II. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies for several reasons:
- Essential Operations: To ensure our Site functions properly and you can navigate without difficulty.
- Security: To help maintain the security of our Site and protect against unauthorized access or malicious activity.
- Performance and Analytics: To analyze how visitors use our Site, assess which pages and features are most popular, and improve overall performance.
- Personalization: To remember your preferences (such as language, region, or login details) and personalize your user experience.
- Advertising and Marketing: To deliver relevant, interest-based advertisements or content, and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
III. TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
We may use the following types of cookies on our Site:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Description: These cookies are essential for the operation of our Site. Without these cookies, certain services you request (such as accessing secure areas or making transactions) cannot be provided.
- Examples: Authentication cookies that help us remember you have logged in; session management cookies that keep track of your input in online forms.
- Functional (Preference) Cookies
- Description: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features (e.g., remembering your preferred language or region).
- Examples: Language preference cookies, saved login credentials (unless managed by strictly necessary cookies), or user interface customization cookies.
- Analytics (Performance) Cookies
- Description: These cookies collect information about how you use the Site (e.g., which pages you visit most often). The data is aggregated and generally cannot be used to identify you personally. We use this information to improve how our Site functions, understand our visitors, and measure the effectiveness of our content.
- Examples: Google Analytics cookies or other third-party analytics services that track page views and user journeys.
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies
- Description: These cookies record your online activities, including your visits to our Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this data to make the advertising displayed on our Site (or elsewhere) more relevant to your interests. They are also used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- Examples: Cookies used by third-party advertising networks, which track and analyze online behaviors across websites.
- Social Media Cookies
- Description: These cookies are set by social media services that we have added to the Site to enable sharing features. They may track your browser across other websites and build a profile of your interests. This can impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.
- Examples: Cookies placed by social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram, when you interact with share buttons or embedded content.
IV.THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
In addition to our own cookies, third-party cookies might also be placed on your device. Such cookies are controlled by the third parties that place them. We may also embed external content from third-party services (like YouTube, social media platforms, or advertising networks) within our Site. These external services may place additional cookies or other tracking technologies on your device. We do not control these cookies, and their use is governed by the third parties’ privacy and cookie policies.
V. HOW WE USE SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Beyond cookies, we may also use:
- Web Beacons (Pixel Tags): Small graphic images (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “pixel tags”) embedded in web pages or in emails, which monitor your interaction with the Site or our email communications.
- Local Storage Objects: Technologies such as HTML5 local storage that may store information locally on your device. These technologies function similarly to cookies but can store more data.
- Device Fingerprinting: Collecting information about the device’s settings, configuration, and attributes to create a unique identifier that helps us recognize a user’s device upon return visits.
These technologies help us understand usage, measure campaign effectiveness, deliver targeted advertisements, and generally improve the user experience.
VI. HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject certain cookies. Below are methods you can use to manage your cookie preferences:
- Browser Settings
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies and to delete existing cookies. The steps to do this vary from browser to browser. Refer to the “Help” menu of your browser or visit your browser’s support documentation for further information. Please note that if you block or delete cookies, some features of our Site may not function properly. - Cookie Management Tools
If available, our Site may feature a cookie consent banner or a cookie preference center that allows you to manage which types of cookies you want to allow or disallow. - Opt-Out Mechanisms
- Analytics: If we use third-party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, you can typically install an opt-out browser add-on provided by these services to prevent your data from being collected.
- Advertising: You can often manage advertising cookies through tools like the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) WebChoices Tool (if applicable in your region) or similar mechanisms provided in your jurisdiction.
- Do Not Track (DNT)
Some browsers may offer “Do Not Track” signals that let you inform websites that you do not want your online activities tracked. Because no common industry standard for DNT signals has been adopted, we currently do not respond to DNT signals.
VII. CONSEQUENCES OF DISABLING COOKIES
If you choose to disable cookies or withdraw your consent for certain cookies, certain parts of our Site may become inaccessible or stop functioning properly. For example, you might be unable to access certain secure areas, complete transactions, or use some of our services effectively.
VIII. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the types of cookies we use, the purpose for their use, or as otherwise required by law. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. In the event that we make a material change to how we collect or process cookie-related information, we will notify you via a prominent notice on our Site or by other appropriate means.
IX.CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about this Cookie Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: customerservice@goodhopeworks.com
We appreciate your feedback and are committed to resolving any issues you may have about our use of cookies or other tracking technologies.
By continuing to use our Site after we have posted an updated Cookie Policy, you agree to the new policy. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Policy to stay informed about our practices related to cookies and other tracking technologies.
