Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains how EmbarQ collects, uses, and discloses information about you. 

This website/platform, embarq.travel, and EMBARQ.CLUB site are owned and operated by Running on waves ltd. and is doing business as EmbarQ (included in the terms “EmbarQ,” “we,” “us,” and “our”). We use the terms “member”, ”user”, “you,” and “your” to mean any person using our Platform or traveling related cruises, including any organization or person using the Platform on an organization’s behalf. This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information about members and other individuals that we collect when you use our “Platform,” which means any website, application, or services we offer, or when you communicate with us. For information about choices you may have under this policy, please see “Your Choices” below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information that you may provide to third parties, such as members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself. For more information about the scope of our Privacy Policy, please see Section 4.5.

Please read the entire policy carefully. 

The following describes how we process data relating to identified or identifiable individuals and households (“Personal Data”), including the categories of Personal Data, its sources, and the purposes for which we process that data.

1. Collection Of Information

1.1 Information You Provide to Us

We collect information that you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information that you provide when you create an account; post information about yourself, photos, videos and other files; fill out a form; messages or communicate with us or users; create, propose or share cruise itineraries, activities and other content; join teams; vote, rate; express interest in ads; play game; score bonuses; exchange bonuses for discounts; apply for data transfer to shipowners; donate; enter a contest, other promotion, or survey; give feedback; or when you otherwise use our Services and Products. 

The types of information that we may collect include:

  • Identifiers and contact data, such as your name, username, password, email address, postal address, telephone number, gender, date of birth, age and/or age range; or other account-related information; your identity, public profile, and similar information from social networks such as Facebook; interests, opinions; demographic information and any other personal information that you choose to provide, such as photos, videos, story about yourself, preferred teams, and professional or employment-related information. This can include information in or about the content you provide (like metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. Certain information about yourself is optional to provide. 

On occasion, the information that you give us when you join a team may imply information about your beliefs, political views, health conditions, or your sexual identity. This, and other kinds of sensitive information, is given special protection in accordance with applicable law. Posting personal or sensitive information about others without their permission is against our Community Principals.

  • Networks and connections

We collect information about the people, accounts, hashtags and teams you are connected to and how you interact with them across EmbarQ, such as people you communicate with the most or teams you are part of. We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device . Your choice to create or join teams is also optional, but we are required to process this information in order to administer your account, and to indicate that you are a member of the teams that you join

  • Your usage

We collect information about how you use our EmbarQ, such as the types of content you view or engage with; the features you use; the actions you take; the people, accounts or teams you interact with; the games you play, your game scores; your donations; and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.

  • Information about transactions made on EmbarQ.

 If you use our Products for purchases or other financial transactions (such as when you make a purchase from our Partners or make a donation), we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information; other account and authentication information; and billing, shipping and contact details.

1.2 Information We Collect Automatically When You Use the Platform

When you use our Platform, we automatically collect internet and other electronic network activity information about you and other information, including:

  • Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Platform, including the type of browser that you use; the time, duration, and frequency of your access; Platform pages viewed; your IP address; and the page you visited before visiting our Platform.
  • Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device that you use to access our Platform, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
  • Geolocation Information: We may collect information about the location of your device each time you use our Platform based on your consent to the collection of this information, such as when you enable location services. For further information see Section 5.2. We may also collect information, such as your IP address, that can sometimes be used to approximate your location based on your device settings.
  • Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We and our service providers collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels). Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Platform and your experience, and track usage of our Platform. Pixel tags are electronic images that may be used in our Platform or emails, and track usage of our Platform and effectiveness of communications. You can learn more about the types of cookies we and our service providers use by reading our Cookie Policy.
  • Other Information: Based on your consent, we may collect other information from your device, such as photos from your camera roll or calendar information you want to manage via the Platform.

