ConnectUs (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on http://connectustech.com/ (the “Service”).

Cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website. By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. Cookies are then accessed by the originating website on each subsequent visit.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

How We Use Cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.  The cookies we use are there to allow you to perform the services you require and to assist us in providing a better website for our users. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service and to provide analytics. We do not use cookies to store information that identifies you as an individual. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. See the section on Disabling Cookies below for more information.

Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER TYPE EXPIRY
CookieConsent connectustech.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
PHPSESSID connectustech.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Preserves user session state across page requests.

Statistic cookies
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER TYPE EXPIRY
__utma docs.google.com HTTP 2 years
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
__utmb docs.google.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
__utmc docs.google.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
__utmt docs.google.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.
__utmz docs.google.com HTTP 6 months
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.

Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

fr facebook.com HTTP 3 months
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
GPS youtube.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
NID google.com HTTP 6 months
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
PREF youtube.com HTTP 8 months
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.
tr facebook.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver advertisements.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com HTTP 179 days
Cookie purpose description: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
YSC youtube.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
hustle_module_show_count-popup-4 appscentral.co HTTP 29 days
Cookie purpose description: Provides website popup

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics cookies to hold information about your visit to our site. This helps us better identify the use and popularity of our services and how successfully the website is functioning.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. This helps us better identify the use and popularity of our services and how successfully the website is functioning.

If you do not wish to allow Google Analytics to track you on this website or any others you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on to your browser. This can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  Alternatively, You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. See the section on Disabling Cookies below for more information.

Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Facebook Pixel

This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables ConnectUs to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enables ConnectUs to see how our users move between devices when accessing the ConnectUs web site and Facebook, to ensure that ConnectUs’s Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the ConnectUs web site. For further information about the Facebook Pixel please see: https://en-gb.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616

Intercom

We use third-party analytics services to help understand your usage of our services. In particular, we provide a limited amount of your information (such as sign-up date and some personal information like your email address) to Intercom, Inc. (“Intercom”) and utilize Intercom to collect data for analytics purposes when you visit our website or use our product. As a data processor acting on our behalf, Intercom analyzes your use of our website and/or product and tracks our relationship by way of cookies and similar technologies so that we can improve our service to you. For more information on Intercom’s use of cookies, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#cookie-policy. We may also use Intercom as a medium for communications, either through email, or through messages within our product(s). As part of our service agreements, Intercom collects publicly available contact and social information related to you, such as your email address, gender, company, job title, photos, website URLs, social network handles and physical addresses, to enhance your user experience. For more information on the privacy practices of Intercom, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy. Intercom’s services are governed by Intercom’s terms of use which can be found at https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#terms. If you would like to opt out of having this information collected by or submitted to Intercom, please contact us.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies from your browser via these links:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411

Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies