Vouch Legal

Please read this Cookie Notice carefully before using the Vouch Websites, operated by Vouch, Inc. (the “Website”) as this Cookie Notice contains important information regarding our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, your privacy, and how we may use the information we collect about you. Please also read our Privacy Notice, which provides more information about our online privacy practices, your choices, and privacy rights you may have.

Introduction 

This document will inform you about how and why we use cookies. We will also tell you which cookies we use and some information about third-parties which also place cookies on our Website. 

What Are Cookies? 

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and which let us make your experience better and more efficient. They allow us to recognize your device and browser, and store information which we deem important for the improvement of our services. 

Types of Cookies 

• Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies 
  • Session cookies are stored temporarily on the memory of your devices while you are visiting the Website and are erased once you close your browser.
  • Persistent Cookies are stored for a predetermined amount of time, which varies from cookie to cookie. It is longer than the session cookies; however they also expire after some months. They aid us to understand whether you have previously visited our Website or similar sites in the past. 

• First-Party and Third-Party Cookies 
  • First-Party cookies are set directly by the Website or by any of the subdomains of the Website. 
  • Third-Party cookies are set by websites not managed by us, such as our Subprocessores, Service Providers, or other technology partners. 

How Do We Use Cookies? 

• Options for logging in that will authenticate you on the Website, keep your login session active, and remember how you prefer to store your login information; 
• Tabbed information that keeps track of the tab or specific part of the website you are looking at; 
• Regional content to deliver material specific to a region and keep track of time zone settings; 
• Language preferences to choose and remember the language in which material is shown; and
• The capability of the device to deliver various content depending on the browser device being used. 

What Cookies Do We Use? 

Strictly Necessary/Essential cookies 

We store cookies on your device if they are necessary to enable you to browse our Website or use our services. They are also required for you to navigate through the Website and web application and benefit from all the available functions. These cookies cannot be switched off and are set for very basic options on the Website, such as: maintaining security, logging in, forms, and set preferences such as timezone or languages. 

Analytical cookies 

These cookies are placed to aid us in understanding how you interact with the available options on the Website, which parts you use the most, and how you engage with our services. This helps us create statistics of usage and the amount of time you spend on the Website. These statistics will ultimately help us to improve our Website and any services we offer through it.

Functional Cookies 

These cookies are placed by us to help us to provide you with better functionality of the Website and our services, and to make them more personalized to you. They can also be placed by third-party providers you specifically consent to when you accept this Cookie Notice. You may block these cookies, but if you do, it may be that parts of the Website do not function the way we intended. These cookies are disabled by default and will be enabled only if you grant your consent to do so.

Marketing Cookies 

These cookies are used to track some of your actions which then helps to build up a profile of your interests in order to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant or of interest to you when you are browsing on the Internet, including social media platforms. They are mostly placed by third-parties whenever you interact with their content on our Website and allow you to share parts of the Website on social media. 

Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have certain choices when it comes to the placing of cookies on your device. You may choose to accept or deny any analytical, functional, targeted, or marketing cookies. If you consent to the use of these cookies but would then like to withdraw your consent, you may do so, at any time, through our cookie consent tool, which can be found on the Website's home page. You can control your cookie choices using the following means:

• Through The Cookie Consent Tool.
  You can select the categories of cookies that you allow to be placed on your device or withdraw that consent through this tool;

• Blocking Cookies.
  You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixel tags. You do this by blocking them on your device or by removing them and adjusting preferences on your browser. This may vary from device to device and from browser to browser. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser’s settings on the most popular browsers:  Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera.
  
  Once you correctly block cookies on your browser, parts of the website may become unavailable to you or may otherwise not function properly; or
  

• Opting-Out of Third-Party Cookies and Targeted Ads.
  To opt out of tracking analytics placed by Google, you can opt out by using this form. This works for all websites that use Google’s services to track and gather analytics data. 
  
  Interest-Based and Targeted Ads. – Marketing cookies are used to collect information about your interests and preferences, across the Internet, for the purposes of what is called “interest-based,  targeted, or cross-context behavioral advertising”. These cookies allow companies to send you offers about products and services tailored to your inferred taste and needs, based on your browsing behaviors. You may turn off these cookies; however, you may still receive advertisements, with the difference of these not being specifically tailored to you. 
  
  To understand and responsibly manage cookies that enable interest-based ads, we strongly recommend that you go to the website of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or to the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). 
  
  To learn more, please visit: https://youradchoices.com/ . Many of our third-party Service Providers that serve interest-based advertisements to you across our Services are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), or they follow the DAA’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. You can choose to opt-out directly from these third parties by visiting their opt-out pages on the NAI website: (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ ) and DAA website (http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ ). However, please note that if you “opt-out” of interest-based or targeted ads you will keep seeing links and online advertisements; however, they will not be specifically targeted to you or tailored to your interests. 

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Cookies We May Use

The lists below reflect third-party services that may set cookies when you use Vouch sites and Services.  This information is accurate as of June 30, 2023, and is subject to change.

Strictly Necessary / Essential Cookies

Analytical Cookies

Functional Cookies

Marketing Cookies 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Cookie Notice, please contact us via one of the methods outlined below, we will be happy to answer any questions you may have:

        Call Us: (415) 488-6728

        E-mail Us: vouchprivacy@vouch.us

        Write to Us:
        Vouch, Inc.
        Attn: Legal Department
        250 Montgomery Street, Suite 700
        San Francisco, CA 94104