www.craftaholique.com uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or tablet. In general, cookies on this site are used to improve performance, track links to affiliate partners and provide anonymised tracking data to Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better, but you may wish to disable them.
The cookies this site uses include:
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that enable this site to function as it does. An example of a cookie like this is called “DYNSRV” which is used for load balancing to manage server traffic demand. Another example is “wordfence_verifiedHuman”, this is a security cookie which identifies whether a visitor is a bot or human.
www.craftaholique.com wouldn’t work properly without strictly necessary cookies, therefore they cannot be disabled.
Persistent (first-party) cookies
These are cookies that aren’t strictly necessary but are used for performance and can improve your browsing experience. Persistent cookies stick around for a while, so when you turn your computer off and on again, they will still be there. Each persistent cookie has an expiry date and after that date is reached, it will be destroyed by your computer.
An example of this type of cookie is “_ga”. This is a cookie associated with Google Analytics, an anonymous data tracking system this site uses to determine how many people visit this site, the country they are from and which pages they are landing on. This information helps www.craftaholique.com improve content by seeing which pages are popular and which are not. Your IP address will be collected, but in an anonymous form so that it is not personally identifiable. This data will not be combined with any other Google data.
Learn how Google Analytics protects data here.
Another example of a persistent cookie is “AWSESS”. This is a tracking cookie from an advertising intermediary called AWIN. In most of the blog posts on www.craftaholique.com, you’ll find links to websites where you can buy different materials to make craft projects using this site’s affiliate links (which are always disclosed). If you purchase something using one of these links, this site will earn a small commission, at no cost to you. This is one of the ways www.craftaholique.com earns money, to keep it up and running. This cookie is simply used to remember that you came from this site when you make a transaction.
Read AWIN’s privacy policy here to learn more about their practices.
Third-party cookies
Many social sharing buttons automatically share the personal data of website visitors to social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter through the use of web beacons and third-party cookies. This sharing of data can happen even without a social sharing button having been clicked on. Such platforms can then track your browsing and serve you targeted ads.
This site doesn’t enable the setting of third-party cookies. On www.craftaholique.com, a GDPR compliant social sharing tool has been installed that respects your privacy, meaning that you can browse this site without leaving a digital trail. You won’t be making contact with the social media networks until you actively click on a button to share this site’s content.
www.craftaholique.com has no control over any third-party website and it isn’t responsible for your data and privacy if you click through to another website from here. Please take time to read third-party websites’ privacy and cookie policies to understand how your personal data will be used.
How to disable persistent or third-party cookies
You can disable cookies in your web browser. For example, in Google Chrome, follow these steps:
- Click on History
- Then click on Clear browsing data
- Then select Cookies and other site data
In this same screen, you can also enable an option to send a “Do Not Track” request with your browsing traffic.
This cookie policy was last updated on 17th May 2018.
