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Privacy Policy
Our aim at Patio Gear is to give you the smoothest and simplest experience while you browse our website and go through our products. To continually enhance your experience, we use cookies that store your preferences and give us data about what pages you visited, how much time you spent on our site etc, that help us in improving your experience on our website. The cookies used, do not store any information that is personal in nature, and is only analysed in an aggregated manner.
Please find below some more information regarding cookies and their use on our website:
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Every cookie is unique to your particular web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what's in your shopping basket so that the same can be loaded directly for you the next time you visit our website.
How can you manage cookies?
To enable cookies
If you're not sure of the type and version of web browser you use to access the Internet:
For PCs: click on 'Help' at the top of your browser window and select the 'About' option
For Macs: with the browser window open, click on the Apple menu and select the 'About' option
How to check cookies are enabled for PCs
Google Chrome
- Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select Options
- Click the 'Under the Hood' tab, locate the 'Privacy' section, and select the 'Content settings' button
- Now select 'Allow local data to be set'
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
- Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select 'Internet options' , then click on the 'Privacy' tab
- Ensure that your Privacy level is set to Medium or below, which will enable cookies in your browser
- Settings above Medium will disable cookies
Mozilla Firefox
- Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select Options
- Then select the Privacy icon
- Click on Cookies, then select 'allow sites to set cookies'
Safari
- Click on the Cog icon at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option
- Click on 'Security', check the option that says 'Block third-party and advertising cookies'
- Click 'Save'
How to check cookies are enabled for Macs
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX
- Click on 'Explorer' at the top of your browser window and select 'Preferences' options
- Scroll down until you see 'Cookies' under Receiving Files
- Select the 'Never Ask' option
Safari on OSX
- Click on 'Safari' at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option
- Click on 'Security' then 'Accept cookies'
- Select the 'Only from site you navigate to'
Mozilla and Netscape on OSX
- Click on 'Mozilla' or 'Netscape' at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option
- Scroll down until you see cookies under 'Privacy & Security'
- Select 'Enable cookies for the originating web site only'
Opera
- Click on 'Menu' at the top of your browser window and select 'Settings'
- Then select 'Preferences', select the 'Advanced' tab
- Then select 'Accept cookies' option
All other browsers
Please consult your documentation or online help files.
How to Disable Cookies:
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie preferences. These are generally found in the options menu on the browser. In order to understand this better, you could visit the links below:
IE: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html
More Information Regarding the Cookies that we use:
Google Analytics
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| __utma | This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to our site. | 2 years. |
| __utmb, __utmc | These cookies work together to calculate the average length of time users spend on our site. | __utmb 30 minutes, __utmc when you close the browser. |
| __utmz | This cookie records information about how the page was reached (for example via a search engine result or a direct link). | 6 months. |
| __utmmobile | This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to our site. | 2 years. |
Full details on the cookies set by Google Analytics are published on the Google website. Google also publishes a browser add-on to allow you to choose that information about your website visit is not sent to Google Analytics. Please not that these cookies do not store any information that can identify you personally, the data is only available once it has been aggregated.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies#cookiesSet
Advertising:
These cookies help us track if you have made a purchase on our site through an advert shown online. They do not give us any information that we can identify you with, just help us analyse the performance of our ads. These include targeted advertising that helps us market our ads better to users who have shown an interest in a particular category or product on our website.
These cookies are related to Google and only Google servers have access to them. Please see below
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/
http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143465
Further information about cookies
If you'd like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org (opens in a new window - please note that we can't be responsible for the content of external websites).
Changes to this policy
The above may change at any time. We will endeavour to notify you of any major changes but you may wish to check it each time you visit our website.
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