Cookies, Web Beacons and IP Addresses

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Cookies

Watchtower Security Solutions uses cookies to make interactions with the company’s websites easy and meaningful. When you visit one of the company’s websites, Watchtower Security Solutions’ servers send a cookie to your computer or device. Standing alone, cookies do not personally identify you; they merely recognize your webbrowser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to Watchtower Security Solutions, either by responding to a promotional offer, opening an account, or filling out a Web form (such as a “Email Alerts” or a “sign up to a Newsletter” or “Application for a room” Web forms) or have previously identified yourself to Watchtower Security Solutions, you remain anonymous to the company.

Watchtower Security Solutions uses cookies that are session-based and persistent-based. Session cookies exist only during one session. They disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or device after you close your browser or turn off your computer. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our websites or services.

Web Beacons

Watchtower Security Solutions uses web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about Customers and Visitors’ usage of the company’s websites and interaction with emails from the Company. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular website or service tied to the web beacon, and a description of a website or service tied to the web beacon. For example, Watchtower Security Solutions may place Web beacons in marketing emails that notify the company when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of the company’s websites. Watchtower Security Solutions uses web beacons to operate and improve the company’s websites, services and email communications.

Google Analytics

Watchtower Security Solutions uses Google Analytics, whether or not in combination with cookies, to collect information about the use of the company’s websites by customers and visitors and about interaction with e-mails from the Company.

Log Files, IP Addresses, URLs and Other Data

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically to analyse trends in the aggregate and administer our websites and services. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), device and application identification numbers, your location, your browser type, your Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, the pages and files you viewed, your searches, your operating system and system configuration information, and date/time stamps associated with your usage. Due to Internet communications standards, when you visit or use the company’s websites and services, we automatically receive the URL of the website from which you came and the website to which you go when you leave our website. This information is used to analyse overall trends, to help us improve our websites and services, to track and aggregate non-personal information, and to provide the websites and services. For example, Watchtower Security Solutions uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which Customers/Clients and Visitors navigate the Company’s websites. Watchtower Security Solutions also collects IP addresses from customers when they log into the Services as part of the company’s “Identity Confirmation” and “IP Range Restrictions” security features.

Social Media Features and Single Sign-on

The company’s websites may use social media features, such as the Facebook “like” button (“Social Media Features”). These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on the company’s website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. You may be given the option by such Social Media Features to post information about your activities on the company’s website to a profile page of yours that is provided by a third party social media network in order to share with others within your network. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the company’s website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the relevant Social Media features. Watchtower Security Solutions also allows you to log in to certain of our websites and services using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form.

Do Not Track

Currently, various browsers — including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari — offer a “do not track” or “DNT” option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header, which sends a signal to Web sites’ visited by the user about the user’s browser DNT preference setting. Watchtower Security Solutions does not currently commit to responding to browsers’ DNT signals with respect to the company’s websites, in part, because no common industry standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators, including no consistent standard of interpreting user intent. Watchtower Security Solutions takes privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard.