This is the Cookie Policy for Chris R. Underwood, accessible from www.chrisrunderwood.com
What Are Cookies
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uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your
computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what
information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to
store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these
cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain
elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
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Disabling Cookies
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The Cookies We Set
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Third Party Cookies
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might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread
and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand
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- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to
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consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand
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- As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics
about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and
as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is
important to you as it means that we can accurately make business
predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs
to ensure the best possible price.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking
cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site
through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them
appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to
provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that
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More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously
mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or
not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does
interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: chris@chrisunderwoodbooks.com