This document informs Users about the technologies that help Catholically.com to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with Catholically.com.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
Catholically.com uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information – such as the presence of other Trackers - in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
To find more information dedicated to Californian consumers and their privacy rights, Users may read the privacy policy.
Activities strictly necessary for the operation of Catholically.com and delivery of the Service
Catholically.com uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Third-party Trackers
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Platform services and hosting
These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of Catholically.com, therefore allowing the provision of Catholically.com from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the Owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of Personal Data.
Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
Shopify (Shopify Inc.)
Shopify is a platform provided by Shopify Inc. that allows the Owner to build, run and host an e-commerce website.
Personal Data processed: billing address, device information, email address, first name, last name, payment info, phone number, shipping address, Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Canada – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- _landing_page: 14 days
- _orig_referrer: 14 days
- _pay_session: duration of the session
- _s: 1 hour
- _secure_session_id: 1 day
- _shopify_country: duration of the session
- _shopify_d: duration of the session
- _shopify_evids: duration of the session
- _shopify_fs: 1 year
- _shopify_m: duration of the session
- _shopify_s: 1 hour
- _shopify_sa_p: 1 hour
- _shopify_sa_t: 1 hour
- _shopify_tm: duration of the session
- _shopify_tw: duration of the session
- _shopify_y: 1 year
- _tracking_consent: duration of the session
- _y: 1 year
- cart: 14 days
- cart_currency: 14 days
- cart_sig: 14 days
- cart_ts: 14 days
- cart_ver: 14 days
- dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart: 1 hour
- master_device_id: 2 years
- secure_customer_sig: 1 year
- shopify_pay_redirect: 1 hour
Other activities involving the use of Trackers
Experience enhancement
Catholically.com uses Trackers to provide a personalized user experience by improving the quality of preference management options, and by enabling interaction with external networks and platforms.
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Access to third-party accounts
This type of service allows Catholically.com to access Data from your account on a third-party service and perform actions with it.
These services are not activated automatically, but require explicit authorization by the User.
Pinterest account access (Pinterest, Inc.)
This service allows Catholically.com to connect with the User's account on Pinterest, provided by Pinterest, Inc.
Personal Data processed: device information, Email, Tracker, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example), Usage Data and User ID.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- _pinterest_ct_ua: duration of the session
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Content commenting
Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of Catholically.com.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
Facebook Comments (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
Facebook Comments is a content commenting service provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. enabling the User to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Measurement
Catholically.com uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior with the goal of improving the Service.
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Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Alexa Metrics (Alexa Internet, Inc.)
Alexa Metrics is an analytics service provided by Alexa Internet, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Google Ads conversion tracking (Google LLC)
Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google LLC that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on Catholically.com.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- test_cookie: 1 hour
Google Analytics (Google LLC)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of Catholically.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AMP_TOKEN: 1 hour
- __utma: 2 years
- __utmb: 1 hour
- __utmc: duration of the session
- __utmt: 1 hour
- __utmv: 2 years
- __utmz: 7 months
- _ga: 2 years
- _gac*: 3 months
- _gat: 1 hour
- _gid: 1 day
Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features (Google LLC)
Google Analytics on Catholically.com has Advertising Reporting Features activated, which collects additional information from the DoubleClick cookie (web activity) and from device advertising IDs (app activity). It allows the Owner to analyze specific behavior and interests Data (traffic Data and Users' ads interaction Data) and, if enabled, demographic Data (information about the age and gender).
Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- IDE: 2 years
- __utma: 2 years
- __utmb: 1 hour
- __utmc: duration of the session
- __utmt: 1 hour
- __utmv: 2 years
- __utmz: 7 months
- _ga: 2 years
- _gac*: 3 months
- _gat: 1 hour
- _gid: 1 day
- test_cookie: 1 hour
TikTok conversion tracking (TikTok Inc.)
TikTok conversion tracking is an analytics and behavioral targeting service provided by TikTok Inc. that connects data from the TikTok advertising network with actions performed on Catholically.com. The TikTok pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to TikTok ads and enables to target groups of Users on the base of their past use of Catholically.com.
Personal Data processed: device information, Tracker and unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Targeting & Advertising
Catholically.com uses Trackers to deliver personalized marketing content based on User behavior and to operate, serve and track ads.
Some of the advertising services used by the Owner adhere to the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, an initiative that facilitates responsible privacy practices across the digital advertising industry - providing Users with enhanced transparency and control over how their data are used for advertising tracking purposes. Users can customize their advertising preferences at any time by accessing the advertising preferences panel from within the cookie notice or via the relevant link on Catholically.com.
Catholically.com participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework and complies with its Specifications and Policies. Catholically.com uses iubenda (identification number 123) as a Consent Management Platform.
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Advertising
This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on Catholically.com, possibly based on User interests.
This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside Catholically.com. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section "How to opt-out of interest-based advertising" in this document.
Google Ad Manager (Google LLC)
Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google LLC that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of Catholically.com and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration: up to 2 years
Pinterest Ads (Pinterest, Inc.)
Pinterest Ads is an advertising service provided by Pinterest, Inc. that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns on the Pinterest advertising network.
Users may opt out of behavioral advertising features through their device settings, their Pinterest personalization settings.
Personal Data processed: device information, email address, Tracker, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example), Usage Data and User ID.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
- _pin_unauth: 1 year
- _pinterest_ct_ua: duration of the session
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Remarketing and behavioral targeting
This type of service allows Catholically.com and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of Catholically.com by the User.
This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section "How to opt-out of interest-based advertising" in this document.
TikTok Remarketing ( TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited )
TikTok Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited that connects the activity of Catholically.com with the TikTok advertising network.
Personal Data processed: device information, Tracker and unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).
Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy.
How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent
There are various ways to manage Tracker related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:
Users can manage preferences related to Trackers from directly within their own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of Trackers.
Additionally, whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, Users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences widget, if available.
It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored Trackers, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent.
Other Trackers in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
Locating Tracker Settings
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
How to opt out of interest-based advertising
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Owner and Data Controller
Catholically.com
Owner contact email: info@catholically.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through Catholically.com cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by Catholically.com.
