Cookies Policy of slicks.com
This website, slicks.com (our "Website"), is operated by Flink production GmbH.
Like many websites, our Website uses different types of cookies for the following purposes:
- To optimize your experience
- To recognize you when you return to our Website
- To enable certain functions
- To provide analytics
- To store your preferences
- To enable ad delivery and behavioural advertising
Some cookies are set by us and others are set by third-parties who support or deliver services for us. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies.
A session cookie is used to identify a particular visit to our Website. These cookies expire after a short time, or when you close your web browser after using our Website. We use these cookies to identify you during a single browsing session, such as when you log into our Website.
A persistent cookie will remain on your devices for a set period of time specified in the cookie. We use these cookies where we need to identify you over a longer period of time. For example, we would use a persistent cookie if you asked that we keep you signed in.
We reserve the right to revise this Cookies Policy at any time by posting an updated version on our Website, without further notice to you. By using our Website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy. Instructions for disabling cookies can be found below.
What are Cookies, Local storage and Pixels?
Cookies are a small text files that are stored in your web browser or device. Cookies can be used to collect, store and share bits of information about your activities across websites, including on our Website. They may be served by the entity that operates our Website (“first-party cookies”) or by other companies (“third-party cookies”).
For example, we partner with third-party analytics providers, like Google, which set cookies when you visit our websites.
HTML5 local storage is a component of the Web storage application programming interface. It is a method by which Web pages locally store named key/value pairs inside a client's Web browser. Local storage is mainly used to store and retrieve data in HTML pages from the same domain. It stores data with no expiration date, and gets cleared through JavaScript or clearing the Browser Cache / Locally Stored Data.
Pixels are small images on a web page or in an email. Our website measures conversions using visitor action pixels from Facebook. These allow the behavior of site visitors to be tracked after they click on a Facebook ad to reach the provider's website. This allows an analysis of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and their future optimization. The data collected is anonymous to us as operators of this website and we cannot use it to draw any conclusions about our users' identities. However, the data are stored and processed by Facebook, which may make a connection to your Facebook profile and which may use the data for its own advertising purposes, as stipulated in the Facebook privacy policy. This will allow Facebook to display ads both on Facebook and on third-party sites. We have no control over how this data is used. Check out Facebook's privacy policy to learn more about protecting your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can also deactivate the custom audiences remarketing feature in the Ads Settings section at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You will first need to log into Facebook.
How we use Cookies.
Essential Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for our Website functionalities. For example, they are used to remember your password so you can log into your account securely, and when you are logged into your account, cookies remember this while you are browsing so you don’t have to log in each time you switch pages. Essential cookies are also used when you complete an order (to remember what is in your shopping cart between pages). These cookies are also important to verify your access to secure payment pages. Essential cookies are usually removed or cleared when you log out. However, in some cases essential cookies may be stored to remember your site preferences.
Functional Cookies
We use functional cookies to improve the functionality of our Website and customize our Website according to your preferences.
For example, cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered, to remember your preferences, such as your region, currency and the language, avoiding that you repeatedly have to select your preferred language. Functional cookies are also used make sure that when you submit data through our contact form, we will be able to remember your details for further correspondence.
Performance Cookies
We use Performance cookies for internal purposes to help us to provide you with a better user experience. These cookies help us understand how our website is used by visitors. Also these cookies are used to provide comprehensive statistics on visitors to our Website. From this information we can improve the way the site works and presents content to you. We use third-party companies such as Google to perform this analysis via their services. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google'), to help us see how our Website is used. Cookies set by Google Analytics may track things like how long you spend on our Website, which pages you visit, and whether you make a purchase. This information is typically held by Google on servers in the United States. The data is aggregated and anonymised, which means we cannot identify you as an individual.
Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a website other than the one you are currently on.
Some examples of how we or third-party use these cookies are:
- To collect information about which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve the online experience
- The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyse how frequently the same people revisit our Website
- How our Website is found (from advertising or referring websites)
- We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to our Website
- Error management to make sure that our Website is working properly
- Testing designs to help improve the look and feel of our Website.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page: https://www.google.com/analytics. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by downloading their browser plug-in tool from http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to collect information on how visitors to our Website interact with our content and services. This helps us understand which products are popular and if there is something that could be improved. This information is gathered by pixel tags or web beacons, and is aggregated at a high level so that it cannot be used to identify any individual person.
Advertising Cookies
Our third-party service providers also use cookies to gather information about your interest in our Website and our products by collecting your IP address and the city or country where you are located. This information is used to place advertisements across other websites that you visit. It is also used to track whether or not you click on our advertisements that are placed on other websites.
How do third parties use cookies on our Website?
Third party companies like analytics companies and Facebook generally use cookies to collect user information on an anonymous basis. They may use that information to build a profile of your activities on our Website and other websites that you've visited. Facebook Pixel helps to optimize ads based on collected data, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to qualified leads—people who have already taken some kind of action on our Website.
What are your cookies options?
If you don't like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser's settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. To learn more about how to do this, visit the help pages of your browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or do not 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.
Where can I find more information about cookies?
You can learn more about cookies by visiting the following third party websites: