COOKIES POLICY

The website www.asmallworlddiscovery.com (hereinafter “Site”) uses cookies. We use cookies on the Site and other technologies to recognise you and uniquely identify your browser. This helps us to provide you with a good user experience when you use the Site and also allows us to improve the Site. By continuing to use the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are text strings created by a server and stored on the hard disk of a computer or any other device used by the user to have access to the Internet (smartphone, tablet) before being retransmitted to subsequent access of the user to the internet.

Cookies are used to enable certain features (e.g., logging in), to track site usage (e.g., analytics), to store your user settings (e.g., time zone, notification preferences), and to personalise your content (e.g., advertising, language).

Cookies may be stored permanently on your device and have a variable duration (persistent cookies) or may disappear when the browser is closed or have a limited lifespan (session cookies).

Cookies can be installed by the Site you are visiting (first-party cookies) or may be installed by other websites (third-party cookies).

The Site uses first-party cookies, third-party cookies and other similar technologies, as further described below.

WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION

Information collected may be used to provide and improve our products and service of the Site; for billing, identification and authentication purposes; to analyse the Site usage for statistical purposes; to manage and improve our products and the Site; to deliver administrative and informative notices and communications relevant to your use of our products and the Site; for internal market research; for troubleshooting problems; for detecting, protecting against and preventing fraudulent or other criminal activity; for distribution to third party contractors who provide services to us (such as our email server) who are bound by our privacy restrictions or restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy; and to enforce our Terms of Service.

TYPES OF COOKIES AND HOW WE USE THEM

Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, pixels and scripts, to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

ESSENTIAL COOKIES

Essential cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts and payment processing. We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Performance cookies are used in the tracking of how you use a website during your visit, without collecting personal information about you. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated with information tracked across all Site users, to help us understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors that our users may encounter, and to make better strategic decisions in improving our audience’s overall website experience.

These cookies may be set by the Site you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services.

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

Functionality cookies are used in collecting information about your device and any settings you may configure on the website you’re visiting (like language and time zone settings). With this information, we can provide you with customised, enhanced or optimised content and services. These cookies may be set by the website you are visiting ‘us’ (first-party) or by a third-party service.

We use functionality cookies for selected features on our site.

TARGETING/ADVERTISING COOKIES

Targeting/advertising cookies are used in determining what promotional content is more relevant and appropriate to you and your interests.

Websites may use targeting/advertising cookies to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. This helps us improve the effectiveness of our campaigns and the quality of content presented to you.

These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting ‘us’ (first-party) or by third-party services. Targeting/advertising cookies set by third-parties may be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

We use targeting/advertising cookies on our site.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES ON OUR SITE

We may employ third-party companies and individuals on our websites—for example, analytics providers and content partners. We grant these third parties access to selected information to perform specific tasks on our behalf.

They may also set third-party cookies in order to deliver the services they are providing. Third-party cookies can be used to track you anonymously on other websites that use the same third-party service.

As we have no control over third-party cookies, they are not covered by ‘our’ ASMALLWORLD DISCOVERY cookie policy.

OUR THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY PROMISE

We review the privacy policies of all our third-party providers before enlisting their services to ensure their practices align with ours. We will never knowingly include third-party services that compromise or violate the privacy of our users.

HOW YOU CAN CONTROL OR OPT OUT OF COOKIES

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie.

If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device.

Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your experience of a website, blocking all cookies may mean you are unable to access certain features and content across the sites you visit.