 

1.3 Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may collect information about you from other sources, such as through certain features on the Platform you elect to use. We rely on these third parties to either have your consent or ensure that they are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your information to us. Examples include:

  • Social Media Services. If you register or log into your account through a third-party social media service, we will have access to some of your third-party account information from that service, including identifiers, such as your name and other information in that account, and used for purposes such as improving your EmbarQ recommendations. We may also have access to third-party account information if you use the Platform feature to share a link. You can enable or disable the connection between our Platform and your third-party account. Facebook and other social media companies may transfer information about you to us when you register for one of our Services or interact with that social media company on or in connection with our services.
  • Things others do and information they provide about you. We may also receive and analyze content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products or Services. This can include information about you. For further details about the rights over this information available to individuals, see Section 6.
  • Current or Future Corporate Affiliates. We may receive information about you from our current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
  • Information From Other Third-Party Sources. In order to provide you with more tailored recommendations, we may obtain information about you from publicly and commercially available sources, such as third-party publishers, advertising networks, and service providers that we use to manage our ads on other sites, and other third parties as permitted by law. Advertisers, app developers, publishers, behavioral advertising vendors, market research, and social media companies or similar companies can send us information about you, for example a business could tell us about a purchase you made in its store and your use of bonuses. For more information about the data that we obtain from these providers, please contact us at pr@88parsec.com.

We may analyze and make inferences from the information we collect.

See Section 2 to learn how we will use the information that you provide to personalize our recommendations and other content to you.

2. Use Of Information

2.1 Operating our Platform

We may use information about you described above for various business purposes related to operating EMBARQ, including to:

  1. Provide, maintain, and improve EMBARQ, including to process transactions, develop new products and services (for example, including you in tests or pilots of new or revised EMBARQ functions), and manage the performance of EMBARQ;
  2. Display information about you, for instance, your list of interests, itineraries and teams, which will be visible on your profile, according to your privacy settings.
  3. Personalize EMBARQ, for example, to suggest itineraries, teams, games, ads and other sponsored content in which we think you may be interested. In order to understand our customers’ preferences, and better recommend products and services we may create a Consumer Profile by linking together and analyzing collected Personal Data. We may also augment Consumer Profiles with Personal Data that we create (such as Inference Data) or that we receive from our subsidiary companies, third parties, and may include Personal Consumer Profiles for our legitimate interests in market research and statistical analysis in connection with the improvement of our Services. 
  4. Allow you to share information about your use of the EMBARQ through a third-party social media service, if you connect your account through that service (which you can turn off at any time) and to provide you with better recommendations;
  5. Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with EMBARQ; and
  6. Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions, abuse, and other illegal activities; to protect the rights, property, or safety of EMBARQ and others; to enforce compliance with our policies; and to comply with applicable law and government requests; and
  7. Perform accounting and administrative tasks, and enforce or manage legal claims.
  8. We use location-related information-such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you're near-to provide, personalize and improve Embarq, including ads, for you and others. Location-related information can be based on things like precise device location (if you've allowed us to collect it), IP addresses, and information from your and others' use of EmbarQ.

 

2.2 Communicating With You

We may use information about you for various business purposes related to communicating with you, including to:

  1. Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service;
  2. Communicate with you, in accordance with your account settings, about products and services, offered by us and others, to provide news and information that we think will be of interest to you, to conduct online surveys, and to otherwise communicate with you in accordance with Section 2.3;
  3. Notify you about events with your itinerary, team, invitations, status, score, rating and other things, connected with your usage of EmbarQ; and
  4. Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support, and administrative messages.

 

2.3 Advertising And Other Uses

We may use information about you for various other business purposes, including to:

