In this policy, we’ll refer to frernchsole.com as the “Site” and French Sole’s mobile applications as the “Apps”. We’ll refer to the Site and our other services collectively as the “Services”. London Sole Ltd are referred to as “French Sole” throughout this policy. We’ll refer to cookies and similar technologies collectively as “Cookie Technologies”.

Types of Cookie Technologies

Cookies

Cookies are small data files sent from a server to your web browser. They are stored in your browser’s cache and allow a website or a third party to recognise your browser. There are three primary types of cookies:

• Session cookies are specific to a particular visit and carry information as you view different pages so you don’t have to re-enter information every time you change pages or attempt to checkout. Session cookies expire and delete themselves automatically in a short period of time like after you leave the Site or when you close your web browser.

• Persistent cookies remember certain information about your preferences for viewing the site, and allow French Sole to recognise you each time you return. Persistent cookies are stored on your browser cache or mobile device until you choose to delete them, and otherwise typically delete themselves at expiration.

• Third-party cookies are placed by someone other than French Sole, and may gather browsing activity across multiple websites and across multiple sessions. They are usually a type of persistent cookie and are stored until you delete them or they expire based on the time period set in each third-party cookie.

Cookies store data about your use, but they are helpful because they allow us to help French Sole function and customise your experience. You can configure your desktop or mobile browser’s settings to reflect your preference to accept or reject cookies, including how to handle third-party cookies (see Managing Your Cookie Technology Preferences below).

Other Technologies

In addition to cookies, there are other similar technologies used by French Sole and elsewhere on the web or in mobile ecosystems.

• Web beacons: These are tiny graphics (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) with a unique identifier that are used to understand browsing activity. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are rendered invisibly on web pages when you open a page.

• Social widgets: These are buttons or icons provided by third-party social media providers that allow you to interact with those social media services when you view a web page or a mobile app screen. These social widgets may collect browsing data, which may be received by the third party that provided the widget, and are controlled by the third parties.

• UTM codes: These are strings that can appear in a URL (the “Uniform Resource Locator”, which is typically the http or https address entered to go to a web page) when a user moves from one web page or website to another, where the string can represent information about browsing, such as which advertisement, page, or publisher sent the user to the receiving website.

• Application SDKs: These are mobile application third-party software development kits that are embedded in the Apps (and are used in many mobile applications). These app SDKs permit the collection of information about the app itself, activity in the app, and the device the application is running on.

• Local Storage Objects: These (sometimes called flash cookies) are sets of data that can be stored on your browser by a site or app. They can be used to maintain preferences, maintain a history of usage, or even maintain the state or settings of an app.

Purposes

French Sole uses Cookie Technologies to recognise your logged-in state on French Sole, to understand what purchases members and visitors are interested in, to make French Sole’s Sites function for you, and to help your browsing experience and use of the Site, Services, and Apps feel more customised. More generally, French Sole uses Cookie Technologies for the following.

Security and Authentication (Strictly Necessary)

Some cookie and similar technology functions are necessary and vital to ensuring that French Sole works properly for visitors and members, such as maintaining the security, safety, and integrity of the Site, authentication and logging into French Sole (including remembering permissions and consents you have granted), and ensuring the ability to securely complete transactions.

Account and User Preferences

Some technologies are used to remember your account and preferences over time, such as remembering your account or keeping yourself logged in when returning to French Sole, maintaining your choices on French Sole features and how you want French Sole to appear, including keeping track of your preferred language and country, and customising content based on how you use French Sole.

Social Networks

Some technologies help you to interact with social networks you are signed into while using the Services, such as sharing content with the social network, logging in with the social network, and other features you employ with the social network, or that are allowed in the social network’s privacy policy. These may be set and controlled by the social networks, and your preferences with those social networks.

Social networks may also work with French Sole or with you for analytics or for marketing purposes, as discussed below. You may be able to manage your privacy preferences for these social networks and their tools and widgets via your account with the social network.

Performance and Analytics

Some technologies help provide performance data on how the Services are functioning in order to improve French Sole and the Services, including, for example, data on site and app functionality and speed to help us optimise French Sole, how the Services are used to help us improve your experience on French Sole, and detecting and gathering reporting on bugs to help make French Sole work better.

