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This Statement of Privacy applies to the Spot-lit.eu website and governs data collection and usage.

By using the Spot-lit.eu website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. The Spot-lit.eu website collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Spot-lit.eu also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Spot-lit.eu. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses. This information is used by Spot-lit.eu for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Spot-lit.eu website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Spot-lit.eu public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Spot-lit.eu does not read any of your private online communications.

Spot-lit.eu encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Spot-lit.eu so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Spot-lit.eu is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Spot-lit.eu website.

Use of your Personal Information

Spot-lit.eu collects and uses your personal information to operate the Spot-lit.eu website and deliver the services you have requested. Spot-lit.eu also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Spot-lit.eu and its affiliates. Spot-lit.eu may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Spot-lit.eu does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Spot-lit.eu or its partners may, from time to time, contact you about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In addition, Spot-lit.eu may share data with trusted partners, to inform you of other products or services available from Spot-lit.eu and its affiliates, to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Spot-lit.eu, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Spot-lit.eu does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Spot-lit.eu keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Spot-lit.eu , in order to determine what Spot-lit.eu services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within Spot-lit.eu to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Spot-lit.eu websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Spot-lit.eu or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Spot-lit.eu; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Spot-lit.eu, or the public.

Cookies

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS COOKIES POLICY AND PRIVACY STATEMENT, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS/USE THE SITE.

The Spot-lit.eu website use “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Spot-lit.eu pages, or register with Spot-lit.eu site or services, a cookie helps Spot-lit.eu to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Spot-lit.eu website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Spot-lit.eu features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Spot-lit.eu services or websites you visit.

Managing Cookies

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“third party cookies”), or those from specific websites.

The following links provide instructions on how to do this for the most popular browsers:

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First Party Cookies:

These cookies are issued by our own webserver and help the site to work the way you would expect it to work.

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_gat10 minutesUsed to throttle request rate.
_gid24 hoursUsed to distinguish users.
PHPSESSIDSESSIONThis is a cookie designed to store and identify your unique session ID on the website. It does not contain any personal information and usually looks something like 1234567890abcdef. PHPSESSID is deleted as soon as you close all browser windows.
aviaCookieConsent1 monthRegisters that the user has accepted the cookie policy.

Third Party Analytics Cookies:

This site uses Google Analytics to monitor the traffic coming to our site. It does not track personal information, but helps us to understand how users view the site. We also link our Google Adwords account to our Analytics account to better understand how our adwords are performing. The following cookies are deployed by Google to facilitate that.

Further details of the cookies used by Google Analytics are provided here:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

For visitors who want to turn this feature off in their browser Google have developed a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on details can be viewed here:

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DSIDGoogleBrowser session to 6 Months‘DSID are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. If you don’t want the ads you see to be coordinated across your devices, you can opt out of Ads Personalization using Ads Settings.
IDEGoogleBrowser session to 6 MonthsGoogle also use one or more cookies for advertising we serve across the web. One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites is named ‘IDE‘ and is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
1P_JARGoogle1 monthGoogle ad personalisation
AIDGoogle1 weekWe also use cookies named ‘AID,‘ ‘DSID,’ and ‘TAID‘, which are used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. If you don’t want the ads you see to be coordinated across your devices, you can opt out of Ads Personalization using Ads Settings.
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Google2 YearsThese cookies, provided by Google Inc., are used in conjunction with the Google+1 button to enable you to share information publicly, as part of your Google Profile.
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
OGPCGoogle1 MONTHDescription: these cookies are used by Google to store preferences and user information each time they visit web pages containing geographical maps of Google Maps.
SIDGoogle2 YearsGoogle: We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. For example, we use cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.
NID, OTZGoogle6 monthsAdvertising cookie by google
_gaGoogle2 YearsPerformance: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years
_gatGoogle10 minutesUsed to throttle request rate.
_gidGoogle24 hoursUsed to distinguish users.
DVGoogle2 YearsSecurity cookie to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
CONSENTGoogle1 yearThese cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Please note that Third Party cookies are subject to change and we will endeavour to monitor those cookies and update this notice as required.

This Cookie Policy Last Updated: September 2019

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