COOKIES POLICY

Explanation of cookies:

Each time you view our Website, cookies may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device. These cookies are small data files that facilitate various functions related to your use of the Website.

How Helpfreely.org uses cookies:

The use of cookies allows Helpfreely.org to offer you a more personalized user experience. Cookies are also key in ensuring that your chosen Causes receive the funds you raise for them while shopping online.

Cookies are commonly used by many websites, including Helpfreely.org, and allow us to personalize each user’s experience as he or she browses the website. Should you decide to disable or limit our use of cookies, we are unable to ensure that your user experience will be as we designed it to be. The security of your personal information is not affected by our use of cookies as none of the cookies used on our websites collect personally identifiable information about you.

Tracking cookies may be set when you visit our site, the site of one of our partners, or through use of the Helpfreely App™. The individual policies of each of our Partners may also affect when cookies are used.

Reasons why Helpfreely.org uses cookies:

• To aid in the process of allocating the funds that you raise through your online purchases to the appropriate Causes
• To save your Cause settings and other information, which keeps you from having to make these changes each time you visit Helpfreely.org. Cookies are also used to track unregistered users via a unique and anonymous ID.
• To properly track and manage our Website’s traffic.
• To track the number of users that choose a Cause to receive funds raised through purchases at our Partners’ sites.
• To determine how many of our users select a particular Cause for Partner donations or track a particular Cause on social media
• To facilitate the management, regular operation, and availability of the Services.
• To be able to offer our users improved services by tracking the total number of people who visit our site, as well as the path that each follows while navigating it. We may also make use of other web analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to aid us in studying how the site is used. Google Analytics and other similar services employ their own cookies.
• To ensure our users’ online safety while using our website by preventing scams and other fraudulent activity. Disabling cookies will prevent you from accessing the “Control Panel”.
• To improve the Helpfreely App™ and other Services by determining which features are most often utilized by our users.
• To aid in the creation and help us judge the effectiveness of our marketing programs and strategies, such as email campaigns.
• To help us research and analyze the market, as well as create reports that we may share with our Partners or third parties.

None of the cookies we use on our website, contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you

The types of cookies used on this website:

They determine how long each cookie stays active on your device.

Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies and will only be active during your use of the website (or more precisely, from the time you begin browsing our site until you close the browser). Helpfreely.org uses this kind of cookie to store information regarding selections you may have made on a previous page. This allows for an improved user experience by avoiding the need to re-enter information. Session cookies do not store personal information, and you cannot be identified in any way via these cookies.

Persistent Cookies: Unlike session cookies, these cookies will be saved on your device after you have left our website. They allow you to be identified as a unique visitor to our site. However, persistent cookies do not store any information that could be used to reveal your identity to another person.

Please note that our partners, agents, or third parties may use other cookies that are related to your online behavior (such as, search or commerce actions) while on their sites. These cookies are used to provide you with messages and advertising that are more personally relevant.

Controlling and deleting cookies:

You may choose to block or limit the cookies that we, or any other website, use, and this can be done by adjusting your browser settings. If you are not sure how to do this, please refer to your browser’s Help function.

To learn more about controlling cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org. This comprehensive resource provides information to help you understand how to do this on a variety of browsers. This website also provides tips on deleting cookies, as well as other general information regarding cookies. To learn how to remove cookies from your mobile device’s browser, please see the device’s manual.

Your fundraising activities cannot be tracked without the use of cookies. Limiting or blocking the use of cookies may negatively affect how many features and services provided by Helpfreely.org and/or our partners work. We are currently not able to offer a cookie-free alternative to using Helpfreely.org and the site’s fundraising services.