Why should I read this?
The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data. On Enroyd.com we want to be completely transparent about how we use your data.
Basically we’re using your data for….
- Cookies: cookies help us track our website performance and offer personalized and interesting advertisement.
- General inquiries: You can send us questions, suggestions, etc. via our web form. We’ll try to reply to your inquiries ASAP, but we’ll delete your email address from our (mail) servers within approximately four weeks.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a very small, harmless file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The main purpose of a cookie is that the website can remember your visit when you return to navigate that page. Although many people do not know this, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.
What IS NOT a cookie?
It’s not a virus, nor a Trojan, nor spyware… not even spam!
What kind of cookies are there?
- Technical Cookies: These are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human being or an automated application is surfing, when an anonymous and registered user is surfing, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
- Analysis Cookies: Collect information on the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use most, products consulted, time of use, language, etc.
- Advertising Cookies: Display advertising based on your navigation, country of origin, language, etc.
What are own and third-party cookies?
Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting.
We also use several WordPress plugins, but they shouldn’t track anything without your consent:
https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#7-plugins-may-not-track-users-without-their-consent
We also use Cloudfare and their cookie “cfduid”. It is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in your web application, and does not store any personally identifiable information. More information can be found here. We also invite you to check out Cloudflare’s privacy policy here.
Other third-party services that we use are:
Hostgator: This is our server host.We invite you to check out their privacy policy here
Google Analytics: This is a website traffic analysis tool. We invite you to check out Google’s privacy policy and Terms of Service.
A-ads.com: This is an advertising network. We invite you to check out their privacy policy here
Bitmedia.io: This is an advertising network. They might track your browsing behaviour to offer your personalized ads. We invite you to check out their privacy policy here and here
Token.ad: This is an advertising network. They might track your browsing behaviour to offer your personalized ads. We invite you to check out their privacy policy here and here
Bitcoadz.io: This is an advertising network. They might track your browsing behaviour to offer your personalized ads. We invite you to check out more information on their website.
We’re not responsible for any data processing performed by any third-party service provider.
What happens if I turn off cookies?
To help you understand the extent to which you can disable cookies, here are some examples:
We will not be able to adapt the contents to the interests of our user, as we won’t be able to track what sites our users visits, what content they enjoy, etc.
It will not be possible to customize your geographical preferences such as time zone, currency or language.
Overall we will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, which will make it difficult for the website to be competitive. It’ll also be harder to tell if you are a “human” visitor or an automated application that publishes spam.
It will not be possible to show sectorized advertising, which will reduce the advertising revenue of the website. Enroyd.com will probably no longer be self-sustaining.
How do we use cookies?
On Enroyd we’ll use cookies for…
- … enabling all the functionalities of our website
- … tracking our users’ preferences and offering interesting content. For example: if we see that a particular site receives less visitors, we’ll try to review its content and make it more appealing.
Deleting cookies on the most popular browsers
Please make sure to check out how to manage and delete cookies by selecting your browser and clicking on the respective link:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies
Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US
Safari (mobile): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
Android browser: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/54068?visit_id=0-636624404318206566-2623162459&hl=en&rd=1
Opera: https://www.opera.com/help
Opera mobile: https://www.opera.com/help/mobile/android#privacy
Here’s how to access a particular cookie on your Chrome browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on the browser version:
Go to Settings or Preferences using the File menu or by clicking on the personalization icon at the top right.
You will see different sections, click on the Show advanced options option.
Go to Privacy, Content Settings.
Select All cookies and site data.
A list of all cookies sorted by domain will appear. To make it easier for you to find the cookies for a particular domain, enter part or all of the address in the Search for Cookies field.
After making this filter, one or more lines will appear on the screen with the cookies of the requested website. Now all you have to do is select it and press X to proceed to its removal.
To access the cookie settings of your Internet Explorer browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on your browser version):
Go to Tools, Internet Options
Click on Privacy.
Move the slider to the desired privacy level.
To access your Firefox browser’s cookie settings follow these steps (they may vary depending on your browser version):
Go to Options or Preferences depending on your operating system.
Click on Privacy.
Under History choose Use a custom setting for history.
You will now see the Accept cookies option, which you can enable or disable according to your preferences.
To access your browser’s Safari for OSX cookie settings follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):
Go to Preferences, then Privacy.
Here you will see the Block Cookies option to set the type of block you want to make.
To access your browser’s Safari for iOS cookie settings, follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):
Go to Settings, then Safari.
Under Privacy and Security, you will see the Block Cookies option to set the type of block you want to make.
To access your browser’s cookie settings for Android devices follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):
Run the browser and press the Menu key, then Settings.
Under Security and Privacy, you will see the Accept Cookies option to select or clear the check box.
To access your browser’s cookie settings for Windows Phone devices follow these steps (they may vary depending on your browser version):
Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings
You can now enable or disable the Allow cookies check box.