Cookie Policy
Benby Retail, Inc. understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit this website or our app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “our Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy..
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all websites, our Sites uses cookies. Cookies are small packets of data that are stored on your computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive when you visit websites. Cookies inform the website about the user, including how the user uses the website, enabling the website to personalize and improve user experience by allowing it to “remember” information about your browsing actions and preferences, so that you will no longer need to re-enter information each time you return to the website or webpage.
To read more on what information we gather, including the cookies necessary for the functioning of our store site, how we use and why we may need to store these cookies, and how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, you may refer to our Privacy Policy. Please note that preventing the storage of cookies however may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of our Sites’ functionality.
* For more general information on cookies see the article on Cookies, based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European Union regulation on the protection of consumer and personal information, at https://gdpr.eu/cookies/. Republic Act No. 10173 or the Philippine “Data Privacy Act of 2012” is substantially aligned with the GDPR. The DPA does not have a specific provision on cookies and their use as identifiers. However, the DPA may still be applied since the definition of personal information in Section 3(g) thereof is broad enough to include cookies and their use.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below and in our Privacy Policy. In most cases however, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this website. It is recommended that you leave on the cookies for our site if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
The Cookies We Use
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the sign-up 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.
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.
Our Sites 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.
When you submit data 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.
In order to provide you with a great experience on our Sites, we provide the functionality to set your preferences when you use our Sites. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page.
You may also refer to our Privacy Policy for the list of cookies necessary for the functioning of our site store, reporting and analytics.
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 our Sites.
As described in our Privacy Policy, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site, and provide you with advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you and which you may have consented to receive. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
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: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/3394713?hl=en.
Our Sites is powered by Shopify which may also provide us analytics solution to helps us understand how you use the site, ways that we can improve your experience, and provide you with more personalized service in the future. 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 or more relevant content for you.
For more information on Shopify’s Cookie Policy, including the cookies Shopify may store in the devices of visitors or users of our site, you may refer to https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies.
Our Sites may also use cookies when you use the chat function on our portal which will direct you to Facebook messenger and when you interact with us offline or with our customer service agents. For information on Facebook’s Cookie Policy, you may refer to https://www.facebook.com/policy/cookies/.
Retention of Cookies
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie, or on the settings in your device. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
Managing and Disabling Cookies
You can manage or prevent cookies, their use and storage, by adjusting the cookie feature or settings on your computer, mobile device or browser. You may refer to the instructions of your web browser on how to disable the use of cookies and how to delete persistent cookies. Please note that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our site, including the shopping portal, may not function properly or no longer be fully accessible without the use of Cookies.
