Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

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 site’s functionality. Different cookies do different things and some are essential to the operation of a website whilst others are not. The different types of cookie are:

• Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies – These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies – These are used to recognize you when you return to our website, enabling us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies – These cookies record your visits to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information (in anonymous form) with third parties for this purpose.

Jessica Bolander Art uses a number of different cookies to improve your user experience. Cookies make navigating websites faster and easier by ‘remembering’ you, either for the duration of your visit or for repeat visits. Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based, for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.
The information below describes the cookies we use on the site and why we use them. If located in the European Union, by clicking “Accept” you explicitly agreed to cookies being used while browsing the site.

Disabling cookies
Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. If you disagree with the use of cookies, you have the following options:

• You can delete cookies after having visited the Site
• You can browse the Site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” in Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari)
• You can set your browser’s security controls so that all or certain cookies are blocked
• You can request that we delete any personal information that we store – to do so, email info(at)jessicabolander(dot)com.

Membership and Account cookies

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Session handling cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly and cannot be de-activated because they are required for the site to function. The web server uses non-persistent cookies (not permanently saved on your computer) to save your choices while browsing the site. These are necessary cookies to support the basic functionality of the web experience, e.g., choice of language.

E-commerce cookies

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
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 that is affected by your preferences.

Google analytics cookies

This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Essential Third Party Cookies

Some of our core website content is integrated with third party websites. Specifically, our tutorial videos are hosted through Publitio and some videos on our website and blog are hosted on YouTube (owned by Google). These third party sites use cookies to collect data about your use of these videos so that they can update the number of times a video has been viewed. For more information on how these third parties use cookies, see Publitio’s Cookie Policy and Google’s Cookie Policy.

Targeting cookies

Targeting cookies help us to provide you with tailored content and special offers, based on your past interactions with the site.
We use Mailerlite website tracking cookies: if you are on our email list we track your engagement with our website in order to, for example, email you a link to a free video on a topic, because you have visited a page of our website also about that topic. Though this website visitor information is held at the level of your account in our email software, we do not view it at an individual level.

Social media cookies

On many of the pages of our Site you will see “social buttons”. These enable users to share or bookmark web pages or access Jessica Bolander Art content on these social media sites. These buttons include but are not limited to: Twitter, Google+, Facebook “Like”, LinkedIn “Share”, ShareThis and YouTube. You may also find other regional or language-specific social media buttons. By clicking on any of these buttons, the Site will register your action and may use that information.
To implement these buttons and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, scripts from domains outside of Jessica Bolander Art must be used. You should be aware that when you are logged-in to the services of these sites (e.g., Google and Facebook), they are likely to be collecting information about your browsing habits, including when on the Jessica Bolander Art website, even if you do not click on a social button. Read the respective policies of each of these sites to see how they use your information and how to opt-out or delete such information.

Updates
We reserve the right change this Cookie Policy at any time. Any changes will become effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of our Sites constitutes your agreement to all such changes.

For more information on how we collect and use your data, see our Privacy Policy.

How to Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at: info(at)jessicabolander(dot)com.