Welcome to the EddyAncinas.com Cookie Policy for EddyAncinas.com and related sites, such as TalesfromTwoValleysBook.com and TripsTipsandTales.com. This Cookie Policy details information you need to know regarding our cookie practices.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny text documents which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store its cookie file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Why use Cookies?
In general, cookies are a standard technology websites use, along with logs on servers, to collect primarily statistical information about how sites are being used. The information cookies gather can include which pages are viewed, how much time people spend on certain pages or on the site in general, the date and time of visits to the site, your IP address as well as which sites were visited right before or after visiting ours. You can prevent the setting of cookies at any time by changing the setting on your Internet browser to deny the setting of cookies. Cookies are not required for the EddyAncinas.com site to function properly, but denying cookies can disrupt your viewing experience of some elements of the site. The use of cookies, however, helps us improve the design of the site and its content and provide a better, more tailored experience to our subscribers.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this) or by manually selecting which cookies you prefer on the pop-up that appears when you first visit the site. You can also opt out of tracking by many companies using cookies via the Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out.
Our Cookies
Email Education-Related Cookies
This site enables you to subscribe and receive emails providing you information and education about Eddy Ancinas, her books, articles, travel writing specializing in Latin American travel, ski history and more. Cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show particular notifications only appropriate for subscribed or unsubscribed users.
Forms-Related Cookies
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Orders-Processing Related Cookies
You can purchase items, such as courses, and the purchases often appear to be occurring on EddyAncinas.com. In reality, we use third-party platforms and processors, and these companies will often use cookies so we can track sales, etc.
Account and Login Related Cookies
With particular products or services we offer, we may provide you with an account and login details. Third-party platforms we use will often use cookies to make login easy, and so we can identify you as a paying customer.
Statistics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most-used and trusted analytics solutions on the web. It helps us understand how you use the site and identify ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce more content that is of interest to you. We also use third-party analytics to track and measure usage of this site in our quest to continue producing engaging content.
As we sell courses and other products, it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site make a purchase. Cookies track this kind of data. This is helpful to us and to you as it means we can better understand and monitor our product, advertising and business costs to ensure the best possible price.
We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including, Facebook Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully, our Cookie Policy has clarified things for you. It is usually safer to leave cookies enabled when using EddyAncinas.com in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. If you have questions, you can reach us using the contact form (click on Contact in the menus).
All the best,
Eddy Ancinas