The Site and App also employ Google Analytics to help understand how French Sole is used by its community. For some of the advertising features listed below, like retargeting, data from Google Analytics may be combined with French Sole’s first-party data and third-party cookies (like Google’s advertising cookies).

You can find more information on how Google Analytics works in this Google guide.

Marketing Services

French Sole partners with third-party service providers that may use various Cookie Technologies to permit us and them to learn about what ads you see and click when you visit French Sole, the Apps, and affiliated sites or to show you ads on and off French Sole. These may include things such as:

• Frequency capping, which limits the number of times a user’s browser or mobile device displays the same ad;

• Attribution tracking, which estimates what advertising or marketing source brought someone to French Sole, or determines what marketing source led to actions like a visit or a purchase;

• Remarketing, which shows relevant ads to an audience based on prior shopping and browsing patterns on French Sole;

• Audience targeting, which refers to targeting advertisements to a large audience based on the audience’s known or inferred demographics; and

• Cross-device recognition, which recognises actions across multiple devices or browsers.

Some third-party service providers may provide information like demographics, cross-device information, or interest categories from a combination of sources that, while not identifying you personally, permit us to provide you with more relevant and useful advertising. In some cases, this information may have non-marketing performance analytics uses as well.

These technologies allow a partner to recognise your computer or mobile device each time you visit French Sole or other websites and mobile applications based on data like a cookie, your IP address, or device ID, but do not allow access to other personal information from French Sole. However, these technologies may allow us or a third party to recognise you, either from a single device or across devices, over time. These third parties are required to follow applicable laws, self-regulatory programmes, and French Sole’s data protection rules where applicable. However, French Sole does not have control over these third parties, who each have their own privacy policies and privacy practices. French Sole adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance‘s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising.

Services in the Apps (SDKs)

The Apps may include third-party application software development kits (“SDKs”) that provide mobile performance and analytics data, bug reporting features, and APIs to third parties that help provide the Services, for social media functionality, and for marketing and advertising.

Consent, Contract, and Legitimate Interests in Processing

Certain Cookie Technologies are employed to make the Site function for its intended purpose, and are provided based on contractual necessity based on your agreement with French Sole to perform the services you have requested. These include the functions strictly necessary to the service noted above.

By choosing to use our Services after having been notified of our use of Cookie Technologies in the ways described in this Policy, and, in applicable jurisdictions, through notice and unambiguous acknowledgement of your consent, you agree to such use.

Opt-in and Opt-out on Browsers

In addition, when you use French Sole via a browser, you can change your web browser’s settings to reflect your cookie preferences for cookies directly from the site you are on or for third-party cookies. Each browser is a little different, but usually these settings are under the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu. The links below provide information about cookie settings for the browsers supported by French Sole:

• Microsoft Edge
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Chrome
• Safari

Opt-out of Third-Party Networks

If you do not wish to have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based advertisements, you may decline to receive interest based ads through TrustE/TrustArc’s preferences manager (or if you are located in the European Union click here). Please note this does not stop you from being served advertisements. You will continue to receive generic advertisements. Please note that if you reject or block all cookies in your browser settings, you will not be able to take advantage of French Sole’s Services as some cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly.

You can learn more about managing your preferences for ads online, particularly for many third-party advertising networks, through resources made available by the Digital Advertising Alliance at https://www.aboutads.info or the Network Advertising Initiative at https://optout.networkadvertising.org.

Google Analytics Opt-out

For Google Analytics Advertising Features, you can opt-out through Google Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt-out listed above). Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out plug-in for the web.

Third-Party Tools

Various third parties provide browser plug-ins and apps that can help provide you information on, and limit or block, third-party cookies, web beacons, and some Javascript-based technologies. French Sole cannot vouch for the efficacy of a particular third-party product, but popular products that provide these privacy enhancements include Ghostery and AdBlock Plus.

Mobile Opt-out

If you access French Sole through the Apps, you may also control interest-based advertising on an iOS or Android device by selecting the “Limit Ad Tracking” option in the privacy section of the Settings App on iOS or via advertising preferences on Android-based devices (usually in the Google Settings app). This will not prevent you from seeing advertisements, but will limit the use of device advertising identifiers to personalise ads based on your interests.

Contact Us

If you have questions about the use of Cookie Technologies at French Sole, please see the “Contact” section of French Sole’s Privacy Policy.

Last updated on 11 May, 2018