Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 26 November 2024
Last Revised: 26 November 2024
At DEVAID LIMITED (“the Company”), we value transparency and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Cookies Policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies on this website to enhance your experience and ensure optimal performance of our services.
Does the Company Use Cookies?
Yes, the Company uses cookies to improve website functionality, analyze user interactions, and offer tailored services. By continuing to access our website through any device, you agree to the use of cookies in compliance with this policy.
If you do not agree with our use of cookies, you can adjust your browser settings accordingly or discontinue using our website. Please note that disabling cookies may affect your user experience and the availability of certain features.
What Are Cookies?
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A cookie is a collection of data in an industry-standard format that a web page temporarily transfers to your computer to personalize the content according to your preferences. It collects information about your online behavior to enhance user experience.
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A cookie is a small file containing text, typically a string of letters and numbers (information), often encoded, which uniquely identifies your computer, mobile device, or other equipment used to access the internet. It may also store additional data. A cookie consists of two parts: its name and its content or value. Each cookie has a defined lifespan, after which it expires.
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A cookie is downloaded to your device when you access a website through a request made by the web server to your browser (e.g., Google Chrome, Firefox). This enables the website to store data about your browsing activity. When you revisit the website, it can adapt its content and functionality based on your previous interactions.
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Cookies are entirely passive. They do not contain software programs, viruses, or malicious code. They use plain text formats, cannot execute any code or self-run, and cannot duplicate or replicate across networks. They only gather information about user behavior, such as which pages you visit and when.
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Simply put, a cookie acts as an Internet user’s identification card, notifying the website each time the user returns. This allows for a more personalized and efficient browsing experience.
Additional Considerations:
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Cookies are vital for enhancing website functionality, such as enabling user authentication, saving preferences, or remembering items in a shopping cart.
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There are different types of cookies, including:
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Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that expire once you close your browser.
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Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set duration or until manually deleted.
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Third-Party Cookies: Set by domains other than the one you’re visiting, often used for advertising and analytics.
The Company uses cookies responsibly, ensuring compliance with data protection laws such as the GDPR. No personally identifiable information is stored in cookies unless explicitly agreed upon. Users can manage their cookie preferences through browser settings, offering control over the types of cookies stored on their devices.
Why Are Cookies Important for the Internet?
Cookies play a central role in ensuring the efficient functioning of the Internet, helping to deliver a user-friendly browsing experience tailored to each user's preferences and interests. Rejecting or disabling cookies may render certain websites unusable. However, this does not mean you will no longer receive online advertisements; it simply means the ads will no longer be personalized based on your browsing behavior.
Key Uses of Cookies (Which Do Not Require User Authentication):
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Personalized Content and Services: Cookies allow websites to remember user preferences and deliver content tailored to individual interests.
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Remembering Passwords and Language Preferences: For instance, displaying search results in the user’s preferred language (e.g., Greek).
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Child Protection Filters: Retaining parental controls for online content, such as family mode settings or safe search functionalities.
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Ad Frequency Capping: Limiting the number of times an advertisement is shown to a particular user on a website.
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Providing More Relevant Advertisements: Ensuring that the ads displayed align more closely with the user’s interests.
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Analytics and Optimization: Cookies help measure and optimize website performance. For example, they track traffic levels, the type of content viewed, and how users arrive at a website (e.g., via search engines, direct links, or referrals). These insights enable website administrators to enhance the platform for a better user experience.
In summary, cookies are fundamental to improving the usability and functionality of websites, making online interactions more seamless and tailored to individual needs.
Purpose of Cookies
Cookies enable faster and easier interactions between users and websites. For example, when a user logs into a website, their login credentials are stored in a cookie, allowing them to access the site without needing to re-enter their information during subsequent visits.
In other instances, cookies store information about user activities on a specific web page. This allows users to easily resume their activities during future visits without having to navigate through the entire site from the beginning. Essentially, cookies act as "bookmarks," guiding users back to where they left off.
Types of Cookies Used by the Company DevelopmentPeople
The Company uses the following types of cookies:
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Persistent Cookies: These cookies help recognize returning users, making it easier for them to interact with our services or revisit the website. They remain on your device for a set period or until manually deleted.
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Session Cookies: These cookies are active only during a browsing session (typically, a single visit to the website or a session of the browser). Once you close your browser, these cookies are automatically deleted.
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First-Party Cookies: Installed directly by our website to provide a seamless user experience.
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Third-Party Cookies: These are installed by external services integrated into our website (e.g., for analytics or advertising purposes).
