Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies and tiny files downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

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How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, which are detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for turning off cookies without completely turning off the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are unsure whether you need them or not, especially if they are used to provide a service you use.

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The Cookies We Set

• Account-related cookiesIf you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

• Login-related cookies: We use cookies when you log in so that we can remember this information. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

• Email newsletters-related cookies: This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications that might only be valid for subscribers or unsubscribed users.

• Orders processing related cookies: This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities, and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so we can process it properly.

• 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 cookiesIn order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences. You may update your cookie preferences at any time on your browser and switch cookies on or off as desired.

• For Google Chrome, See the instructions here:

• For Firefox, See the instructions here:

• For Opera, See the instructions here:

• For Safari, See the instructions here:

• For Microsoft Edge, See the instructions here:

• For Internet Explorer, See the instructions here:

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Third-Party Cookies

In some exceptional cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties—the following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter on this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue producing engaging content. See the official Google Analytics page for more information on Google Analytics cookies.

• Third-party analytics track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track how long you spend on the site or the pages you visit, helping us understand how to improve it.

• We sometimes test new features and make subtle changes to how the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site and to ensure we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

• As we sell products, we need to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site 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 we can accurately make business predictions to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

• The Google AdSense service we use to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense, please see the official privacy FAQ.

• We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used on this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site to allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, will set cookies through our site. These cookies may enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

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Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required to make this website work. They can include remembering login details and what is currently in a shopping cart.

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Session Cookies

Also called a transient cookie, a session cookie is erased when the user closes the Web browser. It is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from the user's computer. They typically store data as session identification that does not personally identify the user.

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Persistent Cookies

A persistent cookie, also known as a stored cookie, is stored on a user's hard drive until it expires (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until the user deletes it. Persistent cookies collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behaviour or preferences for a specific website.

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Advertising cookies

Advertising cookies, also known as "Targeting Cookies," record information about your visit to and use of our website for advertising purposes. The section "Third-Party Cookies" provides information on third-party targeting or advertising cookies we may use on our website.

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Processing information obtained from Cookies on this site

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies as part of our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We only process such personal information once you have fully consented to us placing the cookies we use on this site on your computer or mobile device.

Legitimate interests: Enhance your website experience and provide complete functionality throughout the site for your visit.

Analytical (or performance) cookies

These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. Analytical cookies track and gather data about what pages a visitor visits on our website, duration of stay on our website, and individual pages. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:

• Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long, what you clicked on, and your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are _ga, _gat and _gid. These cookies are session and persistent cookies. These cookies expire after 24 hours in the case of _gid and 2 years in the case of _ga. _gat is a session cookie.

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Cookies settings on this site

You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser's Help for instructions). However, disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will usually also turn off certain functionality and features of this site.

Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. However, you can update your cookie preferences and turn cookies on or off on this site using our cookie settings facility. To do so, click "cookie settings" at the bottom left of the screen and then choose "preferences" from our cookie bar. Once you have enabled or disabled cookies, save and close the cookie bar.

Browser Cookie Settings

You may also disable and control Cookies using your browser settings. Please refer to the links below for instructions for your preferred browser.

• For Google Chrome, See the instructions here:

• For Firefox, See the instructions here:

• For Opera, See the instructions here:

• For Safari, See the instructions here:

• For Microsoft Edge, See the instructions here:

• For Internet Explorer, See the instructions here:

 

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can also choose to opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using a browser add-on, which is available here:

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The Cookies we use are:

• CookieConsent

• Expiry: 1 year

• First found URL: http://smokedmeatforyou.com/

• Cookie purpose description: Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

• display

• Expiry: Persistent

• First found URL: https://www.smokedmeatforyou.com/shop

• Cookie purpose: Preserves user's states across page requests.

• rc::a

• Expiry: Persistent

• First found URL: https://https://www.smokedmeatforyou.com/cart-page

• Cookie purpose description: This cookie distinguishes between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website as it allows it to make valid reports on the use of this website.

• rc::c

• Expiry: Persistent

• First found URL: https://www.smokedmeatforyou.com