What is a cookie?
A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a website and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer’s memory. It is designed to remember things that you have done on a website, such as the pages you have viewed or the links you have clicked on. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).
Are there different categories of cookie?
The cookies used by our website, or that may be used in the future, are classified as follows:
- Strictly necessary
- Performance
- Functionality
- Targeting
An explanation of each category and the cookies that we use are detailed below.
Strictly necessary
Strictly necessary cookies are sometimes needed for you to move around a website and fully use its features, such as automatically signing in to protected areas.
The Dragonfire Glass website currently uses strictly necessary cookies.
Performance
Performance cookies gather information on how you have used a website, such as the length of time you spent on a page or how you moved from one page to another. This information is collected anonymously.
The Dragonfire Glass website currently uses performance cookies.
Functionality
Functionality cookies record choices you have made and allow a website to tailor its content to you, for example by remembering your location preference. Functionality cookies may also take the form of Flash cookies, which are stored in your Adobe Flash Player rather than on your web browser.
The Dragonfire Glass website does not currently use functionality cookies
Targeting
Targeting cookies are used to work out what advertising might be most relevant to you, based on the areas you have looked at on a website and your IP address geo-location.
The Dragonfire Glass website does not currently uses targeting cookies.
Embedded Content
We may embed photos and video content from other sources such as Slideshare or YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content, you could be presented with cookies from these websites. Dragonfire Glass does not control the distribution of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information.
The Dragonfire Glass website currently uses embedded third party content.
What cookies do Dragonfire Glass use?
Strictly necessary
WooCommerce. This is the online store we use to sell our products on the website. We use WooCommerce to enable you to add items to a shopping basket and check out online.
Performance
Google Analytics. This is a free tool offered by Google that generates statistics about visitors to a website. We use Google Analytics to understand how our site is being used in order to improve the user experience. All data is collected anonymously.
Managing cookies
By continuing to use this site we assume you are happy for with the way we use cookies. If you are not happy we would recommend using your browsers “Private Browsing” mode whilst viewing our site. This is called “Incognito” in Google Chrome, “InPrivate” in Internet Explorer and “Private Browsing” in Safari and Mozilla Firefox.
If you wish to find out more about cookies, or how to refuse cookies, please visit the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s website at www.allaboutcookies.org for further information.
Online privacy
You may also want to read our privacy policy, which explains how and when we use your personal data.