Cookie policy
Introduction
Aura is committed to protecting your personal information. Our goal is to provide reliable, industry-leading products and services to help you focus your search for serious dating. Our approach to privacy is to provide you with clear information about how we process data. That's why we've tried to keep technical and legal language to a minimum.
The cookie policy explains what cookies are, what types of cookies are placed on your device when you visit the site, and how we use them.
This cookie policy does not address how we process personal information. To learn how we process personal information, see our Privacy Policy here. here.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser or opened in your mobile browser or device memory. Cookies typically contain the name of the domain (Internet page) from which they were sent, the expiration date of the cookie (when it expires), a randomly generated unique number, or a similar identifier. Cookies may also contain information about your device, such as user settings, browsing history, and the actions you take when using our services.
Are there different types of cookies?
Primary and third-party cookies
There are primary and third-party cookies. Primary cookies are placed directly on your device by us. For example, we use basic cookies to tailor our website to your browser language settings and to better understand how you use the site. Third-party cookies are placed on your device by our partners and service providers. For example, we use third-party cookies to record the number of visitors to our website, or to enable you to share content on social media.
Session cookies and persistent cookies
There are session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie is only active until you close your browser. We use session cookies for a variety of reasons, including to learn more about the use of our site during a session and to improve the effectiveness of site usage. Persistent cookies last longer and are not automatically deleted when you close your browser. These cookies are mainly used to allow the user to quickly log in to the site, and for analytical purposes.
Are we using other tracking technologies, such as web beacons?
We use other technologies such as web beacons (sometimes called "one-pixel gifs" or "clear gifs"), tracking links, or software development kits (SDKs) for similar purposes. Web beacons are small graphic files that contain a unique identifier by which we know when someone visits our site or opens our e-mail. Tracking links are specially generated links that help us understand where traffic to our sites is coming from. SDKs are small code embedded in applications that work similarly to cookies and web beacons.
For simplicity, we also refer to these technologies as cookies in this Cookie policy.
What do we use cookies for?
Like most online service providers, we use cookies to provide services, enhance and protect you, including remembering your preferences, recognizing you when you return to the site, and personalizing advertisements to match your interests. For this purpose, we may also link cookie information with other personal information we hold about you.
When you visit our site, some or all of the following cookies may be placed on your device.
Type of cookie
Description
Basic site cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary in order to provide you with the services available on our site and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Analytic Cookies
These cookies help us understand how our site is being used, how effective our marketing campaigns are, and help us personalize and improve our sites for you.
Advertising cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising more interesting to the user. They perform functions such as preventing repetition of the same ad, displaying ads correctly in ad units, selecting ads based on user interests, and measuring the number of ads displayed and their effectiveness, such as how many people click on a particular ad.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are used to let you share pages that you are interested in and content from our site on social networks and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
How can you control cookies?
There are several ways you can control cookies. Please notice that changes you make to your cookie settings may adversely affect your usage of the site. In some cases, you may not even be able to use the site, in whole or in part.
Browser and device controls
Some web browsers contain settings that allow you to control and refuse cookies or notify you when a cookie is placed on your computer. Cookie management varies slightly from browser to browser. You can check your browser settings in the Help menu.
You can also reset your device IDs by activating the appropriate settings on your mobile device. The procedure for managing device IDs is slightly different on different mobile devices. You can check the settings for your device in the Help or settings menu.
Social Cookies.
To enable you to share content on social networks, some features of this site use social networking plugins (for example, Twitter™ "Share on Twitter" or LinkedIn™ "in" buttons). Depending on your social media account settings, we automatically receive information from the social network when you use the appropriate button on our site.
To learn more about social media cookies, we recommend you refer to your social network's cookie policy and privacy policy.
The Adobe Flash Player™ Flash cookies
Adobe Flash Player™ is an application for viewing and interacting with dynamic content using the Flash platform. Flash (and similar applications) use cookie-like technology to remember settings, preferences, and use of content. However, Adobe Flash Player controls the information and your choices through an interface that is not related to the browser interface.
If your terminal displays content designed for the Flash platform, you can open the cookie management tools for Flash directly at https://www.adobe.com.
Google™ cookies
What you need to know, according to Google, about Google's data collection technologies
Google™ Maps API cookies
Some of the features on our site and some of the services on Aura depend on the use of Google™ Maps API cookies. These cookies will be placed on your device.
By accessing this site and using the services that depend on the Google™ Maps API cookie, you agree to the storage and placement of such cookies on your device, and to access, use and send the data collected to Google.
Google™ manages the cookie information and settings for the Google™ Maps API through an independent interface that is not linked to your browser. For more information, see https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, which is a Google service that uses cookies and other data collection technologies to collect information about your use of the site and services in order to track website usage trends.
You can opt out of Google Analytics. To do so, open www.google.com/settings/ads or download the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.