LYK Cookies Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are any small pieces of data that are utilized for the purposes of storing information on your web browsers or devices in order to learn more about user interests. Cookies receive and accumulate identifiers and other user information on devices such as your computers, phones, etc. Cookies are also used in other technologies, such as the information stored on your web browsers and other types of software for similar usage. In this policy, we will refer to all of the various technologies mentioned as “cookies.”
if you possess a LYK account, use LYK, i.e. our website and applications, or visit other websites and apps that utilize LYK Products, we use cookies. Cookies enable LYK to offer our products to users and in order to understand your interests, behaviors, and any other information about you and your use of other apps and websites, regardless of if you are registered or logged in.
This policy will explain how we use cookies and the choices you have. Unless stated otherwise in this policy, the Data Policy is applicable to how we collect and process data via cookies.
Why Does LYK Use Cookies?
Cookies allow us to constantly provide, safeguard and improve the LYK Products for users, such as personalizing your content, adjusting and measuring advertisements to cater to your interests, and providing safer user experience overall. Occasionally, cookies that we use are subject to change as we continually improve and update LYK Products. Although this is the case, we use cookies in the following ways:
Verification - Cookies are used to authenticate your account and determine when you’re logged in so that we can provide you with easier accessibility to LYK Products and display appropriate and relevant features and experiences.
Cookies are used to help you stay logged in as you are navigating different LYK pages. They also serve as a reminder for your web browser, so you do not have to continuously log into LYK and providing easier access to LYK via third-party applications and websites.
Website, product integrity and safety - LYK is committed to using cookies to assist us in making sure that your account, data and LYK Products you use safe and secure.
Cookies help us in identifying and impose any additional safety precautions when someone may be trying to access your LYK account without authorization, such as randomly entering various passwords in a short window of time. LYK also uses cookies to store information, which in turn, allows us to facilitate account recoveries in the event of a forgotten password or if additional authentication is necessary in the case that your account is being hacked.
Policy violation- LYK also uses cookies in order to to fight against any policy violations or any such actions that diminishes our capability of providing LYK Products to you as a user.
Cookies assist in preventing spam and minimizing the occurrences of phishing attempts by allowing us to identify devices being utilized to create excessive amounts of fake LYK accounts. Cookies are also used in detecting computers that have been subjected to malware and lets us take action in to preventing any additional harm to you. Lastly, cookies help prohibit people who are considered underaged from having access to LYK accounts.
Campaigning, recommendations, insights and quantification - LYK use cookies to help display ads and to make recommendations for businesses and other organizations that you may be interested in such as their products, services or any causes they promote.
Cookies allow us to help display advertisements you have visited a business’s website, purchased its products or have used their apps in the past to suggest similar products and services based on these user actions. Additionally, cookies help in limiting the number of times that you see an ad to prevent them from constantly seeing the same exact advertisement all the time.
LYK used cookies in order to help gauge ad campaign performance of businesses that also utilize LYK Products.
With cookies, we can count the amount of times an ad has been shown to you and use it in calculating the cost of an advertisement. These data can also be used to help us measure how often you do certain actions such as seeing or clicking on an ad.
Cookies assists LYK in servicing and measuring all advertisements shown across the various browsers and devices being utilized by the same person.
Cookies can also be used by LYK to prevent you from repeatedly viewing the same advertisement over and over again even across the different devices that you use.
Cookies also aid LYK in supplying insights on LYK Product users, as well as, anyone who interacts with the advertisements, websites, and applications of any of LYK’s advertisers and businesses that utilize LYK Products.
Cookies help businesses discover target demographics, based on who likes their LYK page or use their apps so they can provide more appealing and appropriate content and develop features that are likely to be target their customers.
LYK also use cookies to allow you the option of opting out of particular advertisements that you do not wish to see on LYK based on your activity on third-party platforms and websites.
LYK features and services - LYK uses cookies in order to allow optimal functionality in the services that LYK Products provide.
