Cookie Policy

Our website use technologies that enhance user friendliness and engagement, to keep the website operating as smoothly as possible and to provide web services and functionalities for each visitor. Examples of these technologies are cookies, pixel tags, local storage and scripts (hereinafter collectively referred to as “cookies”). This cookie policy describes which cookies Tweedmaker.com is using and for what purposes.

Purposes of use of cookies

Cookies are used for a variety of purposes. For example, they enable visitors to use our shopping services, they calculate web statistics, provide online advertising and they improve visitors’ experience on our websites. As your privacy is important to us, we would like to inform you about which cookies are used on our websites, as well as why we use them.

By clicking “Agree” or by continuing to browse our websites without adjusting your browser settings to block cookies you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

We may use the following cookies on our websites:

Functional cookies: these cookies are essential in order to ensure that our website operates properly. They are used to save preferences, detect misuse of our website and services and to distribute the load on our servers, which keeps our website available. Certain services you requested cannot be provided without these cookies.

Web statistics cookies: these cookies are used to determine which parts of our website visitors are most interested in. This enables us to make the structure, navigation, and content of our website as user friendly as possible. Specifically, these cookies are used to (i) keep track of the number of visitors to our web pages; (ii) keep track of the amount of time each user spends on our web pages; (iii) determine the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of our website; (iv) assess which parts of the website need to be changed; and (v) optimise the website. Software from third parties (Google Analytics) may be used for these purposes.

Google Analytics uses "performance cookies" to analyse how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States, a country that does not offer an equivalent level of protection of privacy to that applicable in the European Union. This website uses Google Analytics with the expansion 'anonymiseIp()'; therefore, only abbreviated IP addresses will be further processed, so that a direct connection to the individual user is eliminated. Your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google (i.e. the last octet of the IP address will be anonymised) within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google Server in the United States and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services to website operators relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted under Google Analytics by your browser with other data held by Google. You may prevent the use of Google Analytics by disabling cookies in the browser's set up screen. You may prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software. You may prevent Google from recording the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to your use of the website (including your IP address), or processing these data by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in available through Google at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 

Google's Privacy Notice is located at http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: <a href=”javascript:gaOptout()”>Disable Google Analytics</a>.

Social media cookies: our websites may integrate certain third-party plug-ins (such as a Facebook “like” button). Even if you do not click on these plug-ins, they may collect information about you, such as your IP address and the pages that you view. These plugins are governed by the privacy policy of the third party providing them.

Advertising cookies: our websites may also enable third-party tracking mechanisms to collect data over time and across unaffiliated websites for use in interest-based advertising. For example, third parties may use the fact that you visited the website(s) to target online ads for tweedmaker.com  products to you on non tweedmaker.com websites. In addition, our third-party advertising partners might use information about your use of the services to help target Tweedmaker.com advertisements based on your online behaviour in general.

We or our third-party service providers also may use collected information to establish connections among related web browsers and devices (such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and TVs) for targeted advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes. These third parties may match your browsers or devices if you log into the same online service on multiple devices or if your devices share similar attributes that support an inference that they are used by the same person or household. This means that information about your activity on websites or apps on your current browser or device may be combined with information collected from your other browsers or devices.

Other cookies: this category includes cookies that do not fit into one of the above cookie categories. One example of this is the bundling of several of the cookies via Google Tag Manager. Another is reporting on the actions of users whom have clicked on a Tweedmaker.com advertisement.

Facebook advertising cookies: Facebook places third party persistent cookies on our website to enable the display of interest-based ads (i.e. relating to your visit to our site) when you’re on Facebook. Click here for more information including how to opt out. Click here for Facebook’s full privacy policy.

 

Privy cookies: Privy places persistent cookies (up to 180 days) in order to collect information such as number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, referral website links, navigation history through the website and other anonymous, de-identified statistics. Click here for more information.

 

Cookie-warning cookie: This cookie takes note of whether you are happy to accept cookies on this website based on your response to the message which appeared when you first visited the website. This persistent cookie will remember your preference for up to 90 days.

Shopify cookies : Shopify provide our shopping cart technology. Shopify place session and persistent cookies (up to two years) to record statistics regarding your visit to our site and to store the contents of your shopping cart.

If you have questions about our Cookie Policy please write to our data protection officer at: tonya@tweedmaker.com

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