Cookie notice
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or other internet-enabled device that enable our features and functionality. They allow us to record information when you visit or interact with our website, products and services (collectively, “nihoceramics.com”). Other tracking technologies, such as web beacons and pixels work similarly to cookies, placing small data files on your device that monitor your website activity.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to make nihoceramics.com easier to use and to better tailor them to your interests and needs. We use the information we obtain from cookies and other tracking technologies to carry out profiling activities in order to learn more about you and offer you tailored advertising based on your behavior on nihoceramics.com. We also use these technologies to compile information that allows us to better understand our customers and visitors.
What kinds of cookies and tracking technologies do we use?
Persistent and session cookies
We use two categories of cookies: Persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies are cookies that help us recognize you. They are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences and actions across multiple sites and on multiple visits. Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session, allowing us to link your actions during a particular browsing session.
Third party cookies
In addition to the first party cookies set by us, we also allow third parties to set cookies on nihoceramics.com. Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts and other similar tracking technologies to enable the third party’s features or functionalities to be provided through the website you are using. The third party setting these cookies can recognize your device both when it visits nihoceramics.com.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with nihoceramics.com. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use nihoceramics.com. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve nihoceramics.com.
Why do we use cookies?
We use the following types of cookies for the reasons described below. These cookies may be set by us or a third party service provider to perform the functions described below:
- Required: These cookies and tracking technologies are required to help nihoceramics.com work correctly. For example, these cookies allow you to navigate nihoceramics.com and use essential features, including secure areas and shopping baskets.
- Analytics: These cookies and tracking technologies help us understand how customers and visitors interact with nihoceramics.com. They provide us with information about areas of nihoceramics.com visited, time spent on nihoceramics.com, transactions performed, and any error messages you receive. These cookies allow us to improve the performance of nihoceramics.com. They may collect your IP address but only for the purpose of identifying general locations of visitors and identifying fraudulent or spam traffic.
- Functional: These cookies and tracking technologies allow nihoceramics.com to remember choices you make to give you better functionality and a personalized experience.
How can I control cookies?
If you visit nihoceramics.com only required cookies, as described above, will be used by default. Other cookies and tracking technologies will only be used when you consent.
If you opt out of receiving certain cookies from us, your web browser will be associated with a generic “opt-out” cookie, which will prevent us from associating any non-personal information with your browser. Our “opt-out” cookie has no expiration date. Since this program is cookie-based, you may need to opt out again if you do any of the following:
- Delete your cookies
- Block cookies, including third party cookies
- Switch internet browsers
- Change computers or
- Upgrade your web browser
Internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings via the “options’ or “preferences” menu in your browser. Please note that if you set your browser to refuse or block all cookies, certain features or functionalities of nihoceramics.com will be limited or unavailable to you.
Some internet browsers include the ability to transmit “do not track” signals. Because no industry standard has yet been developed with respect to “do not track,” nihoceramics.com do not currently process or respond to such “do not track” signals.
Some internet browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 and other local storage objects.
You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers without affecting how you visit or use our Website. For more information on opting out of Google’s use of cookies across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. To provide you with more choice on how your data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an opt-out browser add-on, which is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and enables you to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
How can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other tracking technologies, please email us at [email protected]