Cookie & Privacy Policy for HowToSpendBitcoins.com
To continually offer a great service, we use cookies on our website HowToSpendBitcoins.com. Below you can find out more about the types of cookies that we use and what purpose we use them for.
What Are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, HowToSpendBitcoins.com uses cookies, which are tiny files 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, if you opt for this, it could downgrade your user experience and the websites overall functionality. For more general information on cookies, we highly recommend that you check out the Wikipedia article on Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
As mentioned, we use cookies for a variety of reasons which we've detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features that 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 site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Email & Newsletters related cookies
This site offers you the option to opt in to receive newsletters and email subscription services, as well as browser notifications, like google Chrome push notifications. 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.
Contact Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on our contact us page or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site Preferences Cookies
To provide you with a great experience on HowToSpendBitcoins.com, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page which is affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. As an example, HowToSpendBitcoins.com 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 our website and tells us 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 your enjoyment.
Testing New Website Features, Recommendations & Products
From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that our website is delivered. When we test 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 recommend products, we need to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site make use of our recommendations and as such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track.
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, these social media sites 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.
We also use affiliate tracking cookies throughout our pages. In the simplest terms, an affiliate tracking cookie is a file that is created and stored on your web browser when you click on one of our affiliate links. This allows affiliate networks that we work with, to have the ability to make certain that they can determine whether sales have come from HowToSpendBitcoins.com or not.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you on the subject of cookies and also data that's passed through this website. If there are somethings that you aren't sure whether you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. If you are still looking for more information then you can contact us directly - we'd be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding this website and cookies.