Reef Break uses cookies in order to improve user experience of our website. This cookie policy is a part of Reef Break’s privacy policy. It covers the use of cookies between user’s device and our website.

We also provide basic information on third-party services we may use, who may also use cookies as part of their service. However, this policy does not cover their cookies.

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, please instruct your browser to refuse cookies from Reefbreak.net. In such a case, we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on user’s device. It typically contains information about the website itself, a unique identifier that allows the site to recognize user’s web browser when return, additional data that serves the cookie’s purpose, and the lifespan of the cookie itself.

Cookies are used to enable certain features, track site usage, store user’s settings, and to personalize user’s content.

Cookies set by this site usually referred to as first-party cookies. That means that it only track your activity on this particular site.

Cookies set by other sites and companies (i.e. third parties) are called third-party cookies, and they can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

Types of cookies and how we use them

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are crucial to user’s experience on a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts, and payment processing.

We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.

Performance cookies

Performance cookies track user’s use of a website while visiting. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated, with information tracked across all site users. It helps companies understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors their users may encounter, and make better strategic decisions in improving user’s experience. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. They do not collect personal information about you. We use performance cookies on our site.

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies are used to collect information about user’s device and any settings user may configure on the website. With this information, websites can provide users with customized, enhanced, or optimized content and services. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. We use functionality cookies for selected features on our site.

Targeting/advertising cookies

Targeting/advertising cookies help determine what promotional content is most relevant and appropriate for users. Websites may use them to deliver targeted advertising or limit the number of times user sees an advertisement. This helps companies improve the effectiveness of their campaigns and the quality of content presented to users. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. Targeting/advertising cookies set by third-parties may be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service. We use Targeting/advertising cookies on our site.

How to opt out of cookies on this site

You can set your browser to deny all cookies from reefbreak.net in particular, or from all sites in general.

More details about specific cookies that are set on this site:

Analytics

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, which is a webmaster service provided by Google to help us keep track of how well our site is performing.

Google Analytics uses cookies. They’re automatically set on any device that visits our site and has cookies enabled. The data that’s generated by these cookie about Reef Break’s users will be transmitted to and stored by Google on its global database of servers, typically in the United States.

This information is used to generate reports on how users behave on our site. That includes, but is not limited to, the time spent on our site, how many pages visited, your geo location, your device, your browser information/settings, secondary pages you visit, and what links you click.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Cookies from Google Analytics can be set for up to two years. These will reset whenever a user revisit the site. We’ve set data on the Google Analytics tool to retain for a maximum of 26 months.

It is possible to refuse cookies by changing settings on your browser. Alternatively, you can use the Google Analytics Opt Out.

Amazon Affiliates

Reef Break is a member of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. It’s an advertising network that lets us earn fees from goods sold on Amazon properties as a result of our recommendations.

Amazon Associates network uses cookies to track purchases on their site that come through our site. These are set the moment a link or ad is clicked on Reefbreak.net. Cookies from the Amazon Affiliate network last 24 hours, but could be extended up to 90 days in certain circumstances.

Advertising

Adsense

Google AdSense is a tool that lets Reef Break display relevant advertisements to its users. The service makes use of cookies and other tracking tech to optimize and personalize the content displayed. AdSense may make use of personal data collected by users and set cookies to fulfil this aim.

DoubleClick cookies

Ad networks such Google’s AdSense make use of the DoubleClick cookie. It is a cookie that tracks what content you viewed on a site and then pools it in a database in order to display related and more relevant ads in the future. As such, it is often called a re-targeting cookie or a DART cookie. Information stored in a DoubleClick cookie includes IP address, but nothing
personally identifiable.

Thank you,

Reef Break team.

Last updated: September 18,
2021