  1. Provide content, features, or sponsorships that match your profile or interests;
  2. Facilitate contests and other promotions;
  3. Send you marketing communications, subject to applicable law. These communications may be personalized or customized based on your user profile. Similarly, we may also collect Device/Network Data and contact data so that we can determine whether you have opened an email or otherwise interacted with our communications, and we may generate Inference Data based on these interactions.
  4. Combine with information that we collect for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy; and
  5. Provide measurement, analytics, and other business services. We use the information we have (including your activity off our Products, such as the websites you visit and ads you see) to help advertisers and other partners measure the effectiveness and distribution of their ads and services, and understand the types of people who use their services and how people interact with their websites, apps, and services. 
  6. Carry out any other purposes described to you at the time that we collected the information.
  7. EmbarQ, and certain third parties operating on or through our Services, may engage in targeted advertising. This form of advertising includes various parties and services providers, including third party data controllers, engaged in the processing of Personal Data in connection with advertising. These parties may be able to identify you across sites, devices, and over time.The parties that control the processing of Personal Data for behavioral advertising purposes may create or leverage information derived from personalization and profiling. In some cases, these parties may also develop and assess aspects of a profile about you to determine whether you are a type of person a company wants to advertise to, and determine whether and how ads you see are effective. These third parties may augment your profile with demographic and other Inference Data derived from these observations, and may also track whether you view, interact with, or how often you have seen an ad, or whether you complete a purchase for a good or services you were shown in an advertisement.
    We generally use targeted advertising for the purpose of marketing our Services, Products and third-party goods and services, to send marketing communications, including by creating custom marketing audiences on third-party websites (such as Facebook).

 

2.4 Legal Basis for Processing

If you are in a jurisdiction that requires a specific legal basis for processing personal data, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it.

  1. We process information about you in order to provide our services in accordance with our Terms and Conditions, for example, to allow you to join teams or to display your profile to other users; to allow us to send you important service updates.
  2. We also process information about you where it is in our legitimate interests to do so and not overridden by your rights (for example, in some cases for direct marketing, fraud prevention, network and information systems security, responding to your communications, the operation of networks of groups by the network administrators, and improving our Platform).
  3. Sometimes you provide us with sensitive information about you; for instance, the mere fact of joining a certain team may indicate information about your health, religion, political views, or sexual identity. Joining such groups or posting information on the Platform about these topics is entirely voluntary and, depending on the settings of the group and your profile (e.g., public or private), our legal basis for processing any sensitive information is either that you manifestly make it public or your explicit consent.
  4. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process information about you, or may otherwise need the information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. For example, we may process information, if we believe doing so is required by, or in accordance with, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits.

3. Sharing Of Information

3.1 Through Our Platform

 1) We share some of the information that we collect by displaying it on our Platform according to your member profile and account settings. You can choose the following Profile visibility types: Nobody/ Your team members only/Embarq users only/Everyone.

  1. Content about you can be shared or reshared by others.

You should consider who you choose to share with, because people who can see your activity on our Products can choose to share it with others on and off our Products, including people and businesses outside the audience you shared with.

  1. Information about your active status or presence on our Products.

Users may see signals telling them whether you are active on our Products, or when you last used our Products.

Information that is public on our Platform is visible to others on and off the Platform.

3.2 Within our family of companies. 

In order to streamline certain business operations, improve EMBARQ, Service personalization and behavioral marketing, develop products and services that better meet the interests and needs of our customers, and promote information we believe will be of interest to you, we will share your Personal Data internally within our family of companies, as well as any other current or future affiliated entities, subsidiaries, and parent companies of RUNNING ON WAVES LTD.

3.3 With Our Service Providers

We may use service providers in connection with operating and improving the Platform to assist with certain business purposes, such as payment processing, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our ads, and some aspects of our technical and customer support. These service providers, which include data analytics providers, may access, process, and store information about you on our behalf for the purposes we authorize, subject to confidentiality obligations. In order to improve personalization, deliver more relevant advertisements, and develop better products and services, we may share some information about you with current or future affiliated entities and trusted third parties for marketing, advertising, or other commercial purposes, and we may allow third parties (such as Facebook and social media advertisers, ad exchanges, data management platforms, or ad servers) to operate on our Services and process data for targeted advertising. 

3.4 Data aggregators

In connection with our marketing operations, and subject to Users’ rights and choices, we may share certain information about you with data aggregators for Commercial Purposes and in connection with Data Sales. These disclosures/sales can help better personalize our Services, the services of third parties, enrich Consumer Profiles and help ensure that you see advertisements that are more relevant to your interests. 

3.5 Following The Law And Protecting EmbarQ

We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to government entities and other third parties, including the content of messages, if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms and Conditions or related guidelines and policies, or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, EmbarQ or others.

