Like any other website, (our 'Site') Good Earth Gifting uses cookies to improve our Site functionality, performance and user experience. More information about how and why we use cookies, and how you can manage them can be found in this policy.

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Cookies are small storage units that gather data or information about you when you are on a website, and are stored by your browser on your computer's or other device’s hard drive. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (e.g login details and location selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another.

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Cookies are used to monitor your activity on websites, like ours, to remember things about you for the next time you visit. The use of cookies allows our Site to tailor the service around you and your needs, as observed through your use of our Sites and Services, inclusive of our mobile application. This includes targeting ads to you, auto-fill search terms in a search bar, provide recommended items on our Site, and so on.

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Given the different activities that you can perform on our Site and mobile application, Cookies are categorized into 2 types, of which have different functions:

• Session cookies, or Non-Persistent Cookies or Temporary Cookies - used only while an individual is navigating an active session on a website and are only stored on your device during your browser sessions. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser and are removed once you leave the site.

• Permanent or persistent cookies - remain on a user’s device even after your browser session has ended or after you close a web browser. These cookies are what allow websites to remember information, settings, preferences, saved terms , log-in details or sign-on credentials that a user has previously saved, to create a convenient and faster website experience. These cookies are saved on your computer so when you close it and start it up again, the cookie is still there. These expire after a set time, or they must be manually deleted by the individuals, like a Google Analytics Cookie.

 

This Cookie Policy applies to the Sites and mobile applications under Good Earth Gifting Inc. The Sites include www.goodearthgifting.ca and other websites or mobile applications produced and managed by Good Earth Gifting.

 

This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, tracking, pixels and other similar technologies, may be stored on and accessed from your devices when you use or visit our Site or mobile application.

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We reserve the right to alter and update this Cookie Policy at any time. We note the date and time of any changes made to this policy, and any change will become effective as soon as they are posted. We urge you to review the current version of the each time you return to our Site, otherwise your continued use of our Sites constitutes your agreement to all such changes. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy

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Policy and our Terms of Use.

 

Our Site and mobile application use different categories of Cookies for the purposes described below:

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• Managing Cookies - Strictly necessary Cookies are automatically set on your browser when you visit our Site. These Cookies are required for our Site to work properly and cannot be disabled using our cookie banner.

• Strictly necessary Cookies - These Cookies are required for the operation of our Site and use of its features. Our Site cannot function without such Cookies and they are therefore automatically set when you visit them. They include, but are not limited to, Cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.

• Analytical or performance Cookies - Our Site may use analytical or performance Cookies such as Google Analytics to carry out some data and analysis. These Cookies allow us to collect information about how you use our Site, which pages are the most visited, interacted with or where people visiting our Site are located. This enables us to determine what content is of most interest to our users and to ensure that users are finding the information they are looking for easily.

• Functionality Cookies - These Cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Site and to personalize our content. This enables our Site to remember some of your preferences or choices, the last pages you visited or searches you carried out or to keep you logged in. This helps to speed up navigation, provide you with a better user experience and improve our Site functionality. If you have subscribed to our email, are a wholesaler or have an account on our Site, we may use Cookies to collect information about your activity on our Site, such as which pages you viewed or which videos you watched, which helps us to understand what content is of interest to you.

• Targeting Cookies - These Cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our Site more relevant to your interests. We may also use Cookies to enable you to share content on networking or social media sites or for marketing and promotional purposes where you have subscribed to marketing communications from Good Earth Gifting.

 

Our Site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember that you have registered. When you create an account with us (e.g you are subscribed to our email, are a wholesaler or have signed up), then we will use Cookies for the management of the sign-up process and general administration of your account. We also use Cookies when you are logged in so that you don't have to log in every single time you visit our Site.

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From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user database more accurately, which may use Cookies to remember who has already taken part in them.

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When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on the Get In Touch/Contact page or Concierge form, Cookies may be set to remember your user details for future communication.

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In order to provide you with a better experience on our 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 populated whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

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Google Analytics Cookies

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Our Site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, for helping us to understand how you use our Site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies collect information about your behaviour on our Site and may track things such as pages you visit, how long you spend on the site, how you got here and what you click on, so we can continue to produce engaging content. We do not collect or store your personal information nor are these tied to your personal data, so these cannot be used to identify who you are.

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As we sell products, it is important for us to understand stats 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 prices.

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You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy with regards to analytics at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

 

Web Beacons

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Web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, record, or capture your activity on our Site or email, which are typically not activated until a web page is loaded or the email is opened. Web beacons are often used in conjunction with website cookies, but they do not collect any personal information. Web beacons are best used for tracking advertising, downloads, and the general monitoring of our Site's analytics. Web beacons can be used to know how many users visit a particular website, or web page of that site. Essentially, they allow website hosts to know where visitors are spending their time. Web beacons can also be used in conjunction with ads so that advertisers can track how often a particular advertisement is viewed, as well as whether individuals are interacting or responding to ads , like clicking on it.

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Web beacons are transparent, invisible graphic images that are on websites, which act as a tag or identifier that then interacts with website cookies to allow us to monitor a user's activities on our Site. Disabling cookies will keep web beacons from tracking your activity; however, web beacons cannot be turned off.

Web beacons can also be used by website hosts who send promotional emails, like us, so that we can track if our users are opening the emails we send. These beacons will not activate unless the email is opened.

To disable tracking/targeting functions that are of concern with respect to web beacons, users would have to opt out of or decline the use of website cookies. Thus, any effects for you or our Site would be the same as the effects of refusing or opting out of the use of website cookies.

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Disabling Cookies

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You have the choice to accept or refuse other Cookies by clicking on Accept all Cookies or Use only Strictly necessary Cookies on our cookie banner. Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality and features of our Site, and many other websites that you visit. We recommend that you do not disable cookies.

However, if you do not agree with the use of cookies, you can:

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You can delete cookies after having visited our Site by going to your Settings and Privacy tabs, and then clear the cookies in your website browsing data and history.

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You can browse our Site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (ie Incognito in Chrome, Private Browsing in Firefox and Safari), InPrivate in Internet Explorer.

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You can set your browser’s security controls so that all or certain cookies are blocked.

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Please note that deleting existing Cookies will not prevent Cookies from being set during your next visit on our Site.