Cookies Policy
Effective Date: March 10, 2025
Like many companies, we and our service providers and third-party partners, including advertisers and vendors, use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies on our website and other services (collectively “Services”) to collect information that helps us enhance your experience and our Services. As described in more detail below, the cookies and other similar technologies (collectively “cookies”) that we use allow our websites and mobile apps to function and help us to better tailor the Services to your interests.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify it or to store information in the browser. A “web beacon” links web pages to servers and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server.
TYPES OF COOKIES USED
COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES WE USE
First-Party v. Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are ones that we place (or have a service provider place for us), which enable you to use the Services and their features and allow us to perform certain internal analytics activities. Third-party cookies are placed by certain third parties when you visit the Services or other websites or online services. These third-party cookies enable certain functionalities and advertising to be provided on the Services. These third parties collect and use this information pursuant to their own privacy policies.
Below we list the different types of first and third-party cookies and other similar technologies we may use on the Services:
Strictly Necessary Cookies and Similar Technologies
These cookies and similar technologies are essential to the Services in order to make our website and apps work correctly. You may block placement of these cookies through your browser settings, but without them, the performance of the Surf Local Services may be affected, and you may not be able to take full advantage of our services and features.. These cookies may be used to assist in fraud prevention, security, and to enable purchasing capabilities. Strictly necessary cookies may collect encrypted user session identifiers, device identifiers, demographic information, log-in identifiers and other information necessary for instance, to authenticate users on multiple sites. These cookies are mostly temporary cookies that are deleted after each session.
Functionality Cookies and Similar Technologies
These cookies and similar technologies collect information about your choices and preferences (such as, your language preference, user name, or location) to provide a more personalized online experience and show you content relevant to where you are., such as customizing a certain webpage, remembering if we have asked you to participate in a promotion, and for other services you request, like watching a video or commenting on a blog.
If you access the Services using a mobile, tablet or other internet enabled device, we may collect a unique identifier assigned to that device (“UDID”), geolocation data or other traffic information for that device. These features help us improve your experience with the Services. For example, functionality cookies help us improve your visit to the website, use credentials to automatically login a user, determine the appropriate device location during a session, count articles viewed or store language settings.
Analytics Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers use analytics cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of the Services to help create reports and statistics on the performance of the Services, which enable us to improve the way they work. Analytics cookies and similar technologies collect information such as your IP address, type of device, operating system, referring URLs, country information data and time of page visits, and pages visited. This information allows us to identify overall patterns of usage on the website, help us record any difficulties you have with the Services and gauge the effectiveness of our advertising. These cookies are also used to recognize you across platforms and devices for the purposes described herein.
Social Networking Cookies and Similar Technologies
Some of our products may include social plug-in capabilities to allow you to register with or sign in to the Services using your social network account and track both members and non-members of social networks for additional purposes such as behavioral advertising, analytics and market research. When you use these capabilities, your activities on our Services may impact the content and messages you see on other services you visit.
Advertising Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers use these types of cookies and similar technologies to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. We may use advertising cookies and similar technologies to deliver targeted advertising or limit the number of times you see an advertisement, as well as help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. Advertising cookies and similar technologies remember your previous browsing activity and this information is shared with other parties, and we may share this information with other organizations, including advertisers and our agencies, in accordance with applicable law.
For example, you may be doing research to purchase a property, and
read several articles about real estate on various websites. As you
browse those sites, a cookie from an advertising network would be
placed in your browser. It would remember that you had visited
several websites related to real property. Then, when you visit
another website in the same advertising network, the website could
show you an ad related to properties.
By using our Services, you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Notice and our Privacy Notice
HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We use the information we collect through automated means to allow you access to our Services and for the following general purposes:
In addition, third parties that support our services by serving advertisements or providing other services, such as allowing you to share content or tracking aggregate service usage, may also use cookies and other technologies to collect information relevant to the provision of those services. For more information on how third parties use cookies and similar technologies on our Services, please see the section below on How Third Parties Use Information from Cookies and Similar Technologies on our Services.
HOW THIRD PARTIES USE INFORMATION FROM COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES ON OUR SERVICES
We work with third parties to support our Services to deliver advertisements or provide services. For example, we use analytics services supported by third-party companies who generate analytics cookies on our behalf. We may not have access to these cookies, although we may use statistical information arising from the cookies provided by these third parties to customize content and for the other purposes described above. These companies may also transfer this information to other parties where required to do so by law, or where such other parties process the information on their behalf.
Third-party advertisers and other organizations may also use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on our websites and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information, which may be combined with other information acquired from third parties, may be used by them to serve advertisements on our website and third-party sites that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed.
Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to track aggregate usage statistics.
Please note that we may not control these third-party cookies and other technologies and their use may be governed by the privacy notices or policies of the third parties employing them. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Notice.
To find out more about how you can manage the information collected by these companies, see the How to Manage Cookies and Similar Technologies section of this Cookie Notice.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
You have choices regarding cookies being placed on your computer or mobile device by us and our third-party partners or service providers. However, without cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our Services. Similarly, if you upgrade or change your browser or device or delete your cookies, you may need to use these opt-out tools again. We have outlined below ways to manage your cookies.
MANAGING COOKIES VIA YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS
You have the option to stop cookies from being downloaded to your device from our Services at any time by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. Most browsers will tell you how to change your browser settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to restrict or block certain types or all cookies. Please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or select the "Help" menu in your browser
Please note that if you use different devices to view and access our website (such as, your computer, smartphone, tablet), you will need to adjust your cookie options in the browser for each device. Non-essential cookies require user consent, which can be withdrawn at any time.
Updates and Changes
Surf Local may update this Cookies Policy at any time. Continued use of the Surf Local Network constitutes acceptance of the updated Cookies Policy.