When accessing our Website, we (TheArtHunters, TAH) will learn certain information about you during your visit. How TAH will handle information we learn about you depends upon what you do when visiting this site.
If you visit this site to read or download information on the pages, TAH collect and store only the information about you which is available via Google Analytics. If you identify yourself by sending TAH an e-mail containing personal information, then the information collected will be solely used to respond to your message. The information collected is for statistical purposes. TAH may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, TAH uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. TAH will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to TAH, nor will such information be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.
On TAH it is possible to subscribe to a newsletter. We’ll collect your emailadress using MailChimp and will only use the address to send you our monthly newsletters. We’ll always provide you the option to unsubscribe from the list.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. TAH uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of this site, and their website access preferences. TAH visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using TAH’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of TAH’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.The cookies we’re currently placing are included in the table below.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare (required) | __cfduid | In order to protect our website from security threats such as hackers and to boost its performance, we route our DNS through CloudFlare. The “__cfduid” cookie is set by the CloudFlare service. |
| TAH Cookies (required) | tah_func_cookie | A functional cookie we may place to save information regarding popups and notifications which only should be shown once. |
| WordPress Caching (required) | w3tc_referrer | Cookies placed by WordPress (our CMS) to handle cashing and to make sure the site is served to you as intended |
| Google Analytics | _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site, which we use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. We base our layout changes and implemented features on these stats. |
| Google Ads | SID, SAPISID, APISID, SSID, HSID, NID, PREF, SS, S | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site, which we use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. We base our layout changes and implemented features on these stats. |
| _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmv, _utmz, guest_id, auth_token_session, secure_session, twll, remember_checked, k | These cookies are used by twitter to keep track of the number of times you visit our website, when your current visit started, when you left our site, to identify your account. More about Twitter’s cookies | |
| act, csm, datr, locale, lu, p, sub, fr, pk | Used by Facebook for their site. These cookies are set if you are logged on to Facebook while viewing an article with a like button or activity box on the page. More about Facebook’s cookies |
Probably more, but it’s really hard for me to track and name them all, so if you find a not mentioned cookie, please let me know!
Ads appearing on any TAH website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by TAH and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Last modified: April 15, 2016