Thrio,Inc. (“Thrio”), set out our intended purposes for the usage of cookies and similar technologies on our websites. Additionally, we offer options for consent management to withdraw your consent at any time or to reject the usage.

 What are cookies?

Cookies, and web storage technologies such as local storage and session storage (“cookies”), make your interaction on our sites easier and smoother – with no extra effort on your part. A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is downloaded by your internet browser to your device when you visit our websites. While you interact with our websites, technologies from third-party providers such as scripts, pixels and tags, which we integrate on our websites for advertising purposes, also set cookies on your device.

In the following sections, you will find information and specific details in the corresponding lists regarding what we use these technologies for, and how you can change your settings to suit your requirements.

How we use cookies

Cookies do a lot of different jobs which help to make your online experience much smoother and more interactive. This assumes, however, that you are using the same device and the same browser as before. Some specific cookies are essential for running and maintaining our websites and they enable us to:

•   Understand how our website is being used so we can improve it for users
•   Check if the website is operating as expected
•   Understand your preferences and establish what areas of our site are relevant to you

Cookies help us understand how to improve our website for our users. The information we collect through is anonymous and not identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

We use cookies to:

• Understand how our website is being used so we can improve it for users
• Check if the website is operating as expected
• Understand your preferences and establish what areas of our site are relevant to you

 Our websites may use advertising and targeting cookies for retargeting purposes. These cookies store information from your browsing history to record your interests and your browsing journey on our sites. This enables us or our partners to:

• Target advertising of our products to you on other websites, based on your visits to our sites
• Match and combine more relevant information with targeted information so that our online advertisements you see are genuinely relevant to you and your interests.

 Types of cookies

Data processing and corresponding cookies are used on our websites. We divide data processing into various categories depending on its function and purpose. The usage of categories is described and can be managed below. Within each category, any data processing that may be used is listed including the cookies it generally uses. 

• Session cookies are only stored for the duration of your visit to a website and are deleted from your device when you close your browser;
• Persistent cookies are saved on your device for a set period of time after the browser has closed and are used where we (or a third party) need to identify you for a later browsing session. 
• First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting; and
• Third-party cookies are cookies used within our services which are set by other organisations. These include cookies from external analytics services which help us to understand the use of our sites, so that they can track the effectiveness of their advertisements. Third-party cookies can also be set by selected social media companies to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks, which may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.