Important Notice: Please Read Carefully Before Using this Website: Swallowbay.com (the “Website”) uses cookies to store information on your computer. This policy explains how we use cookies and may be amended, from time to time, without notice. To ensure that you are using this Website with full and up-to-date information of how we use cookies, please review this policy regularly as any amended policy will be updated on the Website. By using this Website, you agree to the placement of cookies on your computer in accordance with the terms of this policy. If you do not wish to accept cookies from this Website, please either disable cookies or refrain from using this Website.
1. What are Cookies?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file on the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can recognize you when you revisit and remember certain information about you. This can include which pages you have visited, choices you have made from menus, any specific information you have entered into forms, and the time and date of your visit.
2. Types of Cookies
There are two main types of cookies:
Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that expire at the end of a browser session; that is, when you leave the site. Session cookies allow the website to recognize you as you navigate between pages during a single browser session and allow you to use the website most efficiently. For example, session cookies enable a website to remember that a user has placed items in an online shopping basket.
Persistent cookies: in contrast to session cookies, persistent cookies are stored on your equipment between browsing sessions until expiry or deletion. They therefore enable the website to “recognize” you on your return, remember your preferences, and tailor services to you.
In addition to session and persistent cookies, there may be other cookies that are set by the website that you have chosen to visit, such as this Website, to provide us or third parties with information.
3. Our Use of Cookies
We currently use, and may use in the future, the following types of cookies on this Website:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Many cookies are designed to give you optimal usage of the web. For example, we use cookies to enable you to improve your user experience when using our website, e.g., a cookie that recognizes if your browser supports specific technology features. This helps, for example, in enabling web pages to be loaded more quickly when you request the download of a large file.
In addition to cookies that send information to us, we also use cookies that collect information and send it to third parties. An example of this is Google Analytics. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Please check the relevant third-party website for more information about their use of cookies. Where this Website allows those cookies to be set or you access other websites from this Website using the links provided, the operators of these websites will use cookies in accordance with their own cookies policy, which may differ from ours.
As with first-party cookies, you are able to block third-party cookies through your browser settings.
Some of our cookies may collect and store your personal information, such as your name or email address. We are committed to respect and protecting your privacy and will ensure that all personal information collected by us is kept and treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
4. Refusing Cookies on this Website
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. However, you have the ability to disable cookies if you wish, generally through changing your Internet software browsing settings. It may also be possible to configure your browser settings to enable acceptance of specific cookies or to notify you each time a new cookie is about to be stored on your computer enabling you to decide whether to accept or reject the cookie. To manage your use of cookies there are various resources available to you, for example the “Help” section on your browser may assist you or you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also disable or delete the stored data used by technology similar to cookies, such as Local Shared Objects or Flash cookies, by managing your browser’s “add-on settings” or visiting the website of its manufacturer. As our cookies allow you to access some of the Website’s essential features we recommend that you leave cookies enabled, otherwise, if cookies are disabled, it may mean that you experience reduced functionality or will be prevented from using this Website altogether.
