The term ‘StartupCrave’ or ‘us’, or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website. The term ‘you’ refers to the user (or team) or viewer of our website. In these terms and conditions, “your user content” or “user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
As stated in our Privacy Policy, StartupCrave believes strongly in the values of privacy and transparency. To that end, we’ve created this Cookie Statement as a clear reference guide to the use of cookies on StartupCrave. This Cookie Statement explains how we use cookies (and other locally stored data technologies), and how you can manage your cookie options. For more information on our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy. StartupCrave actively collects some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include JavaScript and a variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as cookies and local storage.
Cookies are small files which are stored on a user's computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the server to deliver a page tailored to a particular user, or the page itself can contain some script which is aware of the data in the cookie and so is able to carry information from one visit to the website (or related site) to the next.
Each cookie is effectively a small lookup table containing pairs of (key, data) values - for example (first name, John) (last name, Smith). Once the cookie has been read by the code on the server or client computer, the data can be retrieved and used to customise the web page appropriately.
Writing data to a cookie is usually done when a new webpage is loaded or a form withd data is submitted - for example after a 'submit' button is pressed the data handling page would be responsible for storing the values in a cookie. If the user has elected to disable cookies then the write operation will fail, and subsequent sites which rely on the cookie will either have to take a default action, or prompt the user to re-enter the information that would have been stored in the cookie.
Cookies are a convenient way to carry information from one session on a website to another, or between sessions on related websites, without having to burden a server machine with massive amounts of data storage. Storing the data on the server without using cookies would also be problematic because it would be difficult to retrieve a particular user's information without requiring a login on each visit to the website. If there is a large amount of information to store, then a cookie can simply be used as a means to identify a given user so that further related information can be looked up on a server-side database. For example, the first time a user visits a site they may choose a username which is stored in the cookie, and then provide data such as password, name, address, preferred font size, page layout, etc. - this information would all be stored on the database using the username as a key. Subsequently when the site is revisited the server will read the cookie to find the username, and then retrieve all the user's information from the database without it having to be re-entered.
Your web browser stores and manages cookies. You can find a list of websites storing cookies and view the cookies themselves – although it’s usually not interesting to look at the content of the cookies – in your browser’s settings. If you use multiple web browsers on your computer, each browser has its own set of cookies. Websites are only allowed to look at their own cookies – for example, when you visit StartupCrave, we can’t examine cookies from other websites. This prevents malicious websites from snooping and stealing your login sessions.
We use the information we receive from cookies and other locally stored data to make your experience with the StartupCrave safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and interactions with the StartupCrave and to generally improve our services. Cookies and other locally stored data, JavaScript, and help us do things like:
Provide you with a personalized experience, such as using cookies to know your language preference, to remember the user preferences you set so we can provide you with the customized look and feel that you want, and to tell you about interesting Begin Here issues and events in your area.
Deliver more relevant content to you faster. For example, we may use local storage to store your most recently activities directly on your device, so they can be retrieved quickly. Also, we may use cookies to learn about the topics searched so that we can optimize the search results we deliver to you. Understand how you use the Begin Here, so that we know what works and what is useful. For example, we might use cookies to learn about the list of people you are following on your profile so that we can recommend similar people that you may be interested in. Understand how you use the Begin Here across different devices, so that we can make our varied Begin Here more efficient and effective for you. Make the Begin Here more convenient to use, such as by using cookies to maintain your session when you log in or to remember your username in the login field.
While this is not a comprehensive list, here are some of the things that you can do to limit use of cookies and other locally stored data on your device. You can:
remove or disable specific locally stored data on your browser’s settings;
use a browser that can block third-party cookies; or install a plug-in to block locally stored data, if one is available.
We believe this data collection helps improve your user experience, but you may remove or disable some or all locally stored data through your browser settings, depending on your browser. Cookies and other locally stored data may be necessary to use our site, some features may not function properly if you disable locally stored data.
This cookies policy, together with StartupCrave's Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and StartupCrave in relation to your use of this website.
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