WE USE COMMON TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, INCLUDING COOKIES
Where you have given your consent (where lawfully required), we collect personal information about users and visitors over time and across different websites when you use this website, platform, or service (the “Site”). We also have third parties that collect personal information this way. To do this, we use several common tracking tools, including cookies on our Site. Our vendors and partners may also use these tools. In this Ad and Cookie Policy, “we” and “us” refers to both Flare Marketplace, our vendors, and other parties that may use and place these tools on our Site. These tools may include cookies, web beacons, flash cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies. We use these tools for identification, analysis, to improve our Site, to improve and enable our marketing, to understand how you use our Site, and for advertising purposes.
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed and the time spent on our platform.
We use first and third party cookies on our platform and in our emails. First party cookies are cookies placed by us to collect information about you. However, certain cookies available on our platform and/or in our emails are placed by third party website operators. This means that the information about you collected by those third party cookies will be shared with the relevant third party. Please refer to the relevant third party website operator’s privacy notice for more information about how they may use such information.
For further details on cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ where you can find comprehensive information on cookies and similar technologies.
HOW LONG DO COOKIES LAST?
All cookies have expiration dates that determine how long they stay in your browser:
Session Cookies – these are temporary cookies that expire (and are automatically erased) whenever you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies – these usually have an expiration date and so stay in your browser until they expire, or until you manually delete them.
COOKIES USED ON OUR SITE
We may use the following types of cookies on our platform:
Essential Cookies – these are essential for the operation of the platform. Essential cookies include cookies such as login cookies and shopping cart cookies.
Functionality Cookies – these recognise you when you return to the platform, they remember your preferences and they provide enhanced, more personalised features.
Analytics/Performance Cookies – these, along with other information, are used to calculate the aggregate number of people using the platform and which features of the platform are most popular. This information is generally used to improve the platform.
Social Media Cookies – these are used to personalise your interaction with social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube. Such cookies recognise users of those social media sites when you view social media content on the platform. They also allow you to quickly share content across social media, through the use of simple “sharing” buttons. Some websites may also contain features that enable you to use your social media account to sign in and create/maintain an account with the website you are visiting and to enable the website operator to store your content. This involves the use of cookies.
Targeting Cookies (also known as Advertising Cookies) – these deliver adverts that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on the platform or another website and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
The table below sets out more information about the cookies we may use on our platform and the purposes for which they are used.
Google Analytics
These cookies enable us to store information such as the time you visit our platform, whether you have visited before and the website that you visited prior to visiting our platform. We use this tool to better understand how users interact with our Site.
For further information about Google Analytics please see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Flare Marketplace
These cookies enable us to improve the site’s functionality every time you log on. They recognise your login details, previous preferences and page loads and allow you to use the site more efficiently.
WHAT IS INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING?
Interest-based advertising or online behavioral advertising includes ads served to you after you leave our website, encouraging you to return. They also include ads we think are relevant based on your browsing habits or online activities. These ads might be served on websites or on apps. They might also be served in emails. We might serve these ads, or third parties may serve ads. They might be about our products or other companies’ products. Where legally required, we get consent to engage in interest-based advertising via cookies.
HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FOR INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING?
Interest-based ads are served using information gathered about you over time across multiple websites or other platforms. This might include apps.
To decide what is relevant to you, we use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties. We gather this information using the tracking tools described above, including cookies. For example, we or our partners might look at your purchases or browsing behaviors. We or our partners might also look at your location. We might look at these activities on our platforms or the platforms of others.
We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect. That might include past purchases made offline or online. Or, it might include online usage information.
CONSENT TO USE COOKIES
Non-essential Cookies – We may only store and access non-essential cookies on your device with your permission. You are not obliged to give consent to our use of non-essential cookies. Further, if you give your consent and then change your mind you can block or delete them (see below).
Essential Cookies – Please note that we do not need your consent to store and access essential cookies on your device, although you can still block or delete them (see below).
YOU CAN CONTROL CERTAIN TRACKING TOOLS
You can block the use of cookies altogether by clicking here and also by activating the relevant settings in your browser. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies. To control flash cookies, which we may use on certain websites from time to time, you can go here. Why? Because flash cookies cannot be controlled through your browser settings.
Please be aware that in order to use some parts of our platform you will need to allow certain essential or functional cookies. If you subsequently block or delete those cookies, some aspects of our platform may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our platform.
Our Do Not Track Policy: Some browsers have “do not track” features or tools that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to all of these signals.
Certain options you select are browser- and device-specific. Your selections are deleted whenever you clear your cookies or your browser’s cache.
OPTIONS REGARDING ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising program provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their online behavior recorded and used for certain advertising purposes. To opt out of certain uses of cookies for advertising purposes, click here to visit optout.abouads.info and here to visit optout.privacyrights.info.
Certain choices you make are both browser- and device-specific. Your selections are deleted whenever you clear your cookies or your browser’s cache.
COOKIES USED IN EMAILS
Please note that any emails you receive from us may contain cookies or similar technologies to help us to see if you have opened an email and understand how you have interacted with it. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email.
If you do not wish to accept cookies from any one of our emails, simply close the email before downloading any images or clicking on any links. You can also set your browser to restrict cookies or to reject them entirely. These settings will apply to all cookies whether included on websites or in emails.
In some instances, depending on your email or browser settings, cookies in an email may be automatically accepted (for example, when you've added an email address to your address book or safe senders list). Please refer to your email browser or device instructions for more information on this.