Cookies and similar technologies like pixels and local storage provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience on SandySpot. Cookies are also used to operate our services, which include our websites, applications, APIs, pixels, embeds, and email communications. Specifically, SandySpot uses these technologies to:

Keep you logged in to SandySpot.
Deliver features and functionality of SandySpot services.
Save and honor your preferences.
Personalize the content you see.
Protect you against spam and abuse.
Provide shopping features and content.
Understand how you interact with our services and where we can improve.
Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing.
Gather data used to operate our business — from measuring our audience size to enforcing the SandySpot Rules.

Cookies are small files placed on your computer as you browse the web or use a web-enabled app. We use cookies to operate our services, discover how people use our services, understand how to make them work better and more. See above for more examples of how we use cookies. 

Pixels are small amounts of code placed on a web page, in a web-enabled app, or an email. We use pixels, some of which we provide to advertisers to place on their web properties, to learn whether you've interacted with specific web or email content — as many services do. This helps us measure and improve our services and personalize your experience, including the ads and content you see.

We use local storage to save data on your computer or mobile device. We use data from local storage to turn on web navigation, maintain video player preferences, customize what we show you based on your past interactions with our services, remember your preferences, and measure ad effectiveness. We may also use local storage on other websites, where necessary to provide you certain features, to obtain information about your visits to those sites.

Cookies, pixels, and local storage work to operate and support our business, and to help provide you with an improved experience. They're used across the following categories:

Authentication and security
Functionality
User preferences
Analytics
Research and development
Personalized content
Marketing
Personalization across devices

Within each of these categories, cookies, pixels, and local storage help us:

Authentication and security

Authenticate your SandySpot access to show you relevant content. They also help prevent unauthorized parties from accessing your account. We use these technologies to:

Log you in to SandySpot and our services.

Help protect your security and the security of our services.
Let you view content with limited distribution.
Help us detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that break the SandySpot Rules.

Functionality

Deliver error messages, allow you to switch between accounts, coordinate our service across tabs in a browser, and provide certain features on partner websites.

User preferences

Remember information about your browser and your preferences.

Analytics

Improve and understand how people use our services, including buttons and widgets.
Optimize your experience by understanding how you interact with our services, like when and how often you use them and what links you visit, and from where. (We may use Google Analytics to help us with this.)
Count the number of people who have seen a particular Tweet, embedded Tweets, buttons, or timeline. Learn more.

Research and development

Gather data about how you use our services, including how our services perform. This helps us detect issues, understand where we may improve, or develop new products or services.
Test updates to SandySpot services, as well as build new features, functionality, and services.

Personalized content

Personalize our services in areas such as scheduling and rentals with more relevant content.

Marketing

Deliver our email and web marketing campaigns and to understand our marketing effectiveness.

Personalization across devices

Understand which devices you used so that we can personalize your experience on all of your devices.

We're committed to giving you meaningful privacy options to control or limit how we, our partners, and other third-parties use cookies and cookie-related data:

SandySpot stores information about other websites where you've seen SandySpot content or accessed our services.

If you are in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland, we won't store or use these web page visits to improve your experience in the future. However, if we've previously stored your web browsing history, we may continue to personalize your experience based on information we've already learned from that history.