Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Cookies can be “First Party”, i.e. set by us, or “Third Party” – set by another company to perform the function, for example, Google Analytics or our Advertising cookies. See “Use of Cookies by Us” further below for more information.

As with many websites, we also use Adobe Flash Player to deliver video content to you. Adobe utilizes their own cookies also known as Flash Cookies, which are not manageable through your browser settings but are used by the Flash Player for similar purposes, such as storing preferences or tracking users. Further details and instructions to remove this cookie can be found here:

How can I prevent Cookies being used?

When you first visit our website, unless you change your Cookies Settings, we will continue to set all Cookies on your device. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also find information in our cookies table to the right regarding disabling specific cookies.

However, please be aware that should you choose to disable cookies it may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and some of the websites may fail to work. For example: if you do not consent to Functionality cookies, we wouldn’t be able to remember which geographical location you are from and would not be able to serve you relevant recipes and content for your location. If you do not consent to Advertising cookies, you may be served the same adverts repeatedly and we won’t be able to serve you adverts that are personally relevant to you.

Use of Cookies by Us

When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone.

We also allow cookies to be set by a number of independent measurement, advertising, and research companies. These companies read and write their own cookies onto your devices. For example, these cookies are used to track the adverts and keep count of the number of times that each advert is viewed by users. We use this type of information to help improve the services the website provides to you and help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through any of the websites, we will be upfront about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. For further details of our Privacy Policy please click here.

The table below provides an overview of all the cookies used by our website, the purpose of the cookie, and how you can find out further information about each cookie:

Description of categories of cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Allows you to move around the website and use essential features like secure areas, shopping baskets, and online billing. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. We don’t require your consent to set these cookies.

Performance Cookies: Collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, most visited pages. They do not collect information which identifies visitors personally. They help improve how our website works.

Functionality/Social Media Cookies: Allow the website to remember user choices – e.g. region or language, and also provide enhanced personal features (e.g. providing a service like commenting on a blog.) They do not collect information which identifies visitors personally. They help improve your user experience and the way our website works.

Advertising Cookie: Allow us to track the adverts and number of times each advert is viewed by visitors, and enable the same advert not to be served to a visitor more than once. It does not collect information which identifies visitors personally. It helps improve your user experience and the way our website works.

Useful Sites

Aboutcookies.org www.aboutcookies.org

All About Cookies www.allaboutcookies.org

List of the main cookies used on the hopehealingwords.com website

This is a list of the main cookies set by thehopehealingwords.com website, and what each is used for

Strictly Necessary
Cookie Name(s) Used by Purpose
cc_all All areas of the site This cookie is used to record if a visitor has seen the cookie notification bar.
Performance
Cookie Name(s) Used by Purpose
__qca, __qcb,
__utma, __utmb,
__utmc, __utmz
Google Analytics, all areas of the site, and also Fresh One website and Barbecoa website These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from geographically, and the pages they have visited, the devices and browsers the visitor is using..How to reject or delete this cookie

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Functional (inc. Social Media)
Cookie Name(s) Used by Purpose
Various social media sites including addthis.com, facebook.com, twitter.com All areas of the site Allow members of various Social Media websites the ability to like, share and bookmark various pages within hopehealingwords.com .You can find out how to do block these cookies for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
jo_region,
jo_region _remember
Homepage & all areas of the site Stores and remembers a user’s geographical region. It is used to serve visitors relevant recipes and content according to their location.You can find out how to do block these cookies for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
s.ytimg.com Areas of the website which has Youtube content This helps us to analyse the popularity of our Youtube media. We can count the total number of times each file is played, how many people watch videos right to the end and how many people give up halfway through. How to reject or delete this cookiewww.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/ flashplayer/help/
Advertising Cookie
Cookie Name(s) Used by Purpose
AppNexus DoubleClick, all areas of the site AppNexus is a cloud-based ad serving platform built from the ground up to serve the real-time advertising needs of trading desks, ad networks and publisher networks.How to reject or delete this cookieClick the “opt out” button on the following page www.appnexus.com
DoubleClick DoubleClick, all areas of the site Doubleclick ‘Spotlight Tags’ are used to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns for hopehealingwords.com.How to reject or delete this cookieInstructions to opt out are found here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/
Grapeshot DoubleClick, all areas of the site Grapeshot is a software technology company using advanced Information Retrieval techniques pioneered at Cambridge University.How to reject or delete this cookieClick the “opt out” button on the following page www.appnexus.com
Halogen Network DoubleClick, all areas of the site You can find out how to do block this cookie for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.
Quantcast DoubleClick, all areas of the site This is an independent measurement and research company. They gather data regarding the visitors to hopehealingwords.com using cookies, log file data, and code which is embedded on our website. We use this type of information to help improve the services we provide to our users.How to reject or delete this cookieClick the “opt out” button on the following page www.quantcast.com