Cookies
What Are Cookies
Most professional websites use cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your user experience. This page describes what information we gather, how we use said information, and why we sometimes need to store cookies.
We’ll also share how you can prevent cookies from being stored, though doing so may downgrade or “hinder” certain elements of the website’s functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons listed below. In most cases, no industry standard exists yet for disabling cookies without disabling the functionality and features of cookies that help support the website.
We recommend that you leave cookies if you’re unsure whether you think you’ll need them, as cookies are used to help you make the most of the services on websites.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent cookie settings by adjusting the settings on your browser. Be aware that disabling cookies will likely affect the functionality of our website (and many other websites).
Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, we recommend that you don’t disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Account related cookies
If you create an account with us, then we’ll use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out. But, in some cases, they may remain afterward to keep in mind your site preferences when logged out. - Login-related cookies
We use cookies when you’re logged in so that we can remember this fact. Login-related cookies prevent you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out. The reason is to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in. - Email newsletter-related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies, which are used to remember if you’re already registered — and also to display notifications that are relevant to you. - Order processing-related cookies
Some e-commerce websites and payment facilities use order processing-related cookies to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process the order with greater efficiency. - Survey-related cookies
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with insights and tools or to better understand our user base. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages. - Form-related cookies
When you submit data through a form — such as those found on contact pages or comment forms — cookies may be used to remember your user details for future correspondence. - Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with an outstanding experience on this website, we provide you with the functionality to set your preferences for how this website runs and when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that information can be called upon whenever you interact with a page that’s affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track information such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit, so we can continue to produce engaging content that meets your needs. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, visit Google’s Google Analytics page.
- Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this website so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track information such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the website for you.
- From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. While we’re testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site. Doing so helps us ensure we understand which optimizations our users appreciate most.
- As we sell our products and services, we like to better understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our website make a purchase. As such, information about purchases is important for us to track. We can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price on products and services for your needs.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf, and affiliate tracking cookies allow us to see if our customers arrived at our website through one of our partner website. We can credit our affiliates appropriately, and where applicable, provide bonuses that our affiliates may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this website that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. To ensure the social media buttons work, we set cookies through our website which may be used to enhance your profile or contribute to the data said social media companies hold, as outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Other types of common cookies used on websites
The cookies used on most websites are categorized as per the table below. However, note that not all cookies may be used in all jurisdictions or websites. Let’s take a look at alist of common categories of cookies used on this website and other websites.
Category | Description |
Strictly necessary cookies | These cookies enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, the services you’ve asked for can’t be provided. |
First-party analytics cookies | These cookies allow us to employ data analytics so we can measure and improve the performance of our site and provide more relevant content to you. These cookies aren’t passing personally identifiable information to any external third party other than in limited cases when we engage a service provider to act on our behalf but who is then unable to use the data for their own purposes. |
Performance cookies | Performance cookies are generally third-party cookies from vendors we work with or who work on our behalf. These vendors collect information about your visit, for example which pages you visit the most often, and if you receive error messages from our website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how the website works. Third-party vendors may have access to this data and may use it to improve their overall services and offerings. |
Functionality cookies | These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or geographical region) and provide more enhanced, personal features. These cookies can’t track your browsing activity on other websites. They don’t gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the Internet outside of our website. |
Advertising and social media cookies | Advertising and social media cookies (including web beacons and other tracking and storage technologies) are used to (1) deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests, (2) limit the number of times you see an advertisement, (3) help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, (4) retargeting to our website/information, and (5) understand people’s behavior after they view an advertisement. These cookies are usually placed on behalf of advertising networks with the site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a site. Often, they’ll be linked to the site functionality provided by the other organization. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. |
Want More Information?
While visiting our website, if there’s a portion of the website where you find yourself wondering or are unsure about the functionality, use, or other material on the website, you can assume that leaving cookies enabled in cases where doing so does interact with one of the features you use on our site will be beneficial.
But, if you’re still looking for more information regarding cookies on our website, feel free to contact us at any of our locations:
- Sarasota
- Phone: (941) 531-5151
- Email: Sarasota@certifiedfleetservices.com
- Fort Myers
- Phone: (239) 234-1077
- Email: FtMyers@certifiedfleetservices.com
- Tampa
- Phone: (813) 623-3571
- Email: Tampa@certifiedfleetservices.com
