Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies Policy

When you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorised service providers may use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies for storing information to help provide you with a better, faster and safer experience and for advertising purposes.

Our cookies and similar technologies have different functions. They are either necessary for the functioning of our services, help us improve our performance, give you extra functionalities, or help us to serve you relevant and targeted ads. We use cookies and similar technologies that only remain on your device for as long as you keep your browser active (session) and cookies and similar technologies that remain on your device for a longer period (persistent).

Where possible, security measures are set in place to prevent unauthorised access to our cookies and similar technologies. A unique identifier ensures that only we and/or our authorised service providers have access to cookie data

Service providers are companies that help us with various aspects of our business, such as site operations, services, applications, advertisements and tools. We use some authorised service providers to help us to serve you relevant ads on our services and other places on the internet. These service providers may also place cookies on your device via our services (third party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as IP-address, ID for Advertising (IDFA), or other unique or device identifiers.

Full User Cookie Policy

What are cookies, web beacons and similar technologies?

?Cookies? are small text files a website can use (and which we may use) to recognise repeat users, facilitate the user?s on-going access to and use of a website and allow a website to track usage behaviour and compile aggregate data that will allow the website operator to improve the functionality of the website and its content, and to display more focused advertising to a user by way of third party tools. The type of information collected by cookies is not used to personally identify you.

The specific names and types of the cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, and similar technologies we use to collect information (e.g. about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on our Services, within our advertising or email content) may change from time to time

Cookies can be disabled or removed by tools that are available in most commercial browsers. The preferences for each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and options. Please note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features available on our Website, and thus if you disable the cookies on your browser you may not be able to use those features, and your access to our Website will therefore be limited.

We may use the terms "cookies" or "similar technologies" interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.

Your choice and our use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies

Generally, these technologies allow our sites, services, applications and tools to store relevant information in your browser or device and later read that information in order to identify you to our servers or internal systems. Where applicable, we protect our cookies and other similar technologies to help ensure that only we and/or our authorised service providers can interpret them by assigning them a unique identifier that is designed for interpretation only by us. We do not store any of your personal information on any of our cookies or other similar technologies.

This policy explains the use of these technologies, and obtain your consent to collect personal information through these technologies. Your consent is based on our transparent notice of use of the technologies and, to the extent described herein, providing you with the opportunity to make a choice to disable these technologies.

Our uses of these technologies are to increase Operational Functionality (This includes technologies that are required to identify irregular site behaviour, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security, or that allow you to make use of our functions such as shopping carts, saved search or similar functions), Increase performance of our site and applications, or to provide additional functions (may include identifying you when you sign into our sites or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our sites). We may also use cookies and similar technologies for targeted advertising or marketing, where we our cookies or third-party cookies and web beacons are used to track your shopping patterns and deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our sites or on third party sites based on this collected information.

Use of these technologies by authorised third-party service providers

We may work with third-party companies, commonly known as service providers, who are authorised to place third-party cookies, web beacons or similar technologies for storing information on our sites or in our services, applications and tools with our permission. These service providers help us to provide you with a better, faster and safer experience.

These service providers may use these technologies to help us deliver content and advertising, and compile anonymous site metrics and analytics. We do not permit any of these service providers to collect any of your personal information on our sites or in our services, applications or tools for their own purposes, in line with our User Privacy Policy. These service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions on their use or collection of any personal information.

You may encounter cookies and tracking technologies from our third-party service providers, including but not limited to:

• Facebook
• Google
• Other social media or linked sites

Facebook and Google may use the personal information that they have collected about you on our sites pursuant to their own privacy policies (Facebook Data Policy https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation and Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

If you believe a listing or other third-party content might be collecting personal information or using tracking technologies on one of our sites, please report it to admin@shoppingtown.info

Ad networks and exchanges operated by authorised third parties

We may use third parties, such as advertising networks and exchanges, to allow us to serve you advertisements. These third-party ad networks and exchange providers may use third-party cookies, web beacons or similar technologies to collect information. They may also collect your device identifier, IP address or identifier for advertising (IDFA). The information that these third parties collect may be used to assist us in providing you with more relevant advertising that we serve on our sites or elsewhere on the web, and as described above. Third-party cookies are covered by the third parties' privacy policy.