Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 10/11/2023
Last Updated: 10/11/2023
This Cookie Notice supplements our Global Website Privacy Notice and California Privacy Notice. You can access these Policies here.
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, how that information is used, and how to manage cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that a website may transfer to a user’s computer that reside there for the duration of a browsing session (session cookies) or permanently until they are deleted (persistent cookies). They may be used to identify a user, a user’s device, or a user’s behavior. These cookies help our website function correctly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, understand how it performs, and analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
Blocking Cookies
You do not have to accept all of the cookies used by our website. Certain cookies are strictly necessary for the performance of our website. If you reject certain cookies, however, you may not be able to use some of the features of this website. Others enhance the functionality, and if you reject those cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features of this website. The types of cookies we use on our website are below. Your browser may be configured to allow you to refuse or delete cookies or to be notified when a cookie is stored on your device. It is possible that some functions of our website will not be available when cookies are deactivated. Below, you can find some guidance to change your browser settings to prevent the saving of cookies (delete and disable them):
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals. Please see our Website Privacy Notice for a description of Out-Out Preference Signals for a simple and easy-to-use method by which you can exercise the right to opt out of selling and sharing personal information to the extent applicable.
What and How Cookies are used and why?
Some cookies are necessary to allow you to browse our website, use its features, and access secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to work. For example, we use user-input cookies for a session to keep track of a user’s input when filling in forms that span several pages.
We also use functional cookies to remember choices you’ve made or information you’ve provided, such as your username, language, or the region you are in. This allows us to tailor your website experience specifically to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functional cookies used for the duration of a session (or persistent, if you agree to the “remember me” function) to allow users to authenticate themselves on subsequent visits or gain access to authorized content across pages. The functional cookies we use include:
- User-centric security cookies detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent duration like repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific task of increasing the security of the service.
- Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used for a session to store technical data needed to play back video or audio content (e.g., image quality, network link speed, and buffering parameters).
- Load balancing session cookies are used for the session to identify the same server in the pool for the load balancer to redirect user requests appropriately.
- User interface customization persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.
Throw Coast Disc Golf uses Shopify who is dedicated to user experience, and we use many tools to help us improve our website and commerce platform. To this end, we use reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website or our merchants’ storefronts and how often. These cookies only gather statistical information and use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The performance cookies we use include:
- First-party analytics cookies - We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our websites and our merchants’ websites, and to detect the most searched-for words in search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to learn how our websites and merchants' websites perform and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
- Third-party analytics cookies - We also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page. For instructions on how to opt out of Google Analytics, see below.
Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to you and your interests and provide you with a more personalized service in the future. These cookies, remember that you visited our website, and we may share this information with third parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites, they typically cannot personally identify you. Without these cookies, the advertisements you see may be less relevant and interesting.
Finally, Social and Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example, the Facebook ’like’ button) and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website (for example, services that allow the playing of video files, or that create comments sections). We integrate these modules into our platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. Please note that some third-party services place cookies used for behavioral advertising, analytics, and/or market research.
You can read more about each specific cookie used on our website here:
https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies
Links to Other Sites
Our Privacy Policy only covers the Throw Coast Disc Golf website. Our website, newsletters, email updates, and other digital communications may contain links to and from third-party websites. When you click on these links, you exit our website, and the personal data you provide through such third-party websites is not subject to our privacy notice(s)/policies. If you follow any link to a third-party website, please note that it will have its own privacy notice(s), which set out how they collect and process your information. Please check the privacy notices/policies of each website you visit. Some of these third parties may use applications that track your online activities across different websites and platforms over time.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics works using cookies. Google Analytics cookies collect your IP address; however, because IP anonymization is used on this website, your IP address will be shortened (and therefore anonymized) as soon as technically possible and before it is stored or otherwise used in connection with Google Analytics. We use the information from Google Analytics cookies to determine how visitors use our website. Google will not combine the IP address sent by your browser in connection with Google Analytics with other data. If you want more information on how Google uses data when you visit our website, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. If you want to opt out, Google provides an opt-out tool at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Other Information
Any personal data we collect from the application of cookies are stored on servers hosted by our third-party provider in the United States. We retain personal data collected utilizing cookies needed for personalized services where you have consented to use cookies for those purposes and otherwise only for as long as necessary to aggregate personal data that we use for website performance and audience measurement.