Cookie Policy
Last updated September 25, 2024
This Cookie Policy explains how KnitQ (“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://www.knitq.com (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or what becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, the KnitQ Admin) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
KnitQ is registered to serve Google ads via the Google Adsense platform, and in relation, Google may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device.
Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads users see on Google and on Google partners’ sites and apps. See Google’s Privacy Policy to learn more about how they process data for each of these purposes and Google’s Advertising page for more about Google ads, how your information is used in the context of advertising, and how long Google stores this information.
As a website serving Google Ads, KnitQ agrees to:
- not gather data on or use device fingerprints or locally shared objects (e.g., Flash cookies, Browser Helper Objects, HTML5 local storage) other than HTTP cookies, or user-resettable mobile device identifiers designed for use in advertising. This does not limit the use of IP address for the detection of fraud.
- not gather or pass any information to Google data that Google could use or recognize as personally identifiable information; or that permanently identifies a particular device (such as a mobile phone’s unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset).
- not use Google services to identify users or facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with information previously collected as non-personally identifiable information without robust notice of, and the user’s prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent to, that identification or merger. Irrespective of users’ consent, we will not attempt to disaggregate data that Google reports in aggregate.
The information collected through this process does not enable us to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings or by visiting www.aboutads.info.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
Name: _ga
Purpose: Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user
Provider: .knitq.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Name: _ga_#
Purpose: Users to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions
Provider: .knitq.com
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Type: http-cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Name: wpEmojiSettingsSuports
Purpose: WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly
Provider: knitq.com
Type: html_session_storage
Expires in: session
Name: visited
Purpose: Help the website remember information about a user’s visit, which can both make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you.
Provider: knitq.com
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 23 hours 59 minutes
Advertising cookies:
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Name: test_cookie
Purposes: A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.
Provider: .doubleclick.net
Service: DoubleClick View Service Privacy Policy
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 15 minutes
How can I control cookies on my browser?
As the mans by which you refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manager cookies on the most popular browsers:
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt our of targeted advertising. If you would like to find our more information please visit:
- Digital Advertising Alliance
- Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users form one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair functioning.
How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us as: admin@knitq.com