Aquora Global and our Affiliated Businesses (collectively referred to as "Aquora Global " or "Company") make use of cookies and other similar technologies in order to conduct market research, monitor and track the activities of users while they are on our website, and collect demographic data.
"Control" regarding an entity refers to the beneficial, equitable, or legal ownership, either directly or indirectly, of more than fifty percent (50%) or more of the capital stock (or other ownership interest, if not a corporation) of such entity ordinarily having voting rights, or effective co-ownership with another person or entity. "Affiliated Companies" refers to any other person or entity that is controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such an entity.
Cookies are very little text files that are stored on your computer whenever you visit a website. They are used extensively to make websites work, to make websites function with more efficiency, or to offer information regarding the experiences that our users have while using our websites. The cookies that Aquora Global utilizes, as well as the reasons behind their use, are outlined in the table that follows.
| Cookie | Purpose | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Functional Cookies | Preferences and Settings | These cookies are used to record a user’s choice and settings that enable our website to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time and may be stored on your device. For example, Aquora Global saves preferences, such as language, browser and multimedia player settings, these enable the browser to remember these setting each time you return to the site. Note: If you opt out of interest-based advertising, we store your opt-out preference in a cookie on your device. |
| Sign-in and Authentication | When you sign into a website using your Aquora Global account, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information, so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site. | |
| Advertising Cookies | Interest-Based Advertising | Aquora Global uses cookies to collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that is most relevant to you. You can opt out of receiving interest-based advertising from Aquora Global as described in the How to Control Cookies section of this cookie policy. |
| Universal Analytics | Analytics | To provide our products, and improve your user experience on our website, Aquora Global uses cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service, visitors to our blog and to develop other statistics about the operations of our products. This includes cookies from Aquora Global and from third-party analytics providers. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. |
| Facebook and YouTube Cookies | Social Media | Some of our websites include code snippets provided by social media companies that can sense if you are already logged into a given social media account so you can easily share Aquora Global content with other social media users via that account. These code snippets read cookies set previously by social media company web content while you are logged in and browsing such content on those social media sites. We embed videos from Aquora Global’s YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. |
| Service Cookies | Performance | Aquora Global uses performance cookies for load balancing to ensure that websites remain up and operating. |
Most web browsers are set up to automatically accept cookies, but most also provide options that allow you to delete or reject cookies. For instance, with most today's web browsers, you may disable or remove cookies by navigating to the Settings menu, selecting Privacy, and then choosing Cookies. It's possible that the documentation for each browser's privacy settings or help section include instructions for removing or disabling cookies in other browsers. To learn more about cookies, including how to check what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit either www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. These websites have a wealth of information related to cookies.
Cookies are required for the operation of some aspects of the goods offered by Smile Group. It is important that you are aware that if you choose to block cookies, it is possible that you may not be able to sign in or access those functions, and any preferences that are dependent on cookies may be lost. If you delete cookies, all settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including preferences about advertising, will also be destroyed and may need to be regenerated if you want to use those settings.
Smile Group can be reached by e-mail at the following address: info@aquoraglobal.com if you have any issues regarding the use of cookies on our websites.
When we make updates, changes, or modifications to this Cookie Policy, those updates, changes, or revisions will become effective when we post the new Cookie Policy to our website. We reserve the right to change this Cookie Policy at any time. Before any significant changes that we make go into effect, we will provide you with advance notice of those changes either by an email or, at our discretion, through a notice posted on this website.