Cookie Policy
COOKIE POLICY
Last updated on June 29, 2023
This policy describes how we use cookies on https://pianty.com/, as well as any other sub-links, or related mobile website (the “Site”).
Our Company details are as follows:
Company Name: BT Commerce, LLC
Place of Registration: A limited liability company located in the State of Wisconsin (USA)
We recommend that you also consult our Privacy Policy for additional information on how we collect and use information collected from visitors to the Site. This policy is effective from the ‘Last Updated’ date mentioned above. Your continued use of the Site after that will signify your acceptance of this policy. We may modify this Agreement without notifying you, so please check back often for updates.
By using the Site, you agree that we can use the cookies described in this Cookie Policy. You may stop cookies by changing the settings in your browser (more information on how to do this is provided below).
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your browsing device (such as a computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies can be recognized by the website that downloaded them — or other websites that use the same cookies. This helps websites know if the browsing device has visited them before.
WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR?
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like helping us understand how the Site is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
Since our website is hosted on Shopify, our website uses Shopify cookies to recognize your browser or device, learn more about your interests, and provide you with essential features and services and for additional purposes, including:
- Keeping track of your specific preferences.
- Conducting research and diagnostics to improve our content, products, and services.
- Preventing fraudulent activity.
- Improving security.
- Delivering content, including ads relevant to your interests.
- For measuring and analyzing the performance of our services.
Cookies allow you to take advantage of some of the essential features of our website.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
In order to provide you with the best browsing experience, Shopify might place Functionality Cookies, Reporting & Analytics Cookies, and Advertising Cookies on the Site. You can find out more about each of these kinds of cookies below.
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES:
These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you’re in). For instance, the Site uses functionality cookies to remember your region preference. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you’ve made to text size, font and other parts of pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
List of Functionality Cookies that may be used on the website:
| Sr.No. | COOKIE NAME | FUNCTION | DURATION |
| 1 | _Brochure_session | Used in connection with browsing through site. | - |
| 2 | checkout | Used in connection with Pay checkout on shop.app. | 3w |
| 3 | signed_in | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1y |
| 4 | user | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1y |
REPORTING & ANALYTICS COOKIES:
Analytics cookies or performance cookies are used to track website visitors and their user behavior. This data is then used to improve the way the website works and in turn, used to improve user experience.
List of Reporting & Analytics Cookies that may be used on the website:
| Sr.No. | COOKIE NAME | FUNCTION |
| 1 | _landing_page | Tracks landing pages. |
| 2 | _orig_referrer | Tracks landing pages. |
| 3 | _s | Shopify analytics. |
| 4 | _session_id | Shopify analytics. |
| 5 | _shopify_s | Shopify analytics. |
| 6 | _shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
| 7 | _shopify_uniq | Shopify analytics. |
| 8 | _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. |
| 9 | _y | Shopify analytics. |
| 10 | *_assignment | Shopify analytics. |
| 11 | ab_test_* | Shopify analytics. |
| 12 | cart_sig | Shopify analytics. |
| 13 | ki_r | Shopify analytics. |
| 14 | ki_t | Shopify analytics. |
Additionally, the website uses pixels and tags from the following third parties, which may in turn place cookies:
COOKIES NECESSARY FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF THE SITE THAT MAY BE USED
| Sr.No | THIRD PARTY | DESCRIPTION | PRIVACY POLICY LINK |
| 1 | Cloudflare | Shopify uses Cloudflare Network as a Service for edge routing. | https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ |
REPORTING & ANALYTICS
| Sr.No | THIRD PARTY | DESCRIPTION | PRIVACY POLICY LINK |
| 1 | Alexa Metrics | We use Alexa Metrics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.alexa.com/help/privacy |
| 2 | Bizible | We use Bizible to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://documents.marketo.com/legal/privacy/ |
| 3 | Bugsnag | We use Bugsnag to help us troubleshoot and fix issues with our websites. | https://docs.bugsnag.com/legal/privacy-policy/ |
| 4 | Chartbeat | We use Chartbeat to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://chartbeat.com/privacy/ |
| 5 | Crazy Egg | We use Crazy Egg to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.crazyegg.com/privacy |
| 6 | Datadog RUM | We use Datadog RUM to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/privacy/ |
| 7 | DC Analytics | We use DC Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://dcanalytics.dcmn.com/privacy-policy |
| 8 | Facebook Pixel | We use Facebook Pixel to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation |
| 9 | Fullstory | We use Fullstory to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.fullstory.com/legal/privacy/ |
