Our Cookie Policy at Harmony & Bloom
At Harmony & Bloom, we believe in transparency and empowering you with control over your privacy. This policy explains how we utilize cookies and similar technologies on our website to enhance your experience, understand user behavior, and provide personalized content.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They help us remember your preferences, tailor your experience, and analyze how our website is being used.
Think of them as tiny memory aids for your browser, allowing our site to recognize you on subsequent visits or to remember items in your shopping cart. Without cookies, the web would be a much less convenient place to browse.
Why Does Harmony & Bloom Use Cookies?
We use cookies for several important reasons, all aimed at improving your journey with us. From ensuring the site functions correctly to understanding how we can better serve your needs, cookies play a crucial role in delivering a seamless and personalized online experience.
Types of Cookies We Use
Understanding the different categories of cookies helps you make informed decisions about your privacy. Harmony & Bloom employs various types, each serving a distinct function to optimize your interaction with our platform.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for our website to function properly and securely. They enable core functionalities like security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as logging into secure areas or adding items to a shopping cart, cannot be provided. They do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Remembering your login details
- Ensuring website security
- Managing your shopping cart
Analytical/Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. This data helps us improve the performance of our website and understand what content is most valuable to our users. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
- Tracking page visits and navigation paths
- Measuring website traffic and trends
- Identifying popular content
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Remembering language preferences
- Customizing site appearance
- Enhancing user experience with remembered settings
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often, targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
- Delivering personalized advertisements
- Measuring the effectiveness of ad campaigns
- Limiting the number of times you see an advertisement
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies (first-party cookies), we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. Examples include social media plugins, embedded content from YouTube or Vimeo, and analytics services like Google Analytics.
- Social media sharing buttons
- Embedded video content
- External analytics tools
Session vs. Persistent Cookies
Cookies can also be categorized by their duration. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted from your device when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your device for a set period or until you manually delete them. We use both types to fulfill different functions, from maintaining your login session to remembering your preferences across visits.
- Session: Active only during your browsing session
- Persistent: Remain for a specified duration
- Used for login states and long-term preferences
Your Choices and Control
We respect your right to privacy. You have the power to manage your cookie preferences and control the information you share with us. Learn how to adjust your settings and take charge of your online experience.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can typically configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality and features available on our website.
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Site Settings > Cookies and site data
- Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Tracking prevention > Cookies and site data
- Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Block all cookies
For more detailed information on how to manage cookies on various browsers, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Cookie Consent Management
When you first visit our website, you are presented with a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to accept or decline various types of cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the button below. This will typically reset the cookie banner, allowing you to re-evaluate your choices.
Adjust your preferences below. Remember that disabling certain cookies might affect your experience on our site.
Essential for website functionality and cannot be disabled.
Help us understand how users interact with our site to improve performance.
Enable personalized features and remember your preferences.
Used by third-party advertisers to show relevant ads.
Updates to Our Cookie Policy
Harmony & Bloom is committed to maintaining the highest standards of privacy and data protection. As digital regulations evolve, we may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements.
Policy Revision and Notification
We encourage you to review this page regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies. Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page, and where appropriate, notified to you by email or through a prominent notice on our website. Your continued use of our website after any such changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.
The "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy will always reflect the most recent revision. We believe in keeping you fully informed about your data and how it's handled, ensuring you always have the most current information at your fingertips.
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