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Cookie policy

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Overview

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Cookies

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies
    These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies
    They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies
    These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies
    These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Required cookies

Description

Required cookies make it possible for you to access our account portal, navigate within the portal, and access information related to your account. Each time you log into the account portal, a cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier that is tied to your account is placed on your browser. These cookies allow Pusher to uniquely identify you when you are logged into the account portal and to process your online transactions and requests.

Management information

Required cookies are necessary to operate the account portal, so you can’t opt out of them.

Description

Management information

Required cookies make it possible for you to access our account portal, navigate within the portal, and access information related to your account. Each time you log into the account portal, a cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier that is tied to your account is placed on your browser. These cookies allow Pusher to uniquely identify you when you are logged into the account portal and to process your online transactions and requests.

Required cookies are necessary to operate the account portal, so you can’t opt out of them.

Functionality Cookies

Description

Functionality cookies allow the Pusher Site and account portal to remember information you have entered or preferences you select, and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies allow you to optimize your use of Pusher’s account portal after logging in. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

We may use Flash cookies to store preferences you set inside your Pusher Account.

Management information

You can use your browser settings to opt out of functionality cookies. Note that opting out may affect the functionality of our Site or account portal for you.

Description

Management information

Functionality cookies allow the Pusher Site and account portal to remember information you have entered or preferences you select, and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies allow you to optimize your use of Pusher’s account portal after logging in. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

You can use your browser settings to opt out of functionality cookies. Note that opting out may affect the functionality of our Site or account portal for you.

We may use Flash cookies to store preferences you set inside your Pusher Account.

Performance Cookies

Description

These cookies collect data about how visitors use the Pusher Site. This includes data like which pages visitors go to the most. These cookies don’t collect information that individually identifies visitors. The data these cookies collect is aggregated and intended to be anonymous and used to improve how the site functions and performs.

We may also have third party service providers help us track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit our Site. Or, we may use Flash cookies for this. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored.

Third party service providers that currently place performance cookies include:

  • Google Analytics
    We use Google Analytics to help analyze which pages on the Pusher Site visitors to the site viewed.

The above list of third party service providers that place cookies is subject to change and list may not include all such providers at any given time.

Management information

You can use your browser settings to opt out of performance cookies.

Description

Management information

These cookies collect data about how visitors use the Pusher Site. This includes data like which pages visitors go to the most. These cookies don’t collect information that individually identifies visitors. The data these cookies collect is aggregated and intended to be anonymous and used to improve how the site functions and performs.

You can use your browser settings to opt out of performance cookies.

We may also have third party service providers help us track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit our Site. Or, we may use Flash cookies for this. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored.

Third party service providers that currently place performance cookies include:

  • Google Analytics
    We use Google Analytics to help analyze which pages on the Pusher Site visitors to the site viewed.

The above list of third party service providers that place cookies is subject to change and list may not include all such providers at any given time.

Targeting or Advertising Cookies

Description

Pusher may have third party service providers track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from those who visit our Pusher Site. Pusher sometimes uses cookies placed by its third party service providers to track the performance of our advertisements. For example, these cookies remember which browsers have visited the Pusher Site. This data given to the third party service providers does not include information that identifies you specifically, but this data may be re-associated with information that identifies you specifically after Pusher receives it.

Pusher also uses third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other data from web beacons (see below) on the Pusher Site, from emails, and on third-party websites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time through automated means, such as cookies and web beacons. They use this data to provide ads about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see these ads on other websites. This helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing.

From time to time, Pusher works with third parties to provide certain features on our Pusher Site or to display ads based upon your web browsing activity. These third parties may use Flash cookies to collect and store data.

Below are third parties that currently place tracking technologies on the Pusher Site:

  • Facebook Custom Audience
    We use Facebook Custom Audience to track how you use the Pusher Site and target ads to you on Facebook.
  • Google Adwords Conversion
    We use Google Adwords Conversion to track our support conversion metrics for our search engine marketing campaigns.
  • Google Dynamic Remarketing
    We use Google Dynamic Remarketing to target search engine marketing to users of the Google search engine.

The above list of third party service providers that place cookies is subject to change and list may not include all such providers at any given time.

Management information

To learn more about how to opt out of targeting and advertising cookies, you can go to the Your Online Choices page, the Network Advertising Initiative page, and the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice page. These opt-out tools are provided by third parties, not Pusher. We do not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.

Description

Management information

Pusher may have third party service providers track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from those who visit our Pusher Site. Pusher sometimes uses cookies placed by its third party service providers to track the performance of our advertisements. For example, these cookies remember which browsers have visited the Pusher Site. This data given to the third party service providers does not include information that identifies you specifically, but this data may be re-associated with information that identifies you specifically after Pusher receives it.

To learn more about how to opt out of targeting and advertising cookies, you can go to the Your Online Choices page, the Network Advertising Initiative page, and the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice page. These opt-out tools are provided by third parties, not Pusher. We do not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools.

Pusher also uses third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other data from web beacons (see below) on the Pusher Site, from emails, and on third-party websites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time through automated means, such as cookies and web beacons. They use this data to provide ads about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see these ads on other websites. This helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing.

From time to time, Pusher works with third parties to provide certain features on our Pusher Site or to display ads based upon your web browsing activity. These third parties may use Flash cookies to collect and store data.

Below are third parties that currently place tracking technologies on the Pusher Site:

  • Facebook Custom Audience
    We use Facebook Custom Audience to track how you use the Pusher Site and target ads to you on Facebook.
  • Google Adwords Conversion
    We use Google Adwords Conversion to track our support conversion metrics for our search engine marketing campaigns.
  • Google Dynamic Remarketing
    We use Google Dynamic Remarketing to target search engine marketing to users of the Google search engine.

The above list of third party service providers that place cookies is subject to change and list may not include all such providers at any given time.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all advertising cookies will expire after 90 days.

IP Addresses

When you visit the Pusher Site, account portal, or use our products and services, like our APIs, we collect your IP addresses to track and analyze information about the devices that are connecting to our systems and about where those devices are located. For example, we use IP addresses to track which regions visitors to our Pusher Site or customers logging into our account portal come from and to detect possible fraud.

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