What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
What types of cookies does Marina Mele’s site use?
This site may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, in order understand visitor behaviour and to create reports. This is statistical data about the users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
This site use cookies for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.
Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions, and they are used to collect information about how visitors use this site. This information is used to compile reports and to help improve the site.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.
Moreover, this site allows cookies of social plugins of several third parties. This enables a user to share content of the Website on certain social networks. These plugins also enhance the user friendliness of the Website. The (use of the) data collected by these third parties via the social plugins are exclusively determined by such third party. For information regarding the third party cookies, please read the respective third party’s policies.
Finally, this site also uses Mautic, a third party tool for marketing automation and analytic reports. You can find more information regarding their cookies here.
Hong will cookies stay on my device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
First and third party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Marina Mele’s site, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our site. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Marina Mele’s site, for example to help us understand how our site is being used.
How to control and delete cookies
Visit the following links if you want to delete cookies or disable your browser from receiving cookies. You can find out more information cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as www.allaboutcookies.org.