Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy for the SantaBarbarians.com
Effective Date: [April 3, 2025]
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, remember preferences, and provide useful analytics to improve user experience.
2. How We Use Cookies
SantaBarbarians.com uses cookies on https://www.santabarbarians.com for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
These are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They help with:
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Logging into your membership account
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Submitting forms
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Maintaining secure sessions
Performance & Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site and improve its performance. These cookies:
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Collect anonymized data such as page visits and time on site
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Help us see which pages are popular
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Do not collect personal information like names or emails
Security Cookies
We may use cookies to help protect our site against spam, bots, or abuse, especially in connection with our contact and membership forms.
3. Third-Party Cookies
We may allow trusted third-party services to set cookies on your device for the reasons listed above. These include:
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Google Analytics (for site usage tracking)
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Google Adsense (more info below)
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Stripe (to support secure checkout and fraud protection)
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Mailchimp (to track newsletter engagement such as opens and clicks)
Each of these services has its own privacy and cookie policies.
- Third party vendors, including Google, Mailchimp and Stripe, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
4. Managing Cookies
You can control or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. You can also:
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Block all cookies
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Delete existing cookies
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Set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being placed
Please note: Disabling essential cookies may affect how the website functions, especially for members trying to log in.
5. Do Not Track (DNT) Signals
Our website does not currently respond to "Do Not Track" signals from browsers, as there is no universal standard for DNT behavior.
6. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology or legal requirements. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Effective Date."
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions or privacy-related requests, please contact us:
Email: info@santabarbarians.com
Phone: (805) 453-4545
Mail: 1482 East Valley Rd STE 805, Montecito, CA 93108
