Cookie Policy

This Cookie Notice describes how Plant.Digital and its affiliates (collectively “Plant.Digital”, “us” or “we”) use cookies and similar technologies installed on devices such as a computer, mobile device or tablet (“Devices”) of the visitors to, or users of our website, products and/or applications (“Sites”).

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that our Sites place on your Devices. When you revisit our Sites, our technologies connect automatically with the Cookie to identify you or your Device and recall information about you, such as your language preference or login information. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different from the domain of the website you are visiting. These allow us, the third party that owns the cookies, and, in some cases, other participants in cookie networks to identify you or your Device as you visit different websites. We use the word “Cookies” to include a piece of text, pixels, clear GIFs, log files, web beacons, or other similar tracking technology that is placed on your Devices.

There Are Four Types Of Cookies That We May Use:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

are needed for our Sites to function and to provide you with the services and information that you have requested. Strictly necessary cookies are exempt from the consent requirement.

Functional Cookies

enable enhanced functionality and personalization. For example, they allow our Sites to remember information that you provide such as your language preferences and to store technical information useful for your interactions with our Sites. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our Sites. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Performance Cookies

collect information about your use of our Sites (for e.g. it allows us to count visits and traffic sources) and help us learn how our Sites are performing so that we can make relevant improvements that could better your browsing experience (for e.g. it allow us to know which pages are the most and least popular). All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Advertising/Targeting Cookies

collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can create a profile for you and to provide advertising that is more relevant to you. They also perform functions like preventing the same adverts from continuously reappearing, ensuring that adverts are properly displayed, and selecting adverts that are based on your interests.

Why Do We Use Cookies And Other Similar Technologies?

We use Cookies and other similar tracking technologies for the following purposes:

  1. Store your preferences and settings;

  2. Permit you to sign-in and authenticate you so that you can access our Sites and to move from page to page within our Sites;

  3. Secure our Sites including fraud detection and prevention;

  4. Tailor information presented to you based on your browsing preferences, such as language and geographical region;

  5. Monitor the traffic patterns of users within our Sites and to collect statistics regarding your website usage to help us understand how our Sites perform and how we can improve our Sites for purposes such as enhancing your browsing experience and offering services that are more relevant to you;

  6. Provide us with business and marketing information;

  7. Track users who visit, interact with or use any of our Sites, social media pages, online advertisements and marketing communications (such as which adverts where clicked on or if a user has opened or forwarded an email we have sent them).


Who Uses The Information Stored In Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies?

The information stored in our Sites’ Cookies is used exclusively by us (or by third parties acting on our behalf), with the exception of third-party Cookies which are used and managed by external parties to provide services requested by us to improve our services and your experience when navigating our Sites.

Targeted Advertising

We track and analyze both individualized usage and aggregated statistical information related to your use of our Sites. We also partner with third parties (such as advertisers and ad partners) to display advertising on our Sites and to manage and serve advertising on other third-party sites. These third parties use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use certain information about your online activities, either on our Sites or on other third-party sites, to measure and track the effectiveness of advertisements and our online marketing activities (for example, by collecting data on how many times you click on one of our advertisements). This information may be used alone or in combination with information about you that we obtain from other sources (such as our data partners), your contact details, and Plant.Digital transaction history to infer your interests and deliver targeted advertisements and marketing that are more tailored to you based on your browsing activities and inferred interests (“Interest-Based Advertising”). Such Interest-Based Advertising will only be delivered where permitted by applicable law and in accordance with your advertising/marketing preferences. Please note that other third parties’ cookies and technologies are governed by each company’s specific privacy policy and not this Cookie Notice.

Cross-Device And Cross-Site Tracking

We, our service providers and other third parties (such as Google and other ad partners) may use information we collect about you (whether directly from our Sites or from a third party) for the purposes of recognizing you online by identifying the Devices that you use. We use this information to serve you Targeted Advertising across multiple different Devices (“cross-device matching”) and sites (“cross-site tracking”). Cross-device matching and cross-site tracking allows us to better understand our customer’s activity, improve our ability to target and measure ad campaigns (including limiting the number of times a user sees an advert). It also helps us match Devices so we can facilitate your opt-out choices across all the Devices we know are connected to an opted-out cookie.

Disabling Cookies And Opting Out Of Interest-Based Advertising

You can make choices about receiving cookies by using our Privacy Preference Center  or alternatively, your browser settings should allow you to delete and/or disable website cookies. For more information about how to delete your cookies in your web browser, refer to your browser’s instructions: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer,   Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox,  Opera, Safari (Mac, iPhone, iPad, or  iPod touch).

If you choose to disable cookies, you may find Sites may not work in the same way. Some cookies are necessary to record and respect the choices you have made in regard to not being contacted or to not have other types of cookies added to your Device. If you delete cookies from your computer, the cookie used to recognize your preferences including Interest-Based Advertising will also be deleted requiring you to make your choices again.

Opting out of Interest-Based Advertising will opt you out from these companies’ delivery of interest-based content or ads to you but does not mean you no longer will receive any advertising through our website or other websites. You may still see Plant.Digital ads but those ads will not be customized to you by Plant.Digital or our partners. If at any time you do not want your personal information to be used to allow third-parties to display advertisements or to personalize advertisements displayed to you, you may also adjust your settings by using the tools provided by third-parties such as. Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.