| 10 | Google Analytics | We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| 11 | Google Tag Manager | We use Google Tag Manager to help manage analytics vendors. | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| 12 | Hotjar | We use Hotjar to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| 13 | iSpot | We use iSpot to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.ispot.tv/terms-of-service |
| 14 | KissInsights | We use KissInsights to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://signin.kissmetrics.com/privacy/ |
| 15 | LinkedIn Insight Tag | We use LinkedIn Insight Tag to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| 16 | New Relic | We use New Relic to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy |
| 17 | Optimizely | We use Optimizely to help us test improvements or changes to our websites. | https://www.optimizely.com/privacy/ |
| 18 | Pinterest Analytics | We use Pinterest Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy |
| 19 | Segment | We use Segment to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://segment.com/legal/privacy/ |
| 20 | Snapchat | We use Snapchat to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://snap.com/privacy/privacy-policy |
| 21 | Speedcurve Lux | We use Speedcurve Lux to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://speedcurve.com/terms/ |
| 22 | Taboola | We use Taboola to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.taboola.com/policies/privacy-policy |
| 23 | Tealium | We use Tealium to help manage analytics vendors. | https://tealium.com/privacy/ |
| 24 | TikTok | We use TikTok to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en |
| 25 | We use Twitter to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://twitter.com/en/privacy | |
| 26 | Yelp Audience Platform | We use Yelp to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://terms.yelp.com/privacy/en_us/20200101_en_us/ |
ADVERTISING
| Sr.No. | THIRD PARTY | DESCRIPTION | PRIVACY POLICY LINK |
| 1 | Microsoft Advertising | We use Microsoft Advertising to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-ca/privacystatement |
| 2 | Drift | We use Drift to help us with conversational marketing to customers while they visit our websites. | https://www.drift.com/privacy-policy/ |
| 3 | Facebook Custom Audiences | We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://www.facebook.com/policy.php |
| 4 | We use Google Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://policies.google.com/privacy | |
| 5 | Hubspot | We use Hubspot to manage our relationships with our customers. | https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy |
| 6 | Intercom | We use Intercom to manage our relationships with our customers. | https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy |
| 7 | Marketo | We use Marketo to manage our relationships with our customers. | https://documents.marketo.com/legal/privacy/ |
| 8 | Outbrain | We use Outbrain to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://www.outbrain.com/privacy |
| 9 | Quora | We use Quora to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://www.quora.com/about/privacy |
| 10 | We use Reddit Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://www.reddit.com/help/privacypolicy | |
| 11 | SourceKnowledge | We use SourceKnowledge to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | http://www.sourceknowledge.com/privacy |
| 12 | Yahoo Japan Ads | We use Yahoo Japan Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://about.yahoo.co.jp/common/terms/ |
| 13 | Microsoft Advertising | We use Microsoft Advertising to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-ca/privacystatement |
SOCIAL MEDIA & CONTENT
| Sr.No. | THIRD PARTY | DESCRIPTION | PRIVACY POLICY LINK |
| 1 | Disqus | We use Disqus to provide commenting capabilities on posts on our websites. | https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy |
| 2 | Facebook Connect | We use Facebook Connect to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Facebook’s social media platform. | https://www.facebook.com/policy.php |
| 3 | Gravatar | We use Gravatar to allow visitors to our websites to create avatars. | https://en.gravatar.com/site/privacy |
| 4 | We use Twitter to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Twitter’s social media platform. | https://twitter.com/en/privacy | |
| 5 | Wistia | We use Wistia to display video content. | https://wistia.com/privacy |
HOW LONG WILL COOKIES STAY ON MY BROWSING DEVICE?
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device. See the section below on how to control cookies for more information on removing them before they expire.
FIRST AND THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
First party cookies are cookies that belong to us, while third party cookies are cookies that another party places on your browsing device through our Site. For example, a third-party website will place a cookie on your browsing device if you click on such a third-party website link when browsing the Site.
HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES THROUGH YOUR BROWSER
The browser you are using to view the Site can enable, disable or delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” facility). Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Site. Other parts of the Site may also not work properly. You can find out more information about how to change your browser cookie settings at www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Do you have questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy?
In the event you have any grievance regarding anything related to this Cookie Policy, in that case you may freely write your concerns through your registered email to Grievance Officer/Designated Representative at admin@thehouseplanthobbyist.com.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at support@thehouseplanthobbyist.com.
Last updated on June 29, 2023