Cookie Policy
Skill Lake uses cookies and similar technologies to provide our websites and to help collect data. Cookies are small text files stored on a user’s computer and allow websites to remember information about users, such as their geo-location. The information collected from cookies allows us to improve the site, using quantity and usage pattern estimations, the adaptation of the website to individual interests, searches improved speed, etc.
You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you a chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, some features of our Websites may not work properly.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a site and allow a site to recognize your device. Cookies managed by Skill Lake only are called “first-party cookies,” whereas cookies from third parties are called “third-party cookies,” as explained below.
Why does Skill Lake use cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies do a lot of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the online advertisements are more relevant to you and your interests. In addition, cookies can help us to analyze the use of our websites and online content (analytics cookies), and they can also facilitate/track the interaction on our websites and online content with social media (e.g., links to social media sites, like buttons, etc.).
Does Skill Lake use cookies for marketing and analytics?
Yes, we may use information collected from our cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile, and for the other purposes described below, to the extent legally permissible in certain jurisdictions.
In other cases, we can associate cookie information (including information from cookies placed via our advertisements on third-party sites) with an identifiable individual. For example:
- We will know whether you open, read, or delete the message if we send you a targeted email that includes web beacons, cookies, or similar technologies.
- When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from Skill Lake, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered at or signed into our site.
Do you use any cookies from third-party companies?
Some cookies, web beacons, and other tracking and storage technologies that we use are from third-party companies (third-party cookies), such as Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Mautic, YouTube, Instagram, Zoho and Linkedin Analytics to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our sites which may also be used to provide measurement services and target ads. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on, and how long you are on our sites. This code is only active while you are on the Skill Lake website. For more information on how these companies collect and use the information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies: Facebook at Facebook Data Policy Google (including YouTube) at Google Privacy & Terms, Microsoft at Microsoft Privacy Statement, Linkedin at Linkedin Privacy Policy, Twitter at Twitter Privacy Policy, Instagram at Instagram Data Policy and Zoho at Zoho Privacy Policy.
Our Use of Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, which may include:
Storing your Preferences and Settings: Settings that enable our website to operate correctly or maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device.
Security: We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.
What specific cookies are used by this website?
These are some of the cookies we use on our website.
- 1. First-party cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with the services and features available through our website. We do not collect or store your personally/sensitive identifiable data.
- 2. Performance & Functionality cookies: Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the website’s key performance indexes, which helps deliver a better user experience for visitors. Functionality cookies enhance the performance and functionality of the Skill Lake Sites. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and how frequently visitors use our website.
- 3. Analytics and Customization Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either to help us understand how the Skill Lake websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are or to help us customize our website and application for you to enhance your experience. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
- 4. Advertising cookies: These are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and sometimes selecting advertisements based on your interests.
- 5. Thirty-party cookies: The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Our third-party service providers may also use cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to our websites and/or other sites to measure and track the effectiveness of advertisements and our online marketing activities.
How to Control Cookies Manually?
You can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed in your browser by configuring the browser’s options.
- To allow all cookies
- To allow only 'trusted' sites to send them
- To accept only those cookies from websites you are currently using.
We may update this Cookie Statement from time to time to reflect the changes in the cookies we use or for any operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.