What are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny files with small bits of data that are stored on your browser. They are used by websites to help track your use of their site and to personalize your experience. This means that, if you return to StoryJumper.com, our server can call the information from the cookies stored on your browser to tailor your experience.
We use cookies and other similar technologies to help provide you with our services and to analyze how you use our services so that we can continually improve our website. We also allow third parties to use tracking technologies for similar purposes.
Cookies are safe to use and almost all web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can always choose not to accept cookies by changing your browser settings to reject cookies automatically, or so that each cookie must be approved individually, Please note that this may limit the functions available on our site.
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to delete old cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. In general, cookies are only deleted on a forward-looking basis. This means that, in addition to instructing a browser to not accept new cookies, you will need to delete the cookies that have already been used.
For additional information on how to control cookies please see the Cookie Control section below.
We want to make sure you are fully aware of the cookies we use and what they do on StoryJumper.com. Our cookies serve various purposes, but are generally either strictly necessary or essential to the functioning of our site, services, tools or messaging, help us improve the performance or provide you extra functionality of the same.
More Specifically:
Cookies can be categorized by whether they are considered a “First Party Cookie” or “Third Party Cookie,” which describes who manages and controls the cookie and any information it collects and they can be categorized by the purpose they serve (ie. Strictly Necessary).
First Party Cookies. These are cookies that are controlled and managed by StoryJumper. This means that we may also have access to any data that is being collected or stored. StoryJumper only uses First Party Cookies that are either Strictly Necessary or Functional.
Third Party Cookies. These are cookies that are controlled and managed by a third party and they are utilized when you visit our site. Data collected, stored or used by the cookie is only accessible by the third party. We may use Third Party Cookies for each of the purposes listed below. Some may collect personally identifiable information (such as IP addresses). Some collect data in an anonymized form and aggregate statistics (such as Performance Cookies.)
Please note: Third Party Cookies, which include the use of cookies by our tracking utility company and service providers, are not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access to or control over these cookies. In addition, StoryJumper does not have access to any cookie-specific information collected directly by Third Party Cookies. Third party cookies would include cookies used by third party authentication sites such as when you use Facebook or Google to sign into your StoryJumper account. To obtain access to or review your cookie-specific information, you will need to contact the third party as they control the cookie(s).
Strictly Necessary or Essential: 'Strictly necessary' or ‘essential’ cookies let you move around the website, use essential features like secure areas and shopping baskets, and help distribute traffic on our website for a better customer experience. Without these technologies, services/products you have requested cannot be provided. Please note that these technologies do not gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet. Accepting these technologies is a condition of using our site, services, applications, tools or messaging.
Functional: ’Functional’ cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit such as language or currency preferences. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we’ve added to our pages.
Performance: 'Performance' cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our website works, understand what interests our users and measure the effectiveness of our content. They do this by gathering statistical information, for instance, about page visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. This also helps us know which pages are the most and least popular and lets us understand how visitors more around the site. The statistical data collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous.
Targeting: ’Targeting’ cookies are cookies used by third party advertisers. StoryJumper does not serve ads on our site nor do we participate in ad networks.
Cookie Control
You are always in control of your cookie preferences via your browser settings. Cookies are usually enabled by default on your browser, so if you have not changed your settings you should expect to be accepting cookies from websites. Note that, in principle, cookies are only deleted on a forward-looking basis. This means that you may need to delete cookies that have already been placed on your device.
Cookies that are disabled through your browser will limit your experience of StoryJumper.com because it may also block cookies that allow functionality or that are necessary for the site. Most browsers allow you to choose whether to authorize cookies on a specific website even if you have disabled cookies. Some browsers also allow you to choose to block only third-party cookies. Please note that, blocking only third-party cookies may still impact the functionality of the website depending on the purpose of the third-party cookies being used.
If you wish to change your cookie settings we have provided a guide below for you. First, find out what your default web browser is on your machine, or the browser you use most often to access the internet. To work out what browser you are using, simply open the internet as usual, and then follow the steps below:
PC Users
On the toolbar at the top of your browser click 'Help' and choose the 'About' option from the drop down. This will tell you the browser type and version.
Mac Users
Open the internet as usual and once open, click on the Apple icon in the top left corner and choose the 'About' option. This will again tell you the browser type and version. Once you know the browser you are using you can find the cookie settings using the guide below relevant for your browser:
The following links provide browser specific information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer. [add hyperlinks to browser specific page]
Your Consent
By continuing to use and navigate our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy and in our Privacy Policy.
In addition, if you have chosen to allow your browser to accept cookies (by specification or by continuing to use a default setting that allows cookies), you are giving your consent for the use of cookies related to our website.
