Current as of 16 Feb 2023

Cookie Policy

Welcome to MadBot! Our website uses browser cookies, scripts, web beacons, tracking URLs, pixel tags and similar technologies (hereinafter "cookies") to provide, protect and improve our website. Below we explain how our cookies work, their purpose, the type of data each collects and how you can manage your cookie settings.

We, ParticleByte BV trading as MadBot.ai of Lange Voort 213, 2343CD Oegstgeest, The Netherlands operating www.madbot.ai (“MadBot”, “we”, “us” or “our”), act as the Data Controller in accordance with the Dutch GDPR Implementation Act (“UAVG”) and Telecommunications Act (“TA”) and EU`s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”) and the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are small data files. When you visit our website, these files are downloaded to the browser directory or hard drive of your computer, tablet, or smartphone (hereinafter "Device"). Each time you visit our website, the cookie and the website communicate with each other and thus recognise your Device. This is useful for both you and us. For example, a cookie can be used to save your text entries in form fields on the website so that you do not have to enter the same information again the next time you visit the website. This improves the user-friendliness of our website. We manage the cookies using a small program called a tool or tag.

We use first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies come from our website and send information only to us; third-party cookies are placed on our website by third parties and send information about your device to other companies that recognise that cookie. In most cases, the information in a cookie is pseudonymized or anonymized because cookies generally do not identify you as an individual, but rather your device. In a few cases, certain cookies may be linked to personal data. We will only process such information if you give us your consent or if the processing is necessary to enable you to use a certain service.

Cookie settings

You can adjust the Cookie you wish to allow our website to place using the Cookie Banner on our website. Also, most browsers automatically allow all cookies, but you can decide whether or not to allow us or external third parties to store cookies on your device. You can change your browser settings at any time so that cookies are no longer accepted or stored. You can also choose to have a warning message displayed each time before accepting cookies. Or you can set your browser so that it only accepts cookies from certain websites. You can also delete cookies that have already been saved. If you delete all cookies, the so-called opt-out cookies, which are intended for rejecting cookies, will also be deleted from your device. Below you will find general instructions on how to manage cookies for the most popular browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera Web.

Lifetime of Cookies

Cookies have a lifetime. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Others (for example, those with login details) can remain on your computer for years if you do not delete them. You can delete cookies at any time. Click on one of the links below to go to your browser's user manual. After deleting cookies, you may need to log in again to some websites or specify your preferences.

What are the types of cookies?

  • Essential Cookies/Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are those cookies which a website could not operate without. These include cookies such as login cookies.
  • Functional Cookies – These cookies recognise you when you return to a website, remember your preferences and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
  • Performance Cookies – Performance cookies, along with other information, allow websites to calculate the aggregate number of people using a website and which features of a website are the most popular. This information is generally used to improve the website and the way visitors are able to move around it.
  • Targeting or advertising cookies: these cookies may be set through our website by our advertising partners to profile your interests and suggest relevant advertising to you.

Google Analytics

We also use Google Analytics based on our legitimate interest and your consent, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, on our website. Google Analytics also uses cookies to enable our website to analyze how users use our website across multiple devices. The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to and stored by Google, including transmission to the United States. The following data is processed through the use of Google Analytics:

  • 3 bytes of the IP address of the called system of the website visitor (anonymized IP address),
  • the website called up,
  • the website from which the user reached the accessed page of my website (referrer),
  • the subpages accessed from the website,
  • the time spent on the website, and
  • the frequency with which the website is accessed.

Google states that it will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You can disable tracking by Google Analytics with future effect by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser following this link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Facebook Remarketing

On the same legal basis as Google Analytics, we use so-called "Facebook pixels" of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Meta Websites Inc. With the help of the Facebook pixels, it is possible for Facebook to determine the visitors of our website as a target group for the display of advertisements, so-called "Facebook ads".

You can object to the collection by the Facebook pixels and use of your data for the display of Facebook ads. To do so, you can visit the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions there on the settings for usage-based advertising: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads or declare the objection via the US page http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU page http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

Does this policy change?

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. This might be for a number of reasons, such as to reflect a change in the law or to accommodate a change in our business practices and the way we use cookies. We recommend that you check here periodically for any changes to our Cookie Policy.

Who should I contact for more information?

If you have any questions or comments about our Cookie Policy or wish to exercise your rights under applicable laws, please contact us using hi@madbot.ai or write to us at the above address.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on Thursday, 16 February 2023.