In this cookie policy:
About cookies
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that are used by almost any website since the very early days of the
internet to store or transfer information between a website and the browser you use to access the
website. Cookies are stored in a special folder in the temporary internet files directory of your
browser. When you request another page from the website, your browser sends the cookie back to the
website.
Cookies are helpful
There are a lot of myths surrounding cookies, mostly making them out to be in some way dangerous for
your computer or infringing of privacy rights. Cookies are not harmful like malware, worms or
viruses. Cookies are nothing more than a technology to remember your actions or preferences over
time. This is exactly the same as storing this information in a central database on a website. A
cookie can only be read by the website that created it, a website cannot read cookies from other
websites.
Some terminology
Cookies can either be session cookies or persistent cookies. A session
cookie expires automatically when you close your browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it
expires or you delete your cookies. Expiration dates are set in the cookies themselves; some may
expire after a few minutes while others may expire after multiple years. Cookies placed by the
website you're visiting are sometimes called first-party cookies while cookies placed by other
websites are sometimes called third party cookies. And why it's called a cookie? The term "cookie"
is an allusion to a Unix program called Fortune Cookie that produces a different message, or
fortune, each time it runs.
What about privacy
Third party persistent cookies, or "tracking cookies", are able to follow you on the internet. For
example, if you go to a website that hosts online advertising from a third party vendor, this vendor
can place a tracking cookie on your computer. If you visit another website that hosts online
advertising from this same vendor, it will recognize you and is in fact able to determine (a part
of) your browsing history. But usage of tracking cookies is for a good reason. It enables the
third party vendor to serve ads targeted at your interests, the so called "personalized ads". Some
people see these tracking cookies as an invasion of privacy since they allow an advertiser to build
up profiles of users without their consent or knowledge. The truth is that personalized advertising
is a powerful tool that improves advertising relevance for users and significantly increases revenue
for websites. Without personalized ads, the majority of the websites cannot longer survive. They
either close or stop serving their content for free.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a website or a third party to recognize you. Cookies are used to save personalized
information on your browser so that this information doesn't have to be gathered/setup each time you
visit a page of the same website. Cookie have on purpose, improving your browsing experience. Based
on the their purposes, cookies are grouped in different types; functional-, analytics-, social
media- and advertising cookies. Below is a description of these types. Each type explains how these
cookies work in general, what they do and what the benefits are for you. The small tags show the
properties of the cookies.
Functional cookies
These cookies are essential to make a website work properly. For example, websites store your
personal preferences in a cookie to provide personalized web pages. When you return, the website
uses the information in the cookie to create a customized page for you. Or online stores, who use
cookies to store the items in your shopping cart. Or in case you login to a website these cookies
act as a identification card so that you don't have to login each time you click on a webpage.
Analytics cookies
These cookies are used to monitor visitor behavior on websites. Information about visitor behavior
is in an aggregated and anonymous form that does not identify you directly as an individual. Its
purpose is to help websites understand what people to on their website. For example, what pages are
most popular, what pages are not, what pages load slowely or on what pages do people leave the
website. Based on this information about visitor behavior, websites can make improve their website.
Social media cookies
Websites can gives you the option to like or share content on social media sites such as Facebook,
Google+, Twitter, etc. These sites make use of (social) cookies. For example to verify if you're
logged in to their site, so that you don't need to login each time you want to like or share
content. To see how these social media sites deal with your data, read the priavacy statement of
Facebook,
Google+ and
Twitter.
Advertising cookies
Websites can use advertisements which are placed by ad networks. To track the effectiveness of
individual campaigns, ad networks use cookies keep track of what ads you've seen and how many
times. This helps to deliver ads that are relevant to your browsing habits. Advertising cookies
are third party persistent (or tracking) cookies. This makes it possible for ad networks to follow
you other websites that use advertisements of the same ad network. Advertising cookies are used to
personalize ads and to track which advertisements you've already seen to avoid that you will always
see the same advertisements.
What cookies does LetsSingIt use?
