How We Use Cookies

As described in our Privacy Policy , our services (including our website, mobile app, and e-mail communications, together the “Services”) use cookies and other device identification technologies (“cookies”) to provide our Services, to understand how they are used, and for advertising purposes. You can read more about the types of cookies we use, why we use them, and how you can exercise your cookie choices below.

What are cookies?

We use the term cookie to refer to all technologies that store and access information on the device that you use to access our Services, such as your computer, tablet, or mobile phone. For example, we use http cookies, which are small data files (typically made up of numbers and letters) that are downloaded when you access our Services and allow us to recognise your device.

There are different types of cookies, for example:

  • Cookies served directly by Hard Cut Vodka, Inc. (“first party cookies”;) and cookies served on our behalf, for example, by advertisers and data analytics companies (“third party cookies”).

  • Cookies which endure for different periods of time, including those that only last as long as your browser is open (referred to as “Session cookies”). These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are “permanent cookies” meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. For example, they recognise your device when you open your browser and browse the internet again.

Cookies can be used for different purposes, including:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the Services and use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the Services. Without these cookies, services like enabling appropriate content based on your type of device cannot be provided.

  • Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Services, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and is only used to improve how the Services work.

  • Functional Cookies: These cookies allow the Services to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

  • Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button on the Services. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.

  • Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.

Which cookies do we use, and why do we use them?

  • These cookies (including local storage and similar technologies) tell us when you’re logged in, so we can show you the appropriate experience and features such as your account information, trip history, and to edit your account settings.

  • We use these cookies to support or enable security features to help keep HARD CUT safe and secure. For example, they enable us to remember when you are logged into a secure area of the Services and help protect your account from being accessed by anyone other than you.

  • Things like cookies and pixels are used to understand and deliver ads and make them more relevant to you, and track the efficacy of mobile application advertising campaigns.

    For example, we may read a cookie so we can serve you ads that may be interesting to you on other websites. We also use this information to retarget users with relevant advertising.

    Similarly, our partners may use a cookie, attribution service or another similar technology to determine whether we’ve served an ad and how it performed or provide us with information about how you interact with them.

    This may involve storing cookies on your local device.

    HARD CUT [and third parties including] Google, Kenshoo, Quantcast, Adelphic, AdRoll and Facebook, Google, AOL, AdSage, Microsoft/Yahoo, CareerCo, Digilant, Drawbridge, Facebook, Indeed, Recruitics, RocketFuel, Facebook, Simplyhired, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, YieldMo, Ziprecruiter, Mixpanel, HasOffers/Tune, Adjust

    For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web-browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices if you are in the United States, or http://youronlinechoices.eu/ if you are outside the United States. To opt out interest-based advertising on your mobile device, you can review and adjust the settings provided by your device manufacturer, such as “ Limit Ad Tracking ” for iOS or “ Opt-out of interest- based ads ” for Android.

  • These help HARD CUT provide a localized experience. For example, we may store information in a cookie that is placed on your browser or device so you will see the site in your preferred language.

  • These provide functionality that help us deliver products and Services. For example, cookies help you log in by pre-filling fields. We may also use cookies and similar technologies to help us provide you and others with social plugins and other customized content and experiences, such as making suggestions to you and others.

  • These are used to understand, improve, and research products and Services, including when you access the Company X website and related websites and apps from a computer or mobile device.

    For example, we may use cookies to understand how you are using site features, and segmenting audiences for feature testing.

    We and our partners may use these technologies and the information we receive to improve and understand how you use websites, apps, products, services and ads. We may share information about this analysis with our partners.

How can you exercise your cookies choices?

Our cookie consent tool provides information about the categories of cookies our Services use and why we use them. You can amend your cookie preferences at any time on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Data” page of our website, which is accessible from the footer of our website. If you have any questions about our use of cookies you can contact us at the address below.

In some countries, you have right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. However, they are an important part of how our Services work, so you should be aware that if you choose to refuse or remove cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of the Services. If you do not want our Services to use certain non-essential cookies, please use our cookie consent tool to opt-out.

Contact us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at: info@hardcutvodka.com.