Categories of Use
Security / Safety
We use cookies to enable and support our security functionalities and to detect harmful activities or violations of the User Agreement. Cookies are utilized to identify fraud and misuse of our websites and services.
Social Media
Our website may include social media cookies, including those that allow users logged into the social media service to share content through that service.
Feedback
DevelopmentPeople uses cookies to allow you to provide feedback on a website.
Preferences, Functionalities, and Services
Cookies may indicate your preferred language and communication preferences. They can also facilitate the completion of forms on the DevelopmentPeople website. Additionally, cookies may provide you with functionalities, information, and personalized content through our plugins. Settings that enable our products to function correctly or preserve your preferences over time may be stored on your device. For instance, we save preferences such as language, browser, and media player settings so that they do not need to be reset every time you return to the website. If you opt out of interest-based advertising, this opt-out preference is stored using a cookie on your device.
Advertising / Interest-Based Advertising / Advertising Cookies from Third-Party Providers
We may use cookies to display relevant advertisements to you, both on the DevelopmentPeople website and outside it. We may also use a cookie to determine if someone who viewed an advertisement later accessed the advertiser's website and took an action (e.g., downloaded a white paper or completed a purchase). Similarly, our partners may use cookies to determine whether we have shown an advertisement and how it performed or to provide us with information about your interactions with the advertisement. Additionally, we may work with a partner to show you an advertisement on or off the partner's website, for instance, after you have visited the partner's website or application.
DevelopmentPeople uses cookies to collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so we can present the most relevant advertisements. You can opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from other websites.
Ad Display
DevelopmentPeople uses cookies to track the number of visitors who have clicked on an advertisement and to log which advertisements you have seen to avoid showing you the same advertisement repeatedly.
Performance, Analytics, and Research / Statistics
Cookies help us measure the performance of the website and our plugins in various locations. Additionally, we use cookies to understand, optimize, and research products, features, and services, including when you access DevelopmentPeople from other websites, applications, or devices such as your work computer or mobile device.
DevelopmentPeople uses cookies for load balancing to ensure that websites remain operational.
To provide you with our products, we use cookies and other identifiers to collect usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to generate other statistics regarding the operation of our products. This includes cookies from partners and third-party analytics providers.
When Does DevelopmentPeople Place Cookies?
All browsers accessing this website will receive cookies from us. Additionally, we place cookies in your browser when you access websites that do not use cookies but host our plugins (e.g., the "Share" button on Facebook) or tags.
What Is the Lifespan of a Cookie?
The lifespan of a cookie can vary significantly depending on the purpose for which it is placed. A session cookie will expire at the end of the session, whereas a persistent cookie will not expire for a specified period. The lifespan of a cookie is not imposed on any user. Cookies can be blocked or deleted at any time through the browser settings.
Do Cookies Contain Personal Data? / What Type of Information Is Stored and Accessed Through Cookies?
Cookies themselves do not request or store personal data. They cannot personally identify an internet user. Personal data may be collected through the use of cookies only to facilitate certain functionalities for the user, thereby improving the browsing experience (e.g., language preferences for accessing a website; keeping a user logged into a webmail account, ensuring online banking security, maintaining items in a shopping cart).
For details regarding the processing of your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy available at the following link: Privacy Policy. If a cookie processes personal data, we will ensure that the processing complies with applicable laws and Regulation (EU) No. 679/2016 (GDPR).
What Are Third-Party Cookies?
In addition to the cookies created by DevelopmentPeople when you visit our website, third parties may also create cookies while you visit their websites. In some cases, this occurs because we have engaged third parties to provide services on our behalf, such as website analytics. In other cases, our web pages may display content or advertisements from third parties, such as videos, news, or advertisements delivered by other advertising networks.
Since your browser connects to the web servers of these third parties to retrieve the content, those third parties may create or read their own cookies on your device and collect information about your online activities across different websites or online services. Third parties are also required to comply with applicable laws and the privacy policies of the website owner.
Which Entity Uses Cookies?
If you are a resident of the EU, DevelopmentPeople will be responsible for providing or collecting your personal data by or for our services. If you reside in a non-EU country, DevelopmentPeople will also bear responsibility for providing or collecting your personal data by or for our services.
Controlling Cookies
By default, most applications used to access web pages allow cookies to be saved on your device. These settings can be changed to block the automatic management of cookies by the web browser or to notify you each time cookies are sent to your device. Detailed information about the possibilities and ways to manage cookies can be found in the settings section of the browser application. Limiting the use of cookies may affect certain functionalities of the webpage. It may also prevent you from saving your personalized settings, such as login information.
