Last Updated: May 28, 2024
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Hexagon Blue LLC (“Company”, “we”, “us”, and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at www.hexagonblue.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. We also hope this will provide you with a general education on Cookies.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, [Your Company Name]) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
3. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
4. Types of Cookies We Might Use
The specific types of first and third-party cookies that may be served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below:
Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Example:
- Name: __cfduid
- Purpose: Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
- Expiry: 30 days
Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable. - Example:
- Name: wpSGCacheBypass
- Purpose: This cookie is used for local caching to improve the load time of the website.
- Expiry: Session
Analytics and Customization Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you. - Example:
- Name: _ga
- Purpose: This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.
- Provider: Google
- Expiry: 2 years
Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. - Example:
- Name: fr
- Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers.
- Provider: Facebook
- Expiry: 3 months
Social Networking Cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes. Example: - Name: _fbp
- Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers.
- Provider: Facebook
- Expiry: 3 months
5. How Can I Control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided below.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As how you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
6. What About Other Tracking Technologies, Like Web Beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
7. How Often Will You Update This Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
8. Where Can I Get Further Information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please use our contact form or by post to:
Hexagon Blue
PO Box 1790
Issaquah, WA 98027
USA