Cookie Policy

Last update: 31/07/2020

Cynthia Abila Studios, with registered office in Nigeria, no. 2 Seiviri Street, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, 900271, TIN: 18949006-0001, in its quality as data controller, provides to the Users of the Website www.cynthiaabila.com (hereinafter referred to as “Website”), some useful information about the cookies used therein.

What are cookies?

“Cookies” are small text files automatically created when accessing to a specific Website, with the aim of carrying out electronic authentications, monitoring sessions and storing specific information about the User and his/her web-browsing.

More specifically, cookies are sent from the visited Website server (the physical location in which the website is stored) to the User’s browser (Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.); they are locally stored into the User’s computer, to be then retransmitted to the same Website server upon subsequent visits to the Website.

While browsing, Users might also receive, on their terminal equipment, cookies belonging to other websites (third party cookies), directly set and used by these websites operators, according to the terms and for the purposes defined by them.

Lastly, cookies may remain stored on Users’ computers for long or short periods of time, depending on their characteristics.

Types of cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). 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 Website. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies set in the Website

. Account related 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.

. Login related cookies

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.

. Email newsletters related cookies

This Website 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.

. Orders processing related cookies

This Website 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.

. Surveys related cookies

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.

. Forms related cookies

When you submit data to 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.

. Site preferences cookies

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 is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This Website uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution 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.

• Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

• From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

• As we sell products it is important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

• The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

• We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

• Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Processing method.

The processing is performed with electronic and automated tools, avoiding disclosure, but with communication to third parties, according to the purposes above descripted for each third-party cookie.

Provision of data.

Except for technical cookies strictly necessary for normal browsing, the provision of data depends on the will of the person who decides to browse the website after having read, during access, the brief information contained in the appropriate banner.

To avoid the installation of cookies you can disable this function through the special functions available on your browser (see section “Disabling cookies” below).

Acceptance and consent to data processing.

Acceptance and consent to the processing of information through cookies is done by viewing the relative banner on the website and clicking on the ACCEPT button.

Disabling cookies.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in relation to cookies strictly necessary for browsing, in order to proceed with the deactivation of cookies and/or choose the desired level of blocking, the User shall use his/her own browser changing the relative settings. Below you can find links to the main browsers currently on the market for changing session settings.

GOOGLE CHROME

Italiano: http://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it

English: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=eng&answer=95647

FIREFOX

Italiano: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie

English: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

MICROSOFT EDGE

Italiano: https://support.microsoft.com/it-it/help/4027947/windows-delete-cookies

English: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027947/windows-delete-cookies

SAFARI

Italiano: https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT201265

English: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?viewlocale=it_IT&locale=en_US