Cookies Policy
TORPEDO BITS S.L (hereinafter "the Controller" or the "Company"), with registered office at Calle Nuredduna 22, 07006 Palma, Spain, which can be contacted at the email address [email protected], as the data controller, wishes to inform users about the use of cookies on the website torpedobits.com (the " Website").
Cookies are small text strings that the Site sends to the User"s terminal, where they are stored and then retransmitted to the Site the next time the User visits. Cookies can be first-party (placed directly by the Company) or third-party from Google. Cookies are useful because they allow the Site to recognise the User"s device and allow the User to navigate between pages, remembering the preferences expressed and improving the User"s browsing experience. In certain cases, certain types of cookies can also make the advertisements displayed online more appropriate to the User or relevant to their interests. For more information on cookies, the User can click here.
Browser settings
By changing the settings of your browser, you may decide to make the installation of any type of cookie subject to your prior consent or to prevent the installation of cookies altogether. Please note that the configuration of each browser is different and is described in the "Help" menu of the browser. To understand how to set cookie settings, the User can consult the following links:
What cookies do we use?
We use cookies to help us remember non-personal data such as your user preferences to optimize your user experience on our Platform or to recognize your device the next time you visit our Platform. We and our selected partners as well as independent advertising marketers use technologies, such as cookies, to collect and process personal data from devices (e.g. IP address, precise device and geographic location tracking) in order to provide technical functionalities, show you personalized advertising, measure performance, analyze our audiences, and improve our products and services. With your consent, we may make use of these technologies for the purposes indicated. You can freely give, refuse or revoke your consent to all or some of the purposes by entering the "Preferences" section also accessible through our cookie policy. You can consent to the use of the above mentioned technologies by clicking "Accept All" or decline their use by clicking "Decline All".
Some partners do not ask for your consent to process your data, but rely on their legitimate business interest. See our list of partners to see the purposes for which they believe they have a legitimate interest and object to legitimate interests on a provider-specific basis. Manage your settings and object to the purposes as a legitimate interest in general.
Cookies can be categorised by the role they fulfil on our Platform:
1. Functional cookies are essential in order to enable you to use and move around our Platform and to ensure that our Platform functions properly.
2. Analytical cookies are used to collect information on visitor behaviour (e.g. the pages you view most often) to optimise the usability of the Platform.
a) Cloudflare
Our website uses the services of Cloudflare Inc. (USA) for secure encrypted data transmission on the Internet (SSL), to improve worldwide website performance through the Cloudlflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) and to improve security and protection against hacker attacks through the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF). It is possible that Cloudflare uses its own cookies to provide these services. With Cloudflare a corresponding GDPR-compliant contract for commissioned data processing exists. More detailed information about GDPR and Cloudflare can be found on the GDPR pages of Cloudflare: www.cloudflare.com/de-de/gdpr/introduction/
What is Cloudflare?
A Content Delivery Network (CDN), as provided by Cloudflare, is nothing more than a network of servers connected via the Internet. Cloudflare has distributed such servers all over the world to bring websites faster to your screen. Simply put, Cloudflare makes copies of our website and places them on their own servers. When you visit our website now, a load balancing system ensures that the majority of our website is delivered from the server that can display our website the fastest. The distance of the data transfer to your browser is considerably shortened by a CDN. Thus the content of our website is delivered to you by Cloudflare not only from our hosting server, but from servers all over the world. The use of Cloudflare is especially helpful for users from abroad, because here the page can be delivered from a server nearby. Besides the fast delivery of websites Cloudflare also offers various security services like DDoS protection or the Web Application Firewall.
Why we use Cloudflare on our website?
Of course we want to offer you the best possible service with our website. Cloudflare helps us to make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare offers us web optimizations as well as security services such as DDoS protection and web firewall. This includes a reverse proxy and the content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare blocks threats and limits abusive bots and crawlers that waste our bandwidth and server resources. By storing our website in local data centers and blocking spam software, Cloudflare allows us to reduce our bandwidth usage by about 60%. Delivering content from a data center near you and some web optimizations performed there reduces the average loading time of a website by about half. According to Cloudflare, the setting "I"m Under Attack Mode" can be used to mitigate further attacks by displaying a JavaScript calculation task that must be solved before a user can access a web page. Overall, this makes our website much more powerful and less susceptible to spam or other attacks.
Which data is stored by Cloudflare?
Cloudflare generally only forwards those data that are controlled by website operators. The contents are therefore not determined by Cloudflare, but always by the website operator himself. In addition, Cloudflare may collect certain information about the use of our website and process data that is sent by us or for which Cloudflare has received appropriate instructions. In most cases, cloudflare receives data such as contact information, IP addresses, security fingerprints, DNS protocol data and performance data for web pages derived from browser activity. For example, log data helps cloudflare to detect new threats. So Cloudflare can guarantee a high security protection for our website. Cloudflare processes these data within the framework of the services in compliance with the applicable laws. This naturally includes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
For security reasons Cloudflare also uses a cookie. The cookie (__cfduid) is used to identify individual users behind a shared IP address and to apply security settings for each individual user. This cookie is very useful, for example, if you use our website from a location where there are a number of infected computers. However, if your computer is trustworthy, we can recognize this by the cookie. So you can surf through our website unhindered, despite infected PCs in the area. It is also important to know that this cookie does not store any personal data. This cookie is essential for the cloudflare security features and cannot be disabled.
