Last Updated: 2021-04-17 18:17:22
Effective as of June 1, 2019
1 Whatare cookies and other similar technologies?
2 How does YouChune use cookies?
3 How to manage your cookie preferences
4 Updates to this Policy
5 How to contact us
Hello, and welcome to YouChune’s Cookie Policy (“Policy”).
The objective of this Policy is to provide you, as a user of YouChune’sservices, with clear and accessible information about the cookies that YouChuneuses, the role they play in helping us provide the best possible experience toyou and the choices you have when it comes to your cookie settings.
Cookies are text files which are downloaded to your device whenyou visit a website. They are useful because they allow a website to recognisea user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
The term cookie actually describes a range of technologies, including:
· pixel tags(transparent graphic images placed on a web page or in an email, which indicatethat a page or email has been viewed),
· mobile deviceidentifiers, and
· web storage used indesktop software or mobile devices.
We’ll use the term cookie throughout this Policy to cover all ofthese technologies, but we’ll make sure we provide you with clear details aboutthem all so that you can make informed choices about your cookie settings.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate betweenpages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving youruser experience. They can also help to ensure that ads you see online are morerelevant to you and your interests.
There are a few different categories of cookies, including:
Session and Persistent Cookies
· SessionCookies - these arecookies which expire once you close your web browser; and
· PersistentCookies - these arecookies which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you deletethem.
First and Third Party Cookies
· First-partycookies - these arecookies set by the website that you are visiting at that time, either by us, orby a third party at our request;
· Third-partycookies - these arecookies that are set by a party other than that of the website you arevisiting. If you visit the YouChune website or use the YouChune Service andanother party sets a cookie through that website this would be a third-partycookie.
Cookies also differ depending on the purpose they are used for,including:
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Cookie Type |
Purpose |
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Strictly Necessary Cookies |
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to use the features of our services, such as maintaining your playlist. Without these cookies, services you have asked for e.g., e-billing, cannot be provided. |
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Performance Cookies |
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our services, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our services perform. |
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Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. |
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Targeting or advertising Cookies |
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisations. |
YouChune, or our service providers acting on our behalf, usesthe types of cookies identified in Section 1 above in the following ways:
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Cookie Type |
Purpose |
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Strictly Necessary |
These cookies are necessary to allow us to operate the YouChune Service as you have requested. For example, they let us recognise what type of subscriber you are and then provide you with services accordingly. |
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Performance / Analytics |
We use cookies and other similar technologies to analyse how the YouChune Service is accessed, is used, or is performing. We use this information to maintain, operate, and continually improve the YouChune Service. We may also obtain information from our email newsletters or other communications we send to you, including whether you opened or forwarded a newsletter or clicked on any of its content. This information tells us about our newsletters' effectiveness and helps us ensure that we're delivering information that you find interesting. |
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Functional |
These cookies let us operate the YouChune Service according to your preferences. For example, when you continue to use or come back to the YouChune Service, we can provide you with our services based on information you provide to us, such as remembering your username, how you have customised our services, and reminding you of content you have enjoyed or listened to on the service previously. |
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Targeted Advertising |
We use these cookies and other similar technologies to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests, including interest-based advertising. The information may also be used to record how many times you’ve been served a particular advertisement and to ensure we do not display the same advertisement to you repeatedly, and to otherwise help us measure their effectiveness. |
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Third Party |
We may allow our Business Partners to use cookies or other similar technologies on or outside the YouChune Service for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and/or devices. |
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YouChune Ads |
We work with website publishers, application developers, advertising networks, and service providers to deliver advertisements and other content promoting YouChune on other web sites and services. Cookies and other similar technologies may be used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests on other websites, applications, and devices, and to regulate the advertisements you receive and measure their effectiveness. |
You can withdraw or modify your consent to our use of cookies atany time. If you no longer wish to receive cookies you can use your web browsersettings to accept, refuse and delete cookies. To do this, follow theinstructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”,“Tools” or “Edit” settings).
Please note that if you set your browser to refuse cookies, youmay not be able to use all the features of the YouChune website. To find outmore information, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
On your mobile device, your operating system may provide youwith additional options to opt out of interest based advertising or tootherwise reset your mobile identifiers. For example, you may use the “Limit AdTracking” setting (on iOS devices) or a setting to “Opt out of Interest-BasedAds” (on Android) which allows you to limit the use of information about youruse of apps for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests.
You can withdraw your consent to our use of cookies on YouChune’sdesktop application at any time. If you no longer wish to receive cookies,navigate to your Account Settings page and turn on the Desktop Cookie Opt-Outfeature. When the feature is turned on, it will block cookies from thatinstallation of the YouChune desktop application on that computer; if you have YouChuneinstalled on more than one machine, or if you re-install the application, thenyou will need to turn the feature on for each installation. You will need torestart the application for this feature to take effect.
Please note that if you set the YouChune desktop application toblock cookies, then your YouChune experience may be affected.
Certain targeted advertisements that we (or a service provideracting on our behalf) display to you based on information about your onlineactivities across websites and other interactive properties operated by thirdparties may include the “Ad Choices” icon or another mechanism to opt out ofreceiving interest-based advertisements. You may click on the AdChoices icon orvisit www.aboutads.info to receive more information about thecollection and use of information about your online activities for interestbased advertising or to learn how to opt out of having your data used forinterest based advertising by Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) participatingcompanies.
· Canadian users canalso visit www.youradchoices.ca.
· European users canalso visit www.youronlinechoices.com to learn how to opt out of having theirdata used for interest-based advertising by European Interactive DigitalAdvertising Alliance (EDAA) member companies.
· The NetworkAdvertising Initiative’s (NAI) Opt-Out Tool at www.networkadvertising.org/choices allows you to opt out from the use ofinformation about your online activities for interest based advertising by NAImember companies.
Please note that even if you opt out using the mechanisms above,you may still receive advertisements when using the YouChune Service.
We may occasionally make changes to this Policy.
When we make material changes to this Policy, we’ll provide youwith prominent notice e.g., by displaying a prominent notice within the YouChuneService or by sending you an email. We may notify you in advance.
If you want to find out more about this Cookie Policy and how YouChuneuses your personal data, please visit the Privacy Center to find out more.
Thank you for reading our Cookie Policy. If you have anyquestions about this Cookie Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officerby using the ‘Contact Us’ form on the Privacy Center or by writing to us at the following address:
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