When you go online, you use a program called a 'browser'. Most websites store a small amount of text in your browser – and that text is called a 'cookie.' Other technologies function similarly to collect data about your browsing activity. Learn more about other technologies in the Help Centre. This policy refers to these technologies collectively as 'cookies'. We use session cookies (that last until you close your browser) or persistent cookies (that last until you or your browser delete them). For example, we use persistent cookies to store your language preferences or other settings so you don‘t have to set them up every time you visit P-Contact.com. Some of the cookies we use are associated with your P-Contact.com account (including information about you, such as the email address you gave us), and other cookies are not.   How we use cookies We have four categories of cookies:  Essential cookies are required so P-Contact.com works in the way you expect. Examples of these types of cookies are login cookies which keep you logged in as you scroll through P-Contact.com or search for Pins. Analytics cookies, which are used for internal analytics and include cookies from providers like Google Analytics. Personalisation cookies for customising content, including ads, presented to you on P-Contact.com.  Marketing cookies which are used for advertising P-Contact.com to you outside P-Contact.com.  What we do with the cookies in each category Essential cookies We use essential cookies to remember your settings and preferences, like the language you prefer and your privacy settings. Essential cookies let you log in and out of P-Contact.com. Essential cookies are just one way we protect you from security risks. For example, we use them to detect when someone might be trying to hack your P-Contact.com account or spam the P-Contact.com community.   Analytics cookies We use analytics cookies to make P-Contact.com better. For example, these cookies tell us how many people use a certain feature and how popular it is, or whether people open an email we send. We also use cookies to help advertisers understand who sees and interacts with their ads, and who visits their website or purchases their products. Sometimes we hire security vendors or use third-party analytics providers to help us understand how people are using P-Contact.com. Just like we do, these providers may use cookies.   Personalisation cookies We use cookies to help us remember which Pins, boards, people or websites you’ve interacted with so we can show you related content you might like. We also use cookies to help advertisers show you interesting ads. For example, if you bought a tent from an advertiser, they could ask us to show you an ad for a camping stove. You can   Marketing cookies Sometimes we hire advertising vendors so that we can market P-Contact.com products on other websites and apps.  These providers may use cookies to provide this service to us. If you’d like to opt out of these services you can do so in your Settings. Where we use cookies We use cookies on P-Contact.com, in our mobile applications and in our products and services (such as ads, emails and applications). We also use them on the websites of partners who use Save button, P-Contact.com widgets or ad tools such as conversion tracking. Your options There are a few ways you can choose how cookies are used on P-Contact.com: In the Personalisation section of your settings, you can decide whether we use info from our partners and other services to personalise P-Contact.com for you or whether we use information we learn about you on P-Contact.com to market P-Contact.com to you on other sites and apps. There are also online tools such as Digital Advertising Alliance's Browser Check and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance's Your Online Choices site which allow you to choose how cookies are used throughout the web based on the device and browser you are using. Your browser probably gives you cookie choices. For example, most browsers let you block “third-party cookies”, which are cookies from sites other than the one you’re visiting. Those options vary from browser to browser, so check your browser settings for more info. Some browsers also have a privacy setting called “Do Not Track”, which we support. This setting is another way for you to decide whether we use info from our partners and other services to customise P-Contact.com for you Finally, your mobile device has settings that allow you to control whether ad partners can use information about your use of mobile applications to show ads to you.  On iOS devices, this setting is called 'Limit ad tracking' and on Android devices, this setting is called 'Opt out of ads personalisation'. Effective date: 12 September 2023