Greetings Island Cookies Policy

Greetings Island ("we","our" or "us") uses certain web monitoring and tracking technologies, such as cookies, beacons, pixels, tags, and scripts (collectively, “Cookies”). These technologies are used in order to provide, maintain, and improve our websites and platform (the “Services”), to optimize our offerings and marketing activities, and to provide our visitors and users (“you”, “your”) with a better experience (for example, in order to track your preferences, to better secure our Services, to identify technical issues, and to monitor and improve the overall performance of our Services).

This Cookie Policy contains information on Greetings Island’s cookie practices. If you are unable to find the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of Cookies on our Services, please email privacy@greetingsisland.com. For more information about our general privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small files containing a string of characters that are stored through the browser on your computer or mobile device (for example, Google Chrome or Safari) when you visit a website. You can think of cookies as providing a so-called memory for the website, so that it can recognize you when you come back and respond appropriately.

Cookies may be set by us (first-party cookies) or by third party providers who work with us (third-party cookies), either for the duration of your visit (session cookies) or for longer periods (persistent cookies). The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device varies between cookies.

Please note that our access and control over such third-party cookies, beyond the scope of our services, is limited and subject to such other websites, services and providers’ own terms and policies.

You are not obligated to accept all Cookies in order to visit our website, however, enabling Cookies may allow for a more personalized browsing experience and is required for most of our Services to work.

WHAT COOKIES ARE BEING USED BY GREETINGS ISLAND?

Greetings Island uses Cookies to enable and constantly improve the service being delivered to you. Cookies, both first and third party, are typically categorized as one of the following:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies – These Cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these Cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. They are deleted when you close the browser.
  • Functionality Cookies – These Cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these Cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They are deleted when you close the browser.
  • Performance Cookies – These Cookies collect information in an anonymous form about how visitors use our website. 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 and the approximate regions that they are visiting from. These Cookies help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These Cookies are deleted when you close the browser.
  • Targeting Cookies – These Cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. These Cookies are deleted when you close the browser.

To learn more about the specific cookies we use and how we categorize them, please click the “Your Privacy Choices” button available on our website’s footer, depending on your location and activity on our Services, as applicable.

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies to help our website and online pages work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide us with various information on your interactions and activities with our website and online pages.

Our use of functional and performance cookies aims to monitor, study and analyze the use of our Services, and how we could improve individuals’ user experience and continue improving our offerings and the overall performance of our Services; to explore and pursue growth opportunities by facilitating a stronger local presence and tailored experiences.

Our use of advertising cookies aims to facilitate and optimize our marketing campaigns, ad management and sales operations, and manage and deliver advertisements for our products and services more effectively, including on other websites and applications.

We may combine non-personally identifiable information collected through cookies with other Personal Data that we have about you to improve your user experience, for example, to tell us who you are or whether you already have an account with us.

We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties in order to enhance our Services, or to offer you information that we believe may be of interest to you.

Where we use Cookies to collect information that is personally identifiable or that can become personally identifiable if we combine it with other information, our Privacy Policy will apply in addition to this Cookie Policy.

HOW CAN YOU CONTROL COOKIES?

Where required by applicable law, we will not set non-essential Cookies unless you enable them. When first visiting our website, you may encounter our cookie banner, which allows you to control your cookie preferences, in accordance with applicable law. Depending on your location, you can change your cookie choices anytime by clicking the “Your Privacy Choices” button available in our website’s footer.

Most browsers have certain cookie control features (usually located in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser), which will (depending on your browser settings) allow you to decide how to handle each new cookie in a variety of ways, provide you with the ability to delete all cookies that are already on your computer and to prevent cookies from being placed.

You can also change your mobile device settings (e.g., iPhone, iPad, Android phones) to control whether you see online interest-based ads.

Please note that any such changes may result in you having to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

In addition, most advertising networks offer individuals from the US (https://www.aboutads.info/choices), Canada (www.youradchoices.ca/choices), EU ( https://youronlinechoices.eu/) or UK ( https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices) a way to opt-out from the collection of their data by advertising partners who participate in the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and the European Digital Advertising Alliance (eDAA). This does not opt you out of being served advertising entirely as you will continue to receive generic advertisements.

WHAT IS THE GOOGLE ANALYTICS COOKIE AND HOW IS IT USED?

Our Services use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”) which is based on Cookie technology. The information generated by the Cookie is usually sent to and stored in a Google server in the USA. On behalf of Greetings Island, Google will use the generated information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide the website operator with additional services connected with website and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in connection with Google Analytics is not collated with other data by Google. We have also taken measures to anonymize such IP address and to limit its retention period by default. Further information about the privacy practices of Google Analytics is available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. Further information about your option to opt-out of Google Analytics is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

“DO NOT TRACK” SIGNALS

Your browser settings may also allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites. Whilst we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, you can manage your cookies preferences, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them, through your browser settings and our cookie banner as instructed above. Please bear in mind that disabling cookies may complicate or even prevent you from using the Services. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, you can visit https://www.allaboutdnt.com/.

OPT-OUT OF SALE/SHARING FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING

Our disclosure of certain internet activity and device information to third parties through cookies or pixels may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information or processing for purposes of “targeted advertising” as such terms are defined under US State Privacy laws. We do so in pursuit of the business and commercial purposes described in section 3 above.

You may opt out of all cookies or pixels that may result in a “sale” and/or “sharing” of your personal information or processing for purposes of targeted advertising in the following ways:

  • Click the “Your Privacy Choices” button (available in our website’s footer, where applicable), and select, “Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information” or toggle the “Targeting Cookies” off, as applicable.
    Please note: If you visit us from a different device or browser, or clear cookies, then you need to return to this screen to re-select your preferences.
  • Set the Global Privacy Control (GPC) for each participating browser system that you use to opt out of the use of third-party Advertising cookies (instructions on how to download and use GPC are available here ).