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 information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable websites to remember your actions and 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.

At Purificationwrlu, we use cookies to improve your browsing experience and to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, and how you can control or delete them.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several important reasons. When you visit our website, we may place cookies on your device to:

  • Enable certain functions and features of our website to work properly.
  • Remember your preferences and settings to provide you with a more personalized experience.
  • Analyze how visitors use our website and identify areas for improvement.
  • Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and advertising efforts.
  • Provide relevant content and advertisements based on your interests and browsing behavior.
  • Ensure the security of our website and protect against fraudulent activities.
  • Remember items in your shopping basket and facilitate the checkout process.

By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this cookies policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should change your browser settings accordingly or refrain from using our website.

Types of Cookies We Use

We use different types of cookies on our website, each serving specific purposes. Below is a detailed description of the categories of cookies we use:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for you to browse our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have requested, such as accessing secure areas of the website or remembering items in your shopping basket, cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes or tracking your internet browsing behavior.

Examples of strictly necessary cookies include:

  • Session cookies that enable you to navigate through our website efficiently.
  • Security cookies used to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.
  • Load balancing cookies that ensure website content is delivered efficiently.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and whether users receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies individual visitors. All information collected by performance cookies is aggregated and anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website functions and performs.

Examples include:

  • Analytics cookies that help us understand visitor traffic patterns and popular content.
  • Error tracking cookies that help us identify and fix technical issues.
  • Testing cookies used during website development to test new features and functionality.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your username, language preference, or the region you are in, and provide enhanced, more personalized features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Examples include:

  • Preference cookies that remember your settings and choices.
  • Language cookies that remember your preferred language.
  • Customization cookies that remember interface preferences you have selected.

Targeting or Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies remember that you have visited our website and this information may be shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.

Examples include:

  • Behavioral advertising cookies that collect information about your browsing habits.
  • Retargeting cookies that allow us to show relevant ads to users who have previously visited our website.
  • Conversion tracking cookies that measure the success of our marketing campaigns.

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of our website and to deliver advertisements on and through our website. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.

Third-party services we may use include:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and usage patterns. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit our site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to visiting ours.
  • Social Media Platforms: If you share content from our website on social media platforms, these platforms may set cookies on your device.
  • Advertising Networks: Third-party advertising networks may use cookies to deliver targeted advertisements based on your browsing history and interests.

Please note that we do not control these third-party cookies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of the third parties employing them. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties to understand how they collect and use information.

How to Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings in your web browser. Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may impact your overall user experience, as some features and services may not function properly.

Browser Settings

You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Here are links to instructions for managing cookies in popular browsers:

  • Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
  • Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
  • Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
  • Microsoft Edge: Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Cookies and site permissions

Opt-Out Options

For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can visit the following resources:

  • Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page
  • Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page
  • Your Online Choices (for EU users)

Please note that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you will no longer receive advertisements; it means the advertisements you see will not be tailored to your interests.

Cookie Duration

The duration of cookies varies depending on their purpose. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies:

  • Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device only while you are browsing our website. They are deleted when you close your browser.
  • Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a set period specified in the cookie or until you manually delete them. The duration varies from a few hours to several years, depending on the purpose of the cookie.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this cookies policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, our business operations, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on this page with a new effective date.

We encourage you to review this cookies policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies and to understand your choices regarding their use. Your continued use of our website after any changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies or this cookies policy, please contact us:

  • By visiting this page on our website: Contact Us
  • By email: mailuse@purificationwrlu.world
  • By phone: +1 503-303-4373
  • By mail: 801 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217, USA

We are committed to addressing your questions and concerns promptly and will make every effort to respond to your inquiry within a reasonable timeframe.