Cookies
We Use Cookies to Enhance Your Experience, for technical reasons and to make our web services easier for visitors to navigate. Cookies also help us monitor traffic to our website and gather statistics.
Types of Cookies
Cookies can be classified based on their lifespan or the domain they belong to. By lifespan, a cookie can be either:
– Session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or
– Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a predetermined period.
- Session cookies allow us to track your movements across our website so you don’t have to re-enter information you’ve already provided. They make browsing more seamless by enabling smooth navigation between pages without re-authentication. For example, without session cookies, your shopping cart would reset each time you moved to a new page.
- Persistent cookies help us remember you during future visits, speeding up or enhancing your experience with our services and features.
Regarding domain ownership, cookies can be either:
- First-party cookies, set by us (the website owner, e.g., Miiya.se), or
- Third-party cookies, set by other websites.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to ensure our website functions as intended and to provide you with better service and an improved user experience. Some cookies are essential for the website to work properly, such as supporting multiple simultaneous users or remembering your actions on the site.
Cookies also help us collect data on the number of visitors and their behavior, allowing us to improve the content, navigation, and structure of the website. Additionally, we use cookies for marketing purposes.
What Information Do We Collect Using Cookies?
When you visit our website, we may automatically gather the following information:
– Your Internet Protocol (IP) address
– Login details
– Time zone settings
– Operating system and platform
– Details about your visit, such as:
– The URL you came from
– Your location
– Search terms used
– Products viewed or searched for
– Page response times
– Download errors
– Duration of visits to specific pages
– Page interaction details (e.g., scrolling, clicks, and mouse movements)
– Navigation methods away from the page
Social Networks and Third-Party Websites
Our website sometimes includes sharing tools from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. These providers may use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies or the data collected. For more details, refer to the cookie policies of the respective third-party platforms.
How to Block Cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies. You can block our cookies by adjusting your browser settings to reject all or specific cookies. Check your browser’s help section for more information.
Be aware that blocking cookies may limit your access to certain areas of our website, and some features or pages may not function as intended.
Questions About Our Website
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other inquiries about your experience on our website, feel free to contact us.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
f you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.