GDPR Shield

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.iceni.com/ (hereinafter: "our website") uses cookies and other related digital markers/technologies including, without limitation, scripts and web beacons (for convenience all digital markers/technologies are referred to herein as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of our website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Essential cookies

Essential cookies are placed to enable core website functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

5.2 Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are placed to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests and also, in some cases, to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

5.3 Personalization cookies

Personalization cookies are placed to allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and to provide you with more enhanced, personal features.

5.4 Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies are placed to help us understand how our website performs, how our visitors interact with our website, and whether there may be technical issues, to enhance your user experience.

6. Placed cookies

The following cookies may be placed on your browser when you visit our website:

Essential Cookies

NameProviderFunctionRetention
^authentication_data$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Used during full-screen login to return data to the JavaScript application Next page view
^_bypass_cache$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Used with ‘fsl’ for full screen login Session
^cn$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Client clear notifications. Never
^csrftoken$ Iceni Technology Ltd. Used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (CSRF). A Cross-site request forgery hole is when a malicious site can cause a visitor's browser to make a request to your server that causes a change on the server. The server thinks that because the request comes with the user's cookies, the user wanted to submit that form. Session
^destination_url$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Used during login to redirect to the requested pag Session
^dosp$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Temporary cookie that informs client denial of service protection is in place. Next page view
^email$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Used during account creation Session
^_forum_session$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Session cookie Session
^fsl$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Full screen login client setting Session
googtrans Google LLC This cookie stores the translation preference: it contains translation languages, for example ‘/en/it (English to Italian)’ When browser closed
googtransopt Google LLC Session information used by Google translate to remember translation settings When browser closed
osano_consentmanager Osano Inc Your cookie consent categorization (e.g., MARKETING: ACCEPT/DENY) 2 weeks
osano_consentmanager_expdate Osano Inc When the user's consent expires, and Osano needs to ask for consent again 2 weeks
osano_consentmanager_uuid Osano Inc The end-users unique user id (for consent lookups) 2 weeks
selected_shared_user Iceni Technology Ltd. Used by transpdf.iceni.com to store the user with whome you wish to share a translation Session
^sessionid$ Iceni Technology Ltd. A session cookie which is required to follow your progress through the website. It is essential to ensure that any information you enter or routes you take are remembered by the website. Without this cookie, every page you visited would treat you as a completely new visitor. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you. Session
^sso_destination_url$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Used during SSO login to redirect to the requested page Session
^_t$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. User authentication token cookie. SiteSetting.maximum_session_age.hours.from_now 1440 hours
^theme_key$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Client theme personalization. Only used when “Make this my default theme on all my devices” unselect Never
osano_consentmanager Osano Stores the user's current consent status. 1 year
osano_consentmanager_uuid Osano Stores the user's unique consent identifier. 1 year

Marketing Cookies

NameProviderFunctionRetention
__atrfs Oracle Associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded in the www.iceni.com site on certain pages to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. Used to collect non-personal information on the visitor’s behaviour and non-personal visitor statistics. 30 mins
__atssc Oracle Associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded in the www.iceni.com site on certain pages to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. 2 years
^__atuvc$ Oracle Associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded in the www.iceni.com site on certain pages to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. 2 years
^__atuvs$ Oracle Associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded in the www.iceni.com site on certain pages to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. 30 mins

Personalization Cookies

No personalization cookies

Analytics Cookies

NameProviderFunctionRetention
^_ga$ Google LLC Associated with Google Universal Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. 2 years
^_gali$ Google LLC Set by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Session
^_gat$ Google LLC Associated with Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. 1 minute
_gat_gtag_ Google LLC This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. 10 minutes
^_gid$ Google LLC Associated with Google Universal Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. 24 hours
paddlejs_campaign_referrer Paddle.com Market Ltd Used by the Paddle checkout to track campaigns referrers for visitors. 1 month
^__profilin$ Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc Used by the Discourse forum running at forum.iceni.com. Developer only, used by rack-mini-profiler to bypass work Session
_ym_hostIndex Yandex LLC Limits the number of requests 1 day
_ym_isad Yandex LLC Determines whether a user has ad blockers 2 days
_ym_mp2_substs Yandex LLC Used for Target Call Session
_ym_mp2_track Yandex LLC Used for Target Call 30 days

7. Consent

Where required by applicable data protection laws, when you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Accept cookies", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop- up, as described in this Cookie Notice. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser.

8. Your rights with respect to personal data

We will not identify you from the cookies we use. However, we still want to remind you of your rights. You may have the following legal rights under the applicable data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

  • Right to be informed: You have the Right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to obtain access your personal data that we process.
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete
  • Right to withdraw consent: If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent.
  • Right to object: you may object to certain types of processing of your data. We comply with this unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookies Notice. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the data protection authority in your country. For more information about your personal data please read our Privacy Policy.

9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

In addition, you may have the option of disabling Marketing, Personalization and/or Analytics cookies (to the extent they are not be necessary for the basic functioning of our website), by clicking on the ‘Cookies Preferences’ menu that appears when you visit our website and choosing which of these categories of cookies you do not wish to be stored on your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent (where required by applicable data protection laws) when you visit our website again.

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookies Notice, please email our Privacy team at privacy@pdftron.com or send a letter to: 500-838 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6C 0A6 Canada.

If you live in the UK or Europe you can contact our European representative by mail at Osano International Compliance Services Limited, ATTN: IKOL, 25/28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 H104, Ireland.

If you are a California resident/consumer, you may contact us by submitting a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at privacy@pdftron.com or contacting us via our website at https://www.pdftron.com/form/contact-us/ . A California consumer may only make a verifiable request to exercise their rights twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable request must: (1) provide sufficient information for us to verify your identity, and (2) be in sufficient detail that we can reasonably understand the request, evaluate it, and respond. Where applicable, you may have an authorized agent submit a request to know, or a request to delete so long as you provide the authorized agent with written permission to submit the relevant request and you verify your own identify directly with us. Such restrictions do not apply where you provide your authorized agent with power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code sections 4121 to 4130. If we are unable to verify your request then we will be unable to provide you with the information you seek or delete any personal data we retain (where applicable).