Cookie Notice

Cookie Notice

Last updated: 05/01/2025

This Cookie Notice (“Notice”), as part of our Privacy Policy, explains how we uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our SOE Platform, receive marketing emails, or use our Services. We use cookies mainly to improve and analyze your experience on our SOE Platform and for marketing purposes.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small data files that your browser places on your computer or device when you visit a website for recordkeeping and other purposes. If your browser is set to accept cookies, then your browser adds the text in a small file. The cookie is used to save information about the interaction between you and the website, such as login credentials, preferences, and any work in progress. Cookies allow the SOE Platform to remember valuable information that will make your use of the SOE Platform more convenient. The cookie file is automatically stored by your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Chrome) on the local hard drive or web-browsing device, to be later retrieved by the website on your next visit.

Cookies are widely used by companies in order to make their websites or services function, to enhance efficiency, and to obtain reporting information. Cookies can help a website provide a more user-friendly experience. Without them, you and we (as the service provider) would have no history of your web sessions and you would have to enter your information over and over. The cookies themselves cannot collect any information stored on your computer or your files.

Cookies set by us, as the website operator are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website operator are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable websites to provide third-party features or functionality (e.g., like advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites. Third parties’ use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.

WHAT KIND OF COOKIES DO WE USE?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons based on the type of cookies.

There are two kinds of cookies: “session” and “persistent.” Session cookies are temporary cookies that last only until you close the browser. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive or device until you erase them or they expire. Both session and persistent cookies may be used in connection with the SOE Platform.

Cookies can be classified into the following groups:

Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies

These cookies are required for technical reasons for our SOE Platform to operate, e.g., for log-in and to access secure areas. These cookies enable you to use the SOE Platform and its features and are important tools used to operate and maintain security protections of our SOE Platform. Except as indicated otherwise in this Cookie Notice, the cookies used by us are essential for the functioning and performance of our SOE Platform, will be deleted from your device once your browser-session has ended (session cookies). We will not use the information stored in essential cookies for any other purpose than as strictly necessary to provide you with the services and functionalities requested. Essential Cookies cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the SOE Platform will not then work. These cookies do not store personal data.

Tracking/Performance/Analytic Cookies

Analytic cookies help us understand how individuals use and interact with our SOE Platform, electronic communications, and Services. These cookies collect information as to which pages visitors go to most often, what region visitors are in, and what device they use. This data is aggregated and therefore anonymous and allows us to improve our website performance. We use third-party analytic cookies from Google Analytics, the web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.

Preference/Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices made by visitors (such as username, language, or region) and provide enhanced and more personalized features. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. These cookies are not essential for using and navigating the website, but without them certain functionality may be unavailable. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Advertising/Targeting Cookies

These are cookies used to deliver advertisements relevant to you and your interests. These cookies may include remarketing/retargeting cookies, which remember that you visited our SOE Platform after you leave and share that information with third-party vendors such as Facebook and Google. They do not store directly personal data but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will still see advertising but they may not be relevant to you.

In addition to the above cookies, our SOE Platform may use social media buttons, such as a Facebook or Twitter “share” or “like” buttons. These features may collect your IP address and page you are visiting on our SOE Platform, and they set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. You may be given the option by using these buttons to post information about your activities on our SOE Platform to a profile page of yours. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the relevant social media buttons.

USING COOKIES WITH YOUR CONSENT

Your continued use of our SOE Platform signifies your consent to the described cookie practices contained in this Notice. In addition, you have the option to withdraw your cookie consent(s) at any time by managing your cookie settings as set forth below or by contacting us as described in our Privacy Policy.

MANAGING YOUR COOKIE SETTINGS

One way to manage cookies, across all websites and not just ours, is through the settings of your Internet browser(s).  There is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. Because strictly necessary cookies are essential to deliver our SOE Platform and Services, you cannot refuse them.

Most browsers are set up to accept cookies as the default. You can modify your settings to generally refuse cookies, to delete cookies that have already been placed on your device, or to warn you before a cookie is placed. You need to ensure that each browser on each device (e.g., computer, smartphone, tablet) is modified to reflect your cookie preferences. Please refer to your browser instructions or to www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more about how to adjust or modify your browser settings. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our SOE Platform and access our Services, but functionality and performance could be restricted.

Below are links to the cookie controls for some of the more common web browsers:

Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

If your browser is not listed above, we suggest that you either look in your browser's help setting or search for “cookies” together with your browser name on the Internet.

Disabling Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. For businesses who participate in the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, you may visit their opt-out pages to learn more about how to opt out of receiving web-based personalized ads.

Google AdWords Cookies Opt-out: See https://adssettings.google.com/ for more information.

Google Analytics. As mentioned above, we use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information on your use of the SOE Platform. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve the SOE Platform. In order to collect this information, Google Analytics may set cookies on your web browser or mobile device or read cookies that are already there. Google Analytics may also receive information about you from apps you have downloaded, that partner with Google. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the SOE Platform or to another application which partners with Google is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service, the Google Privacy Policy , and Tracking Technologies Policy.  Please review those policies for information about how Google uses the information provided to Google Analytics and how you can control the information provided to Google.

If you have inquiries and need more information, please review our Privacy Policy or contact us by mail at:

The School of Entrepreneurship

Contractor Nation Corporation

33 Progress Avenue

Seymour, CT 06483

CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE NOTICE

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other technical, operational or legal reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Notice regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies. If required by applicable law, we will give you notice of material or substantive changes to this Cookie Notice. The date at the top of the Cookie Notice indicates when it was last updated.

If you have any questions about this Cookie Notice, you can contact us using the contact information provided in our Privacy Policy.