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Arqihive Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy for ArkiHive

Effective Date:  30-Apr-2024

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At ArkiHive, accessible from www.arkihive.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Cookie Policy outlines the types of information that is collected and recorded by cookies and how we use it.

Your Control Over Cookies

You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. By adjusting these settings, you can refuse the use of cookies, accept only certain types of cookies, or delete cookies entirely. Please note that disabling cookies might affect the functionality of ArkiHive and reduce the effectiveness of certain site features.

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This comprehensive explanation should help users understand the critical role cookies play in enhancing their experience on ArkiHive, ensuring security, and providing personalized content and ads.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

What Types of Cookies Do We Use on ArkiHive?

1. Essential Cookies

  • Purpose: These cookies are crucial for the basic functioning of our website. They are primarily used to manage user sessions, authentication, and security.

  • Examples:

    • Session Cookies: These are used to maintain the state of a user’s actions across different pages. For example, maintaining logged-in status when users move between different pages.

    • Security Cookies: These help identify and prevent security risks. They authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorized parties.

2. Performance Cookies

  • Purpose: Performance cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting data about their visits (such as the number of visitors, the pages they visit, and their total time on site), enabling us to improve the functionality and structure of our website.

  • Examples:

    • Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies to gather data on traffic sources and how long individuals stay on a page. Tools like Google Analytics use these cookies to help us understand user behavior.

    • Optimization Cookies: These cookies help us test different versions of our web pages to see which particular features or content users prefer.

3. Functionality Cookies

  • Purpose: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

  • Examples:

    • Language Preferences: To remember your language selection and ensure personalized content in your chosen language.

    • Video Player Settings: These keep track of your video player preferences like preferred volume or video quality.

4. Targeting or Advertising Cookies

  • Purpose: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns.

  • Examples:

    • Ad-Serving Cookies: Managed by third-party advertising platforms, these cookies choose ads based on your interests, clicks, and other behavior on our site.

    • Market Research Cookies: These assess how effective an ad campaign is and improve the relevance of the ads presented to you.

5. Social Media Cookies

  • Purpose: These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks.

  • Examples:

    • Social Sharing Buttons: Cookies that integrate social media sharing buttons on our site. For instance, cookies set by services like Facebook or Twitter can help you share content directly from our web pages to your social media accounts.

    • Social Media Platform Cookies: Often used by the social media platforms themselves, these cookies manage any interaction you may have with embedded content or social plugins on our website.

How Do We Use Cookies?

Overview:

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit our website. These files are essential for navigating and experiencing the features of ArkiHive efficiently. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device for a set period or until you delete them). Here’s how we use different types of cookies:

1. To Enable Essential Website Operations

  • Functionality: Cookies are critical for the basic operation of our website. They help with user authentication and maintaining the session while navigating different pages. Without these cookies, key aspects of the website, like logging in or adding items to a cart in the marketplace, wouldn't work.

  • Security: We use cookies to ensure the integrity and security of our platform. They help detect and prevent security threats and fraudulent activities.



2. To Improve Website Performance and Functionality

  • User Experience: Cookies help us remember your settings and preferences (like login details, language, region) so you don’t have to re-enter them every time you visit our site. This enhances your ease of use.

  • Site Optimization: We analyze how our services are used and perform, adjusting and improving accordingly. Cookies track navigation paths, page response times, and pages that may encounter errors.


3. For Analytical Purposes

  • Analytics: We use cookies to gather data on how our visitors interact with our website. This includes pages visited, time spent on pages, and the journey across the site. Tools like Google Analytics use cookies to provide insights into overall website traffic and campaign performance.

  • Improvement: Based on the analytical data, we identify areas of improvement to enhance the user experience and ensure that the website functions well. This might include design changes, content updates, and more efficient navigation paths.


4. To Deliver Personalized Advertising

  • Targeted Advertising: Cookies are used to collect data about your online activities and interests. This data allows us to show you relevant ads on our site and on third-party websites. It helps us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and optimize based on user interest.

  • Ad Performance: We evaluate which ads are most effective for our users, adjusting our strategies accordingly to serve ads that are more likely to be of interest to you.


5. To Enable Social Media Integration

  • Social Interaction: If you choose to interact with social media features on our site, such as sharing content or using your social media login for sign-ins, cookies facilitate these interactions based on your social media settings.

  • Content Sharing: Cookies allow content that you view on our site to be shared on social networks and other platforms. They may also track your interaction with the social sharing feature.

Extended Uses of Cookies on ArkiHive

1. Authentication

  • Purpose: Cookies help determine when you are logged in, which allows us to display your personal account information and relevant features.

2. Security

  • Purpose: We use cookies to enable and support our security features, and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our user agreement.

3. Preferences, Features & Services

  • Purpose: Cookies can tell us which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are. They can assist you in filling out forms on ArkiHive more easily. They also provide you with features, insights, and customized content.

4. Performance

  • Purpose: We use cookies to provide the best experience possible, by speeding up page loads, and by showing which parts of the ArkiHive website people visit.

5. Analytics and Research

  • Purpose: Cookies help us learn which parts of our site are the most popular and what types of offers our users like to see. We use cookies to understand, improve, and research products, features, and services, including when you access ArkiHive from other websites, applications, or devices such as your work computer or your mobile device.

6. Advertising

  • Purpose: Cookies are used to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications include selecting advertising based on what's relevant to a user, improving reporting on campaign performance, and avoiding showing ads the user has already seen.

7. Market Analysis

  • Purpose: Cookies track market trends and patterns based on user interaction with various services and advertisements. This helps ArkiHive tailor its offerings to better match the needs and preferences of its users.

8. Personalization

  • Purpose: Cookies help the site recall individual settings (like user name, language, region, etc.) to personalize the user experience by providing more relevant content and streamlined navigation.

9. Session Management

  • Purpose: These cookies manage individual user sessions, ensuring that any input or choices are remembered across pages without needing to re-enter information.

10. Testing and Quality Assurance

  • Purpose: Cookies can be used to serve different versions of a page or feature to different users for A/B testing purposes, which allows the technical team to determine which features most positively affect user experience in a controlled way.

Each of these uses enables ArkiHive to offer a more robust, efficient, and tailored browsing experience, reflecting the specific needs and preferences of its users. By clearly understanding and managing cookies, users can better customize their interaction with ArkiHive to suit their personal privacy preferences and usage needs.

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