Use of cookies on museumofrackets.com
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text strings stored on your computer when you visit certain pages on the internet. To order products on museumofrackets.com, cookies must be enabled. If you do not wish to accept cookies, you can still browse the site and use it for research purposes. In most browsers, cookies are enabled, at the bottom you will find the information you need to change the cookie settings on your browser. Cookies are not harmful to your device. In the cookies we generate, we do not store personally identifiable information such as credit card details, but use encrypted information collected by them to improve your experience on the site. For example, they are useful to identify and resolve errors, or to determine relevant related products to show to the visitor while browsing. We provide you with this information as part of our efforts to comply with recent legislation, and to ensure our honesty and transparency regarding your privacy when using our website. We are working on further improvements regarding privacy and cookies on the site. More information about cookies can be found at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. Cookies can perform a number of functions, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and in general can improve the user experience. museumofrackets.com reserves the right to use cookies, with your consent where required by law or applicable regulations, to facilitate your navigation of this site and to personalise the information you see. museumofrackets.com also reserves the right to use similar systems to collect information about users of the site, such as IP address, type of internet browser and operating system used and/or web pages visited by a user, for statistical or security purposes. www.museumofrackets.com may collect this information to track the use of the site and improve certain aspects of it. Below is a brief illustration of how museumofrackets.com uses cookies and similar tools.
How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our site uses both proprietary and third party cookies for different purposes.
First party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function properly and do not collect any personally identifiable information.
Third party cookies used on our Web site are primarily used to understand how the Web site works, how you interact with our Web site, keeping our services secure, providing relevant advertisements to you, and all in all, providing you with a better user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our Web site.
Navigation cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the site and to use its features, such as accessing restricted areas of the website. Without these cookies, requested services such as shopping carts or e-billing cannot be provided. Strictly necessary cookies are used to store a unique identifier in order to manage and identify you as unique from other users who are currently visiting the site, so as to provide you with a consistent and accurate service.
Examples include:
- Remembering previous actions (e.g. entered text) when navigating backwards to a page in the same session;
- Managing and passing security tokens to different services within a website to identify the visitor’s status (e.g. registered or unregistered);
- Maintaining tokens for implementing restricted areas of the website;
- Routing customers to specific versions/applications of a service, as may be necessary during a technical migration;
Performance cookies
These cookies may be first-party museumofrackets. com or third-party, session or persistent, their use is limited to the performance and improvement of the website. These cookies collect information about how a visitor uses the site, such as the pages visited. These cookies do not collect information that can identify the user. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated in an anonymous form and is only used to improve the functionality of the site.
Some examples include:
- Web Analytics, the data collected is limited only to the operator’s use of the website, to manage the performance and structure of the website. These cookies may be third party cookies, but the information will only be used by the operator of the website visited;
- Affiliate tracking by museumofrackets.com partners – cookies are introduced by Partners and used by them solely to find out whether a user from another site has made a purchase of a product or service on museumofrackets. com;
- Error handling – Measurement of errors that occur on the site, usually this function will support service improvement or complaint handling and will usually be closely linked to web analytics;
- Testing different site page structures – Testing for variations in structure, usually using A/B or multi-variable testing, to ensure that a consistent appearance is maintained for the user of the site in current and subsequent sessions
Functional cookies
These cookies can be from museumofrackets.com or partners, and can be either session or persistent. These cookies are usually consequential to an action taken by the user, but may also be implemented in the provision of a service not explicitly requested but offered to the user. They can also be used to prevent the user from being offered again a service previously offered and refused. Furthermore, these cookies allow the site to remember user choices (such as user name, language, country of origin, etc.). The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track user behaviour on other sites.
Examples include:
- remembering settings that a user has applied to a website such as layout, font size, preferences, colour etc;
- remembering a choice so that they are no longer required to fill in a questionnaire.
- detecting whether a service has already been offered, such as offering a tutorial for subsequent visits to the website;
- Providing information so that an optional service such as offering a live chat session can work.
- Fulfilling a user request such as submitting a comment.
Third-party marketing/retargeting cookies
These cookies are used by museumofrackets.com’s partners in order to present you with advertising banners from museumofrackets.com when you are on other sites, showing you the latest products you have viewed on museumofrackets.com. While you are browsing museumofrackets.com, these cookies are also used to show you products that may be of interest or similar to products you have previously viewed, based on your browsing history. The use of these cookies does not imply the processing of personal data, but it may allow us to connect to your computer or other device and track the data saved: these cookies connect to the browser installed on your computer or other device used while browsing our site.
How can I disable cookies?
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can also choose not to accept them. We recommend that you do not disable this function, as this may prevent you from moving freely from one page to another and enjoying all the features of the site. If you do not wish your computer to receive and store cookies, you can change the security settings of your browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari etc.). However, please note that certain parts of our Site can only be used to their full extent if your browser accepts cookies; otherwise, you will not be able to add products to your shopping cart and purchase them (for example). Consequently, your choice to remove or not accept cookies may adversely affect your stay on our Site. If you wish to change your cookie settings by entering the settings of your various browsers, here are brief instructions on how to do this in the four most popular browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Click the ‘Tools’ icon in the top right corner and select ‘Internet Options’. In the pop-up window select ‘Privacy’. Here you can adjust your cookie settings.
Google Chrome
Click the wrench icon in the top right corner and select ‘Settings’. Now select ‘Under the hood’ and change the ‘Privacy’ settings.
Mozilla Firefox
From the drop-down menu in the top left corner select ‘Options’. In the pop-up window select ‘Privacy’. Here you can adjust your cookie settings..
Safari
From the drop-down settings menu in the top right corner select ‘Preferences’. Select ‘Security’ and here you can adjust your cookie settings.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage or disable third-party or marketing/retargeting cookies, visit www.youronlinechoices.com
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