At Home Sweet Homeshare, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and process data about you. This page is designed to inform you about our practices regarding cookies, and to explain how you can manage them.
You want to know more about cookies and how we use them?
Happy to explain! Keep on reading.Note: This Cookie Policy does not address how we process your personal information outside of our use of cookies. To learn more about how we process your personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your device’s memory. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (Internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie may also contain information about your device, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using our services.
Are there different types of cookies?First-party and third-party cookies:
There are first-party cookies placed directly by Home Sweet Homeshare and third-party cookies placed by our partners and service providers.
Session and persistent cookies:
Session cookies only last until you close your browser. Persistent cookies have a longer lifespan and last beyond the current session.
What about other tracking technologies?
Other technologies like web beacons, tracking URLs and SDKs are used for similar purposes as cookies.
For simplicity, we refer to these technologies as “cookies” in this policy.
What do we use cookies for?
Like other online services, we use cookies to provide, secure and improve our services.
We may use cookies for purposes like:
- Remembering your preferences
- Recognizing you when you visit our website
- Measuring the success of marketing campaigns
- Personalizing and tailoring ads to your interestsWhen you use our services, we may set essential, analytics, advertising/marketing or social networking cookies.How can you control cookies?You have several cookie management options:
- Use your browser or device’s controls to manage cookies
- Opt out of interest-based advertising via tools like the Digital Advertising Alliance
- Opt out of Google Analytics for website visits by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
Browser and device controls
Some web browsers provide settings that allow you to control or reject cookies, or that alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. The procedure for managing cookies is slightly different for each Internet browser. You can check the specific steps in your particular browser’s help menu.You may also be able to reset device identifiers or opt out from having identifiers collected or processed by using the appropriate setting on your mobile device. The procedures for managing identifiers are slightly different for each device. You can check the specific steps in the help or settings menu of your particular device.
Interest-based advertising tools
Advertising companies may participate in self-regulatory programmes that allow you to opt out of any interest-based ads involving them. For more information on this, you can visit the following sites: Digital Advertising Alliance; Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance; Appchoices.Opting out does not mean you will not see advertising – it means you won’t see personalised advertising from the companies that participate in these opt-out programmes. Also, if you delete cookies on your device after you’ve opted out, you will need to opt out again.
Google™ Cookies
Google™ Maps API CookiesSome features of our website and some Home Sweet Homeshare services rely on the use of Google™ Maps API Cookies. Such cookies will be stored on your device.When browsing this website and using the services relying on Google™ Maps API cookies, you consent to the storage and collection of such cookies on your device and to the access, usage and sharing by Google of the data collected thereby.Google™ manages the information and your choices pertaining to Google™ Maps API Cookies via an interface separate from that supplied by your browser. For more information, please see https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/.Google AnalyticsWe use Google Analytics – a Google service that uses cookies and other data collection technologies to collect information about your use of the website and services, in order to report website trends.For more information on how Google collects and processes data, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out of Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and opt out of Google’s ad personalisation at https://adssettings.google.com/.
How to contact us?
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us: Online: Legal@homesweethomeshare.com
By Post: Privacy Officer Home Sweet Homeshare, Inc.8 Auburn Road, Millbury, MA 01527