Cookie Policy of www.manualslib.com

Cookies consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the Owner in providing the Service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which Cookies are installed may also require the User's consent.

Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

Technical Cookies and Cookies serving aggregated statistical purposes

  • Activity strictly necessary for the functioning of the Service


    This Website uses Cookies to save the User's session and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Website, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic.

  • Activity regarding the saving of preferences, optimization, and statistics


    This Website uses Cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize the User's browsing experience. Among these Cookies are, for example, those used for the setting of language and currency preferences or for the management of first party statistics employed directly by the Owner of the site.

    List of Manualslib.com own cookies:

    Cookie name Cookie description
    was_here First time manualslib.com visit cookie
    PHPSESSID Visitor session ID cookie
    login Logged in user cookie
    display_bookmark_alert, display_manual_alert Additional cookie – allows user to see confirmation after adding documents or bookmarks to their collection
    warnedOfCookies Additional cookie – it makes visible sticky warning with information about cookies
    login_url add_manual, bookmark_page, bookmark_name Additional cookie – allows visitors to add documents or bookmarks to their collection without being logged in (past add)
    time_mark Spam bot protection cookie
    larfhkoamab Hardly encrypted cookie (can’t be decrypted) - info with time stamp and geo

    Other types of Cookies or third parties that install Cookies

    Some of the services listed below collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the User or may be managed directly by the Owner - depending on how they are described - without the help of third parties.

    If any third party operated services are listed among the tools below, these may be used to track Users’ browsing habits – in addition to the information specified herein and without the Owner’s knowledge. Please refer to the privacy policy of the listed services for detailed information.

  • Advertising


    This type of services allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this Website, 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 Cookies 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 this Website. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.

    Google AdSense (Google Inc.)

    Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.

    Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    OpenX Ad Exchange (OpenX Technologies, Inc.)

    OpenX Ad Exchange is an advertising service provided by OpenX Technologies, Inc.

    The service provides an ad exchange platform that facilitates the optimization of ads from multiple ad networks, which can be third parties to both OpenX and the Owner.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: USA – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    AdMob (AdMob Google Inc.)

    AdMob is an advertising service provided by AdMob Google Inc.

    In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

    AppNexus (AppNexus Inc.)

    AppNexus is an advertising service provided by AppNexus Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt out.

    Bing Ads (Microsoft Corporation)

    Bing Ads is an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Criteo (Criteo SA)

    Criteo is an advertising service provided by Criteo SA.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: France – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    DoubleClick for Publishers (Google Inc.)

    DoubleClick for Publishers is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. 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 opt out from being tracked by various advertising networks, Users may make use of Youronlinechoices. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.

    This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.

    Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout?hl=en.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    Facebook Audience Network (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by Facebook, Inc. In order to understand Facebook's use of Data, consult Facebook's data policy.

    This Website may use identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Facebook Audience Network service. One of the ways Audience Network shows ads is by using the User's ad preferences. The User can control this in the Facebook ad settings.

    Users may opt-out of certain Audience Network targeting through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Audience Network related sections of this privacy policy, if available.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

    PubMatic (PubMatic, Inc.)

    PubMatic is an advertising service provided by PubMatic, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Rubicon Project (The Rubicon Project, Inc.)

    Rubicon Project is an advertising service provided by The Rubicon Project, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Smart AdServer (Smart AdServer SA)

    Smart AdServer is an advertising service provided by Smart AdServer SA.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: France – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

  • Advertising serving infrastructure


    This type of services have the purpose of providing an advertising serving infrastructure that enables this Website to maintain its own network that serves optimized and targeted advertisements.

    To this end, the services listed below may allow the Owner to track unique User visits and their navigation patterns, also with the help of Cookies.

    This tracking may occur across different sites or apps, in order to serve optimized and targeted advertisements.

    OpenX Ad Server (OpenX Technologies, Inc.)

    OpenX Ad Server is an advertising server provision service provided by OpenX Technologies, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • 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.

    Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

    Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, 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 collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Google Tag Manager (Google Inc.)

    Google Tag Manager is an analytics service provided by Google Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this Website.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

    Google Analytics for Firebase (Google Inc.)

    Google Analytics for Firebase or Firebase Analytics is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.

    Firebase Analytics may share Data with other tools provided by Firebase, such as Crash Reporting, Authentication, Remote Config or Notifications. The User may check this privacy policy to find a detailed explanation about the other tools used by the Owner.

    This Website uses identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Firebase Analytics service.

    Users may opt-out of certain Firebase features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Firebase related sections of this privacy policy, if available.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

    Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Inc.)

    Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, 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. This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users' IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy PolicyOpt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

  • Commercial affiliation


    This type of services allows this Website to display advertisements for third party products or services.

    Ads can be displayed either as advertising links or as banners using various kinds of graphics.

    Clicks on the icon or banner posted on the Application are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with this Website.

    For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.

    Amazon Affiliation (Amazon)

    Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy .

    CJ Affiliate by Conversant (Conversant, Inc.)

    CJ Affiliate by Conversant is a commercial affiliation service provided by Conversant, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    eBay Partner Network (eBay, Inc.)

    eBay Partner Network è un servizio di affiliazione commerciale fornito da eBay, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

    ShareAsale (ShareAsale.com Inc.)

    ShareAsale is a banner commercial affiliation service provided by ShareAsale.com Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  • Contacting the User


    Mailing List or Newsletter (This Website)

    By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this Website. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to this Website or after making a purchase.

    Personal Data collected: address, city, Cookies, country, date of birth, email address, first name, gender, last name, phone number, Usage Data and ZIP/Postal code.

  • Content commenting


    Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this Website. 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 (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Comments is a content commenting service provided by Facebook, Inc. enabling the User to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Comment system managed directly (This Website)

    This Website has its own internal content comment system.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies, email address, first name, last name, Usage Data, username and website.

  • Content performance and features testing (A/B testing)


    The services contained in this section allow the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of this Website.

    Google Website Optimizer (Google Inc.)

    Google Website Optimizer is an A/B testing service provided by Google Inc.

    Google may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • Displaying content from external platforms


    This type of services allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Website and interact with them.

    This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

    Google Maps widget (Google Inc.)

    Google Maps is a maps visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Google Site Search (Google Inc.)

    Google Site Search is a search engine embedding service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

  • Interaction with external social networks and platforms


    This type of services allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Website.

    The interaction and information obtained through this Website are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.

    This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

    Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)

    The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Google+ +1 button and social widgets (Google Inc.)

    The Google+ +1 button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Google+ social network provided by Google Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)

    The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • Remarketing and behavioral targeting


    This type of service allows this Website and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Website by the User.

    This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.

    In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

    DoubleClick for Publishers Audience Extension (Google Inc.)

    DoubleClick for Publishers Audience Extension is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Google Inc. that tracks the visitors of this Website and allows selected advertising partners to display targeted ads across the web to them.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Custom Audience is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Website with the Facebook advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and email address.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Website with the Facebook advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Remarketing through Google Analytics for Display Advertising (Google Inc.)

    Google Analytics for Display Advertising is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the tracking activity performed by Google Analytics and its Cookies with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Criteo Dynamic Retargeting (Criteo SA)

    Criteo Dynamic Retargeting is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Criteo SA., that connects the activity of this Website with the Criteo advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: France – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

  • SPAM protection


    This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.

    Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)

    Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Inc.

    The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

How to provide or withdraw consent to the installation of Cookies

In addition to what is specified in this document, the User can manage preferences for Cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing Cookies.

Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of Cookies by this website.

Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

With regard to Cookies installed by third parties, Users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

Notwithstanding the above, the Owner informs that Users may follow the instructions provided on the subsequently linked initiatives by the EDAA (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.

Owner and Data Controller

is INTERNET ADVERTISING LIMITED, company registered in Hong Kong, with its registered office at Room 2303, New Tech Plaza, 34 tai Yau Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, which is the data controller of any personal data which is required to be processed in relation to your use of Website.

Since the installation of third-party Cookies and other tracking systems through the services used within this Website cannot be technically controlled by the Owner, any specific references to Cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the User is kindly requested to consult the privacy policy for the respective third-party services listed in this document.

Given the objective complexity surrounding the identification of technologies based on Cookies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of Cookies by this Website.

Definitions and legal references


Personal Data (or Data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through this Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User

The individual using this Website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Website.

This Website (or this Application)

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Service

The service provided by this Website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookies

Small piece of data stored in the User's device.


Legal information

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to this Website, if not stated otherwise within this document.

Latest update: May 28, 2018