DiTEC’s Cookies Policy

Version 1.3 (17 May 2019)

This Cookies Policy explains how DiTEC.com.au uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit the Website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. When you visit the site again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. Cookies provide a convenience feature to save you time, or tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies are essential to the site, software, and/or services, and will always be used. Web beacons, tags, and scripts may be used in the website or in emails to help deliver cookies and count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness, and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our service/analytics providers (for example, Google Analytics) on an individual and aggregated basis.

In our circumstance, cookies set by our website DiTEC.com.au, are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the DiTEC.com.au are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits our website and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through our websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. We use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses our website or services has the best possible experience. For example, when you use our website, we may place a number of cookies in your browser. We use these cookies to enable us to hold session information as you navigate from page to page within the website, improve your experience, and track and analyze usage and other statistical information. If you elect not to activate the cookie or to later disable cookies, you may still visit our website but your ability to use some features or areas of those offerings may be limited.

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

At DiTEC.com.au we use a number of cookies. These cookies include:

Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website; without these we cannot provide many services that you need. For example, these essential cookies help us to identify your account and remember your preferences as you use our Site or Services.
Analytics and customisation cookies: These cookies track information about your visits and usage of the Site, or Services so that we can make improvements and report our performance — for example, to analyze visitor and user behavior so as to provide more relevant content or suggest certain activities. We might also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features to see how users react to them. Google Analytics is the main technology we currently use in this regard. To learn more about Google Analytics and your privacy, visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these.
Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our website… such as the Facebook Like button, and third-party widgets, such as the ‘Share This’ button. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too. These may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on the website, as well as set a cookie to enable a feature to function properly. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the third-party company providing it. Here are some examples of third-party social media features that we use, and their privacy policies: Facebook Privacy Policy, Google+ and YouTube Privacy Policy, Twitter Privacy Policy, LinkedIn Privacy Policy.

How can I control cookies?

It is your right to either accept or reject cookies. However essential website cookies are strictly necessary to deliver our website to you and you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings.

How often will you update this Cookies Policy?

The content of this Policy is for your general information and use only. You acknowledge that this information may contain inaccuracies or errors and is subject to change, and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email DiTEC Queries.