What are Cookies?
A “cookie” is a small piece of information stored on your device when you visit a website. The cookie allows the website to remember you on each return and how you’ve used the site. A cookie can be either a “persistent” or a “session cookie.” A “persistent” cookie remains for a specified period set for that cookie. A “session” cookie is assigned only for the duration of your visit to our website and expires automatically when you close your browser. If you want to learn more about cookies, you can visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org (Note: These links are not operated by us and may open a new browser window or tab). If you are in the European Union, you can find more information at blogtobehealthy.com.
Some of the tracking technologies used on the website include, but are not limited to, the following (additional tracking technologies may be developed or methods not listed here):
- Cookies and local storage: Small files with a string sent to your device’s browser to uniquely identify your browser or store information on your device. Our website may use HTTP cookies, HTML5 cookies, Flash cookies, and other types of cookie technology to store information on local storage. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser.
- Pixel Tags/Web Beacons: Small graphic files allowing us and third parties to monitor service usage and collect usage data. They may capture information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page with the tag, the URL of the page where the tag is displayed, the time (and duration) the page with the tag was viewed, the browser type that accessed the pixel tag, and the identification number of any cookies previously placed on that computer by the server.
- Embedded Scripts: Program code collecting information about your interactions with the site, such as the links you click on.
- ETag or Entity-Tag: A feature of the browser cache, an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL.
- Browser Fingerprint: Involves collecting and analyzing information on your computer, such as your operating system, plugins, system fonts, and other data, for identification purposes.
- Detection Technologies: Technologies, including applying statistical probability to datasets, attempting to identify or make assumptions about users and devices (e.g., that a user of multiple devices is the same user).
- LiveRamp: When using our website, we may share information collected from you, such as your email address (in hashed, non-identifiable format), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with our partner LiveRamp Inc. and its affiliated companies (“LiveRamp”). LiveRamp may use a cookie in your browser, comparing your shared information with its online and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to establish a connection between your browser and the information in these other databases. We may also provide email addresses, IP addresses, and advertising identifiers to LiveRamp, which uses this information to establish a connection between your device and its databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally to enable interest-based content or advertising across your online experience (e.g., cross-device, web, email, and in-app) by third parties not affiliated with our website. These third parties may, in turn, associate demographic or interest-based information with your browser.
- Flash: A Flash cookie is a data file deposited on a device via the Adobe Flash plug-in and can be embedded or downloaded by you on your device. These cookies can serve various purposes, such as enabling a Flash feature and storing your settings.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes. For example, cookies are used to enable certain features of the website, enhance security and detect fraud, improve website functionality, save your preferences, or count the number of people viewing a website. We also use them to track what you’ve done on the website and to make online advertising more relevant to you.
We receive data from you as part of the communication connection itself through the standard electronic greeting between your computer and our servers. This information typically consists of network routing (where it came from), computer information (browser type), internet protocol address, date and time. Cookies (including registration forms) are used by other parts of the website to collect information about your usage of the website and facilitate subsequent visits. Cookies on the website may collect the following information: a unique identifier, user settings, and profile information used for personalizing displayed content.
Cookies themselves do not contain personally identifiable information (“PII”). They only have a unique alphanumeric identifier in your browser. In many cases, we may not be able to link the information collected through the use of a cookie to you. However, you may potentially link this information with you and your personal data, such as when you sign in or subscribe to a newsletter.
We may also engage third parties to track and analyze non-personally identifiable website data and deliver advertisements. For this purpose, we may allow third parties to place cookies on users’ devices, provided it is legally permissible, and you have the right to disable the website. We use the collected data to manage and improve website quality and analyze website usage. These third parties are required to use your data in accordance with this cookie policy and our privacy policy. We will record all such disclosures and make all reasonable efforts to ensure that these third parties do not use your personal data for a purpose not expressly provided for here.
We have categorized our cookies into the following types so that you can better understand why we need them:
- Essential: These cookies are essential to provide you with our services and enable you to use some of their features on the website. For example, they allow you to log into secure areas of our website and quickly load the content of pages you requested. Without these cookies, the services you requested cannot be provided, and we use these cookies only to provide you with these services.
- Analytics and Performance: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic on our website and our services, as well as the use of our website by users. The collected information does not identify an individual visitor. The information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages they visited, the time of day they visited the website, whether they visited the website before, and other similar information. We use this information to operate our services more efficiently, collect comprehensive demographic information, and monitor the activity level of our services. For this purpose, we use Google Analytics, which uses its own cookies to improve the functionality of our services.
- Functionality: These cookies allow our website to remember the decisions you’ve made when using our services, such as your language settings and changes you’ve made to other parts of our websites or services that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalized experience and prevent you from re-entering your settings each time you visit our website.
- Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used when you share information about a social media share button or a “like” button in our services or link your account or interact with our content on or through a social media website such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The social network records that you have done this.
- Targeting and Advertising: Used to share some information with third parties we advertise with so we know how you came to our website. We may also use cookies to identify the parts of the website that interest you. We then use this information to show you ads and pages that we believe may also be of interest to you, to adapt the way we communicate with you, or to tailor the content of the messages we send you. If you prefer, you can choose not to participate. Customizing content means it contains information that reflects the interest you have shown in the content of our websites or offers or promotions you may be interested in, and improves how we respond to your needs.
In addition to the cookies we use on our website, we also use cookies and similar technologies in some emails and notifications we send to you. This helps us understand whether you opened the email and how you interacted with it. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies are also set when you click on a link in the email.
Cookies and You
To register for information or services with BUENO, cookies must be enabled in your internet browser. Some of the popular browsers (and links to manage your cookies in each of them) are:
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Safari
- Google Chrome
Please check your browser and device for accurate and up-to-date information. If you do not enable cookies, you can still browse our website. However, this restricts some features of our website and your capabilities. You can, however, allow cookies from specific websites by turning them into “trusted sites” in your web browser.
Controlling Cookies
You can configure your browser to notify you when a cookie is being used. You can also receive information about the duration of the cookie and the server to which your data will be returned. You can then choose to accept or decline the cookie. Additionally, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies or only accept cookies that are returned to the originating server.
You can accept or decline cookies at any time, except for essential cookies (which serve to make our website function efficiently). You can enable or disable cookies in your browser. If you want to restrict or block cookies from a website, including this website, you can do so through the web browser settings of each device you use to access the internet.
For information on controlling and deleting cookies, including a variety of browsers, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Some services may not work or have more limited functionality if your browser does not accept cookies.
For specific cookies running on our website, you can find more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.
For more information on protecting your data by Google, visit: www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
You can prevent the use of Google Analytics in connection with the use of our services by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available through this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
Flash cookies can be set at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html. Adjusting the Flash privacy settings on your device may cause some features of the services to not function properly.
If you want to disable receiving cookies in various advertising networks, you can find more information and instructions on the Network Advertising Initiative website at www.networkadvertising.org. You can also disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and targeted advertising by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. To disable targeted advertising from LiveRamp, please click here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/.
Even if you delete cookies from companies listed in the above links, not all companies offering online behavioral advertising are included in this list. Therefore, you may continue to receive cookies and personalized ads from companies not included in the list.
If you do not want to accept cookies from any of our emails, you can choose not to download images or click on a link. You can also configure your browser to restrict or reject cookies entirely. These settings apply to all cookies, whether they are contained in websites or emails. Depending on the email or browser settings, cookies in an email may sometimes be automatically accepted (e.g., if an email address is added to the address book or safe sender list). For more information, refer to your device’s or email browser’s instructions (contact@blogtobehealthy.com).