Cookie Policy for Essence and Ethos
This is the Cookie Policy for Essence and Ethos, accessible
from www.essenceandethos.com
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost
all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are
downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes
what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store
these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being
stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites
functionality.
For more general information on
cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of
reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry
standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the
functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you
leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case
they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of
cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for
how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality
of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually
result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.
Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Account
related cookies
If you create an account with us
then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general
administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however
in some cases they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences when
logged out.
- Login
related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged
in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in
every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or
cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features
and areas when logged in.
- Email
newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email
subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already
registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid
to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Orders
processing related cookies
This site offers e-commerce or
payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is
remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
- Surveys
related cookies
From time to time we offer user
surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful
tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use
cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you
with accurate results after you change pages.
- Forms
related cookies
When you submit data to through a
form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set
to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site
preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great
experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences
for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences,
we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you
interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use
cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which
third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site
uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted
analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use
the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may
track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you
visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google
Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- From time to
time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site
is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be
used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site
whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the
most.
- The Google
AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to
serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that
a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google
AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
- We use
adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for
further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site
are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts
where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting
similar things that may be of interest.
- We also use
social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect
with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following
social media sites including (Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter),
will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your
profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various
purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things
for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't
sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in
case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However, if you are still looking
for more information then, you can contact us through one of our preferred
contact methods:
- Email:
info@essenceandethos.com
By visiting this link: www.essenceandethos.com