3.6 Social Sharing And Other Tools

The Platform may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools which let you share actions that you take on our Platform with third-party services, and vice versa. Such features let you share information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you have chosen with the service. The third-party services' use of the information will be governed by the third-parties’ privacy policies, and we do not control the third parties’ use of the shared data. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please review the privacy policies of the services that provide these features.

3.7 Affiliate Sharing And Merger, Sale, Or Other Asset Transfers

If EmbarQ is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of our assets, information about you may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. We may also share information about you with current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.

3.8 Other Situations

We may de-identify or aggregate information about you and share it freely, so that you can no longer be identified. Such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We may also share information about you with your consent or at your direction or where we are legally entitled to do so. For example, your information may be shared with a shipowner when you apply for it having got ready for the cruise purchase.

4. Additional Details

4.1 Analytics and Advertising Services Provided by Others

We and others may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services. See our Cookie Policy for details about these technologies and the information that they collect, use, or share, including how you may be able to control or disable these services.

 

4.2 International transfers of your Personal Data as part of our global services

We share information globally, both internally within EmbarQ, and externally with our partners and with those you connect and share with around the world in accordance with this policy. Your information may, for example, be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in countries outside of where you live for the purposes as described in this policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide the services to you and to globally operate and provide our Products to you. We utilize standard contract clauses, rely on the European Commission's adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, and obtain your consent for these data transfers to other countries.

You can obtain more information about the safeguards we put in place by contacting us.

 

4.3 Security

We employ technical and organizational measures designed to protect your Personal information that is under our control and that we process on your behalf from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, or disposal, both during transmission and once we receive it. For example, we store all information that you provide to us on servers on which security controls are used. We train employees regarding our data privacy policies and procedures, and authorize employees to access personal information as required for their role. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders and test for network vulnerabilities. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data when you transmit it to us, and any such transmission is at your own risk.

Where you have a password, which enables you to use our services, you are responsible for keeping this password complex, secure, and confidential. You can update or change your password in your personal account.

 

4.4 Data Retention

We retain Personal Data for so long as it, in our discretion, remains relevant to its purpose, and in any event, for so long as is required by law.  We will review retention periods periodically and may sometimes pseudonymize or anonymize data held for longer periods, if appropriate. 

 

4.5 Policy Scope

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you have provided or made accessible to third parties, such as other users, including team captains and others with whom you may share information about yourself. Our Platform may direct you to a third-party service, such as social media services, or a portion of our Platform may be controlled by a third party. Disclosure of information to these third parties is subject to the relevant third party’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the third-party privacy policy or content, even if we link to those services from our Platform or if we share information with these third parties.

Users, including team captains are directly responsible for complying with all requirements of applicable privacy laws in connection with the information that they obtain and process.

 

4.6 Revisions To This Policy

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page so that we can keep you informed about how we process your Personal Data. We recommend that you consult this page frequently so that you are aware of our latest Privacy Policy and can update your preferences if necessary. Your continued use of our Services shall constitute your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy.

 

4.7 Minors

Our Services are neither directed at nor intended for use by children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from such individuals. If we learn that we have inadvertently done so, we will promptly delete it. Do not access or use the Services if you under the age of 18.

5. Your Choices

5.1 Your Choices: Account Information

You may update or correct your account information by editing your account settings or by sending a request to pr@88parsec.com as described in Section 6. You may delete your account in your Profile or by sending an email to pr@88parsec.com. Deleting will result in permanent erasure of your Profile without possibility of recovery. You will also be able to choose what information others see about you (including nobody) and who may contact you by using the Privacy Settings section in your Account.

 

5.2 Your Choices: Location Information

When you first access the Platform, depending on your device settings, we will collect information about your location, which we use to make better recommendations for groups and events in your area, and to improve our Platform. If you do not want us to collect information about your location, then you can prevent this by taking the following steps:

  • If using a mobile app, by changing the settings on your device.
  • If using our website, your approximate location information will be obtained via a cookie. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for additional information on how to manage our use of cookies.

Note that our Platform or its features may no longer function properly if you change your settings.

