audio.com Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website audio.com (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

Please take the time to read this Policy carefully. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us via email at privacy@audio.com.

When you arrive on our Website, your IP address is anonymised before being stored on our servers by default.

We also use device identification (“browser fingerprinting”) technologies that generate a unique identifier for your device. This identifier is designed to recognise your device, so information collected in this way can constitute personal data and can be used to single out your device and match your activity across our products. Where we process personal data in this way, we do so in accordance with applicable data protection law and, where required, on the basis of your consent.

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are used by website owners in order to understand how you are using the website, by providing usage statistics which helps to maintain and improve it.

Cookies have many different features, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience.

Cookies set by the Website itself (in this case, audio.com) are called “first party cookies”. Please note that our Website does not use any third party cookies.

When you visit our Website, we place only Statistics (non-necessary) type of cookies:

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used, which helps us make improvements to it.

By default we collect statistics that track the number of site visits and user navigation through the Website for internal analysis and optimization. These analytics are anonymously collected: your IP address is anonymised before storage and by default, we do not collect any other personal information of any kind. You still have the option to disable the processing of these anonymized statistical cookies through the settings in our cookie banner (please refer section “How can I control cookies?” below for more info).

There is no cookie usage for additional reasons.

On our Website we use only first party cookies, which means that all your cookie data will be stored on our side in accordance with the rules applicable to the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector.

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies usage. You can “Allow” or “Decline” cookie usage by clicking the appropriate button on the cookie banner available in the bottom of the Website during your first visit.

In addition to the preferences that you set within the cookie banner, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse some cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website. As means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

If you have disabled one or more cookies, we can use information collected by these cookies before the deactivation. Information collected before deactivation will expire after a maximum of 25 months. However, we cease to collect information via the opted-out cookies.

We may update this Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

You can see when this Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Policy.