The Shockingly Delicious Cookie Policy:

What is this policy about?
This document tells you about tracking technologies (“trackers”) that help this website achieve the purposes outlined in this document.

What are trackers?
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate. For example, while cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of tracker.

Some of the purposes for which trackers are used may also require your consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

The validity and expiration periods of cookies and other similar trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by us or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of your browsing session. In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, you may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information — such as the presence of other trackers— in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting us.

While we all would love these to be the freshly baked cookies from an oven, they are unfortunately the type of cookies that are more electricity and binary by nature. In short, the word “cookies” in this context refers to the small text files that websites save to remember information about you and your browsing activity. This is important for platforms that would like to create personalized experiences for their users in situations such as wanting to save the customers cart details for when they return to the website later that day were it can be recalled again when needed.

There are two core categories of cookies that you will come across on your travels on the internet, especially on our platforms. The first core category is a “First-Party Cookie” and the second core category is a “Third-Party Cookie”. First-Party Cookies come directly from the website and the provider of the website itself while a Third-Party Cookie comes from any other source that is not the website or the provider of the website. A good example that we can think of is if you visit a platform that acts as a marketplace but their shopping services are handled by someone else so their shopping services will use Third-Party Cookies but they will also have First-Party Cookies for their website as well. Within First-Party and Third-Party Cookies there also exists two main subcategories. The first is called “Essential” cookies and the second is called “Non-Essential” cookies. Essential cookies are any data that is required to provide services to customers while non-essential cookies are not required to provide services to customers. Within the “Essential” subcategory of cookies, you will come across types known as “Session”, “Input”, “Authentication”, “Security”, “Load” cookies, and other various terms. Within the “Non-Essential” subcategory of cookies exists types such as “Analytics”, “Customization”, “Advertising”, “Networking”, and more terms that may exist in the wild that we call the Internet. “Session Cookies” are used to remember the activities that you perform on the website. “Input Cookies” are used to keep track of things like items that the user inputs into the website’s elements like search bars or information typed into forms. “Authentication Cookies” are used to identify and keep track of users through their login credentials which usually comes in the form of a “Remember Me” on the login pages of websites as an example. “Security Cookies” are used to detect authentication errors and abuses such as a “hacker” attempting to repeatedly guess a customers login information. “Load Cookies” are used to connect information between the user’s web server and the platform’s web server. “Analytics Cookies” are used to track statistics about activities on the website such as purchase history. “Customization Cookies” are used to store information on user preferences. “Advertising Cookies” are used to provide a personalized advertising experience to users of a website. “Networking Cookies” are used to assist the user in sharing content between social media and the website.

We try our best to be as transparent as possible with everything that we do so that we stay aligned with our core values. We would say that we believe our cookies policy is relatively “industry standard” when compared to a majority of our competitors. This page that you have found yourself on explains about tracking technologies that helps our platform achieve the purposes outlined on this page. As for what we use your delicious cookies for here at the Monsireaux Studio, they are the following:

Experience

This website uses trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.

Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this website and interact with them. Such services are often referred to as widgets, which are small elements placed on a website or app. They provide specific information or perform a particular function and often allow for user interaction. This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when you do not use it.

Measurement

This website uses trackers to measure traffic and analyze user behavior to improve the service.

Analytics
The services contained in this section enable us to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of user behavior.

You can, for example, find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Apple Safari

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge

Brave

Opera

You may also manage certain categories of trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (you may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).

There are various ways to manage tracker related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:

You can manage preferences related to trackers from directly within your own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of trackers.

Additionally, whenever the use of trackers is based on consent, you can provide or withdraw such consent by setting your preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences privacy widget, if available.

It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored trackers, including those used to remember your initial consent preferences.

Other trackers in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.

With regard to any third-party trackers, you can manage your preferences via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

You are free to decide whether or not to allow the use of trackers. However, please note that trackers help this website to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to you (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, if you choose to block the use of trackers, we may be unable to provide related features.

You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.

Personal data (or data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number— allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person (in other words, you).

Usage data
Usage data is information automatically collected through this website or third-party services, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, time and method of requests, response status, visit duration, page sequence, and device-specific details.

This website
The means by which your personal data is collected and processed.

Service
The service provided by this website as described in the Terms of Service and on this site.

European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookie
Cookies are trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in your browser.

Tracker
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g. cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of you, for example by accessing or storing information on your device.

Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations. This privacy policy relates solely to this website, if not stated otherwise within this document.