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Cookies Policy

Which cookies require consent?

There are different types of cookies. Some cookies enhance the user experience by remembering user login information, holding times in the shopping cart, or saving user account settings (essential or technical cookies). However, some cookies can follow users around the internet across other websites to understand one’s browsing behavior or track one’s movements (non-essential cookies). Such cookies are what privacy laws seek to regulate. Some examples of cookies that require consent include:

  • Cookies that are used for direct marketing;
  • Cookies that are used to track users’ behavior across multiple websites;
  • Cookies that are used to compile a profile of a user’s interests, habits and preferences;
  • Third-party cookies, in other words, cookies placed on your website by someone other than the owner of the site you are visiting;
  • Socially shared content, for example, if someone shares content from your website on Facebook, or tweets a link to it; and
  • First-party cookies that are used for tracking.