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Cookies Policy
Last updated: April/2020
Thank you for using World Meats and it’s related website(s), services, applications, products and content (collectively, the “World Meats Platform”). We use cookies and similar technologies such as pixels. Cookies make your interaction with the World Meats Platform easier and allow us to store information or gain access to information stored on your device. Cookies are used by most other websites to allow the websites to function and to provide information to the owners of the websites.


1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and uniquely identify your browser or device by website or apps that you visit. When you visit a website or use an app that uses the same cookies or you return to the original website or app that first stored the cookies, these platforms recognize the cookies and your browsing device. For a more thorough explanation of what cookies are and how they work, please visit the EU Guide to Cookies, aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.

The World Meats Platform also uses pixels which are small portions of code. We use pixels to learn whether you have clicked on certain web content and to help us optimize our ad campaigns. This helps us measure and improve the World Meats Platform and personalize your experience.


2. Categories of cookies

There are many different types of cookies, including those that let you navigate between pages efficiently, those that remember your preferences, and those that generally improve your user experience. Cookies can tell us, for example, whether you have visited the World Meats Platform before or whether you are a new visitor. Cookies can also help to ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

There are many categories of cookies, including (i) First-party cookies, which are small amounts of text which are served by us directly to your device, and (ii) Third-party Cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf. We use third party cookies for functionality, performance, targeting or advertising and social media purposes.

Cookies can remain on your mobile device or computer for different periods of time. Some cookies are 'session cookies', meaning that they exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are 'permanent cookies', meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by the websites to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.


3. What types of cookies do we use and how do we use them?

There are five different categories of cookies that either we or our partners use in connection with the World Meats Platform: (i) 'essential Platform cookies', (ii) ‘functionality cookies', (iii) 'analytics and performance cookies', (iv) 'advertising cookies', and (v) ' social media cookies'. Cookies do a lot of different tasks to ensure you enjoy your visit to various websites. For example, they may be used to remember your preferences on sites you visit, to help you navigate between pages more efficiently and to make sure the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests. Set out below is some further information about each cookie category that we use, and the purposes of the cookies we and third parties set.

Cookies that are necessary for essential purposes
These cookies are essential to provide you with the World Meats Platform and to use some of its features, such as to enable you to log into secure areas of the World Meats Platform. Without these cookies, we would not be able to provide you with a secure log in account. We use cookies to uniquely identify you. Each time you log in to the World Meats Platform, a cookie containing a unique identifier that is tied to your account is stored. These cookies allow World Meats to uniquely identify you when you are logged into the World Meats and to process your online requests.

Performance Cookies
Performance/analytics cookies are used to analyze how you use the World Meats Platform, including which pages, content and accounts you view most often, measure any errors that occur and test different design ideas. The information is used to report and evaluate your activities and patterns as a user of the World Meats Platform.v
On the World Meats Platform, we also use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends. Our third party analytics tool is Flurry Analytics provided by Verizon Media. For further information on how Flurry Analytics collects and processes information about you and information on how to opt out from Flurry’s collection of information from you, please click here. You can opt out of Flurry Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Flurry Analytics across, please click here.

Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies record information you have entered or choices you have made which enables you to optimize your use of the World Meats Platform after logging in so that we can personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences. These cookies can also be used to remember settings you have applied, such as layout and text size. These cookies mean that when you continue to use or come back to the World Meats Platform, we can provide you with the services as you have asked for them to be provided.

Targeting or Advertising Cookies
Analytics: As you use the World Meats Platform, you may notice that it features advertising from third party companies. We may permit these third party companies to place cookies on the World Meats Platform to track the performance of their advertisements. As an example, these cookies remember which users have visited the World Meats Platform and the links you have followed. The information provided to third parties does not include personal information, but it may be associated with personal information after we receive it.

Marketing: We may also contract with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from the World Meats Platform, from emails and third party websites and apps. Ad networks follow your online activities and collect information through automated means (such as through the use of cookies). Ad networks use this information, mainly to serve advertisements about products and services that are likely to interest you. We may also use information from one device to help personalize your experience on another device or partner with third parties to provide certain features or to display advertising based on your web browsing activity.

Social Media Cookies
Third parties that provide applications through the World Meats Platform may set their own cookies in order to track the success of their applications or customize applications for you. We cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, the third party will be able to link information about you with your actions via cookies.

Other technologies we use
In addition to the cookies we use on the World Meats Platform, we may also use pixels. Specifically, we may use the "Facebook Pixel" of Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Facebook"). This tool is used for advertising purposes in order to reveal if you have seen our advertisement on Facebook and help us to ensure you see the ads you need to see. If you do not want Facebook to collect the described information about you, you can opt-out of Facebook's use of cookies and Facebook Pixels here.


4. How to delete cookies

Cookie settings are generally controlled through the browser you are using, as most browsers will allow you to choose the level of privacy settings you want. This also lets you control your cookie settings so that you can:

See what cookies or other locally stored data you’ve got and delete them on an individual basis;

Block third party cookies or similar technology;

Block cookies or similar technology from particular sites;

Block all cookies or similar technologies from being set; or

Delete all cookies or similar technologies when you close your browser.