Cookie Policy

Bookadok website utilizes cookies to enhance the user experience and improve functionality. By continuing to use this site, it is assumed that you agree to the use of cookies.

 1. WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW ARE THEY COLLECTED

Cookies are small text files stored on a visitor’s computer, mobile phone or tablet. When you revisit the website or visit another site that recognizes the same cookie, it is sent back to the originating website. Cookies do not contain your personal data and cannot identify individual users. They are harmless and don not cause damage to your device. They enable the provision of a more efficient user experience and better functionality of the website. Cookies often contain a unique identification number, which is anonymous (randomly generated) and stored on your device. Some disappear at the end of your website browsing; others stay longer on the computer. ‏

Cookies perform many different and useful tasks, such as remembering your settings, generally improving your online experience. We use cookies when a user visits our website to identify your web browser, not you personally, each time you access our website. Cookies tell us which pages you visit and how often. We use this information to increase the usefulness of our website – primarily for technical reasons, such as better site navigation. In addition, we use website plugins that store information in your local browser to better understand website analytics. This information is deleted when you close your browser. In summary, cookies play a crucial role in providing a smoother browsing experience and helping us enhance our website’s structure and content.

2. HOW DOES IT WORK

When you revisit a website, your internet browser sends a cookie that the website has previously saved on your computer or mobile device. This allows for faster page loading and a customized browsing experience. Importantly, the website cannot access other files on your device or any information you haven’t previously provided as a visitor. By leaving a comment on our website, you may agree to save your name, email address and website in cookies. 

This feature makes your stay on the website more pleasant, so you don’t have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for a year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your internet browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

3. WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE ON OUR WEBSITE

The Bookadok site collects performance cookies. Performance cookies, better known as analytical cookies, are used to collect information about how you use our website, including data on how often you visit our website, which pages you visit often, how much time you spend on our website, etc. These cookies are used solely to improve the performance of our site and provide you with a better user experience. 

Performance cookies do not serve to identify you as an individual, but to improve the functioning of our site. In some cases, we use third-party cookies, such as: Google Analytics – Bookadok uses Google Analytics, the most reliable analytics to understand the users of the site in order to improve its performance. These cookies record how long you have been on the site and which pages you have visited. GoogleAdSense – Google AdSense is an advertising service that uses DoubleClick cookies to deliver better ads and limit their display. Social media buttons – We also use social media buttons to enable you to connect with us on those platforms as well. We use cookies on Bookadok for Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

4. HOW LONG DO COOKIES LAST ON OUR SITE

In terms of duration, we may use two different types of cookies on our website: Temporary cookies – These cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our website; or Persistent cookies – These cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you manually delete them (how long do cookies remain on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of a particular cookie, as well as your browser settings).

5. WHY SHOULD YOU ALLOW THE USE OF COOKIES

Information contained in cookies is used to improve services for you, for example: They enable a service to recognize your device so that you do not have to provide the same information repeatedly for a specific task or during a session, e.g. filling out a form or questionnaire online; Allows the video player to function properly; It counts how many people use the services, makes them easier to use and provides enough capacity for fast work; by analyzing anonymous data, it helps us understand how people interact with different aspects of our online services, in order to improve them.

6. WHAT IF I DON’T ACCEPT COOKIES

If you choose not to accept cookies, certain features of the Bookadok website will not be available to you or will not function properly. This will limit the use of our website and may affect the design and user experience.

Examples of features that may not be allowed:

1.  Watching videos
2. Overview of embedded content

7. HOW ARE COOKIES CONTROLLED AND DELETED

Cookies placed on our website are not considered to be accepted by themselves, if you want to disable or delete them, you must first explicitly accept them through the cookie management tool that will be displayed when you first visit our site.

 • DISABLE COOKIES THROUGH OUR COOKIE MANAGEMENT TOOL

When you first visit our website, you will see a form that allows you to choose which cookies to enable and accept to collect information on our site. You accept cookies by ticking the box on our cookie management tool. If you do not expressly approve cookies, you will be deemed not to have accepted them.

 • DISABILITY THROUGH YOUR INTERNET BROWSER SETTINGS

Most internet browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. If you do not want the Bookadok website to store cookies on your device, you can change your browser settings so that you receive a warning before certain cookies are saved. You can also set your internet browser to reject most of our cookies or only certain third-party cookies. You can also withdraw your consent to cookies by deleting cookies that have already been stored.

In case you use different devices to access our website (including different types of devices such as phone, tablet, laptop) it is necessary to adjust your internet browsers on all these devices.

8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We hope that we have provided you with all the information and that you now understand what cookies are and what are they for. If you still have questions about cookies, please reach out to us via email at: [email protected].