Cookies give LYK the ability to keep track of user preferences, know when users have viewed something or have interacted with any content provided by LYK’s Products, and provide you with personalized content and user experiences. Moreover, cookies allow us to provide feedback
to you and other users, and tailor the content on third-party websites that will be integrated into LYK’s social plugins. If you happen to be administering a page, cookies will allow you to easily alternate between posting on your LYK account and other web pages.
LYK also uses cookies to provide you with content that is relevant to where you are currently located.
We store information in a cookie that is then placed in your web browser or device so that you will be able to see the website in the language of your preference.
Performance - LYK uses cookies in order to provide you with the optimal experience possible for your usage.
Cookies let us direct the traffic between different servers and conceptualize how efficiently LYK Products load for different users. Cookies also allow us to recognize the ratio and dimensions of your device screen to know whether or not you have enabled high contrast mode, so that we can effectively render our sites and applications.
Data and research - LYK uses cookies to better understand how people use the LYK Products and ways in which we can improve them.
Cookies help us in understanding how people use the LYK Service, analyze which parts of the LYK Products people find most useful and engaging, and identify what can be improved for the feature.
Where Does LYK Use Cookies?
LYK may place cookies on your computer or device, and receive information stored in cookies, when you use or visit:
The LYK App;
Products provided by other members of LYK; and
Websites and applications provided by other companies that use the LYK Products, including companies that incorporate LYK Technologies into their websites and apps.
LYK uses cookies and obtains information when you visit these sites and apps, such as device and activity information, without requiring any action on your end. This process occurs whether or not you have a LYK account or are logged in.
How Is Your Information Shared?
Users who used the LYK Website and Services to connect and share with others. In order to make this possible, we share your information in the following ways:
When you use our Services to share or communicate, you can choose the audience who can see what you share.
When you share public information, i.e. any information you share with a public audience, as well as information in your public profile, or content you share on another public forum. Public information is available to anyone on or off our Services and can be seen or accessed through online search engines, APIs, and offline media, such as on TV.
When you share or post your content on the Website, you have the option to choose your own audience. Any content shared by you that is not public is restricted to the audience selected by you.
Will your information be disclosed?
We will never disclose personal information that we collect to any third party.
Do Other Parties Use Cookies In Connection With The LYK Products?
The answer is yes, other parties may use cookies on the LYK Products to provide services to us and the businesses that will be advertised on LYK.
Our
measurement partners use cookies on
LYK
Products in
order to
assist
advertisers in understanding the effectiveness of their advertising
campaigns and compare their
performances
with ads
displayed on other websites and applications. Learn more about the
companies that use cookies on the LYK Products.
Third
parties also use cookies on their own websites and apps in connection
with LYK Products. To understand how other parties use cookies,
please go
over
their policies.
How Can You Control LYK’s Use Of Cookies To Show You Ads?
One of the ways we use cookies is to show you useful and relevant ads on and off LYK. You can control how we use data to show you ads by using the tools described below.
If you have a LYK Account:
You can use your preferences for ads in order to learn why you see certain ads and control how we use your information to show you particular ads.
To show you more appealing ads, we use its data that are provided by advertisers and other partners concerning your activity off LYK company Products, including websites and apps. You can control whether we use this data to show you ads in your ad settings.
Everyone:
You can’t opt out of seeing online interest-based ads in LYK. If you want to opt out you’ll have to delete your LYK account.
Browser cookie controls:
In addition, your browser or device may offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to delete them. For more information about these controls, visit your browser or device's help material. Certain parts of the LYK Products may not work properly if you have disabled browser cookie use.
UK Privacy Compliance-
In compliance with the UK Legal Counsel Privacy Clauses and the Data Protection Act of 2018, you reserve the right to:
Be informed about the usage of your data
Have access to your own personal data
Have any incorrect information regarding your data to be updated and/or erased
Stop or restrict the processing of your data
Reuse and access your data for different services
Object to how your data is being processed in certain circumstances
You also have these rights when your cookies are being used for any automated decision-making or any profiling to predict your likes, interests, and behaviours.
Last Revised: March 16th 2019