We use Cookies to provide you, the Visitor, with the best possible online user experience. Please read this Cookies Notice on our use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies and how you can manage, delete or block them.
Visitor: A Visitor is any party who visits VAT Modernisation SA’s Platforms, Applications or websites. It could be any individual on their own behalf or on behalf of a User or Other Third Party who visits VAT Modernisation SA’s Platforms, Applications or websites. Although Cookies and Tracking used by VAT Modernisation SA may only apply to specific types of Visitors, for the purpose of VAT Modernisation SA’s notice on cookies it should be assumed that it applies to all Visitors.
Computer: A Computer refers to any electronic device, including but not limited to desktops, laptops, mobile phones and tablets, that are used or are capable of being used to view, connect or interact in any way with VAT Modernisation SA’s Platforms, Applications or websites.
Cookies: Cookies are tiny bits of data that are stored on any Visitors computer, mobile phone or other electronic devices. Their multi-function is to protect both you and VAT Modernisation SA, facilitate and simplify your usage of and interaction with VAT Modernisation SA and to improve performance, communication and advertising on VAT Modernisation SA’s Platforms, Applications and websites. You may share parts of or the totality of such information. If you should choose, accessing the settings in your browser will enable you, at any time, to remove or block cookies. However, this may curtail your ability to make the fullest use of the VAT Modernisation SA Platform, Applications and websites.
Where a Cookie is to be used on any computer we will provide an alert at the time for you to accept the use of the cookie on your computer whenever you visit VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites. You have the option not to accept the cookie on your computer and still use VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites however this will adversely affect your use of VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites.
Tracking technologies and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons, web bugs and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, ensure levels of service, analyze trends, administer and improve the Site, gather demographic information about the Site’s user base, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates. If you choose, you can prevent email tracking by enabling the setting in most email services to block images by default from displaying, however it means loading images in your email will require an extra click. There are also a number of browser extensions available that will block tracking pixels while alerting you to which emails contain trackers.
Another form of tracking used is emailed personalized web links to VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites. By clicking on the link, tracking will also take place. Once that link has been clicked this cannot be disabled for that link, however there is the choice not to click on that link. There are other link tracking technologies available that can be used to track a Visitor, and although they may not be in use, for the purpose of VAT Modernisation SA’s definition of link tracking they are incorporated.
Use of Cookies and Tracking Technology
Although cookies and tracking technology cannot collect personal information per se, they may be used to store your login or access information (with the exception of your password) in order to facilitate your subsequent usage of the VAT Modernisation SA Platform, Applications and websites. They are used also to confirm your login or access status and that you are interacting with VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications, websites, widgets, share buttons and advertisements. Information related to browser types and operating systems, customizing a website, recording the number of hits on a website, the operation of a website, language preferences and any interaction with a website can utilize cookies and tracking technology. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. We may use a single cookie or tracking instance or tracking technology for different types of tracking or different cookies or different instances or different tracking technologies for the different types of tacking. The following types of tracking or cookies may be used:
Functional tracking or cookies – These are necessary to make it possible to use VAT Modernisation SA Platform, Applications and websites functions, such as accessing protected areas. We might use this tracking or cookies for:
Authentication of users for a secured login;
Passing on information from one page to the next,
Storing preferences such as language or the number of search results to be displayed;
Storing settings for optimal video display, such as buffer size and screen resolution;
Reading your browser settings to display optimally on your screen;
Locating misuse of our VAT Modernisation SA Platform, Applications and websites.
Analytical tracking or cookies – These gather information about the navigation behavior on VAT Modernisation SA Platform, Applications and websites, such as which pages are visited often and the routes taken to access specific pages. By doing this we are able to make the structure, navigation and content on VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites as user-friendly as possible for you. We might use this tracking or cookies for:
Keeping track of the number of times specific web pages are visited;
Keeping track of the length of time spent on web pages;
Determining the order in which various pages are visited;
Assessing which parts of our Platform, Applications and websites need to be improved.
Advertising tracking or cookies – Our aim is to provide visitors to our website with information that is as relevant as possible to them. We therefore endeavor to adapt our site as much as possible to every visitor. We do this not only through the content of our Platform, Applications and websites, but also through the advertisements shown.
We might use this tracking or cookies for:
Keeping track of which advertisements you have already been shown;
Keeping track of how many visitors click on the advertisement.
Checking to see if you have clicked on an advertisement.
Social Media tracking or cookies – The articles, pictures and videos in designated sections that are enabled as publicly shareable on our Platform, Applications and websites can be shared and liked via social media by means of buttons. Cookies from the social media parties are used to enable these buttons to function, so that they recognize you when you wish to share an article or video. This tracking and cookies make it possible for Logged-in users of selected social media to share certain content directly from VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites. These social media parties may also collect your personal data for their own purposes. VAT Modernisation SA has no influence over how these social media parties make use of your personal data. For more information regarding the cookies set by the social media parties and the possible data that they gather, please refer to the privacy statement(s) made by the social media parties themselves.
Third Party analytics
We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We might also use software like YouTube Analytics to analyze page use, page interactions and the routes taken through our VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites. These are known as “website metrics” or ‘analytics’. Google and YouTube Analytics are web analysis services that are offered by Google Inc. Google and YouTube Analytics uses cookies to analyze the usage of the website by users. Google and YouTube uses aggregated statistical data to give VAT Modernisation SA an insight in the way VAT Modernisation SA’s Platform, Applications and websites are used. Google and YouTube may only provide this data to third parties if Google and YouTube are required to do so by law, or to the extent necessary for third parties processing this data on behalf of Google and YouTube. You can prevent collection of the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to their use of the website (including your IP address) by Google or YouTube and the processing of such data by Google or YouTube at https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/.
Managing Information Collected
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies or tracking technologies, in addition to the options already provided most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website. You may also wish to refer to https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies or tracking technologies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
View the Privacy Policy for more information on privacy rights and control.