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Our Cookie Policy.

Last updated February 14, 2023.

This Cookie Policy describes how we, Islands to Cottages, are using cookies within our website at https://islandstocottages.com/.  By using our products and/or services, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy.

For more information on our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information when you visit our website, make a purchase and/or use our products and/or services, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

For more information on our Terms and Conditions when you visit our website at https://islandstocottages.com/ and regarding your use of our products and/or services, please refer to our Terms & Conditions Policy.

Foreword.

At Islands to Cottages, we like to keep things simple. However, due to business requirements, please read carefully the following thorough Cookie Policy highlighting several aspects of the behind the scene of this website regarding cookies. This Cookie Policy describes how our entity, also referred to as “Islands to Cottages”, “Us”, “Our”, “our Website” and “We”, handles cookies.

Our website is our platform for eCommerce. In order to fulfill our contract with you, the customer, we need to use third party providers to help provide our services, support the functionality of our website, and improve your experience as the customer. Our providers include —but are not limited to— our Web host Bluehost, our gateway payment provider PayPal, our translation plugin TranslatePress, our eCommerce platform provider WooCommerce and our website platform provider WordPress.org.

Reasons for Using Cookies.

Our third party providers use the various types of cookies for the reasons described above. They may be set to perform the functions as follow:

• Required cookies and tracking technologies are required to help websites work correctly or required to comply with the law (e.g., security requirements of data protection law). No consent is required to use these cookies.
• Analytics cookies and tracking technologies help understand how customers and visitors interact with websites. They provide information about areas of the website visited, time spent on the website, transactions performed, and error messages received. They allow to improve the performance of websites. They may collect your IP address but only for the purpose of identifying general locations of visitors and identifying fraudulent or spam traffic. First party analytics cookies may track user interactions with websites to collect information about how users use the website. This information is used to compile reports and to help them improve their Websites. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors.
• Advertising cookies and tracking technologies allow to carry out profiling activities in order to learn more about the users and offer them tailored advertising based on their behaviour on websites and to deliver content, including advertisements, relevant to your specific interests. The content may be delivered on the website or on third party websites or services. They allow us to better understand and improve the relevancy of advertisements. They may track personal information, including your IP address. Some third-party providers use cross-device tracking which allows them to provide you with relevant advertising on multiple devices by identifying browsing activity on your smartphones, tablets, desktop computers and other devices connected to the same IP address, or logged into the same account. For more information about behavioural advertising, please visit the Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• Functional cookies and tracking technologies allow websites to remember choices made to give you better functionality and a personalized experience.

Cookies In Use.

Cookies are inherent to the platform hosting our website and to the third party providers that allow our website to run. Islands to Cottages has to abide by their use to a certain extend in order to enhance our website functionality. Most Web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.

Cookies are technologies that are essentially small data files placed in the memory of your browser or computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices when you visit a website or view a message, allowing to record certain pieces of information during a visit or interaction with our site. The specific names and types of cookies, Web beacons–Small graphic images that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify users and their behaviour–and other similar technologies used may change from time to time. Cookies depend on specific features that are enabled on our store. The cookies are active when a user interacts with one of these features or to allow admin functions to be performed from within the store’s dashboard.

There are two types of cookies that may be used by our third party providers, which can remain on your device for different periods of time. Persistent Cookies help recognize the users. They are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing to remember preferences and actions across multiple sites and on multiple visits. Session Cookies expire at the end of your browser session. They allow to link your actions during a particular browsing session. They are both first party and third party cookies. First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting and Third-party cookies are set by a third party site separate from the site you are visiting. Some cookies are set directly by our third party providers and some are set by third parties with the permission of our third party providers, including web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts and other similar tracking technologies, to make the Website easier to use and to better tailor it to your interests and needs, as well as to enable the third parties’ features or functionalities to be provided through the website you are using.

