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Understanding how and why we use cookies
Digital-witness.org use cookies to provide you with the best possible online shopping experience. This Cookie Policy aims to answer the following questions:
- What are cookies?
- What information is stored by a cookie?
- What do we use cookies for?
- What types of cookies do we use?
- Do we use third party cookies?
- What happens if I do not enable cookies?
- How can I control or delete cookies?
- What happens if I delete my cookies?
We have implemented a Cookie Policy as part of our initiative to comply with recent legislation, but also, to ensure that we are open and clear with you about what happens when you visit buymobiles.net.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to and placed on your device (e.g. a computer, smartphone, tablet, or any other internet-enabled device), by a website that you have visited. It enables a website to ‘remember’ who you are.
When you visit a site for the first time, a cookie is saved onto your device. The next time you visit that website, your device checks to see if a cookie has previously been downloaded from that website. If it finds a match, the information contained in that cookie is then sent back to the website. The website is then aware that you have visited it before.
Cookies make the interaction between you and the website, faster, easier and more efficient. Most websites you visit will use cookies to improve your experience of using the site, by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
If a website does not use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site. For example, without cookies enabled, when you enter your login details and move to another page, the website will not recognise you, so will not be able to keep you logged in. You’ll therefore have to log in again, every time you visit a new page on the site.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).
In some cases, the information found in the cookie will be used by the website to tailor the content it displays to you. Ever wondered how websites are able to offer customised, product recommendations? Amongst other things, they use cookies to determine what products you have previously purchased and look at product pages you have previously visited, to offer you a more personalised online shopping experience.
2. What information is stored by a cookie?
A cookie will usually contain:
- The name of the website from which the cookie has come from
- The ‘lifetime’ of the cookie (i.e. how long it will remain on your device for)
- A value, which is usually a randomly generated, unique number
When you visit Digital-witness.org, any cookies placed by ourselves, allow us to identify whether or not you have purchased from us before. These cookies do not contain personal information about you.
3. What do we use cookies for?
Digital-witness.org use cookies for a variety of reasons.
Some cookies are essential for the site to function, so we enable these cookies automatically when you arrive at the site. Other cookies allow us to provide the services and features that are most likely to meet your needs, and to customise our service to make your experience quicker and easier.
Cookies allow us to:
- Compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how you use our site – we cannot identify you personally from this information
- Prevent fraudulent activity and carry out other essential security
- Help develop Digital-witness.org to make it easier for you to use
By using Digital-witness.org, you agree that we can place cookies on your device.
Our cookies do not store any sensitive information about you, such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, payment details, password, or any other information that personally identifies you.
4. What types of cookies do we use?
There are many different uses for cookies, but they generally fall into the following main categories:
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around Digital-witness.org and use its features.
These cookies do not contain personal information about you; however, if you choose not to enable these cookies, it will affect the performance of the website, or parts of it.
Performance
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with Digital-witness.org by providing information about the pages visited, the time spent on the website, the journey taken throughout the site, etc. in addition to any issues experienced, such as error messages.
These cookies do not collect information about you – all of the information collected is anonymous and aggregated. It is only used to help us understand how to improve the performance of the website.
Functionality
These cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings that you saved, to improve the experience of using Digital-witness.org.
We shall always be transparent with you about what information we collect, what we do with it and with whom we share it.
If you choose not to enable these cookies, it will affect the performance and functionality of the website, or parts of it, and will restrict access to the website’s content.
Targeting / Advertising
Third party cookies are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They are used to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. In addition, they are also used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns featured on Digital-witness.org and other third-party websites.
These cookies are used to remember websites that you have visited and this information will be shared with other parties, including advertisers and agencies we work with.
5. Do we use third party cookies?
Third party advertising companies
Your use of our website may result in some cookies being stored that are not controlled by Digital-witness.org. This may occur when the Page you are visiting includes content displayed from a third party website, and will result in you receiving cookies from these third party services. However, no personal information will be stored in these cookies.
For example, these cookies may come from:
- YouTube or Facebook
These third party cookies are governed by the privacy policies of the entities placing the ads and are not subject to the Digital-witness.org’s Cookie Policy.
Social Networks
If you take the opportunity to ‘share’ Digital-witness.org content with friends through social networks – such as Facebook and Twitter – you will be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
6. What happens if I do not enable cookies?
We recommend that you choose to allow us to enable all cookies whilst browsing so that we can bring you the best possible experience and let you know about offers that could be right for you.
You can choose whether to let us enable all cookies when you visit Digital-witness.org (see ‘how can I control or delete cookies?’)
If you decide not to enable cookies, you will still be able to browse Digital-witness.org, but you will not be able to place an order through it. In addition, some other, key aspects of the site will not work on your device.
For this reason, we recommend that you ensure cookies are enabled.
7. How can I control or delete cookies?
Most web browsers are automatically set to accept cookies, but if you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from Digital-witness.org, you can use your web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) to do this. Please refer to the ‘Help’ menu of your preferred web browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. This will tell you how to stop your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether.
For information on how to manage cookies on your smartphone, tablet, or other internet-enabled device, please consult your device’s documentation, or any associated online help files.
If you use different devices to view and access the buymobiles.net website (e.g. a computer, smartphone, tablet, or other internet-enabled device), you will need to ensure that each web browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
8. What happens if I delete my cookies?
If you delete your cookies, you will have to update your preferences with us again. In addition, some aspects of our site will not work temporarily.
Further information about cookies
You can find out more information about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org