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Yieldify Platform Policy

Our policy for platform usage

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Written by Michael DeSimone
Updated over a week ago

Introduction

Welcome to Yieldify’s privacy notice.

The purpose of this Yieldify Platform Policy is to provide transparency and information to both our clients and customers of our clients, as to how the Yieldify platform operates and how we use data for the benefit of our clients and their customers.

This Yieldify Platform Policy covers the services that Yieldify provides to Yieldify clients on client websites to assist them in engaging with their customers. This Platform Policy does not cover any services or activity on the Yieldify website at www.yieldify.com.

If you have any questions relating to any of this policy then please email us at privacy@yieldify.com.

Yieldify provides onsite and email remarketing that predicts and reacts to customer behaviour, serving content that is tailored to the unique interests of customers to drive conversions.

To provide this service Yieldify collects certain categories of data from our clients’ customers that may include email addresses and information about certain activities that the customer has undertaken on a client site.

Information that we collect via our services

When a customer visits a website operated by a Yieldify client, Yieldify is permitted by our client to collect the URLs (website addresses) of the pages of the client’s website that the customer visits and may collect information on the customer activities on the website, such as the pages viewed and products that have been added into a basket.

Upon the request of our client we may collect the customer IP address, information about the customer’s device, browser software and any operating system.

We may also collect customer email addresses if a customer enters this information on our client’s website to buy a product or service, becomes a registered customer or signs up for marketing communications. We will only collect the email address of a customer on the instruction of our client, the website owner, with any subsequent processing of this data specifically for the purposes of the website owner as the data controller.

Any customers that wish to obtain more information about the data collected by Yieldify via a specific website should review the privacy policy of the specific website and/or contact the website owner directly with any questions relating to the provision of notice and obtaining appropriate consents.

How we use the data that we collect

We use the information that we collect from our client websites to provide specific services to our clients including serving content that is tailored to the unique interests of customers to drive conversions and providing onsite and email remarketing that predicts and reacts to customer behavior.

We may use anonymised aggregated data for purposes such as improving our platform offering and the services that we provide, in addition to creating reports, insights and statistics for our services.

Sharing information with third parties

We share data with third party partners for the purposes of providing the Yieldify services, including but not limited to data storage and email delivery, in compliance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations.

We may disclose data if we are legally obliged to do so to a third party buyer or seller in the event that we buy or sell any part of our business or assets. We may also have a duty to disclose this data to comply with legal obligations including disclosure for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

How do we store the information?

Yieldify stores personal data received from our clients and their customers within the European Economic Area, save where strictly necessary for the performance of our obligations and where such transmission complies with the Data Protection Laws.

How long do we retain data?

We do not retain personal data on customers, such as email addresses, longer than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected on behalf of our clients.

Unless specifically requested by a client, Yieldify (as the data processor) shall retain personal data of a Yieldify client (as the data controller) customer for no longer than 90 days after a client has ceased instructing Yieldify as a data processor. All personal data relating to client customers after this 90 day period shall be anonymised by aggregating it for analytical purposes only.

Our use of cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track customers as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify customers returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the customer before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the customer session, when the web browser is closed.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to record a customer’s visit to a client website, record the pages the customer has visited and their onsite behaviour. We use this information to help clients make their websites more tailored to the unique interests of customers to drive conversions.

Yieldify may use the following cookies via the Yieldify platform:

Name

Type

Time-to-live (Expiry)

Purpose

_yi

1st party Cookie

365 days

Store information to help identify the user and previous browsing activity:

  • A Yieldify user identifier specific to the website

  • Yieldify related activity data (eg: when the user last saw any Yieldify experiences or when they last browsed the website)

_yi

1st party Local Storage

N/A

Store information about the user session such as:

  • The user’s website-specific yieldify id

  • The last time they saw a campaign and the last time they were actively browsing the website

  • Referrer & previous pages visited

  • Coupons to be applied on the checkout

  • Values scraped from the page (e.g. basket value / sale value / sale order id)

  • Timestamps representing when Yieldify experiences were triggered

Note: Local storage doesn’t support item expiration

_y2

1st party Cookie

365 days

Store timestamps when various Yieldify experiences were displayed to prevent experiences from showing more than they should.

_yi_user_id

1st party HTTP cookie

365 days

Store the Yieldify user identifier for the current website

This cookie is only set if the website has enabled the Yieldify HTTP cookie.

_yi_flags

1st party HTTP cookie

365 days

Store feature toggles to identify and enable debugging related features and tooling such as our preview app.

opt_out opt_out_legacy

3rd party cookie

365 days

Indicate whether or not the current browser has opted out of Yieldify tracking by navigating to our opt-out link.

The opt_out_legacy cookie is set to support older browsers that do not support the SameSite cookie attribute applied to the opt_out cookie

Note: 3rd party cookies may not work on all browsers

Ycp_extensions_data

1st party Local Storage

N/A

Store information used for additional extension features requested by the customer such as the last products seen by the user.

Note: Local storage doesn’t support item expiration

<website id>|tab:<tab id>

3rd party Local Storage

Deprecated

N/A

Fallback storage for the data outlined above (used in case 1st party local storage data is absent)

Note: 3rd party Local Storage may not work on all browsers & Local Storage does not support item expiration

This item is deprecated. Yieldify does not store any additional data in 3rd party Session storage

Global

3rd party Session Storage

Deprecated

Until the browser tab or window is closed

Store information about the current tab ID to be able to handle the user experience on each tab appropriately.

This item is deprecated. Yieldify does not store any additional data in 3rd party Session storage.

Opting out of cookies being set on you device

Users may block, delete or disable cookies by activating the setting on their browser that can prevent the setting of all or some cookies.

Please note that using browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) may prevent access to all or parts of websites that you wish to visit. Visit your specific browser or device settings for more information about how to block, delete or disable cookies.

Changes to Yieldify Platform Policy

Yieldify may change this Platform Policy from time to time and will amend the Updated Date accordingly. All existing clients will be directly notified of any major changes to this policy.

If you have any questions relating to this policy then please email us at privacy@yieldify.com.


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