COOKIE INFORMATION & CONSENT POLICY
Updated 24 May 2018

Cookies and Consent 

Cookies consist of small snippets of text installed in the browser, and the cookies used on this site assist Photos by Yvonne in providing content and services as described herein. If the settings in the browser that you are viewing to view this website are configured to accept cookies, we take this, together with your continued use of our website, to imply consent to the installation of these cookies. Some of the purposes for which cookies are installed may require the user’s affirmative consent, and we will request, obtain, and record that consent prior to installing such cookies where required under applicable law.

Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions herein. Additionally, you may at any time delete or disable cookies with your individual browser settings.  However, please bear in mind that some cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of this site, and by disabling cookies, this Site may not function as expected.

How We Use Cookies

Photos by Yvonne may use cookies and other technologies to evaluate user behavior, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of targeted advertisements and web searches. We also use these technologies to remember personal information for your convenience when you use our website, online services, and applications.

Our cookies help us to make our website work as you’d expect, save you having to log in every time you visit the site, remember your settings during and between visits, offer you targeted offers and content, improve site speed & security, allow you to share pages with social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest), personalize the site for you, and make our marketing more efficient (which allows us to offer the products & services we do at a reduced price point). We do not use cookies to collect any sensitive or personally identifiable information without your express permission or pass personally identifiable data to third parties.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings in the browser that you are viewing to view this website are configured to accept cookies, we take this, together with your continued use of our website, to imply consent except in those circumstances in which If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Making our shopping basket and checkout work;
Determining if you are logged in or not;
Remembering your search settings;
Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions;
Showing you which pages you have recently visited;
Allowing you to add comments to our site; and
Tailoring content to your needs.

Displaying content from external platforms
These services allow you to view and/or interact with content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of our website. These services may collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

We use:
YouTube video embed widget (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Vimeo video embed widget – Privacy Policy
Iconosquare Instagram embed widget – Privacy Policy
SnapWidget Instagram embed widget – Privacy Policy
Instagram post embed widget (Facebook Inc.) – Data Policy
Sched schedule embed widget – Privacy Policy
Wufoo online forms (Survey Monkey, Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Google Maps embed widget (Google Inc.)Privacy Policy

Social Website Cookies
Social website cookies allow you to interact with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of our website, as by “liking” or “sharing” our content. These interactions and information obtained by these sites are subject to the user privacy settings you have chosen for each of these social networks. We use social buttons, widgets, and other related functionality from the following services:

Twitter Tweet button and social widgets – Privacy Policy
Facebook Like button and social widgets – Privacy Policy
Instagram social widgets (Facebook Inc.) – Data Policy
Pinterest Pin button and social widgets – Privacy Policy
Google+ +1 button and social widgets (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy

Site Improvement Cookies
We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.

We use:
VWO Visual Website Optimizer – Privacy Policy

Analytics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of device/OS your are using, the site that referred you to our site (such as a search engine or social media network), how long you spend on the site, what pages you view, etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.

We use:
Heap Analytics (Heap Inc.) – Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
We use Google Analytics with User ID feature enabled. This functionality associates each visitor with the same User ID over various sessions and devices, but it does not allow Google to personally identify an individual or permanently identify a particular device.

Advertising & Remarketing Cookies
Advertising & Remarketing cookies allow Photos by Yvonne to inform, optimize, and serve advertisements based on your engagement and activity on our site. These cookies may also collect anonymous data about your activity so we can better personalize offers and information that you find engaging, as well as to help us report to advertisers which of their advertisements you respond to best. 

OptinMonster  – Privacy Policy
AdRoll – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.) 
– Privacy Policy / Opt Out
Google Analytics for Display Advertising (Google Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out
Facebook (Facebook, Inc.) – Privacy Policy / Opt Out

Includes Facebook custom audience, conversion tracking, and remarketing.  

Affiliate Cookies
We have a number of partners who promote our service on a success-only basis (i.e. instead of paying for advertising, we pay them commissions on sales). Cookies are required to allow us to reward these partners and these cookies are usually provided by specialist companies (known as affiliate networks). Neither us, the networks, or the partner advertising or recommending our services are able to identify you personally. We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the service we do at the price we do. 

Cookie Opt-Out and Management

You can also manage many companies’ cookies used for online advertising via the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programs in many countries, such as the US-based aboutads.info choices page or the EU-based Your Online Choices. Please note that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see advertisements; it simply means these advertisements will no longer be tailored to you.

You can also manage preferences for Cookies directly from within your own browser to prevent the installation of Cookies or to delete previously installed Cookies installed in the past.