Introduction

5th idea (“our,” “we,” or “us”), maintaining 5thidea.com and architecturebeast.com, uses variety of technologies to learn more about how people use our websites. On architecturebeast.com, we use cookies to help improve your experience. You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the paragraphs below.

This cookie policy is part of 5th idea’s Privacy Policy (which you can read here), and covers the use of cookies between your device and our site. We also provide basic information on third-party services we may use, who may also use cookies as part of their service, though they are not covered by our Policy.

 

What is a cookie

A cookie is a small piece of code that our website stores on your device when you visit, typically containing information about the website itself, a unique identifier that allows the site to recognise your web browser when you return, additional data that serves the purpose of the cookie, and the lifespan of the cookie itself.

Cookies set by the website you are visiting are normally referred to as “first-party cookies”, and typically only track your activity on that particular site. Cookies set by other sites and companies (ie. third parties) are called “third-party cookies”, and can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

 

Types of cookies and their usage

Analytics and performance cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Services and how users use our Services. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. The information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It includes the number of visitors to our Services, the websites that referred them to our Services, the pages that they visited on our Services, what time of day they visited our Services, whether they have visited our Services before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Services more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Services.

Essential cookies

These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Services and to enable you to use its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Services and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our Services to remember choices you make when you use our Services, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details, remembering which polls you have voted in and in some cases, to show you poll results, and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our Services which you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Services.

Social media cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Services or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.

Targeted and advertising cookies

These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third-party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third-party websites. These cookies also store your location, including your latitude, longitude, and GeoIP region ID, which helps us show you locale-specific news and allows our Services to operate more efficiently. You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.

 

Cookies we use

AddThis

We use AddThis for customer interaction, precisely for allowing our users to share our content. AddThis uses its own cookies during this process. You can find out more here (www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out)

DoubleClick

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on architecturebeast.com. Google’s use of cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to architecturebeast.com as well as other sites on the Internet. You can read more here (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/)

Google Adsense

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on architecturebeast.com. Google’s use of cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to architecturebeast.com as well as other sites on the Internet. You can read more here (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/)

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics for tracking user behavior on our website. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our Services works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies. You can find out more about how Google protects your data here: www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Services by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB

Facebook
Twitter
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Flipboard
Instagram

 

Consent/opt out

Your use of our website, indicates your consent to such use of Cookies.

If you choose not to accept cookies, you can opt-out by changing the settings on your browser. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie.

Keep in mind, if you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device.

Specific information about how to enable, update or disable Cookies can be found here; Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari and Safari Mobile, Yandex.

Please note, even though some cookies can be blocked with almost no impact on your experience of a website, blocking all cookies might cause some features not working as intended or you won’t be able to access certain features and content on our website.

Also, please note that rejecting Cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our website.

 

Contact

For any queries in relation to this Cookie Policy, please contact us at dino@architecturebeast.com.