Cookie policy

1. Introduction

The present cookie policy (hereinafter: “Cookie Policy”) describes how Afternoon, Inc. DBA Caravel (“Caravel”, “Company,” “we,” or “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies to provide, customize, assess, enhance, promote, and protect our services when you visit our website - including https://caravelapp.com, https://hub.caravelapp.com, mobile or localized versions and related domains / sub-domains ("Websites").

The Company collects mainly anonymous data from the Websites, such as searches. The anonymized data can include user session data such as IP address, web browser type, the time spent on the page by the user, and user-clicked buttons. The Company processes anonymous data in order to improve the page, to bring it to perfection. During this procedure Caravel can incorporate “cookies”, which collect the visitor’s first level domain name, the date and the exact time of access.

The Cookie Policy forms an integral part of the Privacy Policy of Caravel. Please note that terms not described in this Cookie Policy have the similar meaning as defined in the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of Caravel. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us at support@caravelapp.com.

2. What is a cookie?

Cookie is a small text file, which is sent to the device of the user when the user visits our Websites. The Company can access the cookie again when the user visits the Websites on a further occasion, in order to facilitate navigation on the internet or transactions, or to access information about user behavior. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive or tablet or mobile device. When you visit our Websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies.

3. What types of cookies do we use?

Strictly Necessary Cookies‍

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. It’s not necessary to obtain consent from the user to use these types of cookies.

In line with Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications), consent is not required for technical storage or access of the following cookies:

  • cookies used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication
  • cookies that are strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly required by the user to provide the Services.

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Functional Cookies

These cookies are essential for the Websites’ operation, therefore the operation and availability of the Websites and the Services cannot be provided without them. They help verify your account and remember the choices you make.

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Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us providing a better user experience by analyzing how users interact with Caravel. For instance, they help us identify which pages are used most frequently, which newsletters are most engaging, and what type of Caravel features are the most popular. This assists us in refining Caravel according to our users’ interests.

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Performance Cookies

These cookies help us to inform you and provide you with customized advertisement based on your past use of the Website and / or the Services. These cookies are monitoring your usage data and by using cookies, information, which information does not consider as personal data, is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.

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Targeting and Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to the Users and the Users’ interests. They are also used to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks with the Website operator’s permission. This type of cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

4. List of Cookies we use

4.1. Cookies we use on https://www.caravelapp.com

Type of cookie
Service provider name
Cookie name
Data stored and processed
Expiry
Description

Strictly Necessary

caravelapp.com

CookieConsent

Consent

1 year

Saves the preferences of cookies set by user

Performance

ads.linkedin.com

lang, LLC

The user’s browser’s language

1 year

Sets default locale/language

Functional

Calendly.com

_calendly_session

Meeting Data

20 days

Allows scheduler to work on the website.

Analytics

Google

_ga

Unique visitor ID

2 years

Provides information about what pages, content and activity a user has done for analytics and performance measurement.

Analytics

Google

_gid

Unique visitor ID

1 day

Generates statistics on how the visitor uses the website

Analytics

Google

_gat

Request rate

1 day

Limits the collection of data

Targeting and Advertising

doubleclick.net

test_cookie

Browser data

1 day

Checks if the user’s browser supports cookies.

Targeting and Advertising

doubleclick.net

IDE

Website actions

2 years

Helps to tailor ads for the User

doubleclick.net

doubleclick.net

doubleclick.net

doubleclick.net

doubleclick.net

doubleclick.net

Targeting and Advertising

doubleclick.net

r/collect

Browser and device data

Session

Collects browser and device data about what the user is using and which website or social media platform they have used

Targeting and Advertising

linkedin.com

lidc

Embedded services used by the user

1 day

Used for routing

Targeting and Advertising

linkedin.com

UserMatchHistory

Data of visited websites

29 days

LinkedIn Ads ID syncing

Targeting and Advertising

linkedin.com

bcookie

Embedded services used by the user

2 years

Browser ID cookie

Targeting and Advertising

linkedin.com

bscookie

Embedded services used by the user

2 years

Secure Browser Cookie

4.2 Cookies we use on https://hub.caravelapp.com

Type of cookie
Service provider name
Cookie name
Data stored and processed
Expiry
Description

Analytics

Google

_ga

Unique visitor ID

2 years

Provides information about what pages, content and activity a user has done for analytics and performance measurement.

Analytics

Google

_gid

Unique visitor ID

1 day

Generates statistics on how the visitor uses the website

Analytics

Google

_gat

Request rate

1 day

Limits the collection of data

Functional

Firebase

authUser

Authenticated user

7 days

Remembers the logged in user

5. What do we do with the information we collect?

5.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

We use the information we collect to:

  • keep track of your input on our Website;
  • identify the user once they have logged in;
  • increase the security of the service that has been explicitly requested by you;
  • store technical data needed to play back video or audio content;
  • balance the load of web server requests on our Website;
  • store your set preferences regarding our Website.

5.2 Functional cookies

We use the information we collect to:

  • verify the user’s account during the session;
  • remember the choices made on the Websites;
  • avoid fraudulent access to the user account.

5.3 Analytics Cookies

We use the information we collect to:

  • remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Websites;
  • monitor aggregate usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed;
  • performance and analytics cookies to help Caravel to improve its Services.

5.4 Performance Cookies

We use the information we collect to:

  • provide custom, personalized advertisements, content, and information;
  • monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

5.5 Targeting and Advertising Cookies

We use the information we collect to:

  • make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests
  • preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing
  • ensure that ads are properly displayed
  • in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests

6. Opting In

By entering our Websites, users can actively check their desired preferences on the pop-up window about the cookies we use in the future. This consent must be renewed every 12 months.

The cookies are grouped into five intelligible categories, that the user may check or uncheck. Functional cookies cannot be unchecked, because they are whitelisted and are necessary for our Websites to function properly.

7. Opting out

You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use our Services. For example, you may not be able to log into your account. Please visit the following links to find out how you to change your cookie and advertisement settings:

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we’ll update the “Effective Date” at the end of the Cookie Policy. Please, check the updates of Caravel Cookie Policy periodically.

Effective Date: October 15th, 2020