This Cookie Policy is an integral part of our Privacy Policy and explains what cookies are and how we and third parties use them with respect to our website: https://stageonevc.com/. For further information on how we use, store and process Personal Data, see our Privacy Policy. Any capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Privacy Policy.

1. What are Cookies (and Similar Technologies)?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on the browser of your computer or mobile device (or other end device), by websites you visit and applications you use. Other automated means often used on websites and applications are Pixel tags (also known as web beacons or clear GIFs). Pixel tags are typically transparent graphic images placed on a websites. These pixels are used in combination with cookies to measure the actions of visitors on the websites and applications. Most websites and applications use cookies and other automated means to collect certain data and facilitate services. Cookies are typically used in order to make websites function, or function more efficiently, make your experience when browsing the website or application more enjoyable and smooth, to remember your preferences, to autocomplete details so you don’t have to insert your full details every time you log in (such as user name and password), to tailor content and information that is displayed to you and otherwise work to personalize your experience of the website or application. Cookies are also commonly used a tools enabling websites and applications owners to better understand the use of their websites, to conduct business analytics and to engage in advertising activities for their business purposes or on behalf of third parties.

2. Categories of Cookies

There are a few types of cookies that websites usually use. Below is a description of the different types of cookies.  

• Strictly Necessary Cookies– These cookies are necessary to enable the communication between the user’s device and the website or application, or to provide the user with services requested by him/her, such cookies are used for the sole purpose of carrying out a transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to allow the provider of an online service to provide its services as explicitly requested by users.
• Functionality Cookies– These cookies allow the website or application to remember choices the user made (such as username, password, language preferences, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features, to improve the user’s experience on the website or application.
• Performance (Analytic) Cookies– These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website or application, such as which pages visitors go to most often and if they are likely to get error messages from certain pages. These cookies collect aggregate information that does not identify a specific user personally. These cookies are used to improve how a website or application works, analyze use patterns of the website or application, and assist the provider to maintain and improve its services.
• Advertising (Targeting) Cookies– These cookies are used to deliver personalized advertisements to the user. Such cookies may be used to analyze a user’s preferences in accordance with the contextual information about the user’s activities on the website or application (for example, if a user is surfing a webpage displaying an article about a sporting event, cookies may be used to display to the user an advertisement associated with sports fans), or to correlate between a user and information about such user collected from other website or applications (for example, to display to the user an advertisement associated with sports fans based on the user’s profile in other website or applications).

3. Cookies used by StageOne
   • StageOne may use, with respect to its website, different cookies, including first party cookies and third party cookies, strictly necessary cookies, functionality cookies, and performance (analytic) cookies all as further explained below.
   • Information collected through the website by the use of cookies includes:
     • Number of visitors on the website and which webpages have been viewed;

4. How To Manage Cookies

If you do not want cookies to be placed on your device when browsing and using the website, you can adjust your browser settings to manage or reject such cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your browser. These settings are usually found in the ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ menu of your Internet browser. For more information on how to change your browser settings, click on the Help section of your Internet browser. Most Internet browsers also allow you to see what cookies are currently stored on your device and selectively delete them as you wish.

See below links to common browsers enabling the control of cookies: