Cookie Policy
The Soteria Shops website(s) hereinafter referred to as “our website” uses cookies and related technologies referred to as “cookies” and used for providing you with a better website experience while visiting our website. There are also cookies placed on our website by third parties that we have relationships with. This document will provide you with important information about the cookies we use on our website.
Selling Your Information
We do not, nor will we ever sell your personal information to anyone, for any reason. The use of your information is used strictly for conducting communication with you and conducting any business with you that you personally choose to conduct with us, i.e. contracting with our company for educational, consulting, or any of the professional services we offer.
Cookies Defined
Cookies are very small data files that are sent to your browser or your device’s hard drive to keep track of where you have visited on our website and the kind of information you are looking for. These cookies are returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during your subsequent visits so that we can best help you to find the information you were looking for or found while you were visiting our website prior to your most recent visit. They do not contain any personally identifiable information that could jeopardize your identity or safety.
Scripts Defined
Scripts are pieces of program code that are used to make our website function properly and interactively with you. This code could be executed on our server and in some instance, on your device so that your experience and interaction with our website is faster, easier, and more productive for you.
Web Beacons Defined
Web beacons (pixel tags) are small, invisible pieces of text or images on our website used to monitor the traffic on a website. In order to do this, some data about you and your visit is stored using web beacons. Don’t worry. None of the information is personally identifiable by anyone other than our website (and server). It’s just one of the really cool technology tools that help make surfing the web and hanging out on our website more productive and enjoyable.
How We Use Cookies
There are five types cookies that all ecommerce websites use: Technical (functional) cookies, Statistical cookies, Advertising cookies, Marketing/Tracking cookies, and Social Media button cookies.
And, so that you not get too nervous about these little things, if you have ever used Amazon, Facebook Marketplace, Alibaba, or pretty much any other ecommerce website, you have had cookies working behind the scene (in the background) to make your online experience much more seamless and easy.
Technical cookies help ensure that our website works properly and that user preferences remain known. These cookies make it easier for you to visit and enjoy our website. For instance, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. This said, unless you expressly request that you do not want your browsing history kept (like using the Incognito feature on Google Chrome), we may place technical cookies on your device or our servers that store your preferences, without your express consent.
Statistics cookies are just what they sound like. Statistics cookies optimize the website experience for our users. These statistics cookies allow us to gain insight into how you use our website and improve your interaction with our website so that you don’t needlessly waste time having to start over with each visit to our website.
Advertising cookies enable us to personalize advertisements/our offerings for you based on your interests, and we (and our partners) gain insights into the campaign results we have implemented (if any). The goal is not to sell you stuff, but to help you only see stuff that may be of interest (based on your use our website. In a nutshell, these cookies are based on what you click on and where you are surfing the web after you leave our website, so that we can be sure to know exactly what you are looking for, and when or if you are serious about wanting it in the future. Practically speaking, as with Google, Microsoft Edge, or Safari, these cookies are linked to a unique ID, so you do not see the same advertisements over and over and over again (unless you have clicked on it before.
The bottom line to all this information about cookies is that, like with any website or web browser, you can object to the tracking by these cookies by clicking the “Manage Consent” button. found on our website OR turn on the Incognito browsing feature on your mobile or desktop browser.
Marketing and Tracking cookies are cookies are used on our servers and/or on your device to create user profiles, display advertising, or to track your activity on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Social media buttons on our website allow you to help promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Google Reviews, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. These buttons use pieces of code that come from the social media platforms themselves. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you. This code places cookies where necessary to be sure your interaction with social media is seamless and that if there is something you really like, that you can share it with others. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of any social network your are on, as well as our privacy statement which can be updated periodically based on both legal and social responsibility. The good news is that all this data is retrieved anonymously as much as possible.