What Are Cookies
As a common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies or similar technologies, like the browser's local storage. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, and local storage is storage on your browser where websites can save some data for future use. Both are used to improve your experience. This page refers to both as "cookies" and describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or "break" certain elements of the site's functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. You can customize cookies preferences on our website after login and disable some of them if you need. Although some cookies cannot be disabled, we call them "essential" cookies, we will not be able to log you in without them and you'll not be able to request booking as a result.
Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page or return back to our website. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in. Login-related cookies are essential and cannot be disabled, our website would not work without them.
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences. In particular, we store your cookies preferences there, these cookies are essential as well and cannot be disabled.
Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Google Analytics cookies
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web to help us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. We call these cookies "analytics" cookies and you can disable them in cookies preferences.
Third-party analytics cookies
Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you, these are also "analytics" cookies and you can disable them in the cookies preferences.
Advertising and conversion tracking cookies
As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price. These cookies are called "advertising" cookies and can be disabled.
Authentication/security cookies
We use third-party providers to authenticate you on our website, and to get some basic info about you like your name, profile photo, and your email. These providers can set/read cookies through our website to make authentication work. In order to make it possible for you to sign in using these providers (e.g. Google, Facebook etc.) they need to set their cookies through our website. We call these cookies "essential" and it is not possible to log you in without them, they cannot be disabled.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
You can find a lot of information on the web about why cookies and local storage is used and how it is used by third party providers like Google, Facebook etc.
However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through our email support@soulsurf.io and we will try our best to give you the details that you need.