Cloudflare also works together with third party providers. They may only process personal data under instructions from Cloudflare and in accordance with the privacy policy and other confidentiality and security measures. Cloudflare will not pass on any personal data without our explicit consent.
Cookies from Cloudflare:
“__cfduid” Expiry time: 1 month – Use: Used to identify individual users behind a shared IP address
How long and where is the data stored?
Cloudflare stores your information mainly in the USA and the European Economic Area. Cloudflare can transmit and access the above described information from all over the world. In general, Cloudflare stores user-level data for domains in the Free, Pro and Business versions for less than 24 hours.
How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
Cloudflare keeps data logs only as long as necessary and in most cases these data are deleted within 24 hours. Cloudflare also does not store any personal data, such as your IP address. However, there is information that Cloudflare stores indefinitely as part of its permanent logs to improve the overall performance of Cloudflare Resolver and to identify any security risks. You can find out exactly which permanent logs are saved at developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-privacy/privacy-policy/privacy-policy/. All data that Cloudflare collects (temporary or permanent) will be cleaned from all personal data. All permanent logs are also anonymized by Cloudflare.
Cloudflare will mention in your privacy policy that they are not responsible for the content they receive. For example, if you ask Cloudflare whether they can update or delete your content, Cloudflare always refers to us as the website operator. You can also completely prevent the entire collection and processing of your data by Cloudflare by deactivating the execution of script code in your browser or by including a script blocker in your browser.
Cloudflare is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on www.privacyshield.gov/participant.
b) Google Analytics
Google Analytics and Google Remarketing Analytics is a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which allows an analysis of the use of our Website by Google. The information collected anonymously about the use of our Website (including your IP address) collected by the cookie is generally transferred to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. For more information please read the privacy policy of Google: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
You can prevent Google’s processing of the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and your use of our Platform (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install, or if you don’t consent to the usage of cookies. For more information about Google Analytics and privacy, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.
Cookies from Google Analytics:
- “_ga” Expiry time: 2 years – Use: Differentiation of website visitors
- “_gid” Expiry time: 24 hours – Usage: Differentiation of website visitor – Use: Differentiation of website visitor
- “_gat_gtag_UA_<property-id>” Expiration time: 1 minute use: Used to throttle the request rate. When Google Analytics is provided through the Google Tag Manager, this cookie is named “_dc_gtm_ <property-id>”.
c) Google reCAPTCHA Google Inc.
This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Application, potentially containing Users" Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.
Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Inc.
The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
d) Google Tag Manager
This website uses Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager is a solution operated by Google LLC. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) that allows marketed website tags to be managed using an interface. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-less domain and does not register personal data. The tool causes other tags to be activated which may, for their part, register data under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access this information. If recording has been deactivated on domain or cookie level, this setting will remain in place for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.
Personalisation and third party cookies
In addition, the Site uses profiling cookies designed to identify User preferences and send advertising messages in line with these preferences, as well as third party cookies designed to collect statistical information on the functionality of the site. These cookies are listed in the table below.
Feedburner (Google Ireland.)
FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the feeds
Personal Data collected: users e-mail.
Place of processing: Irland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant
4. Social cookies
Our Platform uses social plugins (“plugins”) from different social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest. With the help of these plugins, you can, for example, share content or recommend products.
If you do not want social networks to collect data about you through active plugins, you can either disable the social plugins or choose to opt-out of cookie usage here:
Link: Facebook
Link: Twitter
Link: LikedIn
Link: Pinterest
Link: Sharethis
5. Personalization cookies : are used to remember your preset features and preferences, such as to show you content we think you might be interested in across the Torpedo Bits Platform.
6. Unforeseen cookies
Because of how the internet and how websites work, it’s possible that we may have missed a cookie that is placed by a third party on our Platform. If you happen to find one that isn’t listed above, then please let us know.
Consent
You give your consent for cookies to be placed and read out on our Platform by clicking “accept all” on the cookie notice, you may optionally refuse certain cookies here. For more information about the use of the information collected through cookies see our Privacy Statement.
Changes to this Cookie Statement
This statement may be changed from time to time. The new statement will be effective immediately upon posting. Please check our statement frequently to stay informed about how we use cookies.
This statement was last updated on April 18, 2023.
This statement is exclusively governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Any and all disputes that may arise with respect to this statement will be referred exclusively to the competent court in the Netherlands.
How can you contact us?
For any information, questions please contact us at:
TORPEDO BITS S.L
Calle Nuredduna 22, 1-3
07006 Palma, Spain