Cookie Policy

Sneaky Whiskers uses cookies to keep our Site reliable, secure and personalised. When you accept cookies, this helps make the Site better by remembering your preferences, customising content or ads, and enhancing your experience.

This Cookie Policy applies to SneakyWhiskers.com.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information.

If you have any queries about the way we use your personal information or cookies, please contact us at contact@sneakywhiskers.com.

If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions in the “How to manage cookies” section below.

 

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which a website may place on your computer or device when you visit a site. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons, pixels or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our Site is performing, or allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

The majority of websites use cookies to collect and retain personal information about their visitors. Most cookies collect general information, such as how visitors arrive at and use our Site, the device they are using, their internet protocol address (IP address), what pages they are viewing and their approximate location (for example, we would be able to recognise that you are visiting our Site from the UK).

 

Purpose of cookies

We group our cookies into the below categories.

 

Operating our Site

Some cookies are essential for the operation of our Site. This includes cookies for the following purposes:

 

  1. Access – we use these cookies to identify customers access to their accounts.
  2. Performance – we use these cookies to monitor Site performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to track error messages, and to determine improvements to our Site.
  3. Analytics – we use cookies to help us understand our visitors and the success of advertising campaigns. For example, we analyze product pageviews to understand which product is viewed the most. We also use analytics cookies to keep track of how many advertising impressions have been served for a campaign and to manage the frequency at which you see the same adverts.
  4. Fraud prevention – we use cookies to monitor and prevent suspicious activity and fraudulent traffic

 

Advertising

We use cookies to serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. You may see these advertisements on other sites that you visit. For example, if you visited a certain product or added it to your shopping cart, you would see more that certain product or related products you are interested in on other sites or through emails. You may also see advertisements for our products and services on other websites if you have previously visited our Site.   

 

Third party cookies on our Site

We also use third party cookies on our Site that fall into the categories above (“third party cookies”) for the following reasons:

  1. to help us monitor traffic on our site (like many companies, we use Google Analytics to do this);
  2. to assist with market research;
  3. to improve site functionality;
  4. to monitor compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

 

Use of pixels in emails via Mailchimp

We automatically place single pixel gifs, also known as web beacons, in every email sent via Mailchimp. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable us to recognize when our subscribers have opened an email or clicked certain links. These technologies record each subscribers email address,

IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. Mailchimp uses this data to create reports for users like Sneaky Whiskers about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took.

 

How to manage cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.

  1. Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. For more information, please visit your browser’s help page.
  2. Disabling Most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

By opting out of these types of cookies on each browser and device you use, you will stop receiving advertisements that are targeted specifically to you on site; however you will still see the same number of advertisements, which are not targeted based on your personal information.

 

More information

Further information about our data processing can be found in our Privacy Policy.

If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact us at contact@sneakywhiskers.com.

 

Changes to this Cookie Policy

This policy is effective from 25/05/2018.

Any changes we may make to this cookie policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.