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Cookie Statement for Shakebug Services

Learn more about how Shakebug uses your personal information.

At Shakebug, we know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and that is why we are committed to respecting your privacy and helping protect the security of your information. The purpose of this cookie statement (“Statement”) is to help you better understand how and why we gather, store and process information collected from you automatically through cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”) when you use a Shakebug website (“Site”). In this Statement, we also identify your options regarding the use of cookies and the information collected through cookies.

Visiting or using the Site with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you want to use our products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies as described in this notice. Should you have any questions regarding our cookie statement do not hesitate to contact us.

What does this statement apply to?

This Statement covers the collection and use of personal information by Shakebug when a visitor or a user browses a Shakebug website or uses services provided by Shakebug, including but not limited to Shakebug.com. This includes all related pages, any subscription- based features or services offered by Shakebug via the Site as well as the use of any of the Site’s related features and services. This Statement does not apply to any third-party site that may be linked on our Site.

In the statement visitors of our public websites are referred to as visitors (“visitors”) and users of our subscription based services are referred to as users (“users”).

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are sent back to the website at each subsequent visit or to any other website that recognises them. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s or visitor’s device.

Cookies perform lots of different jobs such as: allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember your preferences and generally improve your experience. Due to their core role of enhancing or enabling usability or site processes, disabling cookies may prevent you from using certain parts of this Site. The categories of cookies used on this Site are listed below.

Why we collect information

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to deliver a smooth, efficient and personalised experience when on our Site. This allows us to provide you with the information, services and features that are most likely to meet your needs.

We automatically track certain information about you, based upon your behaviour on our Site. We use this information to conduct internal research on our user and visitor demographics, interests and behaviours, and to offer more personalised content.

The information we collect from you and about you is used as follows:

The information we collect about you:

We may collect, process and use the following information about you:

Information generated and collected automatically

We use web analytics tools to automatically store Site usage information, such as the origin, numbers and frequency of visitors to our Site and how they use its contents and components. This data is only used in the analytics tool aggregate and helps us figure out how to provide an optimal experience to as many visitors as possible.


    Cookies used on the Site:

    The Cookies Shakebug Set

    Third Party Cookies

Social buttons: On many of the pages of our Site you will see “social buttons”. These enable visitors to share or bookmark web pages or access Shakebug content on these social media. These buttons include: Twitter, Facebook “Like”, LinkedIn “Share”, ShareThis and YouTube. You may also find other regional or language-specific social media buttons. By clicking on any of these buttons, the sites will register your action and may use that information.

To implement these buttons and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, scripts from domains outside of Shakebug must be used. You should be aware that when you are logged-in to the services of these sites (e.g., Google and Facebook), they are likely to be collecting information about your browsing habits, including when on the Shakebug Site, even if you do not click on a social button. Read the respective policies of each of these sites to see how they use your information and how to opt-out or delete such information.

What can you do to control cookies collected on this Site

If you disagree with the use of cookies, there are some options are available to help you anonymously visit websites, including the possibility to set your web browser to block all cookies or to initiate an anonymous browsing session.

How can your web browser control cookies

Currently, our Site does not recognise browser do-not-track signals. You have other means, however, in which to control cookies. All major browsers provide security controls for cookies. In general, they allow users and visitors to block all cookies, or block specific or third-party cookies. You may also activate the settings on your browser that allow you to refuse cookies. Unless you set your browser to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log-on to our site.

The “help” portion of the toolbar in most browsers will provide information on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to tell the browser to inform you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether.

We strongly recommend that you accept cookies, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Site’s features.

Conditions of use

If you decide to visit the Shakebug Site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Cookie Statement.

How to contact us for more information

We welcome all comments regarding this Statement. If you have questions related to our use of cookies or our Cookie Statement, or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us by sending an e-mail to support@shakebug.com.

Changes to the Statement

We may change this Statement from time to time due to changed or updated legislation and/or business standards. All changes to this Statement are posted on this page and we encourage you to review it regularly to stay informed.

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