Last updated: 31 August 2022
About this Policy
This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website https://www.audacityteam.org (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
Please take the time to read this Policy carefully. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us via email at [email protected]
A note about your personal information
When you arrive on AudacityTeam.org, your IP address is anonymised before being stored on our servers by default. This makes it impossible for us to ever identify you.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are used by website owners in order to understand how you are using the website, by providing usage statistics which helps to maintain and improve it.
Cookies have many different features, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience.
Cookies set by the Website itself (in this case, https://www.audacityteam.org) are called “first party cookies“. Please note that our Website does not use any third party cookies.
How do we use cookies?
When you visit our Website, we place the following types of cookies:
Necessary cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with the services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as security or cookies consent storage. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website to you, you cannot refuse them.
Statistics (non-necessary) cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used, which helps us make improvements to it.
By default we collect statistics that track the number of site visits as well as the number of downloads of Audacity. These analytics are anonymously collected: your IP address is anonymised before storage and by default, we do not collect any other personal information of any kind. You still have the option to disable the processing of these anonymized statistical cookies through the settings in our cookie banner (please refer section “How can I control cookies?” below for more info).
On our Website we use only first party cookies, which means that all your cookie data will be stored on our side in accordance with the rules applicable to the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector.
Full list of cookies:
Necessary Cookies
| Cookies | Duration | Description | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots (Cloudflare Bot Management) | .audacityteam.org |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. | www.audacityteam.org |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Non necessary”. | www.audacityteam.org |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store if user has consented to the use of cookies. | www.audacityteam.org |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | www.audacityteam.org |
| cli_user_preference | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to store whether or not the user has given consent for cookie usage. It does not store any personal data. | www.audacityteam.org |
Statistics Cookies (non-necessary)
| Cookies | Duration | Description | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pk_id.2.d625 | 13 months | This cookie is set by Matomo Analytics to store a unique user ID. | www.audacityteam.org |
| _pk_ses.2.d625 | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Matomo Analytics to store a unique session ID. | www.audacityteam.org |
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject specific cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences on the cookie banner available in the bottom right corner of the Website (“Privacy & Cookies Policy”).
In addition to the preferences that you set within the cookie banner, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse some cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website. As means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
The cookies that were sent in the past
If you have disabled one or more cookies, we can use information collected by these cookies before the deactivation. Information collected before deactivation will expire after a maximum of 13 months. However, we cease to collect information via the opted-out cookie.
Updates to this Notice
We may update this Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.
You can see when this Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Policy.
