Cookie policy

Cookies

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

This website uses cookies to remember:

  • your display preferences (language, etc…)
  • if you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won’t be asked again)
  • if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site
  • to provide advertisement and affiliate services that serve to sustain this website

This website make use of different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), commenting systems like DISQUS or embedded content from Youtube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.

This website uses third-party services to display relevant advertising to its visitors, as well as to track the volume of visitors to it. They track details about visitors such as the number of unique visitors, number of times particular ads have been displayed, the number of clicks the ads have received, and are also used to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns by building up user profiles. These are set by this website and trusted third party networks, and are generally persistent in nature.

To better understand what the users of this website are interested in and so provide a better service, Skarredghost.com uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics will use cookies to track the behaviors of the users (like the visited page, session duration, or geographical location of the user) so that to identify the most successful type of content.

To let user receive always updated news about the AR and VR ecosystems, this website uses the services offered by MailChimp (for implementing the newsletter) and MailMunch (for the subscription popups). MailMunch will add a little cookie to your PC to remember your preferences regarding the pop-ups visualization.

Skarredghost.com also uses affiliation programs to sustain its expenses. When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie is dropped to your computer, to verify if you bought that particular product thanks to the reccommendation of this website. These cookies are set by third party networks and partners and lasts usually one-two months or anyway the time necessary to verify if you have performed the purchase due to the link you find in this place. You can verify the cookie policy of the affiliation programs associated with this website, that is Headjack, Amazon, VR Sync and ShareASale, directly on their websites.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

You can disable DISQUS tracking using the opt-out functionality provided at this link.

You can find Google partners Privacy Policy, along with information on Google cookies at this link.

You can find Amazon Privacy Policy at this link.

(Thanks to Automattic & aboutcookies.org for having provided me fundamental parts of this document)