Cookie Policy
Introduction
Friendzone is committed to protecting your privacy. We aim to provide trustworthy, industry-leading products and services so that you can focus on building meaningful connections.
Our approach to privacy is to provide you with clear information about our data practices.
That’s why we’ve tried to keep legal and technical jargon to a minimum. That being said, if something remains unclear to you, feel free to contact us at admin@thefriendzone.app
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, what types of cookies are placed on your device when you visit our website/app and how we use them.
This Cookie Policy does not address how we deal with your personal information generally.
To learn more about how we process your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy here.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your device’s memory.
A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier.
A cookie also may contain information about your device, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using our services.
Are there different types of cookies?
First-party and third-party cookies
There are first-party cookies and third-party cookies.
First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by us. For example, we use first-party cookies to adapt our website/app to your browser’s language preferences and to better understand your use of our website/app.
Third-party cookies are placed on your device by our partners and service providers. For example, we use third-party cookies to measure user numbers on our website/app or to enable you to share content with others across social media platforms.
Session and persistent cookies
There are session cookies and persistent cookies.
Session cookies only last until you close your browser. We use session cookies for a variety of reasons, including to learn more about your use of our website/app during one single browser session and to help you to use them more efficiently.
Persistent cookies have a longer lifespan and aren’t automatically deleted when you close your browser. These types of cookies are primarily used to help you quickly sign-in to our website/app again and for analytical purposes.
We only use first/third party cookies
Other technologies such as web beacons (also calls pixel tags or clear gifs), tracking URLs or software development kits (SDKs) are used for similar purposes.
Web beacons are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our service or opened an email that we have sent them.
Tracking URLs are custom generated links that help us understand where the traffic to our web pages comes from.
SDKs are small pieces of code included in apps, which function like cookies and web beacons.
For simplicity, we also refer to these technologies as “cookies” in this Cookie Policy.
Why do we use cookies?
Our website and our app use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website/app and also allows us to improve our site and the app.
Basically, we use cookies to provide, secure and improve our services, including by remembering your preferences, recognizing you when you visit us and personalising and tailoring ads to your interests.
To accomplish these purposes, we also may link information from cookies with other personal information we hold about you.
What cookies can you find on Friendzone?
When you visit our website/app, some or all of the following types of cookies may be set on your device.
| Cookie type | Description |
| Essential website cookies | These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website/app and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.They include, for example, cookies that enable you to access our website/app in your default browser language or make use of e-billing services. |
| Analytics /performance cookies | These cookies help us understand how our website/app is being used, and how effective marketing campaigns are.They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website/app when they are using it. This helps us to customise and improve the way our services work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. |
| 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, selecting advertisements that are based on your interests and measuring the number of ads displayed and their performance. |
| Social networking cookies | These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our website/app through third-party social networking and other websites. They enable you to login through SocialMedia platforms into the app. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too. |
| Functionality cookies | These are used to recognise you when you use our app/website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). |
| Targeting cookies | These cookies record your visit to our website/app, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website/app and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. |
How can you control cookies?
There are several cookie management options available to you.
In the website and on the app it is possible to opt-out via a pop-up menu.
In the app it is possible to handle the Ads preferences in the settings menu.
Please note that changes you make to your cookie preferences may make browsing our website/app a less satisfying experience. In some cases, you may even find yourself unable to use all or part of our website/app.
Browser and devices controls
Web browsers provide settings that allow you to control or reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. The procedure for managing cookies is slightly different for each internet browser. You can check the specific steps in your particular browser help menu.
You also may be able to reset device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device. The procedure for managing device identifiers is slightly different for each device. You can check the specific steps in the help or settings menu of your particular device.
Interest-based advertising tools
1.Wordpress
You can opt out of seeing online interest-based advertising from participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance or Appchoices (apps only).
Opting out does not mean you will not see advertising – it means you won’t see personalized advertising from the companies that participate in the opt-out programs. Also, if you delete cookies on your device after you opted out, you will need to opt-out again.
Social Cookies
To allow you to share content on social media, some features of this website/app use social media plug-ins (e.g., Twitter™ “Share to Twitter” or LinkedIn™ “in” buttons). Depending on your social media account settings, we automatically receive information from the social media platform when you use the corresponding button on our website/app.
To learn more about social media cookies, we suggest you refer to your social media platform’s cookie policy and privacy policy.
Google™ Cookies
Stuff Google Wants to Make Sure You Know about Google’s Data Collection Technology
Google™ manages the information and your choices pertaining to Google™ Maps API Cookies via an interface separate from that supplied by your browser. For more information, please 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 website/app and services in order to report website/app trends.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by visiting www.google.com/settings/ads or by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google Admob
We use Google Admob, which is a Google service that uses data collection technologies to collect information about your use of the app and services in order to show advertisements.
You can opt out of Google Admob by the opt-out menu on the settings tab in the app.
How to contact us?
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, here’s how you can reach us:
Online: here
By post:
Friendzone
Domusnovas (SU) via Cagliari 116
CAP 09015
Italy
