COOKIE POLICY & PRIVACY POLICY FOR JOHN BAXTER PARIS

This Cookies Policy explains how John Baxter Paris, and their hosting company use cookies and similar technologies. Whenever you use our website information may be collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies. John Baxter Paris is committed to protecting the personal information collected when you use our website. We adhere to the GDPR policies.

WHAT IS GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a privacy regulation that affords certain rights to European residents and imposes obligations on companies that do business with European residents.
Customer Rights
•    Transparency or the right for individuals to know what is happening with their personal data
•    Consent or the right for individuals to choose what personal data is collected about them and to change that choice
•    Update and Erasure or the right for individuals to update or request deletion of their personal data
•    Portability or the right for individuals to request a machine readable copy of their personal data

WHAT ARE COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

There are several types of cookies: 
•    Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session.
•    Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.
•    First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time in order to preserve your settings (e.g., while on our site).
•    Third-party cookies are placed in your browser by a website, or domain, that is not the website or domain that you are currently visiting. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website this would be a third-party cookie.

Web beacons:  small files (also called “pixels”, “image tags”, or “script tags”) that may be loaded on our sites, applications, and tools, that may work in concert with cookies to identify our users and provide anonymized data on their behaviour.

Similar technologies: Technologies that store information in your browser or device utilizing local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate across all of your browsers, and in some instances may not be fully managed by your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for storing information to target advertising to you on or off our sites.

TYPES OF COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES DO WE USE AND WHY

Our cookies, web beacons and similar technologies serve various purposes, but are generally either necessary or essential to the functioning of our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, help us improve the performance of or provide you extra functionality of the same, or help us to serve relevant and targeted advertisements.  More specifically:

Performance:  'Performance' cookies, web beacons and similar technologies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and is only used to help us improve how our website works, understand what interests our users and measure how effective our content is by providing anonymous statistics and data regarding how our website is used.  Accepting these technologies is a condition of using our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, so if you prevent these from loading we can't guarantee your use or how the security therein will perform during your visit.

Functionality: These cookies, web beacons or similar technologies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.

Advertising: We do not use any cookies related to advertising on our site.
We also utilize 3rd party service providers to assist us in delivering on the same functions, which means that our authorized service providers may also place cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on your device via our services (first and third party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as IP-address, or other unique or device identifiers. You can visit Godaddy for their privacy policy here.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

THE COOKIES WE SET

Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

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.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

HOW WE SECURE, STORE AND RETAIN YOUR DATA.

We follow secure https certificate standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate.
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or business purposes. These might include retention periods:
•    mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to our business operations;
•    for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or
•    needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records.
 

How can users manage or opt out of cookies?

Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their device a little intrusive, in particular when the information is stored and used by a third party. For example, you may object to being served advertising which is targeted to your interests based on your browsing history. If you would prefer to opt out of cookies, it is possible to control cookies by following the steps below, however you should be aware that you might lose some features and functionality of the website if you do so.

Cookies, including those which have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive. You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control cookies. Some internet browsers have a ‘Do Not Track or ‘DNT’ setting; this sends a signal to websites asking them not to track your browsing. The following links may be helpful:

Cookie setting in Firefox
Cookie setting in Safari
Cookie setting in Internet Explorer
Cookie setting in Chrome

In some cases, you can choose to accept cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all cookies. Deleting or blocking cookies may reduce functionality of the site. To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or go to the help menu within your internet browser. If you experience any problems having deleted cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.
For more information about third party cookies generated by advertisers please visit www.youronlinechoices.com. Please be aware that these are third party websites and John Baxter Paris does not accept any liability for the instructions given on these sites.

If you have any questions about the security or retention of your personal data, you can contact our hosting company at privacy@godaddy.com

If you have any privacy-related questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices or our Services, you may contact our Office of the DPO by email at privacy@godaddy.com.  In the alternative, you may contact us by either of the following means:

•    By Mail: Attn: Office of the Data Protection Officer, 14455 North Hayden Road, Suite 219, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 USA, or for customers established in the EEA, Attn: Legal, Office of the DPO, 5th Floor, The Shipping Building, Old Vinyl Factory, 252-254 Blyth Road, Hayes, UB3 1HA. 
•    By Phone: (480) 505-8877.

They will respond to all requests, inquiries or concerns within thirty (30) days.