Cookie Policy
At Hound Hugger DIY™, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use data related to you. This cookie policy explains what cookies are, the different types of cookies, how we use them and how you may control your cookies.
In our Privacy and Terms Statement, we state that we use cookies. By continuing to use our site and our services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes described in this policy.
What Are Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous, unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Once you have closed the browser or navigated away from the website, the cookie will no longer be accessed. If you request that the website “remembers” you when you return, then the cookie will remain on your computer and be sent back to the website the next time you visit it from the same computer using the same web browser, or else after your session ends your computer will automatically delete the cookie.
The use of cookies is common practice with almost all professional websites and allows our site and our services to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful to you. Note: You can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How We Use Cookies
Cookies are used by our site and our services for a variety of reasons detailed below.
- Email newsletter This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Orders processing This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
- Surveys From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
- Forms When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
- Account If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
- This site also uses Facebook advertising tracking pixels to help us know who to target in relation to our website audience. This means that if you land on any page at houndhuggerdiy.com, you may be targeted with one or more of our ads on Facebook. This is industry standard and you can always choose to ignore our ads from within your Facebook account.
- Desktop notifications are also optional and can be turned on or ignored during your first visit to houndhuggerdiy.com
- Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
- As we sell products, it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites such as: Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You can delete and refuse cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that adjusting cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.
Unfortunately in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are required to provide a service that you use.
More Information
You can learn more about cookies by visiting these third-party websites:
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
- AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/