Privacy Policy
Published November 9, 2024
1. Introduction
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by websites you visit, designed to remember specific data about your browsing activity. They play a crucial role in enhancing user experience by storing preferences, helping websites load faster, and enabling essential site functionality. Cookies can be either temporary (session cookies that are deleted when you close your browser) or persistent (stored on your device until they expire or you delete them). This policy explains how Applied Engineering uses cookies to enhance site performance, analyze user interactions, and provide a more personalized browsing experience. Understanding and managing cookies allows users to control their data and protect their privacy while using our services.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
Applied Engineering collects both personal and non-personal information through our website and various interactions with clients and partners. This data enables us to provide and improve our services and to better understand user preferences.
- Essential Cookies: These are mandatory for the basic operation of our website. Essential cookies support core functions like page navigation, secure access to protected areas, and logging in, ensuring the site performs optimally. Without these, the site cannot function as intended.
- Performance Cookies: Performance cookies collect anonymous data on how visitors interact with the website, such as pages visited, time spent, and any errors encountered. By gathering insights into user behavior, these cookies help us enhance functionality, optimize content, and improve overall performance.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering user preferences (like language selection) and login details. Functional cookies provide a seamless, customized experience for users, allowing the site to remember their settings and choices.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies track your browsing habits to show relevant advertisements and content based on your interests. We may use these cookies for remarketing efforts, ensuring that advertisements displayed are relevant to you. They help us analyze the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and personalize content for returning users.
Each type of cookie serves a unique purpose, contributing to improved performance, usability, and a tailored experience on our site.
3. How We Use Cookies
Cookies are integral to enhancing your experience on our site and optimizing the functionality of our services. We use cookies to analyze traffic patterns, track user behavior, and tailor the site’s performance to better meet your needs. For example, cookies help us load pages faster, remember your login status, and retain your preferences for language, theme, or other settings, even on return visits.
Additionally, cookies aid in monitoring the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, enabling us to refine content and promotions based on what’s most relevant to you. By analyzing cookie data, we can adjust our offerings, detect potential issues, and ensure smoother site navigation. Whether supporting core functions, improving the user interface, or tracking interactions for more relevant content, cookies allow us to deliver an experience that’s efficient, responsive, and better suited to our visitors’ interests.
4. Third-Party Cookies
We partner with third-party service providers who may place cookies on your device when you visit our website. These third-party cookies serve several functions, such as analyzing site usage, supporting targeted advertising, and enhancing social media functionality. For instance, analytics providers like Google Analytics use cookies to gather anonymous data on site traffic and user interactions, helping us gain insights into our audience and optimize site performance.
Additionally, social media platforms may deploy cookies to integrate features like content sharing or social media widgets on our pages. Advertising partners also use third-party cookies to present tailored ads based on your interests and browsing behavior, ensuring you receive relevant information. While these cookies are subject to the privacy policies of third-party providers, we carefully vet our partners and prioritize working only with those who adhere to strict data protection standards. You have the option to control and manage third-party cookies through your browser settings, enabling you to tailor your browsing experience to your preferences.
5. User Consent
When you visit our site, we ask for your consent to use cookies that enhance your browsing experience and provide essential functionality. By continuing to use our site with cookies enabled, you signify your acceptance of their use as outlined in this policy. For certain cookies that are not strictly necessary for the basic operation of the website, we may present an option for you to accept or decline them through a cookie consent banner. This allows you to make informed decisions about how you interact with our site and to manage the level of data collection you’re comfortable with.
Additionally, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by adjusting your browser settings or revisiting your cookie preferences on our website. Declining or disabling some cookies may limit certain functionalities and affect the overall experience. We prioritize transparency in our cookie practices and are committed to providing clear and accessible options so that users remain in control of their data preferences.
6. Managing Cookies
You have full control over how cookies are managed on our website, allowing you to enable or disable them based on your preferences. Most web browsers offer settings that allow you to manage cookie behavior, giving you options to block specific types or delete cookies from your device. If you’d like to restrict cookies, you can generally adjust your browser settings to notify you when cookies are being sent or to block all cookies outright.
For more personalized options, our website may also feature a cookie settings manager that allows you to review and modify your cookie preferences directly. This tool typically offers details on different categories of cookies—such as functional, performance, and targeting cookies—enabling you to tailor which cookies are active during your visit. While managing cookies can help enhance privacy, note that blocking some cookies may impact certain site functions, like auto-filling forms or maintaining your login state. For guidance on managing cookies, you can refer to your browser’s support section or contact us with any questions regarding our cookie practices.
7. Updates to the Cookies Policy
We may periodically update this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements, or our own business practices. All modifications will be posted on this page, and we encourage users to review this policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and data management practices. In cases where significant changes occur, such as new types of cookies or shifts in the purpose of existing cookies, we will clearly notify users via prominent messages on our website or through email notifications if required.
Changes to the policy become effective immediately upon posting. By continuing to use our website after updates are posted, you acknowledge and accept the revised terms.
9. Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Cookies Policy or our use of cookies in general, please feel free to reach out. We’re here to help clarify any aspect of our cookie practices or assist you in managing your preferences.
Applied Engineering Contact Information
- Address: 439 Mukaka Avenue, Quartier Industriel, Commune of Manika, Kolwezi, Lualaba, Dem. Rep. of Congo
- Phone: +243 999 688 886
- Email: legal@appliedengineering.co.za
We prioritize user privacy and welcome any feedback to improve our cookie practices or address specific concerns.
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