Last Updated: June 2, 2025
Introduction
At Obscuraworks, Inc. ("Obscuraworks," "we," "us," or "our"), we are committed to transparency regarding how we collect and use data. This page provides comprehensive information about what cookies and similar technologies are, why and how we use them across our services (including obscuraworks.com, docs.obscuraworks.com, and other related platforms), and your choices regarding these technologies.
1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
These technologies are widely used to make websites and applications work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and personalized experiences.
1.1. Cookies Explained
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
- First-party cookies: These are set by the website you are visiting directly (e.g., cookies placed by obscuraworks.com).
- Third-party cookies: These are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. They are typically used for cross-site tracking, analytics, and advertising purposes (e.g., a cookie from an analytics provider).
- Session cookies: These are temporary and expire once you close your browser. They are used to carry out essential functions, like linking your actions during that particular browser session.
- Persistent cookies: These remain on your device for a set period specified in the cookie or until you manually delete them. They help us recognize you as an existing user, remember your preferences for a more convenient experience, or support other extended functionalities.
1.2. Similar Technologies
Beyond standard cookies, we may also utilize other similar technologies:
- Web Beacons (Pixel Tags/Clear GIFs): Tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier, enabling us to recognize when someone has visited our Services or opened an email we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Services to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Services from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, and to improve site performance.
- Local Storage (HTML5 Local Storage & IndexedDB): These technologies allow websites and applications to store information locally on your device. This can be used to improve performance by caching application data or to store user preferences and session information without relying solely on cookies.
- Scripts: Pieces of code embedded in some of our web pages that measure your-site interaction, such as the links you click on. We use this information to improve our Services and tailor them to your likely interests.
Throughout this document, when we refer to "Cookies," we mean to include all these tracking technologies.
2. How Obscuraworks Uses Cookies
We use Cookies for a variety of essential and non-essential purposes to operate and enhance our Services. These include:
- Essential Operations: Some Cookies are strictly necessary for the technical operation of our Services. For example, they enable user authentication and security for your account on `docs.obscuraworks.com`, maintain session integrity, and ensure our platforms (like VPS hosting solutions or cloud computing infrastructure) function as intended.
- Enhancing User Experience: We use Cookies to remember your settings and preferences, such as language choice, display configurations (e.g., dark mode if available), or information you've previously entered, to provide a more personalized and streamlined experience.
- Performance and Analytics: These Cookies collect information about how you interact with our Services, which pages you visit most, the features you use, error rates, and load times. This data, often aggregated and anonymized, helps us understand service usage patterns, identify areas for improvement, optimize our infrastructure, and develop new features.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: Cookies play a role in our security measures by helping us detect malicious activity, prevent fraudulent access to your account, and protect the integrity of our Services.
- Marketing and Advertising (with your consent): Where you have provided consent, we or our third-party partners may use Cookies to deliver targeted advertising about Obscuraworks services or offers that may be relevant to your interests, based on your Browse activity. We are committed to responsible advertising practices.
3. Types of Cookies We Deploy
We categorize the Cookies we use as follows. Please note that the specific Cookies deployed may vary depending on the particular Obscuraworks service you are using:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are indispensable for the Services to function correctly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Performance (Analytics) Cookies: These allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site and services. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance as effectively.
- Functionality (Preference) Cookies: These enable our websites to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly (e.g., remembering your chosen language or region).
- Targeting (Marketing/Advertising) Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by us or our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. We will always seek your explicit consent before deploying these types of cookies.
4. Your Choices and Managing Cookies
We believe in empowering you to control your data. You have several options to manage Cookies:
4.1. Our Cookie Consent Management Tool
When you first visit our Services, or as required by law, you may be presented with a cookie banner or a consent management tool. This tool allows you to customize your cookie preferences for non-essential Cookies. You can typically revisit these settings at any time (e.g., via a "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website).
4.2. Browser Settings
Most web browsers provide controls that allow you to manage or delete cookies. You can usually find these settings in the 'options,' 'settings,' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. Modifying these settings may impact your ability to use certain features of our Services. For more details, refer to your browser's help documentation:
4.3. Third-Party Opt-Out Tools
For interest-based advertising, you can opt-out of cookies from many third-party advertising networks by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) at www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. In Europe, you can use www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
4.4. Do Not Track (DNT) Signals
Some web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. Currently, there is no industry-wide consensus on how to respond to DNT signals. Therefore, like many websites and online services, our Services do not currently alter their practices when they receive a DNT signal from a visitor's browser. We will continue to monitor DNT developments and may adapt our practices in the future.
5. Cookies and Your Personal Data
Information collected through Cookies may, in certain circumstances, constitute personal data, especially when combined with other information (such as your account details or IP address that can identify you). Where this is the case, our collection and use of such personal data are governed by our Privacy Policy.
Our Privacy Policy provides detailed information on what personal data we collect, how we process it, your data subject rights (such as access, rectification, and erasure), and how to exercise them. We encourage you to read it to understand our data protection practices fully.
6. Our Commitment to Cookie Security
We are committed to ensuring that any data collected via Cookies is handled securely. We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect this data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include, but are not limited to, using encryption where appropriate (e.g., Secure and HttpOnly attributes for cookies), implementing access controls, and practicing data minimization.
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
7. Updates to This Cookie Information
We may update this Cookie Information page from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will post any changes on this page and update the "Last Updated" date at the top. For material changes, we may provide more prominent notice or obtain your consent where required by law.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about our use of Cookies.
By continuing to use our Services, and by managing your cookie preferences as outlined above, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Cookie Information. For details on how we process personal data collected via cookies, please refer to our Privacy Policy.