This policy explains the manner in which Alpha Dumpsters uses cookies and local storage (“cookies”).
The Alpha Dumpsters team recommends that you review our Privacy Policy to learn more about how we collect information digitally and use the information collected from our website visitors.
This policy is in full force and effect as of January 1, 2020. Your ongoing use of the Alpha Dumpsters website after that date will indicate that you accept this policy.
This policy may be modified without notification, so you will want to check back frequently for updates.
Making the choice to use the Alpha Dumpsters website means that you agree that we can use local storage and the cookies. The cookies can be stopped by altering the settings in your browser using the information provided below.
Please Explain Cookies
A cookie is a text file that contains a small amount of information, which is dowloaded to your computer or smartphone when you land on a website. The cookies can be recognized by the website you visited, or any additional websites that use the same cookies. This will alert a website that the device has visited the website before.
I Would Like To Know What Cookies Are Used For
Cookies are responsible for a lot of jobs, like helping the Alpha Dumpsters team understand how our website is being used, allowing you to navigate from page to page expediently, remembering your preferred way to use a website, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help make sure the accessibility options found on the website are relevant and helpful to you.
I Want To Know What Types Of Cookies Alpha Dumpsters Uses
The cookies used on most websites tend to fall into one of six categories:
- Strictly necessary
- Performance
- Functionality
- Flash
- Tailored content
- Targeting
To provide website users the best experience, Alpha Dumpsters might use any of the different categories throughout its website. You can find each cookie category further explained below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
This type of cookie is essential, as it enables you to move around Alpha Dumpsters website and leverage its features, such as entering secure areas. The lack of these cookies could mean that some services you have requested are unable to be provided.
Performance Cookies
These cookies gather and store information about how you utilize the Alpha Dumpsters website, for example which accessibility related features you enable the most often and if you encounter any error messages on specific host pages. This type of cookie is not used to gather any information that will identify you. The information collected is anonymous and is only used to enhance how the Alpha Dumpsters website works.
Functionality Cookies
This cookie type allows the Alpha Dumpsters website to track the choices you made, like the features associated with accessibility that your users have enabled. For instance, the Alpha Dumpsters website uses this type of cookie to keep track of accessibility preferences that are unique to you. The cookies can also be used to remember text size changes and additional parts of pages that you can personalize. Functionality cookies can also be used to help you comment on a post or watch a video, meaning that they essentially provide a service. Information that these cookies collect can be anonymous and they cannot track any browsing activity when you are visiting other websites.
Flash Cookies
In specific circumstances, we may used Adobe Flash Player to deliver unique content, such as animation or a video. To improve how this information is delivered to you, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects) are employed to provide you with functions such as always remembering your settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored in your computer, tablet or smartphone, but they are managed through an interface that is distinctly different from the one provided by a web browser. This means that it is impossible to manage Flash cookies through the web browser in the same manner you would typically manage cookies. Instead, you need to access Flash management tools from Adobe’s website at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.
Tailored Content Cookies
A tailored content cookie helps the Alpha Dumpsters website deliver enhanced features and display website content in a way that is important to you. This type of cookie helps the Alpha Dumpsters website determine the information that is best to share with you based on how you have utilized the website previously. Tailored content cookies do not track your browsing history on any other websites.
Targeting Cookies
Targeting cookies are designed to deliver ads that will be important to you and your interests. The cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see a web ad as well as help measure the impact of an ad campaign. These cookies remember that you have been on a website and this information is shared with different organizations such as other digital marketers. This means that after you have accessed the Alpha Dumpsters website you will possibly see some advertisements regarding our services in other places on the web.
How Long Will Cookies Be Tied To My Device?
The total length of time a cookie will stay on your web browsing device will depend on whether it is a persistent or a session cookie. A session cookie will only remain on your device until you leave the website. A persistent cookie will stay on your device until it expires or is deleted.
First And Third Party Cookies
First party cookies belong to a person, while third party cookies are a type of cookie that another person or company places on your browsing device through the Alpha Dumpsters website.
How To Control And Delete Cookies Using Your Browser
The web browser you are currently using to access the Alpha Dumpsters website can enable, disable or delete cookies on the device. To accomplish this, follow the instructions that are provided by your browser (often located in the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” facility).
You will want to make note that if the browser you use has been set to disable cookies, you may not be able to access some features of the Alpha Dumpsters website. This can adversely impact accessibility functionality.
Other parts of the Alpha Dumpsters website may also fail to work properly. You can learn more about how to modify your browser settings at www.allaboutcookies.org.
