Cookie Policy | HDVI
Cookie Policy
Modified Date: August 31, 2022
This Cookie Policy describes how High Definition Vehicle Insurance, Inc. (collectively, “HDVI”, “we”, “our” or “us”) use cookies and similar technologies to collect and store information when you visit, use, or interact with our website, products, and services. For more information about our privacy practices, please review our privacy policy.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the site again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information.
Cookies provide a convenience feature to save you time or tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, HDVI) are called “first party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies.”
Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Do we use cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies and similar technologies play an important role in helping us provide personal, effective, and safe interactions. We use cookies on our website and share those cookies with partners and third parties, like Google Analytics ( you may visit here to learn more about how Google uses this information). We may change the cookies and similar technologies periodically as we improve or add to our systems and infrastructure, but we generally use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
To Operate Our Systems and Infrastructure (e.g., our website). Some cookies and similar technologies are essential to the operation of our systems and infrastructure (e.g., our website). We may use those cookies and similar technologies in a number of different ways, including for example:
- Authentication. We use cookies and similar technologies to remember your login state, so you don’t have to login as you navigate throughout our systems and infrastructure.
- Fraud Prevention and Detection. Cookies and similar technologies that we deploy throughout our systems and infrastructure help us learn things about the computers and web browsers used to access them. This information helps us monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use or behavior.
- Preferences. We use cookies and similar technologies to remember how you prefer to use our systems and infrastructure, so that you don’t have to reconfigure your settings each time.
To Analyze and Improve Our Website, Products, and Services. Cookies and similar technologies help us understand how to make our website, products, and services work better for you. Cookies and similar technologies tell us how people reach our website and they give us insights into improvements or enhancements we need to make to our website, products, and services. For example, we use cookies to identify popular sections of our website, to recognize how frequently you have visited the website, to remember your preferences on our website, and to improve the security of our website.
For Better Advertising. Cookies and similar technologies can help us provide more effective advertising, whether on our website or elsewhere. For example, we might use a cookie to help prevent you from seeing the same advertisement multiple times or to measure how many times an advertisement is viewed or clicked on.
Description of cookie categories
Each cookie falls within one of the following four categories:
| Category Name | Category Description |
|---|---|
| Essential | Essential cookies are sometimes called “strictly necessary,” as without them we cannot provide many features, functionalities, or services that you need on our website. E.g., essential cookies help remember your preferences as you move around our website, products, or services. |
| Analytics | These cookies track user interactions, e.g., information about your visits to our website, so that we can make improvements and report our performance. This may include analyzing visitor/user behavior, so as to provide more relevant content or suggest certain activities. E.g., they collect information about how visitors use our website, which site the user came from, the number of each user’s visits, and how long a user stays on our website. We might also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features to see how users react to them. |
| Functional | These cookies are used to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as your username, language, or your region) on our services. |
| Advertising | These cookies are placed by third party advertising platforms or networks in order to deliver ads and/or track ad performance, enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant to you based upon your activities (this is sometimes called “behavioral” or “targeted” advertising) on our website. They may subsequently use information about your visit to target you with advertising that you may be interested in, on our website and other websites. |
First party and third party cookies
Our website may place first party cookies and allow third parties to place cookies on your device. The difference between a ‘first party’ cookie and a ‘third party’ cookie relates to the control of the party who serves the cookie. First party cookies are cookies that are specific to the website that created them. Our use of first party cookies enables us to operate an efficient service and to track the patterns of behavior of visitors. Third party cookies, on the other hand, are placed on your device by a third party (i.e., not by us). While we may allow third parties to access the Services to place these cookies on users’ devices, we do not retain control over the information supplied by the cookies. This information is controlled wholly by that third party and subject to their privacy policy.
The cookies that we commonly use are listed below.
First party cookies (i.e., cookies served by HDVI):
| Company | Notes | Lifespan | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| HDVI | Tracks page visits, sessions, email engagement and form submissions | 6 months | Functionality |
Third Party Cookies (i.e., cookies served by third parties):
| Company | Notes | Lifespan | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Used to store and analyze website traffic | 2 years | Analytics |
| Google reCaptcha | Identifies bots to protect website from malicious spam attacks | 6 months | Essential |
| CloudFlare | Bot management | 30 minutes | Functionality |
| Determines if user’s browser supports cookies | 15 minutes | Advertising | |
| Google Ads | Used to track Google ad performance and re-marketing | 2 years | Advertising |
| User match history, tracking LinkedIn ad performance | 1 year | Advertising | |
| Used to track Facebook ad performance | 3 months | Advertising | |
| Google Tag Manager | Tracks advertising efficiency | 3 months | Analytics |
| YouTube | Used to serve embedded YouTube videos | 2 years | Functionality |
| Vimeo | Used to serve embedded Vimeo videos | 2 years | Functionality |
The content of this policy is for your general information and use only. The cookies contained herein (particularly third party cookies) are subject to change. You acknowledge that this information may contain inaccuracies or errors and is subject to change and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising to you. These companies may use information about your visits to our website in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may interest you. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide this information to them.
Disabling, deleting, and opting out of cookies
Before using our website, products and/or services you will be asked to consent to the use of cookies. If you do not wish to receive any cookies from our website, products and/or services please do not visit our website or use our products/services.
You can disable and/or delete cookies at any time using the tools available to you in your particular web browser(s) or otherwise change your preferences by clicking here. For more information about the tools available for your particular browser, please visit the relevant support and information pages for your particular browser via, for example, the following websites:
- Chrome: https://support.google.com
- Explorer/Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org
- Opera: https://help.opera.com/
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page.
If you disable, delete or otherwise have opted-out of cookies, please note that you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website, products and/or services. In particular, you may have limited access, features and/or functionality. Please also note that disabling cookies will not prevent you from potentially receiving generic, untargeted advertising.
How often will you update your Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes to this Cookie Policy prior to the changes becoming effective by posting the changes on this page and providing a more prominent notice with on-site or email notifications. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Information
For questions about our use of cookies and similar technologies, please contact us at the address below, or send an email to privacy@hdvi.com.
High Definition Vehicle Insurance, Inc.
Attn: HDVI Privacy
PO Box 1484
Portsmouth, NH 03802
United States of America