Create Your Story (“Company”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy.  The Company uses Cookies and other technologies to understand how you use our site, remember your login details, send periodic emails, and to improve your experience. If you don’t wish to accept cookies from us, you should instruct your browser to refuse cookies from us, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

“Cookies” are small text files that contain a string or characters and uniquely identify a browser on a device connect to the Internet, and allows the Company to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same device and web browser. Any browser visiting our site will receive Cookies from us. Cookies are used to enable certain features (eg. logging in), to track site usage (eg. analytics), to store your user settings (eg. timezone, notification preferences), and to personalise your content (eg. advertising, language). Cookies set by the website you are visiting are normally referred to as “first-party cookies”, and typically only track your activity on that particular site. Cookies set by other sites and companies (ie. third parties) are called “third-party cookies”, and can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service. 

HOW WE USE COOKIES

The Company uses Cookies and web log files for the following, which may include without limitation (I) to track usage and trends, (II) to improve the quality of the Services, (III) to customise your experience and/or (IV) to compile anonymous, aggregated information that allow us to understand how our Services are used. Some Cookies are only kept on your computer during your browsing session, i.e., until you leave our website (these are known as “session” cookies), whereas other cookies remain in your browser after the session unless they expire or are deleted (these are known as “persistent” cookies).  The Cookies we use generally fall into one of the following categories:

TYPES OF COOKIES

Essential Cookies
Essential cookies required to enable core site functionality like user logins, account management, shopping carts and payment processing. We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website. 

Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies are used in collecting information about your device and any settings you may configure on the website you’re visiting (like language and timezone settings). With this information, websites can provide you with customised, enhanced or optimised content and services. We use functionality cookies for selected features on our site.

Performance Cookies
Performance cookies are used in the tracking of how you use a website during your visit, without collecting personal information about you. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated with information tracked across all site users, to help companies understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors their users may encounter, and make better strategic decisions in improving their audience’s overall website experience. We use performance cookies on our site.

Third Party Cookies
We may use third-party service providers to assist us by providing us with certain statistical and analytic information. We grant these third parties access to selected information to perform specific tasks on our behalf. They may also set third-party cookies in order to deliver the services they are providing. As we have no control over third-party cookies, they are not covered by the Companies cookie policy. We primarily use Google Analytics.

Advertising Cookies
Targeting/advertising Cookies collect information to better understand your interests, provide you with interest-based advertising and tailor content, facilitate measurement and analysis, and improve the services offered by the Company.

OUR THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY PROMISE

We review the privacy policies of all our third-party providers before enlisting their services to ensure their practices align with ours. We will never knowingly include third-party services that compromise or violate the privacy of our users.

HOW TO MANAGE AND REMOVE COOKIES

You can adjust the settings on your browser and reject the setting of all or some Cookies and it will alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. You may also delete previously stored Cookies; however this will not prevent the Services from placing future Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your settings as described herein.

BROWSER COOKIES

If you are accessing our website via a browser, you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings.  For instructions on how to manage Cookies, please visit the “Help” section of your browser. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device. Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your experience of a website, blocking all cookies may mean you are unable to access certain features and content across the sites you visit. 

CONTACT

If you would like to contact us about our use of Cookies or your personal information, please email [email protected].