Cookie Notice

This Cookie Notice describes how Teya Group (“Teya”, “we” and “us”) uses cookies and other similar technologies on our websites, apps and social media communities. Teya recommends that users read this notice so that they can understand what type of cookies Teya uses, the information Teya collects using cookies, and how that information is used. 

To learn about the personal data we process in connection your data protection rights, please read our Privacy Notice.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Functions usually performed by a cookie can be achieved by ‘similar technologies’. This could include, for example, using certain characteristics to identify devices so that visits to a website can be analysed. Examples of similar technologies includes JavaScript objects and SDKs. From now on we will refer to these technologies collectively as ‘cookies’.

Mobile apps do not use cookies the way websites and mobile web browsers do. Teya apps use SDKs which are building blocks and are part of our apps. These SDKs are stored on your device when you download the app.

Cookies can either be a session cookie or a persistent cookie. Session cookies are deleted from user device when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies will remain stored on user device until deleted or until they expire. 

2. How Teya uses cookies?

We use cookies to track users' visits to our websites, apps and social media communities to improve the user experience, protect Teya's websites against unauthorised usage\fraud prevention, enable targeted advertising, analytics and to manage language settings. We use both session and persistent cookies and different types of cookies to run our service. Online security and fraud prevention includes, but is not limited to, identifying and blocking malicious activities (for example, multiple failed login attempts from the same IP address), implementing rate-limiting (to prevent brute-force attacks) and geolocating to detect suspicious access patterns (for example, simultaneous logins from different countries).

3. Types of cookies we use:

Essential/strictly necessary: These cookies are necessary for the service to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, logging in or filling in forms. It also includes what is required to comply with any other legislation. It further specifically includes cookies collected for online security and fraud prevention, as outlined in section 2, which collect (but not limited to the following) your current device location, history of device locations, current IP addresses and the history of the IP addresses.

Performance and Functionality: These are used to produce data to help us improve our site and measure how well new features or functionalities perform. If you do not allow these cookies we will not be able to monitor the performance of our services.

Targeting cookies: These cookies may be used to deliver targeted advertisements and to build a profile of your interests.

4. Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics and deliver advertisements about Teya and so on, these include but are not limited to Google Analytics and LinkedIn.

We may also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. However, we will only do this if we have your consent. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent.

5. How can you manage cookies?

When you visit our websites or use our apps, you can choose to accept, manage or refuse cookies and similar technologies unless our services need cookies to work properly or we have explained why we need to use them.

Removing cookies from your device:

• You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.  

• Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g., saved login details, site preference). 

Managing site-specific cookies:

• For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

Blocking cookies:

• You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g., profile logging -in). Further information on how to do this of Android and iOS devices can be found here.

To find out more about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org or for further information regarding your online choices, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu.