What is a cookie?

 

A cookie is a small text file on the user's browser and hard drive that uniquely identifies the user's browser. Cookies do a lot of useful things like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, generally improving your user experience and they can also ensure adverts you see online are more relevant to your interests.

 

 

There are several types of cookies:

 

Strictly necessary cookies: essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as secure areas. These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for.

 

Performance cookies: these cookies collect information about how visitors use the website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor; this information is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

 

Functionality cookies: these cookies allow the website to remember your choices and provide a more personal experience. The information they collect can be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing history.

 

Targeting or advertising cookies: used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests and measure advert effectiveness. They collect data about your browsing habits and share this information with other organisations like advertisers.

 

There are also persistent cookies and session cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are erased when the browser exits. Persistent cookies remain on the user's hard drive until the user erases them or until they expire.

 

 

There are various types of cookies on the Site. Some are needed to navigate, others have different purposes such as performing statistical analysis or creating a registered user profile in order to provide advertisements in line with his/her interests. The Site uses cookies that do not have the ability to launch programs on the user’s devices  and that do not allow any type of control on his/her devices.

 

On the Site you can also find social buttons/widgets, that is, the particular “buttons” depicting social networks’ icons like Facebook and Instagram. These buttons allow users who are visiting the Site to reach and interact with a “click” directly with social networks.

 

While first-party cookies are set up and managed by Gravity Force Training, third-party cookies are not inserted or read by Gravity Force Training but only by the third party who may use the information collected for his/her own purposes. Gravity Force Training has limited knowledge and control over these cookies, collected data, and the purposes for which they are used. Therefore, it is suggested to view the privacy and cookie policies of each third party.

 

Our E-Commerce is based on the international E-commerce platform SHOPIFY. Shopify is dedicated to user experience and they use many tools to  improve their and our commerce platform. To this end, they use reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website, and how often. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you.

 

 

How can you turn off cookies?

 

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

The User can manage preferences for Cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing Cookies.

Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of Cookies by this website.