Cookie Policy - YowDecor

Welcome to our website! We’re so happy to have you. To make sure your experience on our website is as pleasant and positive as possible, we use cookies. You can read all about how cookies work on this page.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file saved on your smartphone, tablet, or computer. The information in this text file is used for functional, commercial, or statistical purposes. We will explain the differences between these three categories below. Apart from cookies, there are also other methods we use to save and read certain information on your device, such as local storage. This works similarly to a cookie. For simplicity, we group these concepts under ‘cookies’ in this explanation. To place cookies, we use common techniques like JavaScript and tracking pixels.

Are cookies safe?

Using cookies is completely safe and very common on the internet. A cookie never contains personal information like your name, phone number, or email address. Because of this, cookies cannot be used to contact you directly via email or telemarketing campaigns. It is very important to us that you know exactly what type of cookies we place and how they are used by third parties. You can read all about this below.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies for several different purposes:

Functional cookies: to make sure our website is user-friendly and secure.
Analytical cookies: to analyze how our website is used.
Advertising cookies: to place relevant advertisements.
Social media cookies: to allow sharing or saving pictures and articles.

Below, you can read about each category of cookies. You can also see which companies may place cookies on your device when you visit our website, as we sometimes use services from other companies that place cookies on our behalf. Google, for instance, provides us with tools to measure website traffic and supply advertisements, which requires them to place cookies.

When another company places a cookie, we will refer you via a link to their privacy or cookie policy, where you can learn what these companies do with the cookies they place.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies ensure an optimal and safe user experience on our website.

Our website does not offer account creation, so the use of functional cookies is limited. Nevertheless, they are essential for the following purposes:

Checking your browser settings to display our website in the best format for your device.
Detecting misuse to help prevent cyberattacks and similar issues.
Ensuring the website does not use excessive technical resources, helping it remain available. We use Cloudflare to assist with this.
Determining your general location to load the website from the appropriate server, also supported by Cloudflare.

You do not need to give permission for functional cookies, and they cannot be disabled.

Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies help us optimize our website.

To improve your experience, we constantly work on refining our website based on the statistics we collect. We gather insights on elements such as:

Time spent on our website
Pages and articles clicked during your visit
Number of articles read
Engagement with article suggestions
Device used to visit the site
Referring source or advertisement that brought you to our website

We collect these types of data through Google Analytics, which places analytical cookies for us.

Advertising cookies

Advertising cookies allow us to show relevant advertisements.

Maintaining our website and creating new content requires time and resources, funded by advertising. Our ad partners place cookies for us to display targeted ads, allowing us to:

Avoid showing the same ad repeatedly
Show relevant ads tailored to you
Present contextual ads (e.g., a decor-related ad alongside an article on home decor)
Track ad views and interactions

Social media cookies

Social media cookies enable content sharing with your social network.

When you like content on our website, you may wish to share it with friends and family. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest enable sharing via buttons on our website. These platforms place cookies to recognize you when sharing articles or images directly from our site.

These cookies make it possible for you to:

Share content from our website while logged into your social media accounts

Our website includes options to share our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. You can read about the specific cookies these social media platforms use in their respective privacy policies:

Removing and/or turning off cookies

You may choose not to accept any cookies on our website and other websites. Unfortunately, we cannot disable cookies for you; you will need to do this yourself. Be aware that declining cookies may affect website functionality.

For assistance with removing or blocking cookies, use the following guides:

Finally

We strive to maintain accurate information on the cookies used by our website. However, third parties may place additional cookies we cannot monitor. This can occur when we embed content saved by a third party, such as videos or social media posts.

We work to keep our cookie list updated but appreciate feedback on unlisted cookies. Please inform us through our contact form, and we will update the list promptly. For more information about third-party cookies, we recommend contacting the respective parties directly.

This statement may change without prior notice. Please visit this page regularly for any updates.