Cookie Policy

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Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Strictly Necessary  Cookies

 

What the Cookies Do

 

Website Cookies are from

When Cookies Expire

wordpress_sec_

To provide protection against hackers, store account details

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End of Session

wp_woocommerce_session_

This cookie is used by woocommerce and contains the end user’s cart information.

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2 Days

wordpress_logged_in_

To keep users logged in

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End of Session

woocommerce_cart_hash

This cookie is used by woocommerce and contains the end user’s cart information.

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End of Session

wp-settings-time-1

 

WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

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1 Year

woocommerce_items_in_cart

This cookie is used by woocommerce and contains the end user’s cart information.

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End of Session

wp-settings-1

WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

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1 Year

__stripe_mid

Used by Credit Card payment system Stripe

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1 Year

wordpress_test_cookie

WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies.

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End of Session

tk_ai

To store a unique user ID

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End of Session

 

Analytical or Performance Cookies

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wfwaf-authcookie-

 

This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded

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1 Year

_ga_69XKBP6SYQ

Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.

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2 Years

_ga

Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.

 

www.home-cinema-design.com

 

2 Years

Targeting Cookies

_GRECAPTCHA

This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear.

 

google.com

 

6 months

CONSENT

 

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

 

google.com

 

17 years

 

YSC

 

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

 

youtube.com

 

End of Session

test_cookie

 

 

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

 

doubleclick.net

 

A few seconds

 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

 

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos

 

youtube.com

 

6 months

OGPC

 

Used by Google to store preferences and user information each time they visit web pages containing geographical maps of Google Maps.

 

google.com

 

13 months

ANID

 

Used for advertising served across the web and stored in google.com

google.com

 

1 year

SEARCH_SAMESITE

 

This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests.

 

google.com

 

15 months

1P_JAR

 

Used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.

 

google.com

 

13 months

NID

 

Used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.

 

google.com

 

6 months

OTZ

 

Used by Google analytics to track website traffic information

 

google.com

 

1 year

     

 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

Google

Youtube

Doubleclick.net

 

 

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies:

 

Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en OR

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/32050?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

 

Youtube: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en

 

Doubleclick.net: https://support.google.com/searchads/answer/2839090?hl=en

 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 17 years.

 

Last Updated: March 2021