Cookie Policy

Effective Date: September 1, 2023

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Our Website uses Cookies (defined below) that are small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or any other device you use to access our Website (referred to collectively as your "Device") that allow us to record certain pieces of information about you whenever you visit or interact with our Website and/or use our Services. Capitalized terms used in this Cookie Policy that are not defined herein, shall have the same meanings ascribed to them in our Privacy Policy.

 

This Cookie Policy may change from time to time without prior or further notice to you. By disabling any such Cookies, you may not be able to fully access our Website. Details have been provided below. 

 

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WHAT ARE COOKIES?

“Cookies” are small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or Device when you visit our Website. Cookies store specific information about your preferred settings (like language preference), products you prefer, and any other data that our Website needs when interacting with your browser. They may also include web beacons, which are small graphic images (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") that may be included on our Website or with the provision of our Services to identify our users and their behaviors and similar technologies that store information in your browser or Device utilizing local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software methods. 

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THE TYPES OF COOKIES THAT WE USE. 

We do not use Cookies to store Personal Data. Therefore, our Cookies cannot be traced back to any individual user. Once a Cookie is activated, it is given an ID number. Such ID number is solely used for internal reference purposes and to provide you with tailored advertisements and/or notification of offers that may be suited to your unique preferences. Our goal is thereby to provide you with a tailored experience which is best suited to your specific shopping preferences.

 

Cookies from specific business partners may be permitted for advertising purposes. These Cookies may be stored on your Device when you visit our Website. As with our Cookies, these third-party Cookies will not collect and/or store Personal Data. This will be done completely anonymously by randomly assigned user ID numbers. Therefore, this data will never be pooled with any Personal Data you may have shared with us. Third-party Cookies have the sole purpose of allowing our business partners to advertise products that may be of interest to you.

We may use any of the following types of cookies:

1. Session cookies. these cookies are deleted at the end of your browser session and are used to enable you to use our site and its features.

2. Analytics cookies. these cookies enable us to analyze how you are using our site and come up with strategies to make your shopping experience even better.

3. Customer preference cookies. we use these cookies to remember your product and account preferences to offer you an even more personalized shopping experience. To be able to do this, though, these cookies may remain on your computer even after you have quit the browser.

4. Customer targeting and advertising cookies. we use these cookies to show you ads that are relevant to you based on your preferences. These cookies also enable us to control the number of times you view an ad and gauge the efficacy of our marketing campaigns

 

 

WHEN ARE COOKIES USED?

When you visit or interact with our Website, we or our authorized third-party service providers may use Cookies to collect and store information about you, to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience and for advertising and marketing purposes.

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Our Cookies have different functions. They are either necessary for the functioning of our Website, ability to deliver to you services, helping us improve our performance, giving you extra functionalities, or offering you relevant and targeted advertisements and marketing material. The Cookies that we use either remain on your Device only for as long as your browser is active (which expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to observe your actions during that particular browser session only) or for a longer period of time (in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple websites).

 

Our Website may use technology from third party service providers such as Alphabet, Facebook etc. through which the data is collected and stored for marketing and optimization purposes. The user profiles are pseudonymized while cookies may be used for enabling recognition of the Internet browser. The data collected is not however used without the express consent of the user concerned. The collected data will not identify the visitors of this Website and will not be collated with personal data on the pseudonym holder. The permission for data recording and storage may at any time be cancelled with on-going effect.

 

Our Website may use re-targeting, which may make our online offering more interesting for you. Re-targeting is a means whereby we can advertise recently viewed items and/or related products to you and will give us information about recently viewed and/or related products on any business partner’s website. We do this by analyzing user behavior from data collected by our Cookies. The information collected is anonymous, and no Personal Data will be stored.

 

 

SECURITY

Wherever possible, we have security measures in place to prevent unauthorized access to our Cookies. A unique identifier ensures that only we and/or our authorized third-party service providers have access to the data transmitted from such technologies. For the avoidance of doubt, third-party service providers are companies that help us with various aspects of our business, such as our Website operations, advertisements, and other tools. We use some authorized third-party service providers to help us to serve you relevant advertisements and/or marketing material on our Website. These service providers may also place Cookies on your Device. 

 

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DISABELING COOKIES

It is not necessary to accept Cookies in relation to our Website and you are always free to block, delete, or disable Cookies if your browser or Device will allow you to. However, if you decide to block, delete, or disable our Cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website. You may also be required to re-enter your account information more frequently during your browsing session. For more information on how you can block, delete, or disable these technologies, please review your browser or Device settings. You will need to set your preferences for each browser that you use separately. Different browsers will offer different options and settings for functionality.

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QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

Should you have any questions or comments regarding the Cookies that we use, please do not hesitate to email us at hello@wie-socialize.com.