EarlyStartup.com and our trusted third-party partners employ “cookies,” web beacons, server logs, and other similar technologies to gather data on how visitors interact with our website, https://www.earlystartup.com, and its affiliated sites (collectively referred to as the “Sites”), as well as with the emails we send out (for example, tracking which pages are visited or which emails are opened, and the previous URL visited before coming to our Site). This information also includes site usage preferences (such as language preferences) and the technical specifications of visitors’ internet browsers and connections (like IP address, browser type, device identifiers, and operating system version). We utilize this data to enhance the functionality of the Site.

Our Site also uses cookies to store essential information for users who log into specific parts of the Site, and to remember users and their preferences. Most web browsers offer the option to accept or reject cookies, and to alert you each time a cookie is being sent. If you decide to reject cookies, you might not be able to fully utilize the services offered by EarlyStartup.com on our Site. Additionally, we may use cookies to follow users’ activities across different sites or for advertising objectives.

What is a Cookie? 

Cookies are small files placed on your computer or device by a website. The cookie has a unique ID assigned to your device. It helps to navigate from page to page on a website, provide secure connections, and remembers preferences from a previous visit, when you return. 

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this Website uses cookies and other tracking devices to improve your experience. Cookies, which are tiny pieces of data downloaded to your computer or mobile device, are essential to the effective operation of our Website, and if you are a subscriber of our paid services, for you to view the members’ only content. Cookies on this Website also help to tailor the products and services offered and advertised to our customers on this Website and elsewhere.

Cookies set by us are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than us are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the Website (such as advertising, interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the Website in question and also when it visits certain other websites or services.

Cookies can’t harm your computer and they don’t identify individual users. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored although this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the Website’s functionality.

The following types of cookies are used on our Site:  

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.  
  
  
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.  
  
  
• Targeting and advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. 
  
  

Persistent and Session Cookies 

We use both “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies on our Site.  A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.   

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.  However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site. 

How we use cookies

We employ cookies for several reasons, as outlined below.

Periodically, we introduce new features or promotions and make minor adjustments to the way the Website operates. During these periods of innovation, we might use test cookies to ensure you have a consistent experience on the Website and to help us identify which improvements are most valued by our users.

Additionally, our Website incorporates social media buttons and/or plugins that enable you to connect with your social networks in diverse ways. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and StumbleUpon may set cookies through our Website. These cookies may be used to enhance your profile on their platforms or contribute to the data they collect for various purposes, as described in their individual privacy policies.

Regrettably, disabling cookies without affecting the functionality and features added to this Website is not straightforward, as there are no standard methods across the industry for doing so. If you’re unsure about whether you need the cookies, it’s advisable to keep them enabled. This ensures you can access all services and features provided by the Website without disruption.

Disabling cookies

Cookies help you to get the most out of our Website. If you disable the cookies you may find that certain sections of our Website don’t work at all (for example, you may have difficulty viewing subscription only articles) or don’t work as well as you have come to expect. However, in case you want to disable cookies, you have the following options:

Website Cookie Preference Tool: You can exercise preferences about what cookies are served on our Website by visiting our cookie senttings preference centre. You can also exercise your Website cookie preferences by visiting the TRUSTe preference centre by clicking this link: http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/.

Cookie Settings

Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

Do Not Track: Some Internet browsers – like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. Since uniform standards for “DNT” signals have not been adopted, our Websites do not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals. We take privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard. To learn more about “DNT”, please visit All About Do Not Track.

If you would like to learn more about cookies in general, or how to disable targeted advertising cookies, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Links to other websites

Our Website may include hyperlinks to other websites that are not operated or controlled by us. This cookie policy only applies to our Website and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy and cookie practices of third party websites.

Updates to this cookie policy

We may update this cookie policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our cookie policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

You can see when this cookie policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this policy.

Questions 

If you have any questions please contact us

contact@earlystartup.com or by visiting the Contact Us Page on our website.