Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy is designed to explain to you how Kate's Party People (hereinafter referred to as "Company", "we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and other similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at www.katespartypeople.com, ("Website"). It explains what this technology is and why we use it, as well as your rights to control our use of it under this Agreement. In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small files containing data that are placed on your computer or another device when you visit our website. Cookies are commonly used in order to make websites function or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the owner of the website (i.e. Kate's Party People) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies on our website for a variety of reasons. Some of these cookies are necessary for our website to function properly, and these are called “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies that we use allow us to identify and track your interests to better serve you with our online services. The Third-Party cookies we use are primarily for advertising, analytical, and other similar purposes. We go into more details about this below. 

How can you control your cookies?
You have the option to accept or decline cookies when you use our website. You modify your cookie settings by using the settings within your browser. The Cookie Consent Manager that we use allows you to decide what types of cookies you allow on your device. Essential cookies cannot be declined, as these are necessary to the function of our website.
The Cookie Consent Manager can be found on our website. If you decide to reject the cookies, you may have some difficulty interacting with our website fully, although you should still be able to use it. You can change your browser controls to change your cookie permissions. Be sure to look up your browser-specific options for controlling cookies on your device with the browser settings.
Most advertising platforms provide a way to opt-out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit the following websites, http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
The cookies on our website are there to help us provide you with the services that we provide, and also provide us with information for our record keeping and to provide you with a more personalized experience. While not every cookie is necessary for the website to function, some of them are essential cookies to the functionality of some areas of our website, such as our data collection and securing our website. 

Other Tracking Software?
Our website might use other technologies such as web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). Web beacons are small picture files that contain identifying information on them that allow websites to recognize people who use our website through various portals like email links. It lets us know how you are finding our website, what pages you use the most, and to assist in the functioning of cookies. In many ways, these other technologies rely on cookies to still function, and so if you reject any cookies it may cause parts of our website to not function as intended. 

Flash cookies and Local Shared Objects?
Our website might also use something called "Flash Cookies" (also known as Local Shared Objects or "LSOs" for short) These Flash Cookies help us to collect and save information about how you have used our website, and they also are critical to fraud prevention on our website.
If you wish to prevent Flash Cookies from being saved on your device, you can modify your settings in Flash Player to block them from being stored.
Understand that by setting Flash Player to block some or all of your Flash Cookies, it might cause parts of our website that rely on Flash to malfunction. 


Do you serve targeted advertising?
Some of our third party cookies on your device help to deliver targeted advertisements to you through our website. The companies that provide these cookies may use the information about your use of our website and others to provide you with relevant advertising. This information collection may not be limited to using cookies, but may also use other software such as web beacons. The information gathered in this manner usually does not provide us the ability to identify you by name, or give us your contact information or any information that can directly identify you unless you give us that information. 

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We reserve the right to update this Cookie Policy at any time in order to reflect any changes to the cookies used by our website or for the functionality of our website, legal, and/or regulatory reasons. Please check this Cookie Policy regularly to stay up to date on the use of our cookies and other technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.


Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies or other services that we use to provide you with content on our website, please email us at hi@katespartypeople.com or by post to:
142 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves, Missouri 63119 
Phone: 314.707.4497