Cookie Policy
Welcome to EightJackpots!
What Are Cookies
An HTTP cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from the website to the user’s browser. Cookies are stored only for a limited time. Thanks to the cookies, this website remembers a user’s preferences such as language selection, login details, font size, and display preferences so that the user won’t lose time entering this information again while visiting the website next time.
There are different types of cookies. The session cookie, or transient cookie, is placed temporarily when a visitor browses through the site. The cookie is terminated once the session is over.
The permanent cookie, or persistent cookie, is placed on your browser for a longer time to remember your preferences on my website. This type of cookie aims to smoothen your experience on my website.
Third-party cookies are implemented by third party services that I use such as Google Analytics. These cookies are not stored by me, they are under the ownership of these service providers.
You can find more information regarding cookies here https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
How I Use Cookies
I 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 this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies I Set
Email newsletters related cookies
This site may offer 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.
Surveys related cookies
From time to time I offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand my 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 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
To provide you with a great experience on this site I provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences I 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, I 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 I 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 I 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 I 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 I can improve the site for you.
From time to time I test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When I am still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring I understand which optimisations my users appreciate the most.
As I sell products it’s important for me to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to my 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 I can accurately make business predictions that allow me to monitor my advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
The Google AdSense service I use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the website and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
Several partners advertise on my behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow to see if my customers have come to the site through one of my partner sites so that I can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow my affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
Further Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you, 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 my site.
However, should you still be looking for more information, please get in touch with me.
Tom Mason
tom(at)eightjackpots(dot)com