Some cookies are defined as User Cookies, or strictly necessary cookies, meaning that the website will not be able to function properly without them. They are considered session cookies as they expire once the user logs out or exits the page. No consent is required from users who visit the site. Other cookies that may be used are Commenters Cookies, which are set when users leave a comment on a post. These can be classified as persistent cookies, they expire in almost a year after loading on the visitor’s system. Commenters cookies are only activated if the users give their consent to save the details.

Our Third Party Providers.

Bluehost.

Our website host, Bluehost, uses persistent cookies and session cookies, first party and third party cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts and other similar tracking technologies to make their websites easier to use and to better tailor them to interests and needs. For up-to-date information about the cookies used by Bluehost, please visit the Bluehost Cookie Policy.

PayPal.

Our gateway payment provider, PayPal, uses cookies and web beacons technologies to help provide a better, faster, and safer experience and for advertising purposes. PayPal uses both persistent cookies and session cookies. For up-to-date information about the cookies used by PayPal, please visit the PayPal Cookie Policy.

TranslatePress.

Our translation plugin, TranslatePress, uses cookies for better functionality. For up-to-date information about the cookies used by TranslatePress, please visit the TranslatePress Cookie Policy.

WooCommerce.

Our eCommerce provider, WooCommerce, uses cookies in a variety of ways. Some are used in the store front-end, where no personal information is stored, and some are used in the store dashboard. For up-to-date information about the cookies used by WooCommerce, please visit the WooCommerce Cookie Policy.

WordPress.

Our website builder, WordPress, uses users cookies as well as commenters cookies, for better functionality. For up-to-date information about the cookies used by WordPress, please visit the WordPress Cookie Policy.

International Users.

Please note that if you are visiting our website from the United Kingdom or EU, only required Cookies and similar tracking technologies, as described above, will be used on our website by default. If you would prefer not to receive personalized ads based on your browser or device activity, you may decide to opt-out so you no longer receive tailored advertisements. Please note that you may continue to see advertisements, but no longer tailored to your interests.

Opting-Out.

Cookies are managed on a specific basis at the website host level : if you manage your cookie preferences for one particular, you will have to manage your preferences separately when you visit the Website of a different particular. If you opt out of receiving a certain type of cookies, your browser will be associated with a generic opt-out cookie, therefore preventing us from associating non-personal information with your browser. This program is cookie-based so you may have to opt-out again in the following cases :

• You deleted your cookies
• You blocked cookies, including third party cookies
• You switched internet browsers
• You changed computers or devices
• You upgraded your browser

You are free to block, delete, or disable cookies if your device permits so and you can also manage them in your browser. Where possible, security measures are set in place to prevent unauthorized access to cookies and similar technologies. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies please visit your browser’s help file. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Internet browsers allow you to change general cookie settings thought the menu “Options” or “Preferences” in your browser. Please note, however, that if you set your browser to block or refuse all cookies, some features or functionalities of our websites might be limited, not function or be unavailable for you to use. For more information on how to manage your browser settings, please read the links below : 

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Edge
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari

Also, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties.

You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers without affecting how you visit or use our Website. For more information on opting out of Google’s use of cookies across all websites you use, visit this page. To provide you with more choice on how your data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an opt-out browser add-on, which is available here and enables you to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.

Do Not Track.

Some internet browsers include the ability to transmit “do not track” signals. Please note that pursuant to the rules and regulations set by our third party providers, and because no industry standard has yet been developed with respect to “do not track”, our website does not currently have the ability to process or respond to such “do not track” signals.

Changes To Our Cookie Policy.

Islands to Cottages might update this Cookie Policy from time-to-time to reflect changes in our practices and services, or for further operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. As the user, we highly recommend that you periodically revisit this page for any updates, and so that you are aware of the most recent changes in our Cookie Policy. We make every effort to notify our users of any policy changes but it is ultimately the user’s responsibility to be familiar with the latest version of all our policies.

Contact Us.

After reviewing this Policy, if you wish to receive further information regarding our Cookie practices or if you have any questions pertaining to our Cookie Policy, please contact us [Re: Cookie Policy].