We think it's important for you to understand what type of cookies we use on our website and for
what purpose. We not only care about the browsing experience of our website, we also care about your
privacy. Below you'll find what cookies we're using and for what purpose.
Functional cookies
We use functional cookies to make our website work properly. We use these cookies to:
- Save your timezone to present all dates and times in your local time and notation to enhance readability
- Save your location and device to present our site optimized for your location and device
- Save in the layout you feel the most comfortable with to present our search results to you
- Identify you when your a member of our website and are logged in
- Remember your cookie consent settings
Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics to help us improve our information and services. Google Analytics makes use
of first-party cookies. This collected information is combined with data from thousands of other
users to create an overall picture of website use. We use these cookies to track:
- How many visitors come to our website
- What browsers visitors use
- How long visitors stay on our site
- What pages are most popular
- What pages are least popular
- Find slow loading pages
Social media cookies
We use the social media websites Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest to like and share our
content. These websites make use of cookies to verify if you're logged in to their website, so that
you don't need to login each time you want to like or share our content. We have no influence over
how these social media networks make use of your data.
Advertising cookies
To be able to present you our content for free, we show you advertisements. These advertisements are
placed by third party ad networks. These ad networks use advertising cookies.
Controlling cookies
If you would prefer to opt out of cookies, it is possible to control cookies by following the steps
below. However, you probably do not wat to disable all cookies, because then might lose features and
functionality of our website which would really limit the quality of your Internet experience.
Also note that if you choose to turn off personalized behavioural advertising by disabling third party
cookies, you will still see advertising on the internet. It only stops advertising networks from
tracking your activities and displaying "personalized" ads. For more information about how you can
delete and control the cookies that are stored on your computer, please visit
https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Clear browsing data
Your browser also has an option to clear your browsing data that includes the option to
delete cookies and other site and plug-in data, including data stored on your device by the Adobe
Flash Player (commonly known as Flash cookies).
"Do Not Track"
Some internet browsers have a "Do Not Track" (or "DNT") setting. This sends a signal to websites
asking them not to track your browsing. OUr website does not support Do Not Track requests at this
time.
Incognito browsing mode
Some browsers offer an incognito browse mode. Use this mode when you don't want your website visits
or downloads to be recorded in your browsing and download histories. Any cookies created while in
incognito mode are deleted after you close all incognito windows.
Adjust browser settings
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. If you do not want our
website to store cookies on your device, you can change your browser settings so that you receive a
warning before certain cookies are stored. You can also set your browser to ask your permission
before accepting a cookie though, and only accept them from websites you trust. Blocking third party
tracking cookies allows you to prevent websites on other domains from putting cookies in your
browser meaning your browser will not let websites set cookies that are not part of the domain where
you are going. If you use different devices to view and access our website (e.g., your computer,
smartphone, tablet) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit
your cookie preferences. The procedures for changing your settings and cookies differ from browser
to browser. If necessary, use the help function on your browser or visit
www.allaboutcookies.org to find out more about
cookies, including how to manage them in your browser.
Using software
There are also software products available that can manage cookies for you. You can for example use
Ghostery.com to evaluate the use
of cookies used on our website.
Google Analytics
You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by downloading and stalling the
Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
This add-on creates an opt-out cookie which prevents the further processing of your data. For more
information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google's help pages
and Google's Privacy Policy.
Industry Opt Out Tools
Websites offered by the internet advertising industry which contain 1) information about personalized
advertising, 2) online privacy and 3) opt-out options are:
Disclaimer
Because of the way in which the internet and websites work, it may be that we do not always have
complete insight into the cookies that third parties place on our website. This is especially the
case if our web pages contain so-called embedded elements; these are texts, documents, pictures or
films that are stored with another party, but which are shown on, in or via our website. Should you
encounter cookies on this website that fall into this category and that we have not mentioned above,
please let us know. You can also contact the third party directly and ask which cookies they have
placed, what the reason is, what the lifespan of the cookie is and how they have guaranteed your
privacy.