Last updated: Nov 13, 2024 11:33 AM

We value your privacy very highly. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully before using the www.elitecompetitor.com, members.elitecompetitor.com, go.elitecompetitior.com, live.elitecompetitor.com, and all other sub-domains of www.elitecompetitor.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through these listed domains (the “Website“) or other websites noted as utilized by The Elite Competitor, LLC, whether as a guest or a registered user. This Website is operated by The Elite Competitor, LLC, a(n) Limited Liability Company formed in Washington, United States ("us," "we," "our"); this Cookie Policy contains important information regarding our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, your privacy and how we may use the information that we collect about you. Please also read our Privacy Policy, which provides more information about our privacy practices, your choices and your privacy rights.

What are cookies?

Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies”, server logs, and pixels to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies, server logs, and pixels may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address. A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Our collection and classification of cookies

This Website collects the cookies identified below. We have classified the cookies that we collect by the purpose that they serve.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are cookies that are essential for you to browse this Website and use its features. For example, these cookies may be used for maintaining security, authenticating users, and preventing fraudulent actions. These cookies are enabled by default, and without them, the Website may not be fully functional. This Website collects the following strictly necessary/essential cookies:

Functional cookies

Functional cookies are cookies that allow a Website to remember the choices that you have made in the past and how you use the Website. For example, these cookies may be used for remembering what language you prefer, which pages you clicked on, or what your username and password are so that you can automatically log in to your account. These cookies are disabled by default and will be enabled only if you grant your consent to do so. If you do provide your consent, this Website will collect the following functional cookies:

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are cookies that track your online activity to, for example, help advertisers deliver more relevant advertisements or to limit how many times you see an advertisement.

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.​

Third Party Use Of Cookies Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Hotjar + Mouseflow

We use these tools in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar and Mouseflow are a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar + Mouseflow use cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar + Mouseflow stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar + Mouseflow is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the ‘about’ section of Hotjar’s or Mouseflow’s support site.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free software tool created by Google that helps digital professionals monitor and analyze website traffic.

It collects data by placing a cookie on a user’s browser when they visit your site, thereby providing insights such as how many users you have, where they are from, and which pages they click on.

This data is stored and then visualized by Google Analytics, Segmetrics, and other data visualization software.

If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Your choices regarding cookies

You have certain choices when it comes to the placing of cookies on your device. You may choose to accept or deny any functional or marketing cookies. If you consent to the use of these cookies but would then like to withdraw your consent, you may do so at any time through our cookie consent tool, which can be found on the Website's home page. You can control your cookie choices using the following means:

• Through our cookie consent tool, where you can select the categories of cookies that you allow to be placed on your device and withdraw that consent; and
• Through your browser, where you can instruct it to delete or refuse cookies. You can visit the help center of your browser, the "Tools", "Edit", or "Help" pages to set your cookie preferences and delete cookies. We also encourage you to visit aboutcookies.org to learn more about how to opt out of cookies.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at hello@elitecompetitor.com.