Cookie Policy

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.

They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and to remember your preferences.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes, including:

• Website Functionality: To ensure our website operates correctly and provides you with the services you request.

• Performance and Analytics: To understand how you use our website, measure its performance, and identify areas for improvement. This helps us enhance your browsing experience.

• Personalization: To remember your preferences and provide you with a more personalized experience.

• Advertising: To deliver relevant advertisements to you and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We use both first-party cookies (set by us) and third-party cookies (set by third-party services that appear on our Website).

The cookies on our Website fall into the following categories:

a. Necessary Cookies (Essential Cookies)

These cookies are essential for the basic functionality of our Website and enable you to navigate and use its features.

Without these cookies, certain services (like adding items to a shopping cart or logging into secure areas) cannot be provided.

We do not require your consent for these cookies, but we must inform you of their use.

• Purpose: Enable core site functionality, security, and accessibility.

• Examples: Session cookies for login, shopping cart functionality.

• Providers: Closer Lives.

• Duration: Session-based or short-term persistent.

b. Analytics/Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited most often, how long users spend on pages, and if they encounter error messages.

This helps us improve the performance and design of our Website.

• Purpose: Website analytics, performance monitoring.

• Examples: Google Analytics cookies.

• Providers: Wix, Stay22 & Google Analytics.

• Duration: 24 hours to 24 months.

c. Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

• Purpose: Remember user preferences, provide enhanced features.

• Examples: Language preferences, remembering items in a shopping cart across sessions.

• Providers: Closer Lives

• Duration: Persistent.

d. Advertising/Targeting Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests.

They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.

• Purpose: Deliver personalized ads, track ad campaign performance.

• Examples: Facebook Pixel, Google Ads cookies.

• Providers: Facebook, Google AdSense, Stay22, Monetag

• Duration: Persistent (can vary, e.g., 30 days to 1 year).

4. Your Cookie Choices and How to Manage Them

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies.

You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent banner, which appears upon your first visit, or by accessing our "Customize Preferences" link via the Cookie Settings widget at the bottom left of every page on our Website.

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:

• View what cookies are stored on your device.

• Delete cookies.

• Block all cookies.

• Block third-party cookies.

• Clear all cookies when you close your browser.

Please note that if you choose to disable or reject certain cookies, some parts of our Website may not function properly or may not be accessible.

For more information on how to manage cookies in your specific browser, you can visit:

🔗 Google Chrome

🔗 Mozilla Firefox

🔗 Apple Safari

🔗 Microsoft Edge

🔗 Opera

5. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time.

We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.