Cookie Policy

This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help customize your experience.  Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.

This page contains information on what ‘cookies’ are , the cookies used by the Bonzai websitehow to switch off cookies in your browserhow to specifically switch off advertising cookies, and some helpful links for further reading on the subject.  If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have further questions about the use of cookies on the Bonzai website, please email privacy@bonzai.co.  If you believe that any information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us, and we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

1. What are ‘Cookies’?

‘Cookies’ are a small text file stored by the browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome) on your computer or mobile device.  Cookies are unique identifiers that allow websites to store things like your preferences. Some cookies are necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features.  Other cookies help us to improve the performance of our website and provide you with a better user experience. Cookies enable the website to recognize you when you come back and to respond appropriately.

Cookies can be “persistent” meaning that it is stored on your device until it expires or you delete the cookie.  Alternatively, cookies may be temporary or “session” which are stored only in temporary memory and are not retained after the browser is closed.  We do not sell, distribute or lease the information collected by cookies.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer.

2. The Cookies Used by The Bonzai Website

When you use and access the Bonzai Website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser.  We use cookies to enable certain functions of the Website, to provide analytics, and to store your preferences.

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies.  Bonzai uses cookies supplied by Google Analytics to report usage statistics of our Website. These analytics cookies do not provide Bonzai with any personal data about you, and Bonzai does not upload any personal data or data that permanently identifies a particular device to Google Analytics.  For more information about Google Analytics, please click here. To opt-out of this feature by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, please click here.

3. Cookies Used in Connection With the Bonzai Services

In connection with the Bonzai Services, Bonzai and/or its customers or partners may use cookies to customize your online advertising experience as an End User based on the preferences or interests known or inferred from the data collected. Bonzai customers may use cookies to serve appropriate ads to you and to help track results or measure the effectiveness of those ads. Cookies placed by Bonzai’s customers in connection with the Bonzai Services will be subject to the respective customer’s privacy policy.

4. How to Switch Off Cookies in Your Browser

Usually you can stop your browser from accepting cookies in general or from accepting cookies from a particular website.  All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can typically find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” section of your browser.  

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari

Many browsers also offer private browsing windows which do not save your browsing history and which ask websites you visit not to track you.

5. How to Specifically Switch Off Advertising Cookies

If you are concerned about third-party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance.  If you are in the EU, you can turn off these cookies by going to the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.

6. Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure.  To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of your information, we have in place suitable physical, electronic and organizational safeguards to secure the information we collect online.

7. Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest.  However, once you have used these links to leave the Bonzai Website, you should note that we do not have any control over that location.  Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Cookie Policy.  

8. Links for Further Reading

You can learn more about cookies on the following websites:

All About Cookies

Cookie Central

Network Advertising Initiative

Last Updated: April 5, 2019