Cookie Policy


Not the cookies your grandma makes

We Use Cookies To Enhance Your User Experience

This Cookie Policy aims at providing you with more information on what cookies are, how we intend to use them on the Flea websites and how to know more about these cookies. If you would like more information about eFlea's privacy policy overall, please visit our full privacy policy.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information, usually a small text file, that is generated by a web server and saved on your device. A primary objective of cookies is to improve your user experience while surfing the web, to help websites make your next visit easier, for instance by storing your user preferences such as your country, language, last visit time, etc. Each time you visit our websites, these cookies are transmitted back to us.

Cookie Policy

Opting Out and Disabling Cookies

Most browsers have cookies enabled by default. To learn more on how to disable all cookies on your browser, please go to the http://www.allaboutcookies.org website, available in various languages. Also, some cookies we use on this website can be 'opted out' using the links provided in the description of cookies below.

Please note that if you chose to disable some cookies that we use, you may experience reduced functionality or be prevented from using parts of our websites.

Cookies used on eFlea's websites

At eFlea Charity Auction System, we use cookies on our websites for the following categories of purposes:

  • Technical
  • Functional / Session
  • Functional / Commenting and Sharing on social media
  • Analytics
  • Advertising

The cookies on this website are either set by us (called "First party cookies") or by eFlea's third party partners (known as "Third party cookies") and are further described below, per category. Those presented with an asterisk (*) are session cookies, meaning that they expire when the user closes their browser.

Technical

Cookies in this category are used to check technical settings of your browser, and to direct you to the closest data center, which allows us to deliver the best possible experience on this website Typically these cookies are tied to one of our master domains.

eFlea:

We use a cookie called TIMEZONE* which stores a "guess" of your local time zone (based on your device's current time).

The AUCTION stores the last site visit time and to highlight which auction items are considered "new" since your last visit.

CloudFlare:

CloudFlare provides the content delivery system and web caching/acceleration service for eFlea. CloudFlare infrastructure uses the _cfduid cookie to help ensure that your web requests are served via thr same data center while you visit our sites.

Other Content Delivery Networks:

Other content delivery providers, that eFlea uses from time to time, may also use a cookie (or cookies) to route your request to a particular server in order to optimize delivery of content to your device.

Functional / Session

eflea uses some cookies to maintain your login state with our websites. We use some or all of the following cookies: SESSION, SID, ASID, and EAUTHED*.

Disabling or deleting these cookies will prevent you from using certain areas of our websites that require you to be logged in.

Functional / Commenting and Sharing on social media

Many of the social sharing sites will store cookies when "like/share" buttons are present (or have been clicked) on a website. The cookies vary from social network to social network (and will vary if you are currently logged into a social network). These cookies are considered "3rd Party Cookies", and consist of, but not limited to, the following cookies:

Facebook:

act*, c_usr, presence, datr_, xs, and xs

Twitter:

guest_id, auth_token, pid, and device_token

Google+:

NID

Pinterest:

_b, pid, csrftoken, _pinterest_cm, pinterest_sess and _pinterest_pfob

Tumblr:

language

LinkedIn:

JSESSIONID, sdsc*, lang, visit, L1e* and L1l

All cookies in the category are considered 3rd party cookies. and can be blocked by disabling 3rd party cookies in your browser settings, and will not affect core functionality of our websites. Disabling may affect your interaction with the social sharing buttons.

Analytics

Cookies in this category allow us to get measures on how visitors navigate this website, in order to for us to have a better understanding of how this website is used by visitors, for instance who visits this website, how visitors arrive (i.e. direct hit, via search engine), what pages visitors are looking at, how long they stay on the site before they leave, in order to in the end optimize and improve this website.

Google provides our web statistics and analytics. Several cookies are used to help with site utilization statistics (such as page load times, visitor flow through our websites, etc. The 1st party cookies in use (created on behalf of Google Analytics) are: __utma, __utmb, __utmc*, __utmz, and _ga.

You may also find 3rd party websites also using Google Analytics cookies.

Advertising

At eFlea, we cover our operational costs via revenues from display advertising. This help us keep our service free.

We partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here.

Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Various 3rd party cookies may be present depending on which ad partner is serving advertising content. You can block or delete 3rd party cookies via your web browser's settings.