Cookies Policy

Introductory

This Cookie Policy explains how Pho + Family (“Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit and use phoandfamily.com (“Site”) and/or services we provide to you through or in relation to our Site (“Services”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them as well as your rights to control use of them. In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information or information that may become personal information when combined with other information. We recommend you read our Privacy Policy which details how we collect, use and protect your personal information.

What Cookies Are And Why We Use Them

A cookie is a small computer file, which may be downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are harmless files containing small pieces of information which can help improve your experience of using a website if your browser’s preferences allow it. The website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering your online preferences.

Cookies work by dropping a small text file on to your local hard drive, which allows the website to read information stored within that file.

Most cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser — these are called “session cookies”. Others, known as “persistent cookies”, are stored on your device until you delete them, or they automatically expire.

Cookies set by the website owner are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”.

We use first and third party cookies for several reasons.

Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. They are used to maintain the security and stability of our Site, making sure that it operates as expected and displays images correctly.

Other cookies are for functionality. These cookies allow us to improve your experience, to remember the choices you make (such as your username) and to make sure that our Site is running smoothly. 

Other cookies enable us to track and target interests of our users to enhance their experiences using our Site and Services. If you give us consent, we use these cookies to understand how you use our webpages and services while on our Site. This data is used to measure how many people visit each page, where they have come from, and what options they click on. We also use these cookies as part of how we try to get our articles as high as possible on search engine rankings. Information is collected anonymously — we do not know which people have done what.

If we use advertising and paid promotions, cookies are used to measure how effective these are, how often they are shown and how you interact with them.

Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (i.e. social media, advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites. For example, social media services’ cookies enable you to share our content with your friends and other social networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may affect the content and messages you’ll see on other websites you may visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

We do not use any information derived from cookies to identify any individual users. The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Site and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (note that they may vary depending on what you do and interact with on our Site and through our Services and third parties may from time to time update or change the cookies they use — you can access their cookies policies on their websites for further information about their cookies).

How You Control Cookies

The majority of web browsers automatically enable cookies as a default setting. Controls via browsers vary from browser to browser as well as updates to those browsers. You should visit your chosen browser’s help menu for more information about their use and control of cookies.

For advertising, most advertising networks offer a way to opt out of targeted advertising. To find out more for Europe, you can visit https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

To stop cookies being stored on your device in future, you can also manage your cookies by setting preferences in the cookie consent manager related to our Site. That allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected however as they are necessary for the operation of our Site.

Please note that by restricting, deleting or disabling cookies you may not be able to post messages in our Forum or use certain other features of our Site and Services. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at AllAboutCookies.org.

Similar Technology To Cookies

Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, such as “web beacons”.

Web beacons are clear picture files used to keep track of your navigation through a website or websites. Web beacons can also be referred to as web bugs, page bugs, clear GIFs or tracking pixels.

These allow us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one of our webpages to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement, search engine, social media or marketing email, and to improve site performance. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Targeted Advertising

We do not currently use advertising on the Site but if we adopt advertising on our Site, third parties may serve cookies on your device to deliver advertising through our Site and Services. These companies may use information about your visits to our and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to our and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact information or other details that will directly identify you unless you choose to provide such information.

Other Information

We aim to keep the cookies information provided to you as accurate as possible and use all reasonable efforts to review and update the details. It is possible though that the services we use may make changes to their cookie names and purposes. This may only periodically be reflected in our Cookies Policy.

If you want any further information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage, delete and turn them off, please visit AllAboutCookies.org. Please note this is an external websites and we are not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided to you on that site.

How To Contact Us

Please contact us via our contact page.