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Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy for Kinzo St Jerome

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small, harmless pieces of data that websites store on your device to help them remember your preferences and actions while browsing. They're a common way for websites like ours to enhance user experience.

Why do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies to improve the functionality, performance, and security of our website. By using these small bits of data, we can:

  • Save you time by remembering your login details
  • Make it easier for you to navigate through our content
  • Help us understand how you interact with our site so we can make improvements

Types of Cookies

We'll explain the different types of cookies we use and why.

Essential Cookies

These are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. They help keep your account secure, enable logging in and out, and ensure that essential functions work as expected.

  • Session ID: a unique identifier for each session to prevent unauthorized access
  • CSRF Token: protects against cross-site request forgery attacks

Session Cookies

These cookies are deleted when you close your browser. We use them to remember the actions you take on our site while logged in, so you don't have to start from scratch every time.

  • Username and password for login purposes
  • Selected preferences (e.g., language, currency)

Persistent Cookies

We use these cookies to save information about you over longer periods. They help us tailor content recommendations and improve user experience.

  • Language and currency settings
  • Browser version

Functional Cookies

These allow us to remember your browser's screen size, resolution, and orientation to provide a better viewing experience.

  • Screen size
  • Resolution (horizontal x vertical)
  • Orientation (landscape or portrait)

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use these cookies from third-party services to analyze how users interact with our site. This helps us identify areas for improvement and optimize content delivery.

  • Google Analytics: measures traffic, engagement, bounce rates

Cookie Preferences and Language Settings

You can adjust your cookie preferences on each visit by clicking the "Cookie Policy" link in the footer of every page or navigating to our privacy settings section.

Preference and Language Settings

We save language preferences (e.g., English, French) for a period that you specify. If we detect changes in browser settings, such as switching languages, these will be stored locally on your device until cleared manually.

Login/Session Continuity

Our website uses session cookies to remember your login credentials for the duration of each visit. This way, you don't have to re-enter them every time you want to access certain features or content.

  • Automatically logs in and out based on cookie persistence
  • Stores password securely (encrypted)

Device Recognition

To provide a seamless experience across different devices and platforms, we employ device recognition technologies that create temporary sessions for returning users. This allows us to remember your preferences between visits without storing unnecessary data locally.

Security-Related Cookies

We use security cookies to ensure the integrity of user data by detecting any potential tampering attempts or changes made while browsing our site.

  • Encrypts data exchanged during login
  • Validates and verifies browser security

Browser Storage Technologies

Cookies are stored in your browser's memory until cleared. We also utilize other storage technologies, such as:

  • Local storage (e.g., saving preferences like language)
  • SessionStorage: short-term caching of frequently accessed items (login credentials)

Third-Party Integrations

We partner with reputable third-party services to enhance user experience and functionality on our site.

Marketing or Communication Preferences

You can choose to opt-in or out of targeted marketing campaigns by updating your cookie preferences. If you do so, we'll provide information about the specific vendors involved in personalized advertising based upon individual users' behaviors over time online (opt-out).

Cookie Consent Management

To better understand and respect visitor's needs and expectations regarding the use of cookies on our website, please refer to the guidelines provided by leading industry experts.

Browser Cookie Controls

For comprehensive instructions on how to manage cookie settings across popular browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox:

  • Right-clicking in your browser to open Cookies Management
  • Using built-in toolbars for ad-blocking and user tracking prevention

Clearing or Disabling Cookies

To delete individual cookies, go to the Privacy Settings tab within Internet Explorer under the General section. On other browsers (Chrome etc.), click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome icon at top right.

If you've opted-out from all kinds of cookies but still see some lingering around on your site even after they have been cleared out using the steps mentioned below:

1. Cookie Manager

Go into browser settings for internet explorer 11 or Edge.

2. Remove individual cookie files from local machine

You might need to close down both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome first.

3. Manually delete cookies in your web-browser's storage manually with a third-party tool like CCleaner.

Site Functionality Impact When Cookies Are Disabled

By disabling or removing all of our website's cookies you will limit its capabilities, leading potential loss of features like saving user preferences.

If certain services are unable to use their full capacity as expected after accepting this notice then please follow these steps:

1. Log into your account (you won't be able logged in anymore)

2. Delete saved profile info through Control Panel.

3. Re-enter information that you used previously before being logged out.

4. Try using any restricted functionality which wasn’t accessible earlier

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimization

By analyzing cookie data, we can identify areas for improvement on our site. This helps us fine-tune content delivery and make adjustments to create a smoother experience.

  • Aggregate analysis tools (Google Analytics)
  • Website performance monitoring

Aggregated Analytics Information

We don't sell or share any data collected through cookies with third parties. Our primary goal is to improve your user experience.

User Experience Improvements

Cookie-enabled features that you can explore further include:

  • Personalized content recommendations
  • Enhanced browsing efficiency