Your mobile device settings may also give you the option to choose whether to allow us to view your geolocation on a continuous basis, only when using the app, or never. Allowing us to view your geolocation when you are not using the app allows us to provide you with recommendations on a regular basis. Please refer to your device’s guide for additional information on how to adjust location services.

 

5.3 Your Choices: Cookies

We may use and allow others to use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services. See our Cookie Policy for details about these technologies and the information that they collect, use, or share, including how you may be able to control or disable these services.

 

5.4 Your Choices: Promotional Communications

You can control some of the messages that you receive from EmbarQ by selecting the unsubscribe link in the message that you receive, or by adjusting the communication preferences in your account settings. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations. 

 

5.5 Your Choices: Do-not-Track

Our Services do not respond to your browser’s do-not-track request. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you can manage/deny cookies (and certain technologies) using your browser’s settings menu. You must opt out of third party services directly via the third party. For example, to opt-out of Google’s analytic and marketing services, visit Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Google Privacy Policy, or Google Analytics Opt-out.


5.6 Your Choices: Advertising

You may opt out or withdraw your consent to behavioral advertising. In some cases, we may be able to process third party opt-out requests directly, however in some cases, you must opt out of third party services directly via the third party. For example, to opt out of Google’s use of cookies, visit Google’s Ads Settings, here. If you wish to take steps to opt-out of tracking by certain online advertisers, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page at http://www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. You can limit or opt out of our processing for behavioral advertising by contacting us.

6. Data Rights

We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email to pr@88parsec.com

Rights that you may have, depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, may include:

  • Accessing, correcting, updating, or requesting deletion of your information.
  • Objecting to processing of your information, asking us to restrict processing of your information, or requesting the portability of your information.
  • Opting out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.
  • Withdrawing your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
  • Complaining to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

Note that EmbarQ is a controller of your information. Other members, such as team captains, may also act as controllers of your information. You should contact these members if you have any questions about how they use information that you have provided to them.

7. California Privacy Rights

California residents have certain rights to access and delete their personal information and to request transparency about our privacy practices. If you would like to access or delete your information, or otherwise exercise your rights under the CCPA, please see Section 6. Once we receive your request, we may verify it by requesting information sufficient to confirm your identity, including by asking you for additional information. Consistent with California law, if you choose to exercise your rights, we will not charge you different prices or provide different quality of services for exercising your rights unless those differences are permitted by law. If you would like to use an agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise your rights, we may request evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf.

8. Cookie Policy

As described in our Privacy Policy, we and our service providers use cookies and other technologies to provide our Platform and to enhance your experience. This Cookie Policy sets out some further detail on how and why we use these technologies on our Platform, which includes any website, application, or service we offer. We use the word “EmbarQ” to mean this website/platform, EMBARQ.CLUB site and services and products offered by Running on waves ltd. through this site. The terms "we," "us," and "our" include  EmbarQ and our affiliates. By using our Platform, you consent to storage and access to cookies and other technologies on your device, in accordance with this Cookie Policy.

Cookies

What Cookies Are. Cookies are small data files which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow us to recognize your device.

