Cookies Policy

 

Digital Authority Group LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company (“Company”, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. 

This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “cookies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit TheGearHunt.com

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy

 

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer to the extent you agree. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. 

If you’d like to find out more information about cookies, please the following third-party websites:

 

How Does Our Website Use Cookies?

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

 

What Cookies Do We Use?
  • First party Cookies. These are cookies that belong to us and that we place on your device. These cookies allow our Website to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and perform other useful functions that help provide you with a good user experience. 
  • Third party Cookies. These are cookies that another party places on your device or web browser through our Website. We may contract with third party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies.
  • Persistent Cookies. We use persistent cookies to improve your experience of using our Website. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use our Website.
  • Session Cookies. Session cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session cookies to help us track internet usage.

Besides the types of cookies listed above, we also use:

  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies; and
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

The data collected by our Website and through the cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than 6 months.

 

What Purposes Are These Cookies Used For?

On our Website we use the following cookies for the following purposes:

  • 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 recognize 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. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Third-Party Advertising and Targeting Cookies. These cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third party service providers to use cookies on our Website for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third party service providers that generate these cookies, such as Amazon, Google, Twitter and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our Website. These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.

 

How Do I Refuse Or Withdraw My Consent to the use of Cookies?

  • If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. 
  • Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

 

Changes To Our Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time or may change the cookies on our Website. The date of the last update can be found at the bottom of this Cookie Policy.

 

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Cookie Policy, contact us at [email protected] or write us at:

Digital Authority Group LLC

Attn: Cookie Policy

N28 W23000 Roundy Drive, Suite 203

Pewaukee, WI 53072

 

 

Last updated: February 17, 2021.