Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use may include:
Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting or made your choice of the use of cookies so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the us for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics(for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on TermsFeed website article.
We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:
Use of Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences, for example, your choice of language or region.
Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Terminology to help you understand cookies
First and Third-party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies set by our website, i.e. the website displayed in your URL window.
Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than our website. We may use third parties’ cookies and these third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. Please see our cookies table for more information.
Session and Persistent cookies
Session cookies are cookies which expire once you close your web browser. Persistent cookies are cookies which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them. Please see our cookies table for more information.
Cookies control and disabling cookies
You can refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser or by clicking on the cookies consent mechanism. However, if you block certain cookies, such as strictly necessary cookies for the functioning of our website, you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
You can use your browser to delete cookies that have already been stored. However, the steps and measures required vary depending on the browser you use. If you have any questions, please use the Help function or consult the documentation for your browser or contact its creator for support.
To find out more about cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Contact
Thank you for reading our Cookie Notice. If you have any queries concerning our use of your personal information, please email info@arabesqdesigns.com
Cookies table
Cookie | Name | First or third party | Purpose | Type | Expiry | Links to third party privacy notice |
Google analytics | _ga
_gat _gid |
Third party | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.
_ga is used to distinguish users and track website interactions (analytics) _gat Used to distinguish users for tracking purposes in Google Analytics. _gid used to throttle the request rate to Google Analytics (limits data sent).
This includes tracking consumer interactions on the website and storing this information such as on page visits, scrolls, outbound clicks, site searches, form interactions. |
Persistent (These cookies remain stored on the user’s device after a session ends or even after a user closes the web browser.) | Date retention is
14 months
&
Event data retention is 2 months |
https://privacy.google.com/?hl=en# |
Google Ads | _gcl_au
IDE AWSELB |
Third party | _gcl_au
used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertising efficiency across websites.
IDE used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the user’s actions on the website after viewing or clicking an ad.
AWSELB Used to balance the load and ensure the site runs smoothly during ad delivery.
Essentially, the cookie tracks the following: customer searches on google to reach the website and selecting those keywords that link to the website.
We use your activity on Google – like sites you visit, apps you use, and things you’ve searched for, and associated information like location – to deliver better, more helpful experiences across our products, including ads. |
Persistent (These cookies remain stored on the user’s device after a session ends or even after a user closes the web browser.) | Google Ads stores customer data for 11 years | https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en-US |