COOKIES POLICY

Effective date: October 25, 2020

This Cookies Policy describes how we use cookies and similar technologies to provide, customize, evaluate, improve, promote, and protect our services. This page describes what information the cookies gather, how and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. This Cookies Policy is and will be treated as part of our Terms of Use. You can change your cookies settings or withdraw your consent at any time.

If you wish to restrict or block cookies you can set your internet browser to do so. Click on the following link for further information: www.aboutcookies.org.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device and therefore allow enhanced functionality.

You can find out more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. 

How does Women’s Voices Now use cookies?

Women’s Voices Now uses cookies for the following purposes:

• To compile statistical data on the use of our website and its functioning, so that we can monitor and improve it.
• To facilitate users’ ability to navigate through our website, including to allow registered users to access secure parts of our website.
• To allow us to share our web pages via social media platforms.

How to control cookies

If you do not wish to receive cookies you can set your web browser to restrict or block them. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookies settings. This capability can  typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following link may be helpful: www.aboutcookies.org.

Definitions

First Party/ Third-Party Cookies

Refers to the web domain placing the cookie. First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time – the website displayed in the url window. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets the cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

Persistent cookies

These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They have activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies

These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Statistics Cookies

Statistic cookies help us improve our site by collecting and reporting information on how our Service is being accessed and used, and enable us to track its performance. For example, we use cookies to determine if you viewed a page or opened an email.

Pixel tags

A pixel tag is not technically a cookie but is a similar type of technology placed on a website or within the body of an email for the purpose of tracking activity on websites, or when emails are opened or accessed, and is often used in combination with cookies. The information collected is anonymous.

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we’ll update the “Effective Date” at the top of the Cookies Policy and post it on our sites. We encourage you to check back periodically to review this Cookies Policy for changes.