Cookies Policy

This cookies policy (the ‘policy’) was last updated on 13/09/2024 and refers to the website www.connectingwithtanja.com operated by Tanja Bueck.

This site uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure that Connecting with Tanja (CwT) gives its visitors the best possible experience by providing you with personalised information, remembering your marketing and product preferences, and helping you obtain the right information. You can find out more about cookies and similar technologies, how CwT uses them, and how to control them below.

Use of cookies and similar technologies

This notice describes how CwT, its partners, and any third parties use cookies and similar technologies (such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, JavaScript, and local storage). CwT will refer to these cookies and similar technologies simply as ‘cookies’ for the rest of notice. CwT will also describe what options you may have regarding those cookies.

In some cases, CwT may use cookies to collect information that is personally identifiable, or that can become personally identifiable if CwT combines it with other information. In such cases, CwTs Privacy Policy will apply in addition to this notice.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files—usually consisting of letters and numbers—placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device, when you use that device to visit a web site. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites operate, work more efficiently, and provide analytic information.

These are the different types of cookies CwT and its service providers may use on this website:

  • Essential cookies. These cookies are required for the operation of our sites and enable you to move around the sites and use their features. Disabling these cookies will encumber the sites’ performance and may make the features and service unavailable.

  • Analytics and customisation cookies. These cookies allow us to analyse activities on our sites and on other sites where we post content in order to improve and optimise the way our sites work. For example,CwT may use these types of cookies to ensure that visitors can easily find the information they are looking for on this website. One way CwT does this is to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how they move around this website when they are using it. Analytics cookies also help CwT measure the performance of its advertising campaigns in order to help CwT improve its advertising campaigns and to optimise this websites’ content for those who engage with its advertising.

  • Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to this website. This enables CwT to personalise its content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences.

  • Advertising cookies. These cookies record your online activities, including your visits to this site, the pages you have visited, and the links and advertisements you have clicked. One purpose of this is to help make the content displayed on this site more relevant to you. Another purpose is to allow CwT and its service providers to deliver advertisements or other communications to you that are designed to be more relevant to your apparent interests. When CwT and its service providers do so, this also involves partners such as publishers, data management platforms, and demand side platforms that help to manage the data. For example, if you look at one page on one of our sites, we may cause an advertisement to be delivered to you, on our sites or on other sites, for products referenced on that page or for similar products and services. CwT and its service providers and partners may also append other data of information collected by these cookies, including information obtained from third parties, and share this information with third parties for the purpose of delivering ads to you.

How does CwT collect and use other information?

CwT and its service providers may use cookies for a variety of purposes, including to:

  • Help us and third parties obtain information about your visits to the sites;

  • Analyse your visiting patterns to improve our sites;

  • Deliver communications, and content from us and third parties, on our sites and those of third parties, specific to your interests;

  • Help you obtain information you are looking for;

  • Measure how many people use this site, and how they use it, to keep this site running efficiently and to better understand this sites’ audience.

If you register on this site, or otherwise provide CwT with your personal information, CwT may associate that information with other information CwT collects from you or about you or that you provide, information regarding your use of this site, or information CwT receives from or about you from third parties. CwT will use this combined data for marketing and analytics purposes.

Third party cookies

You should also be aware that there are cookies which are found in other companies' internet tools which CwT is using to enhance the website. You will see ‘social buttons’ on this website, which enables you to share or bookmark the web pages.

How long do cookies stay on my device?

Some cookies operate from the time you visit this site to the end of that particular web browsing session. These cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your Internet browser. These cookies are called ‘session’ cookies.

Some cookies will stay on your device between browsing sessions – they do not expire when you close your browser. These cookies are called “persistent” cookies. The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device varies from cookie to cookie. CwT and others use persistent cookies for a variety of purposes, such as to store your preferences so that they are available for the next visit, and to keep a more accurate account of how often you visit our sites, how often you return, how your use of the sites may vary over time, and the effectiveness of advertising efforts.

Who puts the cookies on my device?

Cookies may be placed on your device by CwT as the site operator. These cookies are called “first party” cookies. Some cookies may be placed on your device by a party other than CwT. These cookies are called “third party” cookies.

Third Party cookies may be used to allow CwT and third parties to know when you visit our sites, and to understand how you interact with emails, advertisements, or other content. Through cookies, aggregate and other information not identifying individual users (such as your operating system, browser version, and the URL you came from, including from emails and advertisements) may be obtained and used to enhance your experience and understand traffic patterns. This technology counts the number of users who visit a particular page from specific online ads outside CwT. It is also used as a tool to compile aggregated statistics about how connectingwithtanja.com is used, to perform analytics and help CwT to optimise its site, and to help serve you advertising based on your interests, as described in further detail below.

How does CwT use online and mobile advertising?

CwT and third parties, including technology partners, and service providers may engage in interest-based advertising to deliver advertisements and personalised content that CwT and other advertisers believe will be of interest to you. To the extent third party vendors are using cookies to perform these services for CwT or others, CwT does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

Ads may be delivered to you based on your online or mobile behaviour, your search activity, your responses to one of its advertisements or emails, the pages you visit, your general geographic location, or other information. These ads may appear on this site or on third party web sites.

How do I manage cookies?

You can decide whether or not to accept cookies. One way you can do this is through your internet browser’s settings. Most internet browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings (please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access parts of this web site).

What about other tracking technologies?

Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. CwT may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphic files that contain a unique identifier that enable CwT to recognise when someone has visited this website or opened an email that CwT has sent them. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Privacy

CwT is committed to privacy. For more information about CwTs approach to privacy see its Privacy Policy.

How to contact CwT

If you have any questions, you can contact CwT:

  • In writing – address your letter to: Connecting with Tanja, Tanja Bueck, 19 Beresford Road, Donabate, Co Dublin, K36K738, Ireland

  • Or by email to: tanja.bueck@gmail.com

Please include your contact information, and a detailed description of your request or Cookie concern.

This notice updates and supersedes previous versions. CwT may change this notice at any time. The “LAST UPDATED” section at the top of this page lists when this notice was last revised. Any changes to this notice will become effective when CwT makes the revised notice available on or through this site.