How We Use Cookies. Cookies serve a variety of functions, like enabling us to remember certain information you provide to us as you navigate between pages on the Platform. We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Authentication: We use cookies to recognize you if you are logged in to our Platform. This lets us personalize your experience on or with the Platform in the ways described below. In addition, we may employ third-party services that may use cookies to help you sign into their services from our Platform.
  • Security: We use cookies to support or enable security features we have deployed, and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our TERMS AND CONDITIONS. These cookies help us prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.
  • Services, features, and preferences: We use cookies to provide functionality and help us deliver our products and services according to your preferences. For example, we use cookies to know which language you prefer, what your communications preferences are, to show you personalized views related to your interests and groups, and in order to help you fill out forms on the Platform.
  • Performance, Analytics and Research: We use cookies to help us analyze how the Platform is being accessed and used, and enable us to track performance of the Platform. This helps us to understand, improve, and research features and content on the Platform. We may also use other services, such as Google Analytics or other third-party cookies, to assist with analyzing performance on our Platform. As part of providing these services, these service providers may use cookies and the technologies described below to collect and store information about your device, such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the Platform, links clicked and conversion information, IP address, browser, mobile network information, and type of operating system used.
  • EMBARQ ads: We partner with third party publishers, advertising networks and service providers to manage our ads on other sites. Our third party partners may set cookies on your device or use the technologies described below to gather information about your activities on the Platform and other sites and online services you use, in order to provide you with EMBARQ ads that match member profiles or interests. For example, if you visit our Platform and also use a social media platform, you may see an EMBARQ ad on those social media platforms.
  • Third party advertisers: We may work with advertisers, and advertising service providers to serve ads that may be relevant to you based on your inferred interests, location or other information collected about you, which may use a cookie or the technologies described below, placed by EMBARQ or the third party (although we would not share any other information that identifies you with an advertiser) on our Platform, or on a third party website or online service. The placing of these technologies on your device may enable you to be identified across multiple websites and online services. We also use cookies to help measure the performance of ad campaigns for businesses that use the EMBARQ Products. Cookies help us serve and measure ads across different browsers and devices used by the same person. Cookies also allow us to provide insights about the people who use the EMBARQ, as well as the people who interact with the ads, websites and apps of our advertisers and the businesses that use the EMBARQ
  • Third-party websites and apps: Our business partners may also choose to share information with EMBARQ from cookies set in their own websites' domains, whether or not you have an EMBARQ account or are logged in. 

Duration of Cookies. Some cookies, known as "session cookies", will stay on your device only for as long as you are accessing our Platform. Others, known as "persistent cookies", are stored on your device for longer periods.

Where do we use cookies?

We may place cookies on your computer or device, and receive information stored in cookies, when you use or visit:

  • EMBARQ sites and apps,
  • Websites and apps provided by other companies that use EMBARQ, including companies that incorporate EMBARQ Technologies into their websites and apps. EMBARQ uses cookies and receives information when you visit those sites and apps, including device information and information about your activity, without any further action from you. This occurs whether or not you have an EMBARQ account or are logged in.

 

Cookies used by other parties in connection with EMBARQ

Other parties may use cookies on EMBARQ to provide services to us and the businesses that advertise on EMBARQ.
To learn more about the companies that use cookies on the EMBARQ contact us..

Third parties also use cookies on their own sites and apps in connection with EMBARQ. To understand how other parties use cookies, please review their policies.

 

Other Technologies

Use of Other Technologies. We may allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf. In addition to the uses of cookies described above, these entities may use other methods, such as the technologies described below, to collect information about your use of the Platform and other websites and online services.

Pixels tags. Pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels), are small pieces of code that can be embedded on websites and emails. Pixels tags may be used to learn how you interact with our site pages and emails, and this information helps us and our partners provide you with a more tailored experience.

Device Identifiers. A device identifier is a unique label can be used to identify a mobile device. Device identifiers may be used to track, analyze and improve the performance of the Platform and ads delivered.

Local storage. Local storage is an industry-standard technology that enables the storage and retrieval of data on a computer, mobile phone or other device. Local storage may be used to store member preferences on devices.

Opting Out

Cookies. Most devices and web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you may be able to remove or reject cookies. You can learn more about how to block cookies by visiting allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Platform.

Targeted Advertising. Third parties that use cookies and other tracking technologies to deliver targeted advertisements on third party websites may offer you a way to prevent such targeted advertisements by opting out at the websites of industry groups such as the Digital Advertising Alliance, or if located in the European Union, the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance. You may also be able to control advertising cookies provided by publishers, for example Google's Ad Preference Manager. Your device may also include a feature that allows you to opt out of having certain information collected through apps used for behavioral advertising purposes. Note that even if you choose to opt out of receiving targeted advertising, you may still receive advertising, although it should not be tailored to your interests or activities.  You can also opt out of some marketing cookies in your Profile..

Revisions to this Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will post the most current version of this Cookie Policy with its effective date on our Sites. Your continued use of the Sites means you consent to the terms of this Cookie Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or how we use your information, please contact us by e-mail at pr@88parsec.com or by mail at “29, Meteora street, 1016 Nicosia, Cyprus”.