Cookie Policy for Ariana’s Yard

Most modern websites use cookies and Ariana’s Yard is no exception. As long as these cookies are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of them when you first visit our website. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your user experience. Here we explain how our site uses cookies and which information is stored in a cookie. We also explain how you can prevent these cookies from being stored in your browser, however, keep in mind that doing this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of our website’s functionality. For more general information on cookies see this Webopedia article on Cookies.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, you will see a banner at the bottom of the page that will ask you to accept the cookies on our website. If you click accept, you are granting us permission to use all cookies for this and for your future visits to our website. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site, you can click on settings on the said banner and disable all cookies, or you can learn how to disable them in other ways below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

How to disable 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. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings in your browser. See instructions for doing so in Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.

It may be that your concerns about cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

Cookies set by our website

Email and newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter 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. Newsletter related cookies will only be set if you subscribe to our newsletter.

We also offer an option to subscribe to posts or comments on a post which can also set cookies so that our website remembers your choice. Both subscriptions require your confirmation first by checking either “Notify me of follow-up comments by email” or “Notify me of new posts by email”, and then by confirming the subscription through the email you receive. As with the newsletter subscription, you also have an option to unsubscribe from these emails by clicking “unsubscribe” in any email you receive.

Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.

Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form, such as a contact form or comment form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. These cookies are not set automatically, and you need to accept them before they are set.

If you would like to set the cookies that remember your entries for the comment form, so you don’t need to enter the same details every time you submit a comment, then you need to check “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment” before submitting the comment.

Cookies preferences cookies (That’s right! 😊)

We provide the functionality to set your preferences for how the cookies on this site run 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 our website. You can choose not to set these cookies, but you will then need to set your cookie preferences every time you visit our website.

Cookies from other providers

Google analytics cookies

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies stored on your computer to analyse your use of our website. The information generated is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be shortened beforehand within member states of the European Union or European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to us. The IP address provided by Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can deactivate Google Analytics by using this browser add on: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link . An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

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For more information on Google Analytics cookies see their website.

Social media buttons

We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, 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

If you need more information about our use of cookies you can contact us by email: tadeja@arianasyard.com