Furthermore, certain features of DevelopmentPeople products rely on cookies. For example, if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to use functions that depend on cookies, and preferences controlled by cookies may be lost. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including ad-related preferences, will be erased and may need to be recreated.
Instructions for blocking or deleting cookies from browsers may be available in the privacy documentation or help section of each browser.
What To Do If You Do Not Want Cookies Set or Want to Remove Them?
If you do not want us to use cookies when you visit DevelopmentPeople, you can opt-out of some of them through your settings page. To recognize your opt-out choice, we need to place an opt-out cookie on your device so that we know not to use other cookies when you visit DevelopmentPeople again. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can also adjust the browser settings on your computer or other devices used to access our services. If you use DevelopmentPeople without changing your browser settings, we will assume that you accept all cookies on our website. Most browsers also provide functionality that allows you to review and delete cookies.
Please note that the DevelopmentPeople website may not function properly without cookies.
Browser Manufacturers Provide Support Pages for Managing Cookies in Their Products For more information, refer to the links below:
For other browsers, please consult the documentation provided by the browser manufacturer.
To learn more about cookies, including how to view the types of cookies installed and how to manage or delete them, visit the following resources:
Specific Ways to Delete Cookies
a. On a Computer
Apple Safari Browser: Access the "Privacy" section in the "Preferences" menu, and navigate to the section for "Cookies and other website data."
Google Chrome Browser: Go to the "Privacy" section in the "Settings" menu, select "Content Settings," and navigate to the "Cookies and website data" section.
Microsoft Internet Explorer: Access the "Tools" menu, then "Internet Options," navigate to the "General" tab, select "Browser History," and open "Settings." In the "Temporary Internet Files and History Settings" window, click "View Files."
Mozilla Firefox Browser: Navigate to the "Tools" menu, select "Options," go to the "Privacy" subsection, and use the "Delete specific cookies" functionality.
b. On a Smartphone or Tablet
You can delete cookies using the following methods:
Android Browser: Access the "Home" screen, tap the browser icon, open the "Menu," and then select "Settings." From there, choose options such as "Privacy & Security," "Privacy," or "Security." Tap "Clear Cache," confirm with "OK," then tap "Clear all cookie data," and confirm with "OK." Restart your device by turning it off and on again.
Google Chrome Browser: In the browser toolbar, click the "Chrome menu," then "More tools," and select "Clear browsing data." Check the boxes for "cookies and other site and plugin data" and "cached images and files." Use the menu at the top to select the time range, or choose "beginning of time" to delete everything. Click "Clear browsing data."
Apple iOS 8 or Later: Tap the "Home" button, go to "Settings," scroll down to "Safari," and select "Clear History and Website Data." A warning message will appear; confirm by tapping "Clear History and Data." Restart your device by turning it off and on again.
Important: The procedure for deleting cookies may vary depending on the software version. For more details, consult the software provider for assistance with specific issues.
Tips for Safe and Responsible Browsing Based on Cookies
Due to their flexibility and the fact that most widely visited and prominent websites use cookies, they are nearly unavoidable. Disabling cookies may prevent you from accessing popular websites such as YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo, and others.
Here are a few tips for secure and worry-free browsing with cookies:
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Customize your browser settings for cookies to reflect a level of security you are comfortable with.
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If you are the sole user of your device and are not concerned about cookies, you can set extended expiration periods for storing browsing history and personal access data.
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If you share device access, consider configuring your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close it. This allows you to access websites that place cookies while ensuring that all visit-related information is erased at the end of your browsing session.
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Install and regularly update anti-spyware applications.
Many spyware detection and prevention applications include features for identifying website attacks. These can prevent your browser from accessing websites that might exploit vulnerabilities or download harmful software.
Many cookie-based attacks exploit weaknesses in outdated browser versions. Ensure your browser is always updated to its most recent version to enhance security.
Cookies are ubiquitous and unavoidable if you wish to access the best and most popular websites on the Internet, whether local or international. With a clear understanding of how cookies operate and their benefits, you can take the necessary security measures to browse the internet confidently.
Disabling and refusing to accept cookies may render certain websites unusable or difficult to navigate. Refusing cookies does not mean you will no longer receive or see online advertisements; however, those ads may not be as tailored to your interests.
You can configure your browser to reject cookies entirely or to accept cookies from specific websites only. However, if you are not logged in via cookies, certain functionalities, such as leaving comments, may not be available.
All modern browsers provide options to adjust cookie settings. These settings are typically found under "Options" or "Preferences" in your browser's menu.