily during the time you visit the website. Session cookies will disappear when you log off the website or close your browser.

Persistent cookies store a file on your computer for a certain period of time. The website uses persistent cookies in order to monitor your navigation on the website and to collect statistical data.

Some of these persistent cookies are third-party cookies from web analytics companies and other third parties engaged in order to monitor your navigations on the website.

Personal data processed mainly include: IP Address, Device ID, Country or region, Click history. You can find more information on the collection and processing of personal data within our Privacy Policy [here], and in the privacy policies of the relevant third-party cookie tools.

We use the following cookies:

• Necessary cookies – the purpose of the use is to provide technical functionality of our websites. The data from these cookies are processed on the basis of W8’s legitimate interest.
• Statistical cookies – the purpose of the use is to identify usage trends and derive analytics and statistics. These cookies are used to remember your choices and make assumptions about your preferences for statistical purposes, the legal basis is your consent. W8 uses an automated tool called Google Analytics which allows us to record and analyze how you and other visitors use the website. You can learn more about how Google Analytics works and the information it allows us to collect and analyze here https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012034?hl=lten&ref_topic=6157800.
• Marketing cookies – the purpose of the use is to improve and personalize our interactions with you, based on your website using patterns, and to Identify potential clients and business opportunities. To achieve this, we use a third-party tool, namely Facebook for these purposes. You can learn more about Facebook cookies here https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/. The legal basis for use of these cookies is your consent.

We reserve the right to use additional marketing and analytical third-party cookies, such as Twitter, Yandex.Metrica, LinkedIn, GA.

Below you can find information on the type of cookies we use exactly, their description, duration of their storage and the type of purpose the cookie is assigned to:

• _ga - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. Duration - 2 years, type - analytics.
• _gid - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information on how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. Duration - 1 day, type - analytics.
• _gat - This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. Duration - 1 minute, type - performance.
• fr - The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. Duration - 2 months, type - advertisement.

The right to disable cookies:

The cookies are placed on your device only if you consent to apply and use them within the “Cookies notice” – the pop-up log that you see when entering the website, unless cookies are required for the strictly technical functioning of the website – in that case, their use is necessary and cannot be disabled. If you do not accept cookies, you can block the use of Statistical and Marketing cookies by pressing the “reject” button on Cookies notice.

You can also reject the necessary cookies, but if you do this you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and we cannot guarantee that you will be able to use our Websites or benefit from all our security features.