Cookie
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What are cookies and other tracking technologies?:

A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our site, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Site. This allows our Site to recognize your device from those of other Site users. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

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​How do our technologies use cookies and other tracking technologies?:

Scent Studio uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Site. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Site, protect the Site, and process any requests that you make of us. To administer our Site and for research purposes, Scent Studio has also contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us improve the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Site.

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First and Third-Party Cookies:

“First-party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Scent Studio and that Scent Studio places on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. Scent Studio may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies as indicated below.

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Depending on the site, we use the following types of cookies:​

1. Persistent Cookies. We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Sites. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message that first appears when you use the Site.

2. Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Site. The data collected by the Site and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept longer than necessary to fulfill the abovementioned purposes. 

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Our cookies are used for the following purposes:

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Cookie Type/Purpose

1. Strictly Necessary/ Technical: These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Site, so you may access them as you have requested. These cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Site.

2. Analytical/ Performance: We or third-party service providers use these Cookies to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited and from where our visitors come. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites, these cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.

3. Functionality: These Cookies let us operate the Sites according to your choices. These cookies permit us to "remember" you in between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and remember how you customized the Sites and services, for example, by adjusting text size, fonts, languages, and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.

4. Third-Party Advertising: These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you with targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites based on your visit to our Sites.

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How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of cookies?​

If you do not want cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the settings of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some cookies and to alert you when a cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies), you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Site. If you want to remove previously stored cookies, you can manually delete the cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above. For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choices if you are in the United States or the rest of the world.

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How do we use other tracking technologies in our communications?:

Scent Studio may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research, or event communications we send you through web beacons. A web beacon is a graphic image that is placed on a website or in an email that, alone or in conjunction with cookies, compiles information about your usage of or your interaction with our Scent Studio website or email. For example, we may add web beacons to the knowledge, research, or event communications we send you to determine whether you have opened our email or clicked a link. The analysis gathered helps us improve the effectiveness of the content and format of our website and email communications.​​

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How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to using web beacons?:

You may avoid web beacons by configuring your email reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.

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Personal information we collect:

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data, including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, PAYPAL/VENMO, Apple Pay, Google Pay, BenefitPay and other payment processors), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.” When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we talk both about Device Information and Order Information.

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How do we use your personal information?

We generally use the Order Information that we collect to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to communicate with you, to screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and, when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address) and, more generally, to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, retargeting of ads, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).​