Cookie Policy for Website and Blog Tips
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 the this site. Therefore
it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
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 afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged
out.
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.
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.
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.
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 solution 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.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site
so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may
track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit
which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
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
optimisations our users appreciate the most.
As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about
how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as
such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is
important to you as it means that we can accurately make business
predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs
to ensure the best possible price.
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 behavioural 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.
In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you
tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social
media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you
with content that we feel may be of interest to you.
Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies
simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through
one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and
where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that
they may provide you for making a purchase.
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; Facebook, Twitter,
StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg and those available through 'Add This'
share facility, 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: ponychitchatinfo@gmail.com
