Cookie Usage Terms
What are cookies
Cookies are text files generated by the Kardecpedia website and transferred to your computer, being stored by browsing programs (“Browsers”). In general, cookies are used to optimize your browsing experience on our site, when permitted by the security level configured by you in your browser. Whenever your browser is configured accordingly, we will use cookies as explained above.
The cookies used by the Kardecpedia website aim to identify the user's browsing trends, seeking to improve and personalize your future accesses, such as pages visited or links clicked. Any of the cookies used are not intended to run programs, nor do they allow your computer to be infected with viruses or malicious programs.
Upon your first access, you were informed through a text notice (“disclaimer”) regarding the cookie practice of the Kardecpedia website.
Even when your browsing program is configured to allow the installation of cookies, but you wish to remove the installed cookies and prevent the storage of new cookies, you can do so immediately and without any impediment, by disabling this feature in your browser and deleting all eventual cookies already implemented.
Therefore, we recommend that you configure your browsing program at the desired security level before browsing our site on all computers and devices you wish to use.
How Kardecpedia uses cookies
The cookies used on the Kardecpedia website meet legal requirements and are categorized as follows:
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
TARGETING COOKIES
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are the cookies that allow you to navigate the site and use essential features, such as secure areas, for example. These cookies do not store any information about you that could be used in product or service communication actions or to remember pages browsed on the site.
What we use them for:
Identify you as a logged-in user of ikardecpedia.com.
Remember information you previously entered in any order forms to pre-populate forms.
Ensure that you connect to the correct service on our site when we make any changes to how it works.
PERFORMANCE COOKIES: "Performance" cookies collect information about how you use our site, for example, which pages you visit, if they have errors, form errors, etc. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you. All collected information is encrypted, anonymous, and used only to help improve how our site works, understand what interests our users, and measure the effectiveness of our communication.
What we use them for:
Provide statistics on how our site is used.
Check the effectiveness of our communication, not using this information for ad targeting when visiting other sites.
Provide information to our partners that one of our visitors also visited their site. This allows our partners to improve their sites, but we do not allow them to use this information for commercial or advertising purposes.
Help improve our site by measuring errors that may occur.
Make improvements and enhancements to our site based on the browsing behavior of our users.
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES: "Functionality" cookies are used to provide services or remember navigation settings to improve your visit.
What we use them for:
Remember any settings you applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colors.
Remember if we have already asked if you want to fill out a survey so that we do not need to ask repeatedly.
Potentially conduct live chats for support.
Share information with partners so that Kardecpedia can potentially offer you our services or products. The information shared can only be used to provide the service, product, or function and not for any other purpose.
TARGETING COOKIES: "Targeting" cookies are linked to services provided by third parties, such as "Like" and "Share" buttons contained on sites other than Kardecpedia. The third party provides these services by recognizing that you visited our site, but in no way is it confused with Kardecpedia itself.
What we use them for:
To connect to social networks like Facebook, which, being third parties over which we have no control, may later use the information about your visit to target you with ads of interest on other sites.
To provide advertising agencies with information about your visit so that they can potentially present you with ads relevant to your browsing profile.
Regarding the cookies mentioned above, you can control whether they are used or not (see the topic below "How to Disable Cookies"), but blocking them may prevent us from offering some services or impair good navigation on our site.
How to disable cookies
Usually, the settings to disable cookies are found in the "options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. To learn more, check your browser's help options. Below you will find some links to the most well-known browsers:
The cookies used by the Kardecpedia website (www.ikardecpedia.com) are safe and necessary for the proper use of the tools and options offered by the site. If you choose not to accept and/or execute them, some of these tools and devices offered may have their functions compromised during your visit.
Final recommendations
It is important that internet users check the Cookie Usage Terms of all the sites they visit, always seeking to be informed about how their information will be collected and processed.