Cookie Policy

What is a Cookie?

The vast majority of websites use cookies to enhance user interaction by being able to "evoke" you during your visit (session cookie) or on subsequent visits (permanent cookie). Cookies serve multiple purposes, including facilitating organised page scrolling, maintaining your preferred pages at the top for simple tracking, and enhancing your experience on our website. Cookies expedite and facilitate communication between your browser and the website. Without cookies, a website would presume that you are a new visitor each time you navigate to a new page, making it impossible to keep you logged in when you enter your login information and navigate to a new page. Some websites use cookies to recognise the advertising or marketing messages they send based on your location or browsing behaviours. However, you can reject cookies and related technologies by adjusting the settings on the browser or device you're using to access our services if you have concerns about the amount of space cookies consume or if it feels like a privacy violation. You can restrict how your information is collected and shared by adjusting the settings on browsers such as Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Edge. These browsers enable you to remove your cookie cache and modify your preferences for future use, ensuring that neither we nor any third party can gain access to your information or learn your preferences.

What does a Cookie hold?

Cookies are simple text files that a website's server places on your computer or mobile device; only that website's server can retrieve or read the contents of those cookies. Each cookie has a specific ID for your web browser. It would contain some unidentified information, such as a unique identity, the name of the site, and a few digits and numbers. This lets a website remember things like your favourites or what's in your shopping cart.

Types of Cookies

Cookies come in various flavours:

• Transient or Session Cookies

  Session cookies capture no information from the user's network and are never stored on the user's hard drive. Session cookies expire at the end of the user's browser session and may also stop functioning after a period of inactivity, typically 20 minutes or more.

• Permanent, Persistent, or Stowed Cookies

  Cookies that stay on the user's network even after the browser is shut down. Permanent cookies could store users' preferences for a certain website, letting them use those preferences in future browsing visits. Permanent cookies could be used to tell who each user is, so websites could use them to study how users use their sites. These cookies could also determine how many people view a site, how long they spend on each page on average, and how well the site generally works. Most of the time, they are made to store information about people for a long time, sometimes for many years.

• Flash Cookies

  Websites that include Flash media, such as video clips, may save small files to your computer if you have Adobe Flash installed (most computers do). These files are well-known as Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects (LSOs). They could be utilised for the same functions as typical cookies or HTTP cookies, as they are officially named. Flash cookies may also back up the information stored in a normal cookie. Your Flash cookies are not affected when you delete cookies using the browser's restrictions. Therefore, if a website that sends you a cookie also backs up its now-deleted cookie information to a Flash cookie, it might recognise you on subsequent visits. Cookies from Flash could be managed. Users of the Firefox browser can also acquire an add-on to mark and delete Flash cookies. Adobe's website provides tools for managing Flash cookies on your machine.

What is the use of Cookies?

Cookies make communication between users and websites simpler and faster. Without cookies, it would be difficult for a website to allow users to add items to their shopping cart or remember their preferences or login data for a subsequent visit. Cookies are frequently used on websites because they speed up, organise, and improve user experience. Websites frequently use cookies to monitor user traffic and frequency. Cookies enable websites to monitor user behaviour on their platforms and analyse customer demographics to improve customer service.

Technical Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the growth of our website. They make it possible to browse and use many features. Without them, you can't use our website's search function or other features.

Personalisation

By collecting and processing information about how you use our website now and in the past, we can show you ads that are more likely to meet your needs or help you do what you want to do the next time you visit. This will make your search more comfortable.

Measurement

Information about how you use the material is collected and combined with information that has already been collected to estimate, evaluate, and report on your usage.

Social Cookies

Social cookies let you click, like, and share our website's material on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram.

Information Storage and Access

This is about storing the information we've gathered or getting to the information we've already saved, like advertising markers.

Content Selection, Delivery, Reporting

This includes using information that has already been collected about your attention to choose content, process data, and figure out what content was shown, where it was set up, and whether you took a liking to the content you saw.

Ad Selection, Delivery, Reporting

Covers using the information gathered to choose advertisements that catch your attention; these advertisements will be specifically tailored to your preferences. They will track each activity you take in connection with the advertisement, such as clicking it or making a purchase related to an action featured in it. We respect the visitors' right to privacy and work to keep the strictest privacy and data administration guidelines. Remarketing enables us to strategically position our company's website and adverts while maintaining contact with visitors who have already visited our website. Your remarketing lists will be used exclusively for sponsored search ads; they won't be shared with any third parties, other advertisers, or associates, and we won't use them for any reason other than what is stated in this policy. By enabling remarketing, you acknowledge that you have been informed of the end-user tracking and data exchange with third parties for legal purposes.

Are Cookies Dangerous?

No. Cookies are very short text fragments. They cannot be executed as code and are not network programmes. Additionally, they can't be used to spread viruses, and the most recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers let users set limits on how many cookies are saved on their hard drives.

Can Cookies threaten an User's Privacy?

The hard disc of the computer stores cookies. Therefore, a cookie cannot access a user's email address or other data on the hard drive. They merely save and send the amount of data users have exposed to a specific website to the server. A server cannot set a cookie for a section of the website that it does not control. Despite this, people frequently discover cookies from websites they have never visited in their computer files. Typically, companies that promote online advertising to benefit other websites set these cookies. As a result, it's possible that users' data, such as information on browsing habits, is transferred to third-party websites without their awareness or consent. This is the most well-known justification for why people avoid or reject cookies.

How to Delete Cookies?

All common current browsers give users some degree of control over cookies. Users can set their browsers to accept, decline, or only accept certain cookies. Users of iOS or Android devices can also control how information is used for certain purposes, such as advertising, using their device settings. Many browsers offer precise ad-blocking software, extensions, or tools that will enable you to disable or remove all existing cookies. Additionally, users could allow their browsers to block them each time a cookie is used. Please get in touch with us if you have a different type of boiler. Adobe Local Shared Objects, often LSOs or Flash cookies, could be managed on your machine but not through your browser. The website of Adobe provides solutions for managing Flash cookies on your network as an option. A Firefox browser add-on that notifies and removes Flash cookies is also available.

Contact Us

If you have any queries or concerns regarding this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please email us at info@weboflife.lk.