Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Last Updated: June 11 2021

This is the Cookie Privacy Policy for Saraden Designs, accessible from https://saradendesigns.com 

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page 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 sites 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 the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Account related cookies – If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

• Login related cookiesWe 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. 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.
• Email newsletters related cookies. This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
• Orders processing related cookies. This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly. See Woocommerce Privacy policy for more information.
• Surveys related cookies. From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
• Forms related cookies. When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

• 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.

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.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping 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.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
• 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.
• From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
• 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. Woocommerce, Stripe, Paypal will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Zoho,  Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Vimeo, Etsy will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Our Cookie List

Functionality Cookies

wordpress_test_cookie	Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled
cookie_notice_accepted	cookie_notice_accepted is the cookie we use to stop the cookie message displaying each time you visit the site
woocommerce_cart_hash	Contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
WORDPRESS_LOGGED_IN_	WordPress cookie for a logged in user
wordpress_sec_	These cookies help us keep you logged in to our site.
Lang	There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language

Performance Cookies

_ga	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
_gat	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
_gid	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

Third Party

woocommerce_cart_hash	Contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
woocommerce_items_in_cart	Contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
wp_woocommerce_session_	Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
__stripe_mid	Stripe uses this to process payments for our website
__stripe_sid	Stripe uses this to process payments for our website
AKDC	PAYPAL cookies are necessary for this integration to work flawlessly.
KHcl0EuY7AKSMgfvHl7J5E7hPtK	These cookies are used to show banners from PayPal and run the purchase facilities offered on the site through PayPal.
akavpau_ppsd	PAYPAL cookies are necessary for this integration to work flawlessly. Please consult the Paypal cookie policy to see what data they store.
NSID	These cookies allow Conversant to recognise you when you revisit a website. We will use the data that we collect through our use of these cookies to ensure that you see relevant and useful advertisements when you visit our website.
X-PP-SILOVER	When making a payment via PayPal these Cookie are issued – PayPal session/security
tsrce	When making a payment via PayPal these Cookie are issued – PayPal session/security
x-pp-s	Cookie for proper functioning of paypal transaction
Ts	Cookie for proper functioning of paypal transaction

We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We use a  Instagram Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Instagram. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

We use a  Whatsapp Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Whatsapp. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/privacy-policy/?lang=en

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you about cookies and our privacy policy 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.

However if you are still looking for more information on this privacy policy then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: info@saradendesigns.com