Our Use of Cookies

 

Thank you for visiting our website (“Site”).  Finding Chantel is committed to treating the personal and corporate information of our Site users, customers, and vendors with respect and sensitivity.  This Cookie Policy (“Policy “) explains how Finding Chantel and our website use “cookies” and web server logs.  This Policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use

 

By visiting our Site and providing your Personal Data to us and/or continuing to use our Site or any of our services, you accept and consent to the practices described in this Policy and in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By continuing to use our Site, you are deemed to consent to our use of the cookies described in this Policy.  If you do not consent to Finding Chantel using cookies as described in this Policy, then you may block our use of cookies by pressing the decline button.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website,

Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website.

Personalization – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you,

Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally,

Shopping – we use cookies where they are essential for the operation of our Site, such as to enable you to use our shopping basket function when purchasing products and services.

Advertising – We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you,

Targeting – we also use cookies to record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our advertising more relevant to your interests, and we may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

 

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome),

 

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox),

 

http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera),

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer),

 

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari), and

 

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

 

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our site. Some features of our site may cease to be available to you.

 

Most of our cookies expire within 30 days, although some of our analytics cookies may persist longer.

 

Updated January 18th 2024