Cookie Policy of Blue Ocean Law Group
This document informs Users about the technologies that help Blue Ocean Law Group 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 Blue Ocean Law Group.
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 Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
Blue Ocean Law Group 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.
How Blue Ocean Law Group uses Trackers
Necessary
Blue Ocean Law Group 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.
Technical Trackers
Storage duration: indefinite
Trackers managed by third parties
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Google reCAPTCHA (Google LLC)
Personal Data processed: answers to questions, clicks, keypress events, motion sensor events, mouse movements, scroll position, touch events, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- _GRECAPTCHA: duration of the session
- rc::a: indefinite
- rc::b: duration of the session
- rc::c: duration of the session
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Webflow (Webflow, Inc.)
Webflow is a platform provided by Webflow, Inc. that allows the Owner to build, run and host Blue Ocean Law Group. Webflow is highly customisable and can host websites from simple blogs to complex e-commerce platforms.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Legal basis for processing: Consent.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
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Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Cloudflare (Cloudflare Inc.)
Cloudflare is a traffic optimisation and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through Blue Ocean Law Group, i.e., communication between Blue Ocean Law Group and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from Blue Ocean Law Group to be collected.
Personal Data processed: Trackers.
Legal basis for processing: Consent.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Bugsnag (Bugsnag Inc.)
Bugsnag is a monitoring service provided by Bugsnag Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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iubenda Consent Database (iubenda srl)
The iubenda Consent Database allows to store and retrieve records of Users’ consent to the processing of Personal Data, and information and preferences expressed in relation to the provided consent.
In order to do so, it makes use of a Tracker that temporarily stores pending information on the User’s device until it is processed by the API. The Tracker (a browser feature called localStorage) is at that point deleted.
Personal Data processed: Data communicated while using the service and Trackers.
Place of processing: Italy – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- ConS JS library localStorage (IUB_DATA): indefinite
Other Trackers
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Amazon Cloudfront
Amazon Cloudfront is a Global Content Delivery Network (CDN) used to securely deliver content with low latency and high transfer speeds.
Reach viewers across the globe in milliseconds with built-in data compression, edge compute capabilities, and field-level encryption.
You can learn more here:
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
You can find the Cloudfront Privacy Policy here:
https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/?nc1=f_pr
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Finsweet Cookie Consent
Our Privacy Preference Center is provided via the Finsweet Cookie Consent Solution and delivered to our website via the Content Delivery Network (CDN) JSDELIVR.
JSDELIVR is a free Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Open Source located in Poland (within the EU therefore it operations are subject to the GDPR) designed, developed and maintained by Prospect One and Dmiytu Akutov.
CDN's are used to enable faster website load times globally.
Fast, reliable, and automated.
Around since 2012.
Serving ~ 177 billion requests/month.
You can read their Privacy Policy here:
https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net
Functionality
Blue Ocean Law Group uses Trackers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User's communication with the Owner.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Chargebee (ChargeBee Inc.)
Chargebee is a subscription management tool provided by ChargeBee Inc, which allows the Owner to manage subscriptions, invoicing, pricing models, and subscription and revenue analytics.
Personal Data processed: Data communicated while using the service, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Jetboost (San Diego CA, USA)
Your No-Code Webflow Sidekick
On-page real-time search, dynamic filtering, and more for Webflow — without writing code
Used to enhance the user experience by enabling enhanced website search and filtering capabilities.
Your customers expect to be able to search your content. You've tried the native Webflow search, but you want to search a single CMS list, not your entire site.
So, what if you could search items directly on your page, in real-time as you type?
Jetboost makes this possible, with instant, on-page search. It even works with paginated lists.
Jetboost Privacy Policy can be found here:
https://app.jetboost.io/privacy
Experience
Blue Ocean Law Group uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
Trackers managed by third parties
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YouTube video widget (Google LLC)
YouTube is a video content visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows Blue Ocean Law Group to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- PREF: 8 months
- VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: 8 months
- YSC: duration of the session
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Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (X Corp.)
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by X Corp.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- personalization_id: 2 years
Measurement
Blue Ocean Law Group uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior to improve the Service.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Optimizely (Optimizely, Inc.)
Optimizely is an A/B testing service provided by Optimizely, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) with anonymised IP (Google LLC)
Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of Blue Ocean Law Group, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
This integration of Google Analytics anonymises 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.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Legal basis for processing: Consent.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AMP_TOKEN: 1 hour
- _ga: 2 years
- _gac*: 3 months
- _gat: 1 minute
- _gid: 1 day
Marketing
Blue Ocean Law Group uses Trackers to deliver personalised ads or marketing content, and to measure their performance.
Some of the advertising services used by the Owner adhere to the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, an initiative that facilitates responsible privacy practises across the digital advertising industry - providing Users with enhanced transparency and control over how their data are used for advertising tracking purposes. Users can customise their advertising preferences at any time by accessing the advertising preferences panel from within the cookie notice or via the relevant link on Blue Ocean Law Group.
Blue Ocean Law Group participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework and complies with its Specifications and Policies. Blue Ocean Law Group uses iubenda (identification number 123) as a Consent Management Platform.
Trackers managed by third parties
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HubSpot CRM (HubSpot, Inc.)
HubSpot CRM is a User database management service provided by HubSpot, Inc.
Personal Data processed: email address, phone number, Trackers and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss: 6 months
- __hssc: 30 minutes
- __hssrc: duration of the session
- __hstc: 2 months
- hubspotutk: 2 months
- messagesUtk: 2 months
How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent on Blue Ocean Law Group
Whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting or updating their preferences via the relevant privacy choices panel available on Blue Ocean Law Group.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences 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.
How to control or delete Cookies and similar technologies via your device settings
Users may use their own browser settings to:
- See what Cookies or other similar technologies have been set on the device;
- Block Cookies or similar technologies;
- Clear Cookies or similar technologies from the browser.
The browser settings, however, do not allow granular control of consent by category.
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.
Consequences of denying consent
Users are free to decide whether or not to grant consent. However, please note that Trackers help Blue Ocean Law Group to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, in the absence of the User's consent, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
Owner and Data Controller
James D. Ford
General Practice Lawyer | Founder & M.D.
Blue Ocean Law Group
c/- Work Club Level 8, 99 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Owner contact email: privacy@blueocean.law
Since the use of third-party Trackers through Blue Ocean Law Group 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 Blue Ocean Law Group.