About this cookie policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the “Manage your consent” link below.

Your consent applies to the following domains: yachtalliance.com

 

What are cookies ?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

 

How do we use cookies ?

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

 

What types of cookies do we use ?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.

The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

CookieDescription
_ga_ga Google Analytics cookies are used to identify unique users. These cookies are set on the top level domain so that users can be automatically tracked across sub-domains without any extra configuration and expire after 2 years.
_gat_gat Google Analytics cookies are used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. These cookies expire after 10 minutes.
_gid_gid Google Analytics cookies are used to distinguish and track users as they navigate the website. These cookies help improve the website's usability and expire after 24-hours.
PHPSESSIDCookies named PHPSESSID only contain a reference to a session stored on the web server. No information is stored in the user's browser and this cookie can only be used by the current web site.
viewed_cookie_policyThe viewed_cookie_policy cookie is set to “yes” when the Cookie law info bar has been viewed and accepted. This cookie expires after 24-hours.

 

How can I control the cookie preferences ?

Should you decide to change your preferences you can click on the “Manage your consent” link below. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

Your consent applies to the following domains: